Helping E&P Companies to Enhance Revenues and Lower Risks by Accessing the Energy Futures Market

Welcome to our hedging website. In this area, you will have access to key information about First Keystone's hedging advisory services.

First, you will be able to peruse the nature of our services. In a nutshell, we will reduce the "brain damage" associated with moving up the learning curve to familiarize oneself with how to establish an in-house hedging competency. Our job is to turnkey the set-up of a system. We can "fast track" your process because we have the skills to translate the hedging community's esoteric lingo into terms that are understandable by E&P people. We know the data requirements, contracting documentation, credit calculations, basic strategies, and ongoing administration regimens. When we are done, you will be engaged in hedging.

But, do you, in fact, need hedging? This website also helps answer that question; however, a basic principle is that hedging is essential for those producers who are hamstrung by today's weak spot prices. Certainly, any producer that is sweating out its bank's borrowing base revaluation or next month's run checks should not pass up such an easy opportunity to monetize that forward curve for 2010 and 2011. The opposite point is can a company take the risk that the forward curve collapses in 2010 just like it did in 2009?

First Keystone is not engaged in the business of offering investment advice. However, we will put you in touch with a highly qualified firm, staffed by expert former commodities traders, that can provide appropriate guidance in fine-tuning your strategy and mapping out your trades.

Feel free to check us out. If you choose to delve into certain areas of our website containing some of our proprietary services, we would like to receive some basic information about you. You will have no obligation and we certainly will not disseminate such information. If you would like to call us, please to so at (215) 598-0500.