Top Gas Companies To Invest In Right Now

The state of Florida is increasingly turning away from fuel oil power plants, replacing them with facilities that run on cheap and plentiful natural gas instead. Though the falling price of domestic coal may make it competitive again in certain regions of the country, transportation costs to the Southeast, combined with the region's efficient natural gas power plants, indicate that this will be a strong market for the commodity for years to come. In this video, Fool.com contributor Aimee Duffy looks closely at this trend, and offers up the least risky way investors can take advantage.

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Top Gas Companies To Invest In Right Now: Essential Energy Services Ltd (ESN.TO)

Essential Energy Services Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides oilfield services that are related to the ongoing servicing of producing wells and new drilling activity for oil and gas producers in western Canada and Colombia. The company operates in two segments, Well Servicing, and Downhole Tools and Rentals. The Well Servicing segment offers well completion and production/workover services through its fleet of coil tubing rigs, nitrogen and fluid pumpers, service rigs, rod rigs, and hybrid drilling rigs. As of March 12, 2012, it had a fleet of 49 coil tubing rigs, 10 nitrogen pumpers, 15 fluid pumpers, 57 service rigs, 14 rod rigs, and 5 hybrid drilling rigs in Canada; and 2 coil tubing rigs, 2 nitrogen pumpers, 2 service rigs, and 3 rod rigs in Colombia. The Downhole Services and Rentals segment engages in the sale and rental of downhole tools, including the Tryton MSFS, retrievable and permanent packers, flow control accessories, liner hanger systems, bridge plugs, casing scrapers, cement retainers, and selective/straddle simulation tools for completion, production, and workover projects. This segment is also involved in the rental of oilfield equipment comprising drill pipe, heavy weight pipe, collars, degassers, blowout preventer rams, spools, pipe racks, handling tools, stabilizers, and reamers. Essential Energy Services Ltd. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top Gas Companies To Invest In Right Now: Cotton #2(CT)

Capital Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust, operates as a real estate finance and investment management company that provides credit sensitive financial products in the United States. The company?s investment programs focus on loans and securities backed by commercial real estate assets, including mortgage loans, property and corporate mezzanine loans, commercial mortgage backed securities, and subordinate mortgage interests. Its balance sheet investments include various types of commercial mortgage backed securities and collateralized debt obligations or securities, and commercial real estate loans and related instruments. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. It generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Capital Trust, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

10 Best Up And Coming Stocks To Buy For 2014: ING Group N.V. (ISG)

ING Groep N.V., a financial services company, provides banking, investment, life insurance, and retirement services for individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide. The company provides savings accounts, mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit card services, and investment products, as well as current account services and payments systems; life and non-life insurance products; asset management products and services; mortgage products; and risk management services. It also offers commercial banking products and services, including lending products, such as structured finance; payment and cash management, and treasury services; and specialized and trade finance, derivatives, corporate finance, debt and equity capital markets, leasing, factoring, and supply chain finance. In addition, the company provides individual endowment, and term and whole life insurance products, as well as traditional, unit-linked, and variable annuity life insurance products for individual and group customers; fire, motor, disability, transport, accident, and third party liability insurance products; employee benefits products and pension funds; retirement services, fixed annuities, mutual funds, and broker-dealer services; and disability insurance products and complementary services for employers and self-employed professionals comprising dentists, general practitioners, and lawyers. Further, the company offers investment management services. ING Groep N.V. operates a network of approximately 280 branches in the Netherlands; and 773 branches in Belgium. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ING Groep N.V. is a subsidiary of Stichting ING Aandelen.