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May 12, 2024

What Should Energy Transfer (ET; Long) Buy Next? Detailed 27 Company M&A Analysis Within

By Timm Schneider

ET is often considered the proverbial ‘catcher’s mitt’ when it comes to Energy Infrastructure M&A. One ambitious social media participant recently referred to them as the ‘Tiger Shark of Midstream.’ Better a Tiger Shark than…

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May 12, 2024

Happy Mother’s Day! Your Weekly Energy News Summary for the Week Ending May 12th 2024

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…

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May 11, 2024

Key Takes from the Lone Star State (Call Us for M&A ‘Chatter’ and Industry Scuttlebutt…)

By Timm Schneider

We spent most of last week in Texas. We kicked the week off in Austin for the 2024 Latham & Watkins Executive Energy & Infrastructure Conference. The conference offered a great format as it was…

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May 10, 2024

Model Portfolio Flat For the Week: Tenacious Presence of More Buyers than Sellers on our NextEra & Orsted Short Positions…

By Timm Schneider

…continues to torpedo the short book. We actually met with some Orsted commercial folks earlier this week. Interesting discussion on the battery/ storage side of things. Weekly Performance of the ‘Long’ Book source: The Schneider…

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May 9, 2024

Since Last Week, Investors are Covering 1) Midstream; 2) Clean Energy; and 3) OFS Shorts While Adding to Integrated/ Majors/ Refiners Short Exposure…

By Timm Schneider

See within for detailed stock & sector observations as well as a brief tutorial for interpreting the SOL analysis.  We believe the individual stock break-down (we limit to top three for ease of viewing) is…

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May 6, 2024

1) Utilities; 2) IPPs; and 3) Midstream Voted as ‘Favorite’ Sectors to Play the AI/ Data Center/ Electrification ‘Revolution.’ Clean Tech/ Renewables ‘Least’

By Timm Schneider

Thx to the ~50 respondents who participated in our most recent survey. Overall, respondents were most bullish 1) Utilities; 2) IPPs; and 3) Midstream in terms of the AI/ Data Center/ Electrification theme. Interesting observation:…

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May 5, 2024

We Received a Few Questions on Our ‘DTM for ENLC Makes Sense. ET for ENLC Does Not’ Comment…

By Timm Schneider

For non-consensus M&A ideas, we also like: 1) TRGP for PAA; and 2) WMB for GEL. There are others as well. We will discuss these in future notes. We have run all of the accretion/…

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May 5, 2024

All Your Weekly Energy News in One Spot (For the Week Ending May 5th 2024)

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…

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May 5, 2024

All Your Weekly Energy News in One Spot (For the Week Ending May 5th 2024)

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…

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May 4, 2024

Latest Texas RRC Data for April Implies Surge in Eagle Ford Drilling (?!) as Permian Shows More Balanced Activity Levels. Didn’t Realize the Eagle Ford was still a Thing…

By Timm Schneider

Yesterday, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) released the monthly ‘Summary of Drilling Permits, Completions and Plugging Reports Processed’ for the month of April. We provide full data tables within. We are unsure what is driving…

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May 4, 2024

Model Portfolio Pares 420Bps of Performance: ENLC/ SWN & HP ‘Shorts’ Provide Some Relief. What do you Think About Our New Thesis Post Earnings?

By Timm Schneider

After listening to a plethora of earnings calls and meeting with folks (and head of next week’s meetings in Texas), I kind of want to be positioned: 1) Long oily E&P; 2) Short gassy E&P;…

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May 3, 2024

Short Interest Set-Up Post Heavy Earnings Week Shows Bias Towards ‘Long’ E&P vs. ‘Short’ 1) Clean Tech; 2) Oilfield Services; and 3) Integrateds/ Refiners. Slightly Bullish Utes

By Timm Schneider

See within for detailed stock & sector observations as well as a brief tutorial for interpreting the SOL analysis.  We believe the individual stock break-down (we limit to top three for ease of viewing) is…

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May 1, 2024

Promise Little, Deliver Less: Despite ‘Horror Show’ Conference Call We are Closing our ENLC Short..

By Timm Schneider

We had a small short position on ENLC. The set up was stacked against the company. Sell-side pushing this as a huge long into the quarter. To be sure we do not love the assets…

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April 30, 2024

NEXT WEEK: Dinner w/ Hartree’s Ed Morse at Capacity… Seeing if I Can get a Bigger Venue. Allocating Spots This Week. Registration Still Open.

By Timm Schneider

Extremely timely obviously given current gyrations in global energy markets! If you are interested please use the link below. I am going to try to allocate spots by this Wednesday. Unlike our bulge bracket counterparts,…

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April 27, 2024

All Your Weekly Energy News in One Spot (For the Week Ending April 28th 2024)

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…

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