Morning oh Canada! Buy MEG?

By Paul Sankey Published on January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Hybrid bonus Refining Conference/E&P Session tomorrow Thursday 4PM, leading private equity and refining executive: Jeff A. Stevens. Jeff was a stalwart of the Sankey Refining conference back when he was CEO of Western Refining, which was ultimately sold to Greg Goff’s Tesoro for $6bn in 2017. Subsequently he built and just sold a major Permian private E&P player, Franklin Mountain. He has fascinating insight to US oil investment. Coterra Announces Accretive Permian Basin Acquisitions November …

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Sunday Trump Hare and Tortoise MISO

By Paul Sankey Published on January 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM

Welcome to a historic week ahead, Day 1 Trump II… INCOMING SLB opens year-end 2024 oil earnings season with a winner – since the start of 2025 we like the oils. Call us twitchy bulls. The word China scares us, but we are looking for China demand upside starting with winter and scrambling for non-sanctioned oil. Our feeble bull case: Asian LNG is now more expensive than diesel in China, which should reverse marginal demand …

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Sunday SLB, COP, Utes & Wildcards

By Paul Sankey Published on September 1, 2024 at 4:08 PM

We sent you a rather different Thematic yesterday, covering $NESR, the delisted Middle East oil field service player, and the implications of their commentary on record levels of Middle East oil & gas development activity. So just a quick dash through a couple of charts today. Yesterday’s note is especially pertinent to the opening Keynote Speaker at Tuesday’s Barcap conference commencement – SLB, the artist formerly known as Schlumberger. So, plenty of corporate action this …

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