By Paul Sankey
Published on December 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Good evening, We have previously noted that the Trump Administration needs a foreign war to get past the raging Epstein dumpster fire. Venezuela looks juicy for a distraction. We also noted that this Administration likes major news announcements on key dates, and these can come during major holiday news lulls, ie today. Key numbers, after I did the ring around on Venezuela: As of 2019, Venezuela was estimated ~1.9mb/d production capacity. The Vice President just …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Season’s Greetings, As recently as November 11th, I wrote to you about having dinner in Midtown Manhattan with Meg O’Neill, then Woodside’s CEO. So as you can imagine, the announcement Friday that Meg will eventually be the new CEO of BP (she does not start until April 2026) caught my interest. It was a surprise announcement, at least to me. We cover that today. The argument in this note is that BP should consider doing …
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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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