By Paul Sankey
Published on September 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The world seeming began to turn with a couple of comments I was making last week “Why is China storing so much oil?” that was originally included in last week’s note on global LNG over-supply, but was then saved for this week. Sure enough, Javier Blas went after the question directly in a column on Wednesday: “Why is China Stockpiling So Much Surplus Oil?” Adding to the Zeitgeist shift on oil – Peak Oil Supply …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on August 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Delighted to say that Peter McNally, great friend and very highly regarded energy investor/analyst, will be the guest on Happy Hour this week – I am a bit embarrassed not to have asked him sooner. Peter is Global Head of Sector Analysts at Third Bridge , a 1,500-strong investment research firm. In his role, Peter goes deep on key subjects, using expert external consultants. Peter lives in a world of thematically-driven ultra deep-dive research, perfect …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on May 30, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Focus OPEC for the next two Happy Hours. At 4pm today, this evening a quick check-in with Kathleen Kelley “OPEC Whisperer” into this weekend’s meeting. It’s not long since we did a full session with Kathleen, so this evening is a quick tyre-kick. Next week, going into much more depth on oil markets, we have barrel counting legend Mr Jan Stuart, energy market economist, and my first office-mate at my first post-college career job: we …
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