Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Pickens on CNBC Today

For a few more hours you might be able to catch his interview at CNBC. If the video is still there, it will be in the upper right corner at the link.

If not, here were the high points:

1. Saudi doesn't have much spare capacity; they've hit 10.5 million three times in its history; not sustainable; supply and demand much tighter than folks realize
2. Very bullish on oil; of all the dozens of oil companies, he mentions only two; he mentions CLR first
3. Natural gas rigs down from 800 to 500 rigs over the past year
4. $3.00+ on natural gas next year.
5. Gasoline: 50% price advantage; natural gas 20% price advantage; oil 15% price advantage for the US -- if the US can't win with this hand ...
6. Completely out of Chesapeake; moved money elsewhere
7. XOM needs to increase dividend if it wants share price to move; discovering more oil doesn't move XOM's share price; the company is too big
8. Natural gas: utilities switching over; minor transortation uptick; production coming down fast