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

Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Sunday it’s not Poker, and it’s Certainly Not Cricket

Ola, que tal, With the massive distractions last week of SpaceX, just when you thought AI frenzy could get no greater – or surely top – a new Fed Chair Warsh, and of course the whole “MOU on Hormuz” situation, this week ahead will hopefully get the agenda back towards more specific energy stock stories with the big JP Morgan Energy Conference running over three days in New York, with tremendous interest in Devon’s CEO

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

Anchors Away! Now I’m Bullish…

Time to think about Russia? Today for Happy Hour we have Ron Smith, Russia expert, to consider what happens in the other front of World War III. Ronald P. Smith is the founding partner of Emerging Markets Oil & Gas Consulting Partners (EMOGCP) and a #1 ranked analyst by Institutional Investor and Extel. He has over 25 years’ of experience in equity capital markets and the Russian oil and gas sector. He began his career

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Energy Transition
Paul Sankey

The Knicks, Vultures, and “The Art of the Deal”

As I write this, we are rushing to get ahead of the 3:30 p.m. ET press conference planned for President Trump today regarding the seemingly endless “Deal Very Soon” situation with Iran. Let’s repeat our quote from the 2000s Iran nuclear EU “It’s like playing chess with a monkey. You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king.” Watching the U.S.–Iran dynamic right now feels exactly like watching a Knicks game: we constantly

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