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 Day of the Living

By Paul Sankey Published on October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM

How does value get created and transferred in major energy companies? This past week we had Q3 earnings reports from an interesting representation of key US energy theme companies: Valero in refining, Matador in US exploration and production (E&P), Baker Hughes in transition from oil field service to new technologies, and GE Vernova as a play on “picks and shovels”: for US power demand growth. ~ And the winner was? Not the cheapest (Matador), not …

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Sunday You Can’t Kill it if it is Dead

By Paul Sankey Published on August 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Greetings: Barcap Energy Conference to start the year! Join the “NYC Energy Mafia” (we are truly very far from a Mafia but it sounds Crooklyn) for Drinks this Tuesday Sept 2nd 5pm Midtown right by the Sheraton. We have gathered a good crowd. RSVP if you want the address. I managed to blast the invite to ALL the Bloomberg Anonymous chat rooms (7 different chat rooms) on Thursday, and not to a single actual Bloomberg …

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