Happy Hour Today: Options in Oil Equities, Strategy & Reality, with Henricus

By Paul Sankey Published on July 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM

This afternoon on Happy Hour, Henricus van der Lee, 4pm ET Zoom, is a legit options trader & strategy consultant, with a specialization in oil & gas equity options, vs oil & gas price options, vs corporate strategy. He has done major consultancy work for major US E&Ps familiar to all of us, the remaining Wall St oil polar bears. Like talking to an oil trader, I have to really, really, concentrate, but what I …

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Sunday Day Two, Day Free, Daytime TV

By Paul Sankey Published on June 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM

Greetings, So, welcome to “Day 2”. The Iranian Parliament has just voted to close the Straits of Hormuz, which would most threaten the finances of… Iran. Vice President JD Vance has already described it as economic suicide to do so, without reference to what Israeli/US bombing has done to the Iranian economy already. Whoever takes over Iran will desperately need to export oil. The Trump Administration will do everything they can to help them, backed …

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Valuing AI in Texas Pacific Land (& Permian Oils)

By Paul Sankey Published on June 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM

“There is a Lot of Land in West Texas” One of the oldest oil companies in currently quoted US oil equities, Texas Pacfiic Land, originating in 1871, is a barely known outsider that emerged seemingly from nowhere to S&P500 inclusion in 2024: TPL now has a larger market cap (no debt) than Devon, Coterra, Halliburton, Antero or Permian Resources. In this note we deconstruct TPL’s valuation, and establish the massive implied AI Data Center land …

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