NTO is a miner, not an energy company. It's principal asset is its 12.5% interest in the Bajo del Alumbrera gold/copper mine in the Catamarca Province, Argentina (from yahoo). I like the stock chart and own some, but it ain't energy. IVAN is a junior gas/oil explorer that was once the object of Thom Calandra's pumping. It still has a momo following. IVAN production is tiny, 2,200 boe/d. They have lots of projects that may or may not pan out. You can make money trading this one, but keep in mind that you aren't trading real production and earnings, yet. The most interesting thing going for IVAN, imo, is the demonstration plant converting heavy crude into light crude. I hope goes commercial for them. FXEN is another long shot. They are a play on finding oil in Poland and have not announced production figures yet. They say that they are going to bring a couple of wells into commercial production, but no numbers are out that I can find. Compare the charts and fundamentals of IVAN and FXEN to CNR, TGA, DVN and APA just for kicks and use varying time frames. I like and own the last 4 as well as PGH in the energy sector. http://stockcharts.com/webcgi/perf.html?FXEN,$wtic,cnr,tga,ivan,dvn,apa
Commodity blowoff? Look at the CRB index. Gone straight up once it broke resistance. And oil price is the driver here. Definately could be a blowoff in the works, but the summer drive season is still a few months away. I'm sure they'll want to keep oil high to bleed us at the pump!