Quote of the day: In a war of ego, the loser always wins

Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

CASY Wild: Wings, Pizza, Gasoline (and BP)

Happy Hour today with Neil McMahon is POSTPONED until 24 June, so, just a couple of weeks. And he will have been in the Middle East in the interim, so that works. Kimmeridge (for he is founding partner) has declared Final Investment Decision (FID) on Commonwealth — a 9.5 Mtpa (~1.25 bcf/d), $13bn Louisiana LNG export project with 2030 start-up — in partnership with Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Energy and CPP Investments (24.1% and 31% of

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Sunday 100 Days of Hormuzitude

So there it is, 100 Days of Hormuz. Homework this week is easy, just a few words on Bunker Markets. Globally refiners are straining to meet max clean product needs (JetFuel, Distillate, Mogas), and it is marginal products that are heading towards physical shortages in June, such as US base oils (the Pennzoil for your AC Cobra, there are already shortages as we have covered), and Bunker fuel for ships, a marginal product dominated by

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Google -$85bn vs ExxonMobil +$25bn; Happy Hour starting NOW with Paul Cheng

Google vs ExxonMobil cash return A client emailed this morning regarding yesterday’s note. We opened with a couple of bullets: “And when they write the history of the AI bubble 2022-2027, the issuance by Google of $85bn of stock in early June 2026 will be one red line that was crossed.” He stated: “I cannot believe more people aren’t paying attention to this. This is SO obviously “the sign”. Yesterday listening to Bloomberg Surveillance, my

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