Sunday Knife Fights, Gun Fights, and Missile Strikes

By Paul Sankey Published on October 6, 2024 at 2:36 PM

Good day, We dropped a weekly video “Global Oil Risk” from London Friday and shortly thereafter did a podcast for “Mr 30m Downloads” Jack Farley, returning a favour for him being a guest on Happy Hour this week, especially as we buried him with a Rosh Hashanah-diminished crowd (ie Thursday’s Happy Hour very quiet, mid-Rosh). Happy New Year to those that celebrate. L’shana tovah u’metukah!  ~ Those appearances have thrown me right into the maelstrom …

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Never Lie to Your Doctor nor Your Lawyer

By Paul Sankey Published on September 26, 2024 at 9:10 AM

Today, brief comments on the FT report that OPEC is looking to increase production in December. My major thought is that the FT reporter is relatively new to OPEC, and I do not know him personally (Tom Nelson). There is a clunky first line reference to “unofficial $100/bbl price target” which rattles us, as we explain in this note. However we speculate that Saudi’s sour relationship with several press outlets – notably Reuters, Bloomberg, and …

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Happy Hour: Houston, we have a Lobbyist

By Paul Sankey Published on September 19, 2024 at 10:24 AM

Today Happy Hour 4pm, delighted to say we have Tara Billingsley, former Special Assistant to President Obama, now partner at Washington Lobbyists Massie Partners. Tara is a bona fide Washington energy expert. We first came to know her early in her career as effective chief of staff to Bob Simon, who was in turn Democratic Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources under Jeff Bingaman. Tara came to prominence at …

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