Natural Gas: What You Need to Know

From TSC Power Stocks: Chesapeake Energy:

During the week of July 28, TheStreet.com readers searched for the following 10 stocks more than any others.

3. Chesapeake Energy: Across the board, great values are being created in the natural gas sector. The stocks got walloped as natural gas futures collapsed from over $13 to $9 and change recently.

Natural gas is not going away. In fact, we will be using a lot more of it in the future because it's a clean-burning fuel that is abundant here in the U.S.

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To listen to Chesapeake's second-quarter earnings conference call, click here.

From Cramer: The Cheapest Energy Stock Worth Buying (Video, Jul. 30):

Jim Cramer: "When you see the Marcellus Shale numbers... you're going to wish you were in there... and Cabot's (COG Quote) Marcellus... the one [natural gas company] that is cheapest is now Cabot... Cabot's spent a fortune buying up acreage and I think it's going to really pay off."

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From ExxonMobil Strikes Oil, Nat Gas Deals:

The oil giant [Exxon Mobil (XOM Quote)] and a subsidiary will invest $1.1 billion to develop more than 270 million oil-equivalent barrels from the Turrum field in the Bass Strait, offshore southeast Australia, the company said. That follows an earlier announcement that it will partner with Australian miner BHP Billiton (BHP Quote) in a $1 billion deal to develop natural gas from the Kipper field, also in the Bass Strait.

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From Find the Bottom in Natural Gas (Video, Jul. 25)

David Peltier finds value in natural gas following the recent pullback in the energy patch.

Peltier: "One of the names I really like here, is El Paso (EP Quote)... they have two sides of the [natural gas] business, but I think because of this, the company as a whole, is being undervalued."

Watch the video on TheStreet.com TV.

Plus, don't miss these natural gas-focused "Wall Street Confidential" videos with Jim Cramer on TheStreet.com TV: Cramer: Chesapeake Energy's Got Legs (Jul. 25), Cramer: It's the Year of Natural Gas (Jul. 15), Cramer: Why Nat Gas Is a U.S. Story (Jul. 9), Cramer: Natural Gas Rules (Jul. 2), Cramer: Why Nat Gas Is for Keeps (Jun. 17), Cramer: One Gas Play Can Make Your Year (May 21), Cramer: Buy Nat Gas Now, Wind in '09 (May 15), Cramer: Natural Gas Dip Not Due to Dollar (Apr. 28), Cramer: Make Money With Natural Gas (Apr. 15) and Cramer: Dems Will Make This the Year for Natural Gas (Mar. 28).

From Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Reaping the Benefits of High Oil Prices:

Cramer says big oil just cannot take advantage of the higher oil prices because they either just can't drill for enough oil, or they expected oil prices to retreat and hedged their bets. Some signed contracts with foreign governments that backfired.

That hasn't been the case, he emphasized, with oil stocks that have natural gas exposure.

They include XTO Energy (XTO Quote), Southwestern Energy (SWN Quote) and El Paso.

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