By Paul Sankey
Published on February 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Last night I was chatting to an energy Portfolio Manager (PM) and asked what he thought of the ConocoPhillips conference call, held yesterday: “ConocoPhillips are just waiting to get taken over.” Meanwhile, a different client sent me this doozy from Shell. A -40% Reserves Replacement Ratio, 73% replacement organic, trailing 3 year average 84% reserves replacement, with <8 years reserves life. In case you are new here, we are aiming to replace reserves annually, so …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Brrr, It’s absolutely freezing here in New York city, the ruddy East River has only frozen (see above) and the streets are a bleached hellscape of black-iced pavements walled by dirty ice-snow piles topped with backed up garbage and passing dogs. Everything is frozen solid, the wind outside is howling, here in Brooklyn Heights above New York Harbor. Oof. Source: Weather.com, NOAA Back to natgas in a second, but as a historian, I would be …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 11, 2026 at 8:23 PM
This note covers the Oil CEO meeting at the White House on Friday, and tomorrow we host Mark Lashier, CEO Phillips 66, who was in the room. Refining Conference continuation: Jan 12th Monday @2:00pm ET – HF Sinclair – Timothy Go, CEO, Craig Biery, & Trey Schonter III, IR Jan 12th Monday @3:30pm ET – Phillips 66 – Mark Lashier, CEO, Kevin Mitchell, CFO & Sean Maher IR To round out, also at the White House meeting: Feb 4th Wednesday @4:00pm –Valero– Lane Riggs, …
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