Sunday Upside Down Under

By Paul Sankey Published on April 12, 2026 at 8:24 PM

Good day, Yesterday I found myself transported into a personal Gulf War moment. I was examining the extensive damage to my large air condenser unit, a major, brand new piece of infrastructure, just two years old. It had been hit directly from above by a 700lb incoming projectile. Direct hit to the top, wrecked. I had a flash the Qatar desert, considering engineers inspecting damage, must feel like this. The unit was obviously a write …

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Sunday BP’s Marguerites and Bumerangues

By Paul Sankey Published on December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Season’s Greetings, As recently as November 11th, I wrote to you about having dinner in Midtown Manhattan with Meg O’Neill, then Woodside’s CEO. So as you can imagine, the announcement Friday that Meg will eventually be the new CEO of BP (she does not start until April 2026) caught my interest. It was a surprise announcement, at least to me. We cover that today. The argument in this note is that BP should consider doing …

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Evening: Things can always get Wirth

By Paul Sankey Published on November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM

Tomorrow: 4pm ET Rich Kruger, CEO Suncor, let’s talk some sense in to these people, I am fighting for the oils here. Rich is like an assassin. We have questions. “I am the assassin! With tongue forked from eloquence.” – Marillion, Assassing. Worth a YouTube. ~ For sure I was over-excited going into the first Chevron analyst meeting since 2023 and post-Hess – the longest gap between Chevron analyst meetings of my career. So I …

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