115 years ago...
A one-armed brick maker and self-trained geologist unleashed the "Beaumont Miracle"... sparking a resource wealth explosion and the richest century in U.S. history...
Today, there's a whole new and little-talked-about American energy "miracle" taking shape... one that's already creating a whole new wave of resource millionaires... and out of 64 publicly traded companies invested...
This one company is the one to own if you hope to get rich on this revolutionary new discovery "event."
Dear Friend,
They called it the "Beaumont Miracle."
It started in 1892, when Patillo Higgins - a one-armed brick maker and self-trained geologist - had an idea. See, back then, just about all the oil in the U.S. came from where it was first discovered, Pennsylvania.
Higgins figured we could find more by drilling where people hadn't looked.
The one place he figured held the biggest payoff was a salt hill called "Spindletop," just outside of Beaumont, Texas. Other geologists called him silly. The Texas newpapers called him a fool. Everybody "knew" the Gulf states had no oil, they said.
Higgins, they figured, had to be a nitwit.
But he pressed on.
For eight years, he traveled to find the money to drill. He gave speeches and ran ads, trying to build a team. He drilled one hole after another and came up dry. Then on Jan. 10, 1901, it happened.
Higgin's business partner, Capt. Anthony Lucas, struck paydirt.
Mud bubbled out of one of the drill holes. Suddenly, out shot a drill pipe with a bang. Silence... rumbling... and then a thundering 150-foot geyser of black oil.
You've seen it in movies. This was the real thing. And the single biggest turning point - the "boom heard 'round the world" - that changed everything.
Just to give you some idea, when Higgins' team first started, it hoped to get up to five barrels of oil per day. Instead, it got 100,000 barrels per day for nine days straight. And double that from other wells that followed.
Keep in mind, that means the team was getting more oil from that first well than all the oil production from all the other working wells in America... combined!
Another 100 different oil companies crowded into "Spindletop Alley" over the next few months. The population of Beaumont went from 10,000 to over 50,000 overnight. And America's oil-fueled dominance over 20th-century industry was born.
Why rehash history?
Because I believe what I'm about to show you?- something I just learned about myself?- could be just as big and as important to America and maybe the world as Higgins' "Beaumont Miracle."
It's also a uniquely American energy discovery. Not with oil, but the second most used energy source in the U.S... natural gas.
How important is this?
It could completely change the balance of energy power... revolutionize the idea of U.S. energy independence... and give us a whole new wave of resource millionaires.. . you included, provided you act early enough to get in on this deal...
The Next Great American Energy "Miracle"
What I'm about to show you geologists and other experts also once called "crazy."
But not anymore.
Two stunningly simply technologies have made the impossible possible... opening up access, for the first time, to a vast resource we've known about but haven't been able to crack... since the time of Thomas Jefferson.
Like the Higgins legacy, this whole new resource could reinvent where we stand in world energy markets... but it could also make vast fortunes for early investors.
For close-to-the-core insiders, in fact, that tide of new wealth has already started to pour in.
Take a look...
- Tim O'Donnell's latest one-day cash payout on this was $205,421
- Local stockholder Joe Stubblefield got a check for $83,733
- Texas accountant Stanley Wilson made an additional $111,370
- Shareholder Mark Lester made $72,074 in a single afternoon
- Investor Hank Hood got a check for his shares totaling $58,610
- Just one of Steve Dixon's cash payouts was $142,143.
Maybe you've heard of billionaire Jim Tisch.
Tisch helps run Loews , the gigantic holding company. He and his backers just put $4.03 billion behind this breakthrough discovery.
Jim Rogers , the Quantum Fund founder and famous resource investor, recently told an interviewer that anybody buying now should "make a fortune."
And both The New York Times and USA Today have called this one incredible natural gas recovery revolution an incredible "bonanza" for everyone involved.
Even the engineers at Schlumberger , the world's oldest and biggest oil field servicing company, say this incredible new resource- ignored by drillers for decades- is suddenly single-handedly responsible for "boosting the fortunes of midsized producers across the United States."
In fact, 64 publicly traded companies have already rushed in to stake a claim on what's already proving to be a huge new wave of wealth creation. And the payoffs so far- both to companies and their shareholders- have been phenomenal.
Take Southwestern Energy.
At the start of this year, you could have picked up shares for $32.87. By the end of March, shares had already soared to over $40 and that's after already skyrocketing 374% over the prior three years!
Or Chesapeake Energy Corp ., another major player in this new natural gas breakthrough.
