Oil and gas industry officials may have some reason to be optimistic about the price of oil in the coming months, according to one business professor. Peter Ricchiuti, a professor at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, was the guest speaker Tuesday during a meeting of the Atchafalaya Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. Ricchiuti is founder and director of research for Burkenroad Reports, where students analyze the stocks of 40 different southern U.S. companies each year. Most of those companies are underfollowed by Wall Street securities analysts, its website says. He expects ...