By Paul Sankey
Published on October 31, 2020 at 2:51 PM
Yesterday was tricky to publish a worthy note, until conference calls were complete. So this is the Friday Sankey on a Saturday. Happy Halloween! If life gives you melons you may be dyslexic What’s Sherlock Holmes’ favourite tree? A lemon tree Daddy, do all fairy tales start with “Once upon a time”? “No kid, there’s a whole series of fairly tales that start with “If elected, I promise…”” There were two key takeaways from ExxonMobil’s […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 1, 2020 at 8:29 AM
With so many long term forecasts being thrown around over the past month on energy demand and emissions, this analyst has been deeply cynical after 30 years of following long term energy modelling. The worst long term forecasts are already wrong when they are made. That is close to being the case currently as companies use a 2018 or 2019 base year, skipping the little matter of 2020, which has seen, for example, an enormous […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 30, 2020 at 5:45 PM
It was an especial pleasure to see a leader speaking at a podium with a TOTAL command of the current complex situation, with a complete grasp of facts and figures, a near-term and long-term vision that is both pragmatic and exciting. The fact that the entire presentation was delivered with charm and wit in the speaker’s second language, made it all-the-more impressive. I am of course speaking of TOTAL’s CEO Patrick Patrick Pouyanné , at the […]
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