If you had known to buy shares in Chesapeake back in 2004, you'd be up 627% by now.
XTO Energy , up 239%... EOG Resources , up 187%... Devon Energy , up 159%... all thanks to this one ground-breaking natural gas recovery program I'm about to reveal to you.
But here's the thing.
I happen to know that there are several excellent shares you could own, all backed by this revolutionary program.
But there's only one company that has one cutting-edge profit advantage... a secret low-risk, high-payoff recovery strategy... that I'm going to urge you to consider owning today.
You won't find out about it from your broker. No analysts even cover it.
You won't read about it in the financial pages or see it on the news.
It's just too small... too nimble... and too new an opportunity.
Yet I'm absolutely convinced that out of all the excellent companies about to make fortunes for their shareholders based on this one stunning discovery... this ONE company will be the share to own now and over the next several years ahead.
I'll show you, by the way, how to send for a full research report on this new opportunity. I commissioned it myself, from one of the greatest minds studying the markets today.
It's called America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza. You can download a free copy of this new special report after reading this letter. Inside, you'll discover...
- Details on the two new technologies that have suddenly opened up access to America's vast deposits of natural shale gas, once untouchable, but now much easier to get out of the ground
- Names and ticker symbols for some of the most stunning and some case secretive small and midsize energy companies that have already clamed a stake in America's most valuable shale gas properties
- And, most important of all, the ONE company that has a hidden gas recovery technique that not only slashes exploration risks and improves the discovery ratio... but could make this the richest stock in your portfolio by the time Wall Street wakes up to this trend.
I don't have to tell you how much we depend on natural gas. It heats more than half the homes in the U.S. It fires up stoves in restaurants and heats water in apartment buildings, hospitals and hotels. It churns turbines that make electricity. It even fuels more than 2.5 million natural gas-driven cars, trucks and buses worldwide.
After petroleum, natural gas is the most used fuel in the U.S. And around the world, it's one of the safest and the cleanest. With worldwide focus on cleaner fuel rising... and the U.S. moving away from oil dependence... natural gas demand should only go higher over the years ahead.
And a lot of that could now come from shale gas.
How much of it?
As much as 780 trillion cubic feet , all trapped inside the shale beds of the continental U.S.
To put that in perspective, that's enough natural gas to meet total U.S. demand for electricity generation for at least the next 108 years. And enough to meet our total gas demand, heating, electricity, transportation and more, for the next 35 years.
Just in the gas we could get from shale, using these two groundbreaking new technologies.
See, geologists used to think shale beds, which pile up in horizontal layers, like the pages of a book could never yield enough of the trapped gas to prove profitable. Drilling straight down was just too inefficient.
But new horizontal drilling solves that problem by letting drillers peel apart those layers. Horizontal drilling uses powerful but flexible drilling cables to sneak into the rock from an angle.
Horizontal drilling is now so advanced you can snake a drill bit into a shale gas deposit from as far as a mile away.
And where horizontal drilling isn't enough to release all the gas, the second major breakthrough, "hydraulic fracturing", comes into play. Called "fracking" for short, drillers use these high-pressure water blasts to smash remaining rock. This releases the rest of the trapped gas.
And of course, the good news about gas-trapped rock is that, unlike oil, once it's released, you don't have to suck it out of the ground and separate it from the rock particles. It's a light gas. So instead of sinking, you can just get it to float to the top.
There it's collected, contained and shipped off like natural gas from any other source. And the good news is that shale gas wells, unlike other sources of natural gas, release the gas slowly in a steady stream, meaning a good shale gas well can pour out steady profits for as long as 30 years before it's finished producing.
It's the Oldest Opportunity Story in the World
It's exactly the kind of innovation that you can use to build phenomenal wealth.
Think agriculture and the cotton gin... steel and the Bessemer process... cars and the production line... computers and the silicon chip... hasn't the history of innovation almost always coincided with the history of making production cheap?
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For example, for all of the shale gas producers I told you about, cheaper access to the trapped gas means better profit margins. Better profit margins can mean a soaring share price. And that's already proving true for some of the companies I've already named.
But now I'm ready to name one more breakthrough innovation... a secret strategy that only one company has, over all the other companies now plugged in to the shale gas revolution...
This last innovation is a secret strategy that not only gives this one company an edge over shale gas competitors... but could change the way energy companies big and small search for new resources over the years ahead.
It's this secret advantage that makes this company, lets call it "Company X", the most important stock you could add to your portfolio this year.
