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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Holly Go Heavy: DINO CEO Go Mystery

DINO: well, I have seen some bizarre quarterly earnings beats, some bizarre management changes, but HF Sinclair DINO’s results yesterday were extraordinary. With the Street estimating 45c of Q4 earnings, the company reported a huge beat, underlying $1.20 of EPS, the abrupt exit of the CEO, an audit review whereby the results were un-auditable as of now, and then the Chairman came on the call, and said “I’m the CEO now, we can’t audit our

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Morning Jake & Jeanine, MbZ vs MbS

This very evening, later today: Happy Hour Strategy Session; 4PM ET, Zoom, Chevron featuring Jake Spiering, who has just had a massive promotion out of Investor Relations, to replace retiring Frank Mount, President, Corporate Business Development “Head of M&A”. We also feature Jeanine Wai, who is incoming Chevron IR, and former Chevron employee who subsequently was a top sellside analyst and most recently head of US IR for TOTALEnergies. Register here for this evening’s chat.

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Sunday Looking for Kilos as Bells Toll

Dear Client, It is not a joking matter, but it turns out that I am in the Epstein files. My friend’s (London-based) son in High School is doing a little intern work for me, on the weekly DOE data. He took the initiative, shall we say, to search the Epstein email dump for “Paul Sankey”. And there I am, mentioned in passing. In 2013, Epstein was invited as a client by Deutsche Bank wealth management

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