BP: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Paul Sankey Published on February 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM

Tonight! At 4pm Eastern, 9pm my time, London. We have another top oil executive on Happy Hour Zoom. Thursday, February 27th, 4PM ET, Zoom Guests –  Plains All American’s CEO, Willie Chiang & Blake Fernandez, IR Premium Registration Link – https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-refining-conference-plains-all-american-interest-form/ Willie is fantastic, and we can chat a bit about some of the reminiscences of this note. When we talk about ConocoPhillips in the 2000s, Willie was right there. I first met him back then as …

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Sunday: London Calling to the Faraway Towns

By Paul Sankey Published on February 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Greetings, It was requested that I would start this week with the greatest oil management quote of all time, a veritable “How to do it, definitive”, that was raised at drinks last Wednesday: The story pertains to the movie Armageddon. IMDB: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This …

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Sunday Russia & Tech, Lovers & Losers… Rigged

By Paul Sankey Published on February 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM

With so much macro noise, veritable banging and crashing, headlines emanating from The White House, it is also notable how much micro, company-specific news, we are getting. Stock price divergence has been high to start the year, for example among the Monopoly 7 (Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, Nvidia). In my memory of the “Monopoly 7”, we have never seen one each of the Mag 7 in each performance quadrant on the x-plot below. …

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