It's also this secret advantage you'll find explained in detail in the free copy of America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza , the new research report I'd like to rush to you immediately.
Once you read this report, prepared by one of the most brilliant analysts I've ever had the pleasure to work with, you can decide for yourself whether this is the kind of company you'd like to own.
And as I said, even though I was a skeptic myself at first, now that I've read the full report... I'm ready to "front" the first $500 to anybody who wants to take me up on my offer to look over this opportunity and many more just like it.
Still not sure? Then let me introduce you to the genius who first discovered this brilliant opportunity... brought it to my attention... and single-handedly created the report I'd like to send...
Every Stock This Genius Picked Made Money
His name is Chris Mayer.
I'm sure you've heard of him.
After all, Chris already heads up one of the most popular research advisory services in my publishing stable, Capital & Crisis . And his track record so far is phenomenal.
But until recently, he hasn't been able to share brilliant moneymaking plays like the "Company X" we've talked about.
Why?
Until now, Chris' only way to reach fellow market watchers, outside of his monthly advisory letter, was through the national media outlets, where he's made appearances on shows like Fox Television's weekly Bulls & Bears or Forbes on Fox and on CNBC .
You could also find him quoted regularly in mainstream and alternative financial media alike, across the U.S. And mentioned on popular financial blogs like Market Metaphysics , which recently said...
Chris is the best financial journalist you've never heard of... his elegant prose will make you wonder why you don't find this caliber of writing in the mainstream financial press. His essays are sharp intellectual discoveries... all this and solid investment ideas, too.
For any other hard-working analyst, that would have been enough.
But not for Chris.
The best stocks, Chris told me privately, I can't share with everybody.
These hidden plays, like the "Company X" I've been telling you about, are what Chris and savvy market insiders call "Special Situation" plays. Special because they're typically smaller. Lesser-known. And driven by hidden forces that could easily send share prices soaring.
Why hasn't Chris shared them up until now?
Because in so many of these, there just aren't enough shares to go around. Either that, or Chris, one of the most diligent and quality-conscious analysts I've ever met, just feels some opportunities are too sophisticated for some investors.
So until now, Chris has just kept his cards to his chest.
Then we came up with a solution. I begged Chris to write up some of his favorite "Special Situation" companies in a single private market research report, a lot like the free report I've been telling you about today, and we called this report "Blue Gold," because it happened to be about five "Special Situation" companies in the completely overlooked water industry.
Guess what happened...
Every single one of the companies Chris named in this last special research advisory repot, Hyflux Ltd., Lindsay Corp., Kurita Water Industries, Nalco Holding Co. and the Gorman-Rupp Co., all went up.
Hyflux Ltd. quickly soared 23% higher... Lindsay Corp . shot up another 36.4%... Kurita Water would have given you another 46%... you could have watched your Nalco Holding shares rise another 62.8%... and shares of Gorman-Rupp , also a featured pick in Chris' privately distributed report, also shot up another 76.8%...
We were so excited by his research, I threw my full backing behind a completely new service, created especially for people like you... savvy readers who know how to enjoy exactly these kinds of "Special Situation" opportunities.
We named Chris' new select service Mayer's Special Situations report.
So far, it's been a huge success.
For instance, just by owning the shares Chris named in that last special report I just told you about... you could have averaged 47% across the entire special portfolio. And in just a little over a year. That's spectacular.
Even Mickey Mantle missed the ball once in awhile. But Chris knocked every one of those moves right out of the park . In the new research report I'd like to send you, America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza , can Chris do it again?
I'm so confident he can, I'm ready to send you a copy free.
Just for giving Mayer's Special Situations a try.
But you should act quickly. See, Chris and his Mayer's Special Situations might be among the first to catch onto this story.
But the news about shale gas is already spreading quickly...
Everybody Local Is Already Cashing in on
the Hidden Shale Gas Boom
Bryan Burgess wears blue jeans.
He drives an old truck. And he runs a farm in Alabama.
It's what's buried underneath his land, a vast vein of the Conasauga shale field , that's about to make him very rich. See, just a few years ago, energy companies quietly came around offering to lease his land, for a paltry $11 per acre.
He turned them down, and now they're back. This time, they'll pay as $500 per acre to lease the same gas-rich territory. That's a 4,446% increase in "rent" that Bryan can charge.
And this isn't the only sign there's a whole new mania for shale gas properties that's already under way.
