Sunday Whistling Past

By Paul Sankey Published on May 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM

Greetings, Refiners are running at max capacity, and oil prices are finding a Hormuz blockage hierarchy. Excess profits are accruing to oil producers, US refiners, and shipping companies. Front page of USA Today, Daily Mail, nothing on Hormuz. I scrolled all the way down on the NY Post – not one story on Hormuz today. While the oil analysts get frantic, the NASDAQ hit a record high, and the President’s most important advisor, Mr Market, …

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You Can be Sure of Shell…

By Paul Sankey Published on April 29, 2026 at 8:56 AM

Strategy Session this week Thursday 4pm · Guest – Ed Morse, Hartree Partners April 30th at 4pm ET Registration – Click Here Ed was teaching International Relations at Princeton for the 1973 Oil Crisis. ‘Nuff said. ~ This week so far: Not TACO but NACHO – “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens”. Oil inventories globally are plummeting, first a sea, now on land. DOE data today at 10:30am today will surely confirm the big draws seen …

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Sunday Second Fastest Runners

By Paul Sankey Published on April 26, 2026 at 8:36 PM

This week, delighted to say we will host Ed Morse, the most tenured oil analyst on Wall St, a legend, to Happy Hour at our regular 4pm ET time slot, Thursday (30th April – time flies). I appeared on CNBC with Ed live from the NYSE in March 2020, and listened to answers very, very carefully. I walked away and tripled all my demand destruction forecasts, worked out the combination of Saudi at record production …

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