Sunday “Are we there yet? I want to buy refining…”

By Paul Sankey Published on September 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM

Greetings from Lake George, Upstate New York, where the oak leaves have begun to turn to Fall; driving yesterday was four hours to Boston to watch Harry play college soccer, then another four hours to upstate forests. We spent two hours charging the EV, it was highly inconvenient. That’s a lie, we drive gasoline, nobody takes epic drives in EVs. The extra half an hour was in truth grabbing the best pizza in the world, …

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Sunday SLB, COP, Utes & Wildcards

By Paul Sankey Published on September 1, 2024 at 4:08 PM

We sent you a rather different Thematic yesterday, covering $NESR, the delisted Middle East oil field service player, and the implications of their commentary on record levels of Middle East oil & gas development activity. So just a quick dash through a couple of charts today. Yesterday’s note is especially pertinent to the opening Keynote Speaker at Tuesday’s Barcap conference commencement – SLB, the artist formerly known as Schlumberger. So, plenty of corporate action this …

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Thematic: Middle East Oil Production Capacity, $NESR, $XOM and a $60/bbl Occam’s Razor

By Paul Sankey Published on August 31, 2024 at 12:53 PM

Quote in this note: “this is the first time that the Middle East has more rigs than the United States. And it’s not now more, it’s almost double.” We were very interested in the quarterly report of a delisted SPAC international oilfield service (OFS) company this past week. So interested, that we wrote you a thematic today on NESR (National Energy Services Reunited) vs ExxonMobil. We found NESR’s results call to be a terrific refresher …

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