In the 1920s and '30s, oil-drilling booms reshaped L.A. and Oklahoma City. Now it's transforming the fortunes of Fort Worth, Texas, the city that happens to sit on top of gas-rich Barnett shale, the giant of the new shale gas phenomenon.
For instance, the Fort Worth branch of the American Cancer Society just made $5 million selling mineral rights on a piece of donated land. And the local Girl Scouts just made a bundle by leasing mineral rights under one of its old summer campsites.
Meanwhile, golf courses, schools, parks, libraries and whole neighborhoods happen to sit on top of some of the richest shale gas deposits in the U.S. And they're trading that in for fortunes.
Even the Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport has cashed in. It just signed a $185 million lease on the shale gas underneath its 18,000 acres of terminals and runways. The first Fort Worth gas well broke ground in 2005. Now the city has 500 active wells and another 225 on the way. It's already pumped an extra $5.2 billion into the local economy.
Along with 55,000 new jobs.
According to The New York Times , it's just getting started.
"The surging interest in tapping gas trapped [in shale in] Fort Worth is only the beginning of a new far-flung search by wildcatters now exploring Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Texas for a big new source of shale natural gas."
And they may have found it... in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Next Frontier for American Energy Fortunes
While Barnett shale and other deposits have "matured' past the early phase, the huge shale gas deposits near Fayetteville, just over the border from the giant Barnett field in Texas, are just getting started.
Nobody's sure yet exactly how big Fayetteville will prove to be. But one thing is certain: It's a rich deposit and the hottest "next new thing" in exploration circles.
Some say it may even prove bigger than the Barnett shale play in Fort Worth, Texas.
It's a huge property, on the Arkansas side of the Arkoma Basin. It runs as much as 6,500 feet deep. And some 2,000 square miles across.
Company X, the one I've told you about, owns 44,000 net mineral acres of Fayetteville Shale. Possibly some of the richest acres in the whole deposit.
It's not the biggest exploration company in the area. It doesn't own the most equipment. It doesn't have some secret research tool nobody else has.
But here's where Company X gains its edge.
"Rock-kickers", geologists, are like rock stars to energy companies. Energy exploration can't happen without them. So the majors like Exxon, Chevron and others hire huge teams of them straight out of college.
Smaller companies usually can't compete. So Company X went the other way. Instead of hiring geologists, it does something better, by making them partners in the projects instead.
This is a hugely attractive deal.
Geologists working for paychecks think like employees. Geologists with a cut of the deal think like owners. And in any business, who works harder than an owner?
The bigger the discovery, the bigger the reward. It's a strategy that's paid off. The world's top geologists have lined up to get a larger share of the reward for their research, at the same time increasing this company's success rate... while slashing the company's overhead for exploration to the bare minimum.
For Company X, this simple strategic move was a stroke of genius.
It's turned up one gas-rich property after another.
And the gravy train should just continue, especially as the whole Fayetteville shale play moves into the next phase of development. You still have time. But not much. This one strategy could easily double the company's value from just under $500 million now to over $1 billion by the end of 2008.
If not sooner.
How?
Chris put it best, in a message he sent me while attending the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting (Chris is one of the legendary company's lucky shareholders). The secret, he said, is in the brilliant partnerships with the world's top geologists.
"It's that simple," said Chris. "Thinking like the owner is the key to so much investing success."
Chris is no stranger to that insight, by the way. In his days as a commercial lender, Chris made the call on loans to companies worth as much as $400 million and more. With millions of the bank's money at stake, he couldn't just throw darts at the balance sheet.
He had to get inside the company to decide what it was really worth. And whether it was worth the risk. Not once during his tenure did he lose a dime of the bank's money. That's rare, even at the first-class level of commercial lending.
It's a simple lesson.
Owners don't destroy value. They don't waste time. Or company capital. Their aim is success, as efficient and large as possible. That's exactly how Company X and its geologists build its partnerships. And it's exactly what made Chris jump on this as an opportunity for you to invest in.
Hired-gun scientists work harder to make sure as many drills as possible yield a positive result. When holes come up dry, nobody benefits. When they strike pay dirt, everyone, including the scientist himself and the shareholders, gets rich.
You can read all about this in the copy of America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza I can't wait to send. I've never seen anything like it.
Slash Risk While Tripling Your Chances
to Double Your Money
See, by sharing the incentive, this company not only increases its success rate in drilling and finding massive pockets of shale gas, it also manages to thin out the risk.
And this gives the company huge flexibility.
