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Within, we show our (extremely) detailed monthly Texas drilling, permitting and completion analytics from the ground up – delivering sharper basin-by-basin breakdowns and forward-looking insights to help you spot emerging trends. We track the data on…

Summarizing key chatter and high-level discussions… Over the last week we’ve had a pretty remarkable cross‑section of conversations with long‑only, hedge fund and strategic clients across upstream, OFS, midstream and utilities. This note distills those…

Energy investors are already gaming out the next big tie‑ups for 2026. Our red-hot Energy & Utility Outlook Survey (2026 Outlook Survey Results: Betting Against ENB & SOBO and Other Potentially Friendship‑Ending Energy Opinions) identifies…

With this note, we are rolling out the official 2026 survey portfolio, consisting of 39 Longs, 28 Shorts, and six Neutrals. Thx again to everyone who filled out our 2026 Energy & Utility outlook survey….

Within we provide our initial thoughts on the White House’s most recent executive order: Safeguarding Venezuelan Oil Revenue for the Good of the American and Venezuelan People – The White House. Most questions we have…

Thx to everyone who filled out the survey! Oil is back in the driver’s seat for energy equities in 2026 – but the way investors want to play it has changed. Our latest 2026 Energy…

The Pentagon Pizza index is a twitter account that monitors traffic at restaurants around the Pentagon. It has been quite accurate in forecasting U.S. involvement in certain situations. Afterall – the planners gotta eat right?…

Happy Saturday – we are currently digging through all of the 2026 survey responses. Thx all who participated! We actually had a tie for the *TOP STOCK PICK* for 2026… one Midstream company and one…

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are free of charge. However,…

Our initial ‘Love/Hate Portfolio‘ for 2026 kicked off realtively strong – posting a median return of roughly +150 bps in its first week since inception (Jan 5, 2026). As a reminder, our ‘Love/Hate’ portfolios are short-term, sentiment-driven positions built…

…doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein (though some dispute he ever said or wrote that). or …trading natural gas. – Timm Schneider In any case, after…

just one of our out of consensus thoughts. if you want to share yours pls fill out our 2026 outlook. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HYGB2C6

…but we go by pure technicals/ sentiment indicators here on the heels of real-time SOL utilization changes. Happy to discuss methodology in more detail. We look at ~200 issuers across six Energy & Utility sub-sectors…

Venezuela’s ‘cheap barrels’ story looks very different once you talk to people who’ve actually built heavy‑oil projects. Client feedback on our weekend piece was blunt. A true Venezuela reset looks closer to rebuilding an entire…

For the news, we include a brief summary description for each headline. We only include links to news sources that do NOT require you to have a subscription to the respective site, or if they do, they are free of charge. However,…