Get Energized With Enterprise

This column was originally published on RealMoney on Aug. 14 at 11:33 a.m. EDT. It's being republished as a bonus for TheStreet.com readers.

There are many ways to play the energy game: buy domestic oil and gas companies, buy foreign ones, focus on oil services companies. Enterprise GP Holdings LP (EPE Quote) could be another way to energize your portfolio.

Enterprise GP controls the general partner of Enterprise Products, which is a large, publicly traded master limited partnership, or MLP, that provides pipelines and services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil.

Enterprise GP is on fire: Earnings per share for the second quarter were 25 cents vs. 14 cents a year ago, and for the first six months of this year, EPS nearly doubled to 51 cents. ...