Morning Shells

By Paul Sankey Published on February 22, 2022 at 8:32 AM

Strategy Session this week 2/24, 5PM EST – Arjun Murti, Warburg Pincus, ConocoPhillips board member.  As lead oil analyst and then head of research for Goldman Sachs, Arjun made the greatest oil call in the history of the sellside, predicting $100/bbl oil in the early 2000s at a time when oil traded around $25/bbl and had never traded above $40/bbl. He was right for the right reasons. Now publishing a Substack “Superspiked”, Arjun is one of […]

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Sunday Catch-up

By Paul Sankey Published on December 12, 2021 at 5:04 PM

It was a long trip to Texas, and it is good to be back in Brooklyn; this note is a short reminder to myself where markets are, having been running around. For example my time on Wall Street this past week, was Wall Street, Midland. What a comeback for oil last week, since the brutal air drop after Thanksgiving. We need to establish a level here, most would consider that the oil equity group is […]

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Friday Sankey 10/15/21

By Paul Sankey Published on October 15, 2021 at 9:37 AM

Mega-theme: the backlash against the nonsense elements of ESG Mega-theme: LNG Friday, so here’s a longer joke (?): Conspiracy theory: The UK climate protest group Insulate Britain are so completely bone-headed and infuriatingly disruptive (blocking the key London ring road, M25), that I can only assume they are a British Government/MI6 counter-environment group that is working to increase public opposition to the environmental movement in the sensitive run up to COP26 on 1st November in […]

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