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.”

Life is never so bad (that it can’t get worse) – Calvin & Hobbes

Happy Hour 4pm Thursday (tomorrow) this week: Tom Kloza, a great guest with deep knowledge of US oil market nuts & bolts, from refining to base oils, terminals, barges and arbitrages. My joke is that Tom started trading pork bellies in the roaring 20s when he was just 6, was a young gasoline pit trader in the 1980s, etc. He is assuredly from the old school of oil trading. On today’s DOE data: Source: X.com

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Solaris: Sand to Silicon; Barcap Day 1

Energy investors were shocked by the AI selloff in July, the tide went out real fast, revealing a lot of naked-long AI-energy swimmers. So yesterday, the Barclays start-of-analyst-year conference in New York had some strongly pleasing backdrop after a tough mid-summer: Oil hits $100 Refining margins off the scale Gulf Coast WTI 321 $67/bbl MARGIN Investor favourites Solaris Energy Infrastructure rips +16% on 40% guidance increase on first day of Barclays. We are back, baby.

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