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December 7, 2025

Your Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending December 7th

By Timm Schneider

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,…

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December 5, 2025

PSX: Key Takes from the Permian – Courtesy of this Large ‘Midstreamer’ with Refining Assets…

By Timm Schneider

Having covered PSXP – at the risk of aging ourselves – for many years before the buy‑in, PSX has been in our wheelhouse for a long time. One of our most‑read notes since the inception…

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December 3, 2025

Marking Our Active Pair Trades & Recent ‘Love/Hate’ Portfolio to Market – Keeping Everything Open

By Timm Schneider

We currently have three active trades on: Long PSX vs. Short MPC (– Timm-inator 2: Market Judgment Day – Quick Takes from Houston & NYC; Key Earnings Themes): +6% since inception on 10-21-2025. Today marks…

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December 2, 2025

Texas *SLAMS* the Brakes in November: Is a Roll in 2026 Production (Officially) Imminent?

By Timm Schneider

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. What’s new: Complete basin-by-basin analysis…

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December 1, 2025

Initiating New ‘Most Loved’ and ‘Most Hated’ Long/ Short Stock Portfolio for December

By Timm Schneider

It’s that time again! We are initiating our latest ‘Most Loved’ and ‘Most Hated’ Equity Portfolio into the end of the year. Recall these are shorter-term, sentiment based long/ short stock picks based on real-time…

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November 30, 2025

Your Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending November 30th

By Timm Schneider

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,…

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November 28, 2025

Feedback to Our CITGO Note

By Timm Schneider

On Wednesday, we published our initial take on the transaction, financials, and an asset overview (Could Elliott’s Amber Energy (Likely) Purchase of CITGO Fundamentally Reshape U.S. Refining…). In this follow‑up, we refine several estimates (including…

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November 26, 2025

Could Elliott’s Amber Energy (Likely) Purchase of CITGO Fundamentally Reshape U.S. Refining…

By Timm Schneider

…is a question no one has asked us (Holiday fatigue or no one cares about ‘old world economy?’) – but is one we have been pondering post Tuesday’s press release (Amber Energy Approved as Acquirer…

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November 25, 2025

KNTK: Our Analysis Reveals Four Highly Strategic & Accretive Buyers (Others Possible)

By Timm Schneider

Shares of KNTK have plunged ~38% YTD, fueling a spike in client inbounds and igniting one of the hotter debates in Permian Midstream (M&A). The key question: Is KNTK a willing seller, or is management…

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November 24, 2025

KNTK: We Have Been Getting a Lot of Questions on M&A Lately…

By Timm Schneider

…Specifically, if KNTK would be a seller at these levels. It all depends (Call us). Shares are down ~38% YTD. Naturally, we ran a full accretion/ dilution analysis featuring 15 potential buyers for KNTK out…

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November 23, 2025

Money & Memes: November’s Loudest 20…

By Timm Schneider

source: The Schneider Capital Group We just scraped the entire internet (X, Reddit, StockTwits, blogs, forums – everything) for the ~200 energy, utility, and chemicals issuers we track. The result: We identify the 20 stocks…

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November 23, 2025

Deals That Could Redefine Chemicals – And the Energy Value Chain: The 2026 M&A Power Map

By Timm Schneider

Within, we present a full accretion/dilution breakout (EPS/FCF/EBITDA/Leverage) for 18 targeted Chemicals M&A deals – sharpened from our initial matrix of ~100 hypothetical combinations (link). Why the urgency? Q3 earnings confirm the chemical sector’s deep…

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November 23, 2025

Your Energy & Utility News for the Week Ending November 23rd

By Timm Schneider

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,…

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November 20, 2025

Chale! Esentia IPO Prices ~26% Below Mid-Point: ‘Oops’ or Opportunity? Ya Hate to See It…

By Timm Schneider

Esentia Energy Development’s IPO (finally) priced – at 45 pesos per share, a steep 26% discount to the original mid of the 50- 72 peso range. Not entirely a shock… but plenty of blame to…

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November 19, 2025

Natural Gas: Rarely have we witnessed a wider (and more opinionated) divergence between Bulls and Bears

By Timm Schneider

Our recent client conversations on natural gas reflect the widest – and most fiercely opinionated – divide seen in years. From rapid-fire near-term trading to 2026+ macro scenarios, LNG expectations have polarized the market drawing…

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