By Paul Sankey
Published on January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Greetings, Presumably you have power, if you are reading this. Good for you. I bought an emergency power pack yesterday: “Anker Portable Power Station SOLIX C300, 288Wh LiFePO4 Battery, 300W (600W Surge) 140W Two-Way Fast Charging, for Outdoor Camping, Traveling, and Emergencies (Solar Panel Optional)” so we should avoid an outage. Or get a three day outage that renders that wee power block absurdly under-sized. It cannot run a heater, for example, you need 1,000W …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How does value get created and transferred in major energy companies? This past week we had Q3 earnings reports from an interesting representation of key US energy theme companies: Valero in refining, Matador in US exploration and production (E&P), Baker Hughes in transition from oil field service to new technologies, and GE Vernova as a play on “picks and shovels”: for US power demand growth. ~ And the winner was? Not the cheapest (Matador), not …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hot times, summer in New York City today, hitting 96°F (36°C), at least failing to break 100°F (38°C). We got the air con blasting, and all the oil news today is cryogenic. In this note we talk about Enterprise Product Partners (results yesterday, OPEC chat) and first, Baker Hughes, from the top rope, with an all-cash deal for Chart Industries (ticker $GTLS, assume the ticker is gas-to-liquids reference), just when we thought the BKR story …
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