Quote of the day: Pelé: “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

You what?!? Magnolia dilutes into M&A; COP enters Iraq

It was said that the late, great oil legend Steve Chazen, former CEO and Chairman of Oxy and then founder of Magnolia Oil & Gas, had one of three responses to emails: “Yes”, “No” and “Have you lost your mind?” Two recent announcements had us questioning which reply to send. HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 17, 2026– ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) today announced it has agreed to terms with bp to acquire a 42% interest in BP Energy Company

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Sunday Three Problems Two Doors One Cup

As a battle-scarred veteran of being a US Travel Soccer Dad, it is no new experience for me to travel for days to a big match and come back defeated and furious with the coach. Briefly to get it out of the way, a couple of things from the point of view of being present in Atlanta for the worst England capitulation since the fall of Singapore (February 1942, some 80,000 British Empire forces under

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Morning Xi is Your Man

We had Ed Westlake, former lead oil analyst at Credit Suisse, lined up for Happy Hour guest this week (Ed has relocated from Seattle back to Tribeca, NYC). “After 20 years as a successful Energy Equity Research analyst in Europe and the US, I recently set up Wonderland Analytics. Our goal is to use the increasing availability of data/compute, together with equity/industry analysis, to predict the direction and volatility of US equities/credit/CDS/ETF’s (all sectors). We

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