By Paul Sankey
Published on March 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
TODAY will be Diamondback CEO-designate Kaes Van’t Hof on Happy Hour, 4pm ET. Premium event. Register here. This might be the best-timed C-chat we have ever had. https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-diamondback-cfo-president-kaes-vant-hof-interest-form/ Great timing? According to very limited reports Diamondback is fresh from meeting Mssrs Trump, Wright, and Burgum at the White House, don’t have the exact corporate execs in attendance, but there is an unofficial list of the companies. Nobody energy company seems to want to say much, …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on February 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Greetings, It was requested that I would start this week with the greatest oil management quote of all time, a veritable “How to do it, definitive”, that was raised at drinks last Wednesday: The story pertains to the movie Armageddon. IMDB: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Mayfair, London, meeting an oil analyst at a major macro fund this morning, we had a most enjoyable meeting – for me at least – as I pitched the lateral nature of Sankey Research, vs the vertical silo nature of Wall St research. Basically he had worked at refiners, E&Ps, banks, and now commodity traders/macro, and I was arguing that barrel counters in global oil analysis are good at oil markets, but horrible at oil …
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