Morning “And The Fun Has Just Begun”

By Paul Sankey Published on October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Today Strategy Session at 12pm: Doug Garber, former major hedge fund Portfolio Manager (recently attended Barcap, Jeffries energy conferences, Goldman Tech) and founder of PitchthePM.com. Doug works a lot on process, in portfolio management and research, and if you have up-and-comer analysts on your team, you might want to encourage them to listen. A recording will be distributed. https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-doug-garber-interest-form/ ~ Cooking oil! You can imagine those of us in a niche segment of Wall Street …

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US Biofuels: Roll Me Over in the Clover

By Paul Sankey Published on June 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM

With the world watching the Straits of Hormuz, perhaps less on EU natgas prices squeezing on Israeli natgas and refining outages, little attention has been paid to major moves in US biofuel markets over the past couple of weeks. We got ya. This has just about nothing to do with global geopolitics, and everything to do with US domestic politics. We now have an increase in regulation from The Trump Administration, and yet more government …

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Context & Questions for Refining Conference Jan 3rd 2024

By Paul Sankey Published on December 30, 2023 at 3:45 PM

Excitement is mounting for our refining conference day next week 3rd January. We also have a former big time oil trader and a former CFO of one of our independent refiners joining dinner 2nd January with Ole Slorer. Still space available if you are in Miami by Tuesday, please join. This note has company specific questions for the Tuesday participants, six companies back-to-back. There is no limit to participants if you want to join the …

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