By Paul Sankey
Published on September 19, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Love chatting to Tom, who really knows his racks. We started with my question: can you name the “Seven Sisters”? The 1970s nickname for the World’s Seven Biggest oil companies? It is like naming the Seven Dwarfs: getting the last one is tough. Source: Zoom, Sankey Research Replay is here, Tom Kloza vs Paul Sankey 60 mins, conversation starts at 4mins: https://analysthub.zoom.us/rec/share/rQEc1XCaXZ6xjlwR-4AMSM5oF0dvlB1I3OmDpNRY5t7HuqoMhfr1LA7eb5c8NX6I.mZ9MB8GNfYOV1EM0?startTime=1789674756000 Key Points Outlook in one line. Taking the other side of Goldman’s recent …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on June 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Happy Hour today with Neil McMahon is POSTPONED until 24 June, so, just a couple of weeks. And he will have been in the Middle East in the interim, so that works. Kimmeridge (for he is founding partner) has declared Final Investment Decision (FID) on Commonwealth — a 9.5 Mtpa (~1.25 bcf/d), $13bn Louisiana LNG export project with 2030 start-up — in partnership with Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Energy and CPP Investments (24.1% and 31% of …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on June 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
So there it is, 100 Days of Hormuz. Homework this week is easy, just a few words on Bunker Markets. Globally refiners are straining to meet max clean product needs (JetFuel, Distillate, Mogas), and it is marginal products that are heading towards physical shortages in June, such as US base oils (the Pennzoil for your AC Cobra, there are already shortages as we have covered), and Bunker fuel for ships, a marginal product dominated by …
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