Sunday Tequila & Hormuz Limbos

By Paul Sankey Published on May 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM

Greetings from Guadalajara, We attended family wedding. Quite the fiesta. I’ll give you a hint: this is the capital of Jalisco, the home of Tequila. ~ The past week was absolutely bewildering in global oil markets; the market seems to buy a peace narrative which we greatly struggle to believe in. As considered from the crisis start, we cannot see that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will easily cede its sudden position of global super-power (especially …

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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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Happy Hour starting soon 8:15am Julie Goh from Singapore on Refining

By Paul Sankey Published on April 22, 2026 at 7:14 AM

Starting NOW – Happy Hour today WEDS is at 8:15am ET. June Goh of Sparta Commodities is the Singapore refining expert causing an internet/Twitter oil Hormuz sensation with coherent and technically accurate Tweets on the subject. From a Singapore oil trading perspective. Bonus: she has 15+ years’ experience at Shell downstream, in all the refining business lines that are key right now. *** Register Here *** Guest – June Goh, Sparta Commodities – Wednesday, April …

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