Sunday Angel’s Charlies

By Paul Sankey Published on December 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Greetings, Snowing across New York City. We are getting a good couple of inches as I write, and noted that apparently, Jay Peak Resort in Vermont has seen 185” of snow so far this season, as of yesterday. We are hitting 3”, second fall of year, first proper snowfall. East Coast ski resorts are thrilled. It was a busy week, starting with Energy investor darling GE Vernova reported results, beat and raise then ExxonMobil had …

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Sunday Just Because You are Paranoid

By Paul Sankey Published on December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM

Snow! To break the jinx, I didn’t mention it this year, but tradition dictates: “Go short oil after Labor Day”, and then, “BUY them again on the first snow in New York City. That’s December 5th”. Old school chat. December 5th, we had actually calculated, was the typical date for first snow in NYC. The analysis was seasonal, and the conclusion was that everyone expects US E&Ps, refiners, to trade seasonally, but actually we showed …

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It’s Coming Home… Refining’s Coming Home

By Paul Sankey Published on December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM

Tomorrow 4th December 4pm ET delighted to say we have James Walter, Co-CEO of Permian Resources, on our weekly Strategy Session. Like Rich Kruger, Suncor CEO, who was a guest a couple of weeks ago, these are not CEOs that appear at every Dog & Pony show, by any means, so it is a real pleasure to talk to James, who we can safely say, is impressive. Co-CEOS Hickey and Walter had enormous success with …

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