Gamble of the week: gas engineer for the brave

Low natural gas prices have led to producers cutting back their operations. Eventually, this will lead to shortages and a surge in prices - when this week's gamble should pay off.

The price disparity between the Nymex crude oil and natural gas markets is startling. Based purely on energy content, a barrel of oil is now roughly four times more expensive than an equivalent amount of gas the biggest premium in a generation.

True, there's a fair dose of speculative froth in the black stuff, yet there is no doubt that as an alternative energy source, gas looks too cheap.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.