For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 6, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Zacks Industry Rank. Stocks featured in this week’s analysis include B.P. Prudhoe Bay (BPT), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Hershey (HSY) and Del Monte (DLM).

Zacks Industry Rank Analysis is written by Dirk Van Dijk, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist for Zacks.com.   This week: Out-of-Step Industries

Sometimes the best investments come from a small group that seems to be bucking the trend of the much larger group that they are a part of. That appears to be the case for the Oil Royalty Trust group. There are eight names in this group, all of which sport Zacks #2 rankings. That puts them in a tie for 4th place among all industries tracked. Meanwhile, the Energy sector is well down the list overall sector rank list.

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BP: British Petroleum. Big Profits

by Tony Daltorio, the Investment U Research Team

Not too long ago, seven major oil companies – commonly referred to as the Seven Sisters – controlled their market.

But that was then and this is now. Today, they’re scrambling to find new oil fields, while “smaller” companies rock the industry.

That’s why there’s been so much excitement over the recent discovery of a ‘giant’ oil field in the Gulf of Mexico by one of the Seven Sisters, British Petroleum ADR (NYSE: BP).

When international oil companies consider where to invest, they typically have to choose between technically straightforward fields in politically turbulent countries, or politically stable areas that require complex and costly production techniques.

Easily produced, accessible energy resources in secure countries just don’t exist anymore; the era of cheap oil is truly over.

But BP has a long history

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BP PLC (NYSE ADR: BP) yesterday (Wednesday) announced a “giant” oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico that may contain more than 3 billion barrels of oil. The find is evidence of the Gulf’s resurrection as a major oil producer, as well as the great lengths – or depths – to which major oil companies must go to find vibrant wells.

The well, known as the …

BP PLC (NYSE ADR: BP) yesterday (Wednesday) announced a “giant” oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico that may contain more than 3 billion barrels of oil. The find is evidence of the Gulf’s resurrection as a major oil producer, as well as the great lengths – or depths – to which major oil companies must go to find vibrant wells.

The well, known as the Tiber Prospect, is one of the deepest wells ever drilled with a total depth of about 35,055 feet, or 6½ miles. An appraisal will be required to determine the size and potential commercial value of discovery, but preliminary estimates suggest the field is bigger than Kaskida, a 2006 discovery that boasted 3 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe).

“Tiber represents BP’s second material discovery in the emerging Lower Tertiary play in the Gulf of Mexico, following our earlier Kaskida discovery,”

Oil exploration company Bald Eagle Energy, Inc. recently showed how a little oil stock can, like gold, do remarkable things. Even though the sluggish economy has brought oil prices down to earlier levels, oil stocks can also be viewed as having a counter-cyclical element. From 2/19 to 2/24, the Dow Jones Industrial Average made another new low, causing some investors to again start using the term “depression”. Little noticed was that, during the exact same time, BEEI jumped over 37%.

Unlike the major oil players, Bald Eagle Energy is a small, largely unexposed company, still under the radar of many investors, and with a share price to match. And yet the company has positioned itself to reap potentially huge gains by securing leases on over 18,000 acres right next door to the biggest oil field in North America, Prudhoe Bay.

The fact that

Bald Eagle Energy, Inc., (BEEI.OB) is in good company as it seeks out oil and gas deposits in the Arctic regions of Alaska. Some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world are exploring or producing, both on shore and off shore, in and around Alaska.

• ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) has been in Alaska for a long time, having invested over $20 billion since 1954, and it’s still there, producing approximately 140,000 barrels of oil per day.

• Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS-B) is investing billions into offshore exploration in the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea, off Alaska’s north and northwest coasts.

• British Petroleum (NYSE:BP) operates the largest oil field in North America, the Prudhoe Bay Field in far northern Alaska, along with other oil fields and pipelines on Alaska’s North Slope.

• Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) has a number of exploration and production operations on Alaska’s North

Bald Eagle Energy, Inc., (BEEI.OB), a Texas based oil and gas exploration company, has its eyes on Alaska’s North Slope. The company is actively acquiring leases in the area, based upon two important facts:

• National and world demand for oil and gas will inevitably continue on an upward slope for years to come, in spite of the current economic slowdown, and in spite of efforts to move to non-fossil fuels.

• Alaska’s North Slope, and surrounding regions, represent America’s best major source of new energy, and will continue to play a major role in reaching the country’s goal of energy independence.

It’s no secret that America, and most of the world, floats on a sea of oil. And virtually every projection points to increased demand for the foreseeable future. Globalization, and the spread of free market economies, has spurred development like never before. And the recent economic

Bald Eagle Energy Inc. (BEEI.OB), based out of Houston, is an oil and gas exploration company specifically formed to address America’s independence on foreign resources. While domestic energy companies produce 5.1 million barrels of oil per day (MMBOPD), US consumers use 20.7 MMBOPD. The current 15.6 million barrel shortfall is the gap that Bald Eagle is committed to reducing by tapping into the energy resources found in Alaska.

The North Slope Basin is known for its abundance of hydrocarbon with an estimated 27 billion barrels of discovered recoverable oil (BBO) and 52 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas (TCFG). Compared to other parts of the US, the region has a low exploration-drilling density and is under-explored.

Bald Eagle entered into an agreement on April 18, 2008 to acquire a 100% working interest in six separate leases located on the Alaska North Slope.

Western Standard Energy (WSEG) is an exploration-stage oil firm focused on extracting crude oil and natural gas from the Bakken Formation that runs through Montana, North Dakota and Canada. The area is believed to hold some of the largest reserves of crude oil in the North America, after Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay and the oilfields of West Texas. In fact, it is speculated that there are potentially 503 billion barrels of oil on 25,000 square miles of the Bakken Formation. That amount surpasses Saudi Arabia’s reserves by five times and is believed to be over 200 times the total known reserves in the U.S.

Western Standard is currently engaged in a natural gas project in Montana and an oil project in North Dakota. The combined value of the two projects is estimated to be almost $2.9 billion. In North Dakota, the company has seven prospects in an area known as the Lodgepole

Bald Eagle Energy (BEEI) is an exploration stage mining company focused on the acquisition and exploration of mineral resource properties in Canada. The company primarily acquires and explores copper, gold and silver properties. Bald Eagle Energy is also, and possibly more noteworthy to potential investors, engaged in oil exploration. The company is set to develop six new leases on Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope. Bald Eagle’s lease area on the North Slope is estimated to contain about 90 million barrels of crude oil and is one of the North Slope’s least explored areas. Bald Eagle’s leases occupy about 18,000 acres on the North Slope.

What could work in Bald Eagle’s favor is that its area of exploration on the North Slope is relatively small compared to what major oil firms such as ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell typically look for. Bald Eagle isn’t fighting for leases with these far larger