Quote of the day: In a war of ego, the loser always wins

Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Hormuz Crisis Series: European Jets Jets Jets

Last week, having satisfied my curiosity on Taiwan and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) — which basically concluded that TSMC will keep getting cheap reliable subsidized government electricity even if it means Mrs Cheng has no aircon. That is globally important; AI is the counter theme to Hormuz and after TSMC’s earnings call, we concluded they are good to go for another quarter of crisis, so relatively very comfortable. Nothing it at all comfortable right now in

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Premium: Global Shipping Zoom Replay Ed Finley-Richardson

Morning, I did a horrible job of publicising yesterday’s call with Ed Finley-Richardson who is terrific on global shipping. Really commercial, he trades his own book from the South of France. One invite went out Wednesday, but in a horrendous rush yesterday my note on TSMC was meant to include an invitation but actually went out at 11:56am for a 12pm call and did not include the invite. “Somebody is going to get fired, and

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Taiwan Semiconductor: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

~ Again noted further to our last Sunday thematic on Australia on Sunday “Upside Down Under” — Australia’s last of two remaining refineries, Viva Energy’s Geelong facility (~120,000 b/d, ~10% of national fuel supply, ~50% of Victoria’s), had an explosion, seemingly on the old classic risk: deferred maintenance to run harder in a crisis causes accidents, and that theme will continue globally. Gets worse: Australia’s largest ammonia plant shut down too — Yara’s Pilbara facility

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