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February 10, 2025

Survey Portfolio Adds ~60Bps W/W; Venture Global (VG) Tactical Trade Ideas Yield More Bifurcated Performance

By Timm Schneider

***Please continue to fill out our 2025 M&A Outlook survey, if you have not done so already*** https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3TTKVPW Please see the detailed note within for which stocks survey takers (Read On) have gotten right, and…

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February 9, 2025

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending February 9th

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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February 9, 2025

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending February 9th

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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February 7, 2025

M&A Survey Sneak Peak: Whoever Dropped PSX for PAA, I Kind of Like That One. KMI for LNG would be a Monster. Lot of Interesting Ones…

By Timm Schneider

thx for the almost 50 responses already! On KMI for LNG (this was in the *SHOULD* happen – not the *WILL* happen). Sell the terminal assets to Buckeye (Private) and hopefully get some of the…

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February 6, 2025

If Venture Global (VG) is one of the most hated stocks in Energy right now…

By Timm Schneider

…does that make us the ‘Voldemort of LNG’ (also given the physical resemblance) if we believe the risk/ reward is skewed to the upside w/ VG at ~$17p/s (which appears to be in the non-consensus…

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February 6, 2025

Venture global (VG) is down ~12% Today; What Does ~$17p/s Imply in Terms of Key Assumptions

By Timm Schneider

Shares of a VG are down ~12% on the day at the time of this writing, underperforming peer Cheniere (LNG) and NFE by an average ~600bps. This is due to a combination of several perceived…

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February 5, 2025

Short-Term Sentiment (Matters): Last Week’s *Most Loved* Outperform *Most Hated* by ~50Bps; Interesting Set-Ups in Midstream…

By Timm Schneider

Within, we share with you real-time 1) Current Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 2) W-W % Changes in Absolute Shares-on-Loan Utilization; 3) Borrow; and 4) Changes in 4-week moving average shares-on-loan utilization for ~200 publicly traded corporates across…

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February 5, 2025

Texas Nat Gas Activity Levels Increase in January as Oil Completions Decline – Key Takes from the Monthly RRC Report

By Timm Schneider

Within, we provide our thoughts on The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) most recent monthly ‘Summary of Drilling Permits, Completions and Plugging Reports Processed’ for the month of January 2025. ***Happy to chat on specific stock takes…

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February 3, 2025

Natural Gas: Front Month Surges ~11% as Weekend Weather Runs Ignite Bullish Sentiment

By Timm Schneider

Tariff discussions have dominated our recent conversations. We do not believe tariffs matter much for domestic natural gas, at least relative to domestic oil. That said, natural gas once again showed why it is one…

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February 2, 2025

A CADastrophy in the making? We Don’t Believe So, BUT Some Feedback on our ‘Tariff Trades’ and Macro Thoughts

By Timm Schneider

please see within. Please note we closed our NG1 long position after electronic trade open earlier tonight. Timm Thx to all who reached out to chat and discuss the set-up! Opinions are all over the…

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February 2, 2025

Your Energy & Utilities News Summary for the Week Ending February 2nd

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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February 1, 2025

Looks Like Tariffs are Happening: Macro Trading Strategies & Tactical Pair Trade Ideas

By Timm Schneider

Per the WSJ, looks like tariffs will kick in on Tuesday. Canada & Mexico will face a 25% tariff (with the exception of oil & gas – as we understand it, which will be at…

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February 1, 2025

U.S. Demand for Canadian Oil, eh: Detailed look by 1) PADD; 2) State; 3) and ~89 Individual Refiners/ Terminals (By Crude Slate)

By Timm Schneider

Within we take a detailed look at which 1) PADDs; 2) States; and 3) Individual Refineries have had the most ‘thirst’ for Canadian crude grades from January 2024 through November 2024. We have this data…

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January 31, 2025

Survey Portfolio Adds ~1.1% in Volatile Week; New VG Tactical Trade Ideas Add ~13% and ~11%…

By Timm Schneider

…since inception on Jan-28th (***New Tactical Trade Ideas: Venture Global (VG) Long/ Short Set-Up…). Please see the detailed note within for which stocks survey takers (Read On) have gotten right, and which ones have been…

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January 31, 2025

Natural Gas: Sentiment Generally Bearish; What are we Hearing from Folks?

By Timm Schneider

One of the (very) interesting attributes of our business model is that we don’t only speak to institutional (equity/ fixed income) investors, but also a lot of industry participants (operators; beyond the C-Suite boilerplate…) and…

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