Qatar LNG Shutdown: Global Energy Crisis (ex-US)

By Paul Sankey Published on March 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM

LNG superpower Qatar finds itself having been bombed by both Israel AND Iran within the past year. Now a gigantic oil and gas outage, and notably the unprecedented shutdown of the world’s single largest LNG facility, which is a multi-month outage, will roil markets far more than is currently being discounted in relatively muted energy and equity market responses. The world is sold out of LNG supply, and this gas would represent around 2mb/d of …

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Holly Go Heavy: DINO CEO Go Mystery

By Paul Sankey Published on February 19, 2026 at 9:21 AM

DINO: well, I have seen some bizarre quarterly earnings beats, some bizarre management changes, but HF Sinclair DINO’s results yesterday were extraordinary. With the Street estimating 45c of Q4 earnings, the company reported a huge beat, underlying $1.20 of EPS, the abrupt exit of the CEO, an audit review whereby the results were un-auditable as of now, and then the Chairman came on the call, and said “I’m the CEO now, we can’t audit our …

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Sunday Answer Steve: Buy (more) Old Economy Stocks (like Oils)

By Paul Sankey Published on February 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM

We sent you a note on Uranium this morning, and so will keep this brief. I said I would do return a favour to Hedge Fund guru Doug Garber and join him on a podcast, and now I am being thrown in as a Venezuela expert. Which is the old “tallest dwarf” joke, but here it is, Friday February 13th, don’t forget Valentine’s Day next Saturday: https://shorturl.at/hzIn7 ~ Our note on last Friday’s: “XOM for …

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