Other energy companies are constantly at risk of running out of money because they carry such huge overheads. But Company X, with its innovative business model, doesn't carry those same overhead costs.
It's no accident that Company X has some of the widest profit margins in the shale gas industry and in the exploration business as a whole. It's also no accident Company X has five times more equity than debt. That's wealth it can easily pass on to you, the shareholder.
There's something else...
- The founder and owner of this company owns 13% of the outstanding shares himself. And combined, upper management owns 24% of the company. Obviously, you want a company that believes in its own destiny
- Company X also has a 10% interest in a liquid natural gas (LNG) facility in Texas. It's worth $830 million. But Company X worked a deal. It paid only $3 million toward building it. Other investors put up the rest. It's not often you parlay a $3 million investment into $830 million
- Company X owns positions in not just one, but six other alternative energy companies, including one very promising hydrogen cell company, at a time when alternative energy positions have outperformed all over on Wall Street. Just owning shares in Company X is like getting your own private access to an alt-energy mini-hedge fund!
- And finally, here's a brilliant move, this company also recently snapped up oil wells on the petroleum- and gas-rich "deep shelf" just off the coast of the Southern U.S., properties other oil companies abandoned after Katrina. The payoff? So far, as much as $9 million per month on the new wells.
You can do the math.
Says Chris, right now, this is just a $468 million company.
Yet when you add up the rich shale gas deposits in Fayetteville... the LNG terminal about to come online in 2008... the six new and different diversified alternative energy stocks in this company's "mini" portfolio... and the already productive new wells off the Gulf Coast... this company is easily worth double what the market's asking.
On the $9 million-per-month wells alone, can you imagine what an extra $120 million per year can do for a company that's total value on Wall Street is clocked at only $468 million?
As I said, we're talking about a new $1 billion player on the power markets, as early as next year. And we're just getting started. Own the shares, says Chris, and this could be an easy double by this time next year.
Not bad.
And you risk nothing to find out more.
Just let me know you're ready and I can rush you a copy of Chris' report, America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza.
Study the details and decide for yourself.
But maybe you're wondering...
How exactly did Chris come across Company X, and others like it, in the first place?
Why Chris Has Had to Keep "Company X" a
Secret, Until Now
Is this the first time Chris has shown other savvy market players how to play the shale gas boom? Absolutely not. On May 1 2007, for instance, Chris pegged Deltic Timber for readers of his other popular advisory letter, Capital & Crisis .
Deltic Timber is a solid company with a solid history averaging 8% gains every year since 1996. But what really interested Chris and his readers was DEL's hidden asset... 55,000 acres of property smack in the middle of the Fayetteville shale I've just told you about.
It was a perfect and very sensible "backdoor play." And already it's starting to payoff. Shareholders were up close to 5% already after the first five weeks.
Then there was Chris' other pick for his bigger, wider Capital & Crisis audience. It's called National Fuel Gas Co ., one of the safest asset-rich integrated gas utility companies around. It too was a very easy, sensible and safe way to play the boom in shale gas
Yet here's what Chris COULDN'T tell everyone...
Company X, which he also found during his research, was and still is a no-brainer buy for a certain more sophisticated kind of investor. But there was no way Chris could unleash this special recommendation situation to his full audience of readers.
Unlike his other picks, it was much smaller. With fewer shares on the market to snap up. The daily trading volume is very low. Too much attention too soon would send the share price soaring. And then nobody could get in at a reasonable price.
So Chris did the next best thing.
He sent out a message on May 7, 2007 to the very small private group of individuals who subscribe to his new elite service, Mayer's Special Situations .
In that message, he shared every detail on this company that a smart investor would need to make a decision. He concluded his detailed alert...
"Action to Take: [Company X's] assets are worth close to $65 per share. That's a 116% gain... buy up to $40 per share."
It was that easy.
Keep in mind, with every passing day, Company X is less "undiscovered."
For instance, within 24 days after Chris first made that recommendation to his small private group of more sophisticated research followers, the shares had already shot up three times faster than Chris' more mainstream shale gas recommendations.
That's just the nature of these smaller, more hidden opportunities. The smaller they are, the more room they have to run. And now with the stock just recently getting listed on the Russell 2000 Index, the shares could start rising even faster, as the institutional investors start pouring in.
When that happens, the share price for Company X should take off.
So if you'd like to move on this, you should do it soon.
Send for your copy of America's New Resource Miracle: The Coming Shale Gas Bonanza. . You'll also gain access to many more of these "Special Situation" moves that Chris has been dying to share with you...