The Financial Times enumerates Gazprom's problems: are its ambitions to increase production any more than pipe dreams?  Competition for energy reserves in the Arctic Circle could prompt friction between Russia and NATO, a new commander at the alliance has warned.  Bloomberg reports that the holder of the world's fourth-largest gas reserves, Turkmenistan, is ready to export natural gas to European collaborators if they build a pipeline across the Caspian Sea to transport the fuel.  According to Oil and Gas Eurasia, Russia needs a total of $310 billion to fully carry out its program for the analysis and exploration of its continental shelf, a deputy natural resources minister has announced.  Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko has said that Russia has been invited as an observer to the December meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.  Finnish environmental ...

American Energy Group Ltd. is an oil and gas exploration company with non-operated interests in Pakistan. The company has an 18% overriding royalty in Block #2768-7 of the Yasin Concession in the Haseeb Gas Field, which is located 230 miles northeast of the port city of Karachi, Pakistan.

The Yasin concession totals more than 536,000 acres and is a prolific natural gas producing area of Pakistan. The block that American Energy Group Ltd. has an interest in already has several producing and commercial wells. Hycarbex-American Energy, its partner in the block, has spent millions over the last decade to explore the geology of the play, and prepare it for development.

American Energy Group Ltd. has an interest in the Haseeb #1 Well, and the company recently announced that it would begin selling natural gas from this well beginning in the third quarter of 2009. There are also

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Bluegrass Energy Inc. is a domestic oil and gas development and exploration company. The company has begun to act on its plan to secure a significant asset base in eastern Kentucky.

Historically, eastern Kentucky has been heavily drilled with a great deal of success. Eastern Kentucky lies within the Appalachian basin, an area that has often been defined as the most drilled but least explored in the US. It is estimated that 80% of the energy reserves within the Appalachian basin still remain to be produced.

In the initial phase of Bluegrass Energy’s plan for eastern Kentucky, the company intends to secure proven reserves in excess of 100 BCFE within the next three years. The company’s plan is built around securing assets within known producing areas that offer opportunities to use historical results as a guideline. The other part of Bluegrass Energy’s plan

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The China good feeling dissipates…  Currencies lose their edge…  Fannie Mae needs more!  Silver manipulation? And Now… Today’s Pfennig!OK… Well… All that build up yesterday about how the markets liked the sound of the Chinese announcement to inject $586 Billion worth of renminbi into their economy, dissipated early on in the NY market yesterday. As I left you the euro had climbed above 1.29 again, but ended the day around 1.2740… This is tied directly to the Trading Theme, and that’s all I have to say about that… Have a great day, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow…

HA! Had you there for a minute! The dollar rallied once again, when the deep, dark, dangerous clouds returned, and

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Andrew Snyder says Democrat-fearing investors are now looking overseas for profits. Andrew says Eastern Europe is a hotbed of political conflict. But that could end up creating great money-making opportunities in the energy sector.

This from Today’s Financial News:

What impact will rising taxes, stronger labor unions and increased regulations have on the country’s publicly traded corporations? Well, if today’s trading activity is any indication of what the future holds, we are in for a long road to recovery.

Some investors are taking this as an opportunity to look overseas.

India and the fairly limited impact the global economic crisis has played on the country has been a safe haven for some savvy investors. Even Australia is getting plenty of American investment dollars now that many of its mining stocks are dirt cheap.

While all of these investing notions are solid, international investors can do better. One region you should keep your eye on is

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