About the book

Switch on a light. Heat your home. Drive to work. Power on your computer. Unless you live your entire life in a handcrafted tent in the wilderness, you can’t escape using some Energy sector by-product. Just living your everyday life benefits the firms who explore, find, extract, refine and deliver energy in all its forms to homes and business. And naturally, you also benefit from consuming energy on demand. So how can your portfolio benefit too?

Fisher Investments on Energy is a comprehensive guide to the Energy sector. Accessible for investors of all levels, this book provides background information, tools and insight that can help shape your investing decisions in this complex and increasingly visible sector. With in depth discussion of the industries and companies that comprise the Energy sector, the authors strive to push the reader to think critically to help make prudent investing decisions. As one of the first releases of Fisher Investment Press’ new investing sector guide series, Fisher Investments on Energy introduces readers to the style and format of the guides yet to be released.

The first commercial oil wells were drilled in North America in the mid-1800s. The US was considered to have one of the world’s largest oil reserves at the time and even exported oil to foreign lands. As recently as the mid-1900s, conventional sources of oil and gas were found in abundance and required relatively little effort and cost to extract.

The main difference between unconventional and conventional reserves is the way oil and gas are extracted. Examples of unconventional hydrocarbons include oil shale, oil sands, tight gas, and coal bed methane. While conventional reserves are trapped between layers of rock and can be extracted using ground pressure, unconventional reserves like oil sands and shale are trapped within rock and sand and are extracted through a mining process requiring enormous amounts of heat and pressure.

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