What Art Berman is saying
Petroleum geologist & energy analyst
3 dated public stances tracked since 2026-06-10, most recently 2026-08-13. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Art Berman's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Art Berman is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-08-13
OIL
bullish
Wealthion · video
Persian Gulf production is down 10 million barrels/day — a larger supply shock than COVID — and Hormuz cannot normalize quickly due to insurers, tanker operators, unresolved logistics, and Iranian factional risk, meaning no ceasefire alone restores pre-war…
“There's no switch here. I don't think we're ever going back to January 2026 for energy.”
Art Berman: The Global Energy Order Is Breaking
2026-06-10
OIL
bullish
Wealthion · video
Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic has collapsed from 138/day pre-war to ~1.3/day as of June 1, Iran has no incentive to relinquish control, and flows may only recover to 50% capacity by end of 2027, creating a permanent structural supply constraint
“My take on Hormuz is it's gone. We lost it. It's gone. It's never coming back.”
90d +8.7%
Art Berman: “Hormuz Is Gone” — The Oil Shock That Changes Everything
2026-06-10
CNQ
bullish
Wealthion · video
US refineries were engineered specifically for Canadian heavy crude and import 4 million barrels/day from Canada, making Canadian supply irreplaceable and strategically indispensable regardless of tariff politics
“Canada is — our refineries die without Canadian oil.”
90d +12.8%
Art Berman: “Hormuz Is Gone” — The Oil Shock That Changes Everything
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