Tuesday, August 17, 2010

SeekingAlpha: How to Play the Bakken Now

SeekingAlpha article on how to play the Bakken now: the pipelines.

The Bakken production is being held back or will be held back by lack of infrastructure to ship all that oil -- according to the story. I'm not sure how accurate that is, and if production is being held up, to what extent?

But remember: record number of wells in the Bakken and drillers are completing wells in record time could put pressure on takeaway capacity in the future.

I hold ENB and EEP; ENB for growth and EEP for income. I have posted recently on ONEOK. I follow the TransCanada story but do not hold.

ENB and EEP are both affected by the recent upper Midwest (Michigan) oil spill.

By the way: the SeekingAlpha article did not cite the source for it's statement that Enbridge intends to double its capacity in North Dakota but I believe I was the first to catch that interesting tidbit in a photo caption of a local newspaper.

Milliondollarway, ONEOK, TransCanada, and Enbridge.....yup.