By Paul Sankey
Published on March 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Well, that was quite a week. And there it is, oil through $100/bbl on the Tokyo open. It is blatantly clear that the Trump Administration had zero, nada, nothing, as contingency plan for Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz shut to transit. Even now, their $20bn insurance knee jerk response has been completely ineffective. We are facing the largest overall oil & gas volume outage of my career, which started in 1990, Gulf War 1. …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Brrr, It’s absolutely freezing here in New York city, the ruddy East River has only frozen (see above) and the streets are a bleached hellscape of black-iced pavements walled by dirty ice-snow piles topped with backed up garbage and passing dogs. Everything is frozen solid, the wind outside is howling, here in Brooklyn Heights above New York Harbor. Oof. Source: Weather.com, NOAA Back to natgas in a second, but as a historian, I would be …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Assuming you are sitting in a traffic jam in the back of a limo being driven out to your country estate for Thanksgiving, we send a little reading for the holiday. You have no doubt seen or experienced this year’s travel data: all-time records. In this note we explain why every year more and more people drive for Thanksgiving, according to our theory: Ex-urbanisation. Notable for Thanksgiving travel, that we are clearly higher than …
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