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 November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Busy week ahead! ENI ringing the bell on the NYSE tomorrow with management comments meeting for analysts. I’m seeing if I can jump on CNBC while I am on the exchange floor. It is a TV set and bell ringing photo op these days. The traders nowadays are chips in data centers. Those guys on the floor are extras. Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill dinner on Tuesday. CVX post-Hess analyst meeting Wednesday November 12th. Happy Hours …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
With oil wobbling down towards under $60/bbl WTI, we started our Happy Hour with Kaes Van’t Hof talking about a bearish bet that we had shared back when Donald Trump announced the Penguin Tariffs. Here is the recording, it is interesting that neither I, nor more importantly Kaes, can rationalise current commentary that has US oil production as rising quite strongly. It simply does not stack up with what he sees in the Permian, nor …
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