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Premium Only: US E&P Robert Clarke Wood Mac transcript and replay

Summary of Happy Hour yesterday evening US oil production: Clarke said lower 48 output has been “sneaky” strong. Rigs are up about 40 from the start of the year in the important geographies. Woodmac’s lower 48 crude and condensate exit rate is 11.4m b/d against 11.0m b/d modelled earlier in the year, about 400,000 b/d above its January/February view. He put 2027 growth at 300,000 b/d or more. He attributed the beat to smaller private

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Strategy Session 4pm ET (now) Robert Clarke Wood Mackenzie US E&P

Happy Hour today, to help you think about the potential for major M&A in US oil & gas, we have an exploration and production (E&P) focus. Major E&P M&A and consolidation are very much in the air. My pet theory is Chevron for ConocoPhillips, but the market is all over Devon as a breakup or takeover. We just got EQT for Range. Wildcard might be ExxonMobil for Oxy, XOM can use its balance sheet, taking

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Paul Sankey

Meet Your Next President (Ossoff Bluenami)

Oof well, we have been working a lot on refining valuation these past weeks, and the refiners got absolutely smashed today. Shout out to the trading desk (I can give you their name but don’t have permission right now to quote) for calling $350/share as the bounce point in Valero, which was down over -10% (low $347.25, -10.4% intraday) at that point, the trader nailed the call in an email to clients. Old School Peabody

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