Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Kodiak Energy Inc. is an oil and gas exploration and development company. Trading on the TSX Venture Exchange and the OTCBB, they focus on creating a portfolio of North American assets that offer production opportunities and asset growth through exploration. Kodiak is a multi-project enterprise with a land position of over 340,000 gross acres leased for exploration and development.

The company’s mission is the development of onshore oil, gas, and CO2 properties in the North American arena. Kodiak Energy has lease holdings in Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia. They also have prospects in the central Mackenzie River Valley of the Northwest Territories, Canada and in northeastern New Mexico. Through their private subsidiary, Cougar Energy, Inc., they are developing the projects of Lucy in the Horn River Basin in northeast British Columbia. The basin has a reputation within the oil and gas industry for its large scale,

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Drilling for oil isn’t what it used to be. The equipment, machinery and technology have made overall production much more efficient and cost effective. When oil drilling first began, technology was as basic as it could be. The individuals would pick a probable spot and drill until they struck oil or run out of drill bit length. Today an oil site has a complete arsenal of modern amenities. Ground penetrating radar, satellite imagery, highly advanced bit selections are among the many items that can be used.

One of the biggest breakthroughs in recent years that will eventually replace steam driven technology is applying a direct current of electricity between electrodes in producing wells and electrodes either located at surface or in the oil zone in adjacent wells. One reason for this is because not all areas are accessible to steam driven technology. Some of the main reasons are high volume production,

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Avalon Oil & Gas Inc. is a domestic oil and natural gas producer with leases currently in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. The company’s strategy is to use efficient reservoir maintenance and innovative oil recovery technologies on previously abandoned wells in order to produce much-needed hydrocarbon energy.

Avalon believes that global conditions in the energy market present the company with an attractive investment opportunity for proven technologies which will expand oil production efficiency in already-established oil fields. There is definitely oil to be recovered – according to the Department of Energy there is the potential to recover over 43 billion barrels of additional oil from stranded oil reserves and mature oil wells in the United States.

Finding additional oil will be important in the upcoming years. Why? The same old story – supply and demand. The supply of oil is steadily declining while

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Universal Tracking Solutions Inc. is an enterprise solutions based provider of telemetry and GPS fleet systems. The company is focused on the profitable mid-level GPS fleet tracking space in North America and provides its customers with unparalleled mapping technology that is considered to be the best in the industry.

It is always important for a company to have a solid board of advisors to help guide them. Universal Tracking has a trio of strong advisors with diverse business backgrounds and experience. Here are brief biographies of the company’s advisors:

Don M. Schilling – Mr. Schilling is currently the director for implementation and engineering of the “broadband over power lines” or BPL project for Mountain Telecommunications Inc. His responsibilities include equipment design and installation of BPL facilities for delivery of services to residential customers of Mountain Telecommunications’ power company partners. Mr. Schilling has previously

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Avalon Oil & Gas Inc. is an independent domestic oil and natural gas producer. The company has acquired a portfolio of leases in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Avalon’s strategy is to use efficient reservoir maintenance and innovative technology to generate stable cash flows for the company.

Avalon’s technology subsidiary acquires and develops oil production enhancing technologies from early stage licensing partners such as UTEK Inc. UTEK is a technology-transfer company that enables firms to rapidly acquire innovative technologies from universities and research laboratories worldwide.

To date, Avalon has acquired the license for two technologies. The first technology, licensed from the University of Wyoming, provides Avalon with exclusive rights to paraffin wax removal technology for improving oil production efficiency. The technology utilizes ultrasonic waves to mitigate deposits of paraffin wax from crude oil. This technology helps prevent precipitate from forming on production

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By Guest Author: Andy Richardson

My sister went house hunting last week. She likes a Taylor Wimpey PLC new build development but the plot she would want has not been started. The site representative said that Taylor Wimpey would not start to build on that particular plot until the three existing houses have been sold. They are anticipating about 18 months. So much for green shoots in the housing market. An estate agent I spoke to the other day said how fast rents are falling in my area since so many repossessions are being rented out by the receivers instead of being sold at auction. The receiver gets paid, the mortgage company gets some income and the tenant gets a home with an affordable rent.

I had a hard look at some ‘Industrials’ over the past couple of days. CHTR is a very well managed company yet its last trading announcement was …

Avalon Oil & Gas, Inc. is an independent domestic oil and natural gas producer. The company’s strategy is to use efficient reservoir maintenance and innovative oil production enhancing technology on a portfolio of oil and gas properties. Avalon expects this strategy to generate stable cash flows for the company.

Avalon’s technology arm acquires and develops oil production enhancing technologies from early stage licensing partners. The company’s business model is to evaluate the commercialization potential of a technology and its market viability. If warranted, Avalon will then proceed to rapid prototype development and field test of the technology.

One of Avalon’s licensing partners is UTEK, Inc., a global technology transfer company that enables firms to rapidly acquire innovative technologies from universities and research labs worldwide. Through UTEK, Avalon has acquired a few new oil production technologies.

One such technology license acquired by Avalon

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With oil finally trading back above the $50-a-barrel level, it’s time to recognize that crude prices are probably not going to remain low for very long, and may end up fluctuating in the $50-$80 range - regardless of what happens to the prices of other commodities. After all, the economies in both China and India are apparently continuing to grow at a fairly rapid pace, and those countries’ demand for transportation and other forms of energy are thus likely to keep pace. For some minerals, the period of high prices from 2005 to 2008 has produced a surplus. But no such effect has been seen in the oil market, as large new discoveries are hard to find. If we’ve learned anything in the last few years, it’s that political risk is very important in oil investments. It’s not just a question of outright ...

Oil and copper have been forming chart patterns that suggest a bottoming process for them.  That could be encouraging, in that oil and copper are important general economy inputs.

Consumption of oil and copper would precede the output of goods that utilize those commodities in their manufacture. That suggests the general concept that commodity prices should show recovery a bit before manufacturing shows share price increases, because the growth in sales and profits of manufacturing comes somewhat later in time

It is possible that the basing behavior is more a function of production cut backs or stockpiling than an indication of increased consumption.  China, for example, has announced plans to stockpile industrial raw materials now while prices are low for use later when prices are higher.

In any event, oil and copper are looking better.

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West Texas Intermediate Crude

The chart shows oil testing key resistance.

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America’s dilapidated water infrastructure is in desperate need of upgrading, says Chris Mayer. And the situation is similar in many countries throughout the world. And worse still, supplies of clean, fresh water are dwindling across the globe. Chris says these two trends can make water a ‘blue gold’ for investors.

This from Penny Sleuth:

Two days before Christmas, a 66-inch water main burst on River Road, not far from where I live, during morning rush hour. Water spewed out at a rate of 150,000 gallons per minute, turning River Road into an actual river for a time. People at the scene described the burst as a bomb going off. The road itself took significant damage.

The force of the water - going at 12-15 miles per hour - pushed cars around like so much debris. Firefighters had to rescue people from their cars as freezing cold water swirled around them.

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