By Paul Sankey
Published on January 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One statistic really struck me from 2024, profoundly. It was from early November, attending the ADIPEC Conference in Abu Dhabi, the largest oil & gas conference in the world, held annually. The numbers: ADIPEC Oil & gas 2025: 180,000 attendees. A week later, at COP 29, there were ~90,000 attendees. There is an obvious observation to be made: media coverage. ADIPEC in no way generated 2x the media interest as COP29 (chart below). But just …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Greetings from Lake George, Upstate New York, where the oak leaves have begun to turn to Fall; driving yesterday was four hours to Boston to watch Harry play college soccer, then another four hours to upstate forests. We spent two hours charging the EV, it was highly inconvenient. That’s a lie, we drive gasoline, nobody takes epic drives in EVs. The extra half an hour was in truth grabbing the best pizza in the world, …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on August 31, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Quote in this note: “this is the first time that the Middle East has more rigs than the United States. And it’s not now more, it’s almost double.” We were very interested in the quarterly report of a delisted SPAC international oilfield service (OFS) company this past week. So interested, that we wrote you a thematic today on NESR (National Energy Services Reunited) vs ExxonMobil. We found NESR’s results call to be a terrific refresher …
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