QualityStocks today announces that its audio interview with Royal Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROYL) CEO Don Hosmer is now available. The complete interview can be heard at http://www.qualitystocks.net/videocharts.php?chartvid_id=357.

During the interview, Mr. Hosmer provides an overview of the company, its targeted industry and competitors, a view on future natural gas prices, milestones achieved this year as well as plans for the future. He also provided commentary on the recently discovered natural gas field and the development opportunities it holds.

Mr. Hosmer stated, “During the down cycle we were able to cut costs quickly and survive during the lowest part of the cycle. Now with the price of natural gas rising as well as the recent field discovery, we’re in a perfect position to capitalize on the future of natural gas.”

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Russia has denied yesterday's report in the Independent that the country discussed changing the dollar as the global currency of oil; France has called it speculation.  Iran's finance minister Shamseddin Hosseini says he has occasionally discussed a move away from the dollar with other nations, but such a shift would require agreement from everyone.  France and Kazakhstan have signed a flurry of deals: Total will acquire 17% and GDF Suez 8% of the Caspian Sea Khvalynskoye natural gas field.  Naftogaz says that it has paid in full its September bill.  Despite a catastrophic financial situation, the company is ready to meet its gas obligations this winter.  Reuters has a feature on the Nenet tribespeople of the Yamal Peninsula for whom Gazprom's plans for Arctic plunder are a threat to their very existence.  According to ...

PetroChina Company Ltd. (PTR) has discovered solid gas flow at an onshore well in the east Sulige gas field, China. Daily output from this well is 610,000 cubic meters.

Discovered in 2000, the Sulige field has a projected 534 billion cubic meters of natural gas. It is located in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, one of the most resource-rich areas in China, which produced 3.75 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2008.

China National Petroleum Corporation, the parent of PetroChina, had received a grant from the Government to start building a natural gas plant in Inner Mongolia in 2009, which will process the production from this field. The new plant is expected to be online by the end of 2010. The new gas plant will be the fourth one at the Sulige natural gas field in Inner Mongolia's Ordos basin.

Using its own technology, and in partnership with foreign companies

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Profiting From Oil – Peak or Not

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

It seems like the only times that the financial media talks about oil is when they mention either demand destruction in the United States or an inventory buildup of fuel, etc. in the United States.

The financial media is doing a real disservice to millions of investors in two ways.

The first is by ignoring the rest of the globe when it comes to demand for oil. For example, China imported a record amount of oil in July – 4.6 million barrels a day, up 42% from last July.

This record monthly figure is well above the previous peak of 4.1 million barrels of oil a day set in March 2008, when the financial media said that China was simply stockpiling oil ahead of the Olympics.

The second

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Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) declared that the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo has arrived at the Adriatic LNG regasification terminal located offshore of Porto Levante, Italy. The terminal is the first offshore gravity based structure in the world for unloading, storage and regasification of LNG.   The terminal is owned by Qatar Terminal Limited (a Qatar Petroleum subsidiary owning 45%), Exxon Mobil Italiana Gas (45%) and Edison (10%).   The regasification terminal utilizes Exxon Mobil proprietary technology. Designed around a large concrete structure, the terminal houses two LNG storage tanks, a regasification plant and facilities for mooring and unloading LNG vessels.   Once it reaches full operational capacity later in 2009, the terminal will be able to deliver 775 million cubic feet of natural gas per day or approximately 10% of Italy’s current natural gas requirements.   Notably, Exxon Mobil has also recently started another LNG regasification terminal

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Iran has a bigger place in the global economy than most people know.

The first thing that I don’t think many people appreciate is how big the country is. The population of Iran is 66 million. That makes it the 19th most populous country on the planet — more populous than France, the U.K., Italy and South Korea. Iran is in the top 10 in terms of contributing to population growth.

Economically, Iran is an important link in the New Silk Road, that growing trade relationship between Asia and the Middle East. Iran is a big market for Asian exports. Take a look the next chart, which shows the sharp growth in trade:

Iran has plenty of oil and gas, which it exports to pay for Asian imports of cars, clothes and other goods. Increasingly,

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Ukraine has apparently paid its May gas bill and expects an apology from Moscow about aspersions casts upon its ability to pay for gas supplies.  Medvedev has counseled Ukraine to not look 'offended' when asked about insolvency but instead try 'to honor their liabilities.'  Vice-Premier Igor Sechin has said that the Saudi Arabian prediction that oil will reach $150 a barrel is realistic.  Alexei Kudrin has apparently called OPEC 'ineffective' at preventing volatility in the oil market.  In the future, gas from the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan could be exported to Russia rather than to Western Europe.  Germany's E.ON group has made a deal to acquire 25% of the Siberian Yuzhno Russkoye gas field from Gazprom.  The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell has warned that oil prices may spike if there ...

Turkmenistan has just discovered what might be the fourth largest natural gas field on earth. I am sure that Gazprom doesn't like this development whatsoever. From the Asia Times: British consultancy firm Gaffney, Cline & Associates (GCA), making the announcement in Ashgabat regarding the first results of its audit of Turkmen gas reserves, said its low estimate under the established international and classification system is that the fields may have a minimum 4 trillion cubic meters of gas and as much as a staggering 14 trillion cubic meters. This catapults Yoloten-Osman, in the southeast of the country, to the status of Turkmenistan's No 1 gas field, overtaking even the fabulous Dowalatabad, whose reserves it will exceed by at least five times. It should be kept in mind that many other of Turkmenistan's many gas fields have yet to be fully explored, and the GCA has just made its initial findings known.

Jack Ewing at BusinessWeek argues that Russia's deep ties in the German economy are inhibiting the government's response to war in the Caucasus and other international issues with Moscow: The swift return to cordial relations was recognition of just how intertwined the German and Russian economies have become. Manufacturing everything from luxury autos to machinery to food, some 4,600 German companies are active in Russia and 70,000 German jobs depend on business with the country. Germany is also Russia's largest trading partner, with $45 billion in two-way trade during the first six months of this year. Little wonder that the 25 German businesspeople who joined Merkel in St. Petersburg seemed anxious to forgive the events in Georgia and get back to doing deals with Russian partners. The biggest deal: an agreement allowing energy supplier E.ON (EONGn.DE) to acquire 25% of a huge Siberian ...

E.On (OTC:EONGY) took a bite out of Gazprom (OTC:OGZPY) today. Germany’s largest utility company just got nearly a quarter of Gazprom’s Yuzhno Russkoye natural gas field. And all it had to do was give back some of the Russian giant’s stock. Not bad.