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Natural gas futures are volatile.That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) for active, short-term traders. With natural gas futures soaring recently and getting another lift Tuesday after the U.S. National Weather Service issued a warmer-than-expected six-to-ten-day forecast for the eastern part of the U.S., UNG is again in the spotlight.And with that comes traders embracing even more volatile fare such as the leveraged ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Natural Gas (NYSE:BOIL), BOIL's bearish equivalent, the ProShares UltraShort DJ-UBS Natural Gas (NYSE:KOLD), and the VelocityShares 3x Long Natural Gas ETN (NYSE:UGAZ).Those that want to take a more conservative to profiting from rising natural gas futures have options, too. One of the better choices is the First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (NYSE:FCG). As has been previously noted, FCG's name is somewhat deceiving because plenty of the ETF's holdings either ...
The prolific Jubilee oilfield offshore of Ghana is expected to ramp up its oil output to 120,000 barrels a day by the third quarter after an upgrade at its producing...
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) first-quarter earnings fell 79% as the year-earlier period included a $1.8 billion benefit related to the resolution of an Algeria t...
Buoyed by a stronger-than-expected jobs report last Friday, U.S. stocks surged to new highs as the S&P 500 jumped above 1,600 for the first time ever.The Dow Jones I...
Petroleos de Mocambique SA, state-owned distributor of petroleum products, is studying the possibility of an initial public offering in either South Africa or Europe...
French energy giant Total SA (TOT) said Thursday it has made a significant oil discovery in deep waters off Ivory Coast, the clearest sign yet the West African natio...
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) discovered a new deep water Gulf of Mexico oil play, as the company's Phobos-1 well entered about 250 net feet of high-quality oil.The...
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) discovered a new natural-gas field offshore Mozambique and said it has completed drilling a well offshore Kenya.The energy producer sa...
Chevron Corp.'s (CVX) board voted to give its members a 25% raise in annual pay beginning this year, according to financial documents the company filed Thursday.The ...
In a previous examination of some ETFs and their relationship to simple moving averages, we looked at a group of funds that were either below or vulnerable to giving...
Chevron Corp. (CVX) unveiled a deepwater oil discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico about 190 miles off the coast of Louisiana.The oil major said the well, located in ...
BP PLC (BP.LN) Monday said it has completed a flow test at its Itaipu-1A well offshore Brazil, one of the world's most promising oil and gas frontiers, that indicate...
BP PLC (BP.LN) Monday reported that the results of a flow test of the Itaipu-1A discovery well offshore Brazil, which included flow rates of up to 5,600 barrels of o...
Natural gas futures are volatile.That much is widely known and that volatility explains the allure of an ETF such as the U.S. Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) for active,...
Price expectations for a stake in Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) Mozambique gas project are too high, Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSB.LN) chief financial officer, Si...
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) said Monday its board selected Robert Lawler to serve as chief executive of the nation's second-largest producer of natural gas.Lawler, ...
Chesapeake Energy Corp has hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon, ...
A sharp drop that drove Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) to a penny in the last second of trading Friday exposes a vulnerability in trading rules adopted last month ...
U.K.-listed oil explorer Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN) is weeks away from an agreement with the Ugandan government on the final outline of a plan paving the way for invest...
Algeria's Sonatrach and U.S. partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) have started first production at the $4.5 billion El Merk oil complex in Algeria's Sahara, in a r...
