Sunday ExxonMobil’s Rock Role

By Paul Sankey Published on December 15, 2024 at 4:28 PM

*** Save the Date *** Sankey Research 12th annual January Refining Conference 2025 6th January (primary) & 9th January Virtual, details to follow. All major US independent refiners will be represented at C-level ~ Poof! Just another week in 2024, as drone swarms over NJ knocked the CEO assassin off the front pages. This is the last full market week of the year, and what a year. The latest “what the?” 2024 moments, are just …

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US E&P M&A: Gobbler’s Knob – Again

By Paul Sankey Published on June 1, 2024 at 12:27 PM

“That must mean we’re up here at Gobbler’s Knob, waiting for the forecast from the world’s most famous weatherman, Punxsutawney Phil.” Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day (1993) We are back to writing about E&P M&A … again. Our conclusions are broadly unchanged: Big companies are being incentivized by the market to take over the small, but with an evolution on the margin that finds asset quality now of equal importance to valuation; we are …

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Sunday Super Bowlers, Bowls and (Not) Buds

By Paul Sankey Published on February 11, 2024 at 5:05 PM

Good day, We sent you a juicy note on Devon $DVN yesterday, “STOP. Unleash the FANG Within”. Plenty to read there, and a Valero paean “right now the best refining margins in February history” came out Friday afternoon. BREAKING: 2/11/24 (Wall Street Journal) — Two Permian rivals, Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources, are finalizing a merger that would create an oil-and-gas behemoth worth more than $50 billion. Diamondback could announce a deal with the …

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