Sunday Whistling Past

By Paul Sankey Published on May 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM

Greetings, Refiners are running at max capacity, and oil prices are finding a Hormuz blockage hierarchy. Excess profits are accruing to oil producers, US refiners, and shipping companies. Front page of USA Today, Daily Mail, nothing on Hormuz. I scrolled all the way down on the NY Post – not one story on Hormuz today. While the oil analysts get frantic, the NASDAQ hit a record high, and the President’s most important advisor, Mr Market, …

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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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California Oil and Chevron: Disaster

By Paul Sankey Published on October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM

In other major US energy news before we start: Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) shutdown. Kinder Morgan’s ~2.1–2.65 Bcf/d Permian-to-Gulf Coast natural gas takeaway line is said to have an issue, and WAHA Permian natgas prices have gone “double digit negative”.) Bad news for almost all Permian E&Ps, and we can see this as being a tough earnings season coming up for Q3 earnings, as reports of rising costs and flat crude prices with poor Permian …

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