Qatar LNG Shutdown: Global Energy Crisis (ex-US)

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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Zoom Recording: Excellent Global Natgas session with Ira Joseph, Jay Saunders, and Gordon Shearer

By Paul Sankey Published on September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM

Dear Premium client: Global gas royalty right here! This is a good tight hour on the latest view that boils off to chronic upcoming LNG over-supply. Great stuff from speaker Ira Joseph, with questions and comments from Jay Saunders (Jennison natural resources PM) and Gordon Shearer (Poten Partners global LNG consultant). I wholeheartedly recommend this hour long run through global gas, with sophisticated questions and comments. And mercifully few interuptions from moi. Thanks to all. …

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Chevron, Valero, Venture Global: Wintry Mix

By Paul Sankey Published on February 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM

Freezing winter slush day, very on-brand early February here in Brooklyn Heights. Freezing wet mix, snowy rain settling as sloppy snow. Cold. Black and white; grey. Time for Happy Hour! TONIGHT Happy Hour Zoom 4pm ET Jake Spiering of Chevron Another timely guest, after we did Hess and Jay Wilson last week. Jake is a terrific spokesman/investor relations for Chevron, market cap $275bn, $31.5bn of cashflow from operations in 2024, $15bn capex, production 3.33 mboe/d …

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