By Paul Sankey
Published on March 24, 2026 at 11:58 AM
First day of CERAWeek started with a bang, in fact a series of bangs, but none of them were at the conference. We have TSA lines, air crashes, Port Arthur refinery (395kb/d and shut, thankfully with no reported injuries), the biggest refinery of the biggest US independent refiner Valero, seeing its distillate hydrotreater blowing up. The market is screaming for distillate, and about going hoarse after this one. We were 24 hours in to President …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
LNG superpower Qatar finds itself having been bombed by both Israel AND Iran within the past year. Now a gigantic oil and gas outage, and notably the unprecedented shutdown of the world’s single largest LNG facility, which is a multi-month outage, will roil markets far more than is currently being discounted in relatively muted energy and equity market responses. The world is sold out of LNG supply, and this gas would represent around 2mb/d of …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on February 22, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Pondering the potential disaster of the incoming blizzard that has started here. Our Monday JFK flight to London at 9am… Cancelled First world problem Some 80% of the world’s population has never taken a plane. As of 4pm snow barely an inch ~ This note is a bullish US Distillate note. Strong demand, flat supply. Bullish complex refiners such as Valero, Marathon Petroleum and PSX, but the rising tide lifts all US refining boats, assuming …
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