Sunday Tequila & Hormuz Limbos

By Paul Sankey Published on May 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM

Greetings from Guadalajara, We attended family wedding. Quite the fiesta. I’ll give you a hint: this is the capital of Jalisco, the home of Tequila. ~ The past week was absolutely bewildering in global oil markets; the market seems to buy a peace narrative which we greatly struggle to believe in. As considered from the crisis start, we cannot see that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will easily cede its sudden position of global super-power (especially …

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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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