Morning Happiness is Ice and Orchids

By Paul Sankey Published on February 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM

Greetings! It’s a whippy 21°F here in Brooklyn Heights, -6°C. This is the windiest street n New York City, running parallel to the promenade along the exposed hill over looking the grey-icy Atlantic in New York Harbor, with 30mph ice blasts taking wind chill to -7°F, -17°C. This morning at 6:15am at Clark Street, at The Drip coffee kiosk at 6.15am my voice wavered, and cracked, as I asked for my daily “large, ah, iced …

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Saturday Poring, Sunday Pouring, Monday Pawing

By Paul Sankey Published on February 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Last night we sent you a note “Valero: Nothing to See Here” jammed with oil market/refining/Valero/PBF/Neste Elliott Management/BP etc chat. In eccentric fashion, the note was approved and distributed yesterday on Saturday night at 11:15pm. Just the perfect timing for a work email. So this note serves to highlight it to you, and keep it brief otherwise. Stay tuned for Sankey Research Partner Greg Bordelon model portfolio update later today, I suspect, but don’t know, …

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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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