Riding the Oilfield Service Rodeo, with HAL, PUMP, and WTF

By Paul Sankey Published on July 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM

Publishing a note on Sunday has become existential for me, so I apologise for not getting this note out yesterday. This is my Sunday note… so late it is on a Monday. I have stripped it down to be mostly about Halliburton. What started as a quick look at Halliburton’s results for Sunday, then got tangled with Liberty Energy down -25% on its results last week, SLB results then had that stock moving strongly higher …

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Morning: Tide’s Half Way Out, Who’s Wearing Trunks?

By Paul Sankey Published on April 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Happy Hour 4pm tomorrow we got us an engineer! Macro guru Michael Kao is well-known for Kaoboy Musings – on Substack and Kaos Theory. His twitter handle is UrbanKaoboy. In a crisis, we all become credit analysts. Michael is a stone-cold macro expert. Register Here: https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-michael-kao-urbankaoboy-interest-form/ Source: Toptradersunplugged.com ~ Here are a couple of charts I have been looking at, rather back of a beermat, pondering that the tide is half way out. The tide …

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Chris Wright: The Price is Wrong

By Paul Sankey Published on March 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM

This week on Happy Hour we have an outstanding guest, a CIO, PM, and natural resources expert that I really enjoy chatting to. He has a really sophisticated view of markets, across the board. Note, for example our very brief positive view this past week on non-Canadian uranium play Kazatomprom, our notes on Gold and Copper, and of course Robert does coal, oil, gas and refining. This is our man! Date/Time – Thursday, March 6th, …

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