Monday, February 7, 2022

One Liners -- Notes From All Over -- February 7, 2022

One-lines, most without links:

  • Frontier - Spirit to merge. $6.6 billion deal. 55 - 45 split, or about that. 
  • Alibaba: one year, from $250 to $117.
  • Tesla: stops scheduling new rooftop solar installation. For now. Electrek.
  • Rigs don't matter (don't take that out of context): comparing rig count to historical is a waste of time. We're drilling twice the length in half the time. -- Patch.
  • Texas pipeline: Targa to sell Gulf Coast Express Pipeline stake for almost $1 billion. Hart Energy.
    •  carries natural gas from Permian to Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast
    • began operating in late 2019
  • Jobs: payrolls gain almost 500,000 jobs in January. Surprises everyone. Manipulation of data suggested. Social medial. Government admits they have changed methods of counting. Previously posted.
  • Gold: got whacked last week after that huge jobs report
    • wiped out all gains it had made last week
    • mostly because of real yields rising
    • the economy is strong; the Fed hike is on
    • source: Eddie Spence
  • Brent: backwardation is currently "unusually strong" and seldom seen in Brent.
    • since 2008, only eleven trading days with equal or strong second month to third month sprea
    • source: Javier Blas
  • WTI: prompt time-spread has jumped more than $2.20 per barrel, signaling extreme tightness in Cushing. 
    • WTI Posting-Plus differential up over $6 / bblr -- that's only the twelfth day ever it trades above that level in more than 7,500 trading days since 1992
    • source: Javier Blas
  • WTI-Brent spread: puny WTI/Brent spread -- but, no, Cushing won't run out of storage. Source: Abhi Rajendran.
  • Gazprom, Europe and China: all that talk about Russia sending more natural gas to China, will it limit natural gas being sent to Europe
    • answer: impossible if you look at the map
    • in addition, China does not have the pipe from western China to eastern China and that western China topography (think: mountains) is horrendous for pipeline construction
    • source: Dinaa Khrennikova and OIES
  • OPEC's spare capacity: some readers not paying attention. Link here
  • FSRU: floating storage and regasification units -- cheaper and faster to build than onshore. A reader told me this last year. Now being reported by Rigzone
  • Meta: it's one-day crash now ranks as the worst in stock-market history. Source: Stuart Wallace and Bloomberg Calculations.
  • Anti-vaxxers: US Army has begun discharging those those disobey orders. Previously posted. 
  • Anti-vaxxers: Apple in process of letting employees "go" / leave company if not vaccinated.

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