About the person
Kay Rieck is an investor and entrepreneur. He began his career as a financial advisor and stockbroker at the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).
In subsequent years, he worked as an independent broker at the NYSE, the New York Board of Trade, and the Chicago Board of Trade in the areas of investment banking and asset management. Rieck then worked as a freelance management consultant in the areas of restructuring and reorganization of companies in special situations.
During his time at the stock exchange, Rieck began to focus more on the oil and gas business. In 2008, he founded his first companies in the USA, through which he participated in the operational business of oil and gas exploration.
Like it or not, IT literacy is key in natural resources
The cyber-attack on the Colonial Pipeline in May 2021 in the sent shivers through the US economy just at the point where demand was starting to recover from the impact […]
What happens when an oligopoly faces competition?
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Highly pressurised natural gas
A perfect storm is a pretty little cliché to describe what happens when a host of bad things gang up and arrive together on your doorstep at the same time. […]
Will the next wave of mergers be the harbinger of change?
The natural resources sector has always moved through boom-and-bust cycles, but the pandemic and the focus on decarbonisation could well mean that the next wave of mergers will include several […]
What we’ve learned from crypto so far
It’s been a little over a decade since the crypto sector started to coalesce around blockchain enabled systems and already there has been a lot of water under the bridge. […]
Changing demand highlights need for reform
Last month OPEC+ opened up the taps and increased global oil supply. Two weeks later, the acceleration of Covid’s delta variant meant that in some global markets, demand drained away. […]
Why join the oil and gas sector (part two)
There has been a surge in the global job market as the pandemic has grudgingly started to loosen its grip on the world economy. In the second of two linked […]
Oil sector: Don’t get distracted by dem Wirbel
No one seems to be using the word jittery about oil prices at the moment, but it seems appropriate under the circumstances. Some countries are reimposing Covid-19 restrictions in the […]