Kimmeridge Coal and Texas Tea

By Paul Sankey Published on November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM

Mark Viviano, who was on this week’s Happy Hour, is an outstanding presenter. He outlined the background and success of his part of Kimmeridge, the private equity oil firm started by Ben Dell and Neil McMahon, two former sellside Wall Street analysts. Former Wellington Oil & Gas buyside analyst Mark is now on his third Kimmeridge fund since starting up in 2020, same year as Sankey Research sent our first note, July 4th, Independence Day …

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Sunday Heavyweights and Knife Fights

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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Happy Playback: Diamondback’s Kaes, TOTALEnergies’ Jeanine

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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