Sunday Big Keith and the Annual Review

By Paul Sankey Published on December 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Seasons Greetings! Let me ceaselessly cheerful here, because if you don’t laugh, you might cry. In fact, there’s a fundamental factor in life today, which is that people perceive the world to be doomed and their own life to be pretty much excellent. Whereby, you can see it in polls. “My life in the USA is great, but the USA is a disaster”. Below, this is share of people satisfied with life vs satisfied with …

Sunday: Letter to a Mid-Cap US Oil CEO

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 …