Sunday Heavyweights and Knife Fights

By Paul Sankey Published on November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Busy week ahead! ENI ringing the bell on the NYSE tomorrow with management comments meeting for analysts. I’m seeing if I can jump on CNBC while I am on the exchange floor. It is a TV set and bell ringing photo op these days. The traders nowadays are chips in data centers. Those guys on the floor are extras. Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill dinner on Tuesday. CVX post-Hess analyst meeting Wednesday November 12th. Happy Hours …

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Morning “And The Fun Has Just Begun”

By Paul Sankey Published on October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Today Strategy Session at 12pm: Doug Garber, former major hedge fund Portfolio Manager (recently attended Barcap, Jeffries energy conferences, Goldman Tech) and founder of PitchthePM.com. Doug works a lot on process, in portfolio management and research, and if you have up-and-comer analysts on your team, you might want to encourage them to listen. A recording will be distributed. https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-doug-garber-interest-form/ ~ Cooking oil! You can imagine those of us in a niche segment of Wall Street …

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California Oil and Chevron: Disaster

By Paul Sankey Published on October 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM

In other major US energy news before we start: Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) shutdown. Kinder Morgan’s ~2.1–2.65 Bcf/d Permian-to-Gulf Coast natural gas takeaway line is said to have an issue, and WAHA Permian natgas prices have gone “double digit negative”.) Bad news for almost all Permian E&Ps, and we can see this as being a tough earnings season coming up for Q3 earnings, as reports of rising costs and flat crude prices with poor Permian …

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