Nick Cook, Editor
Issue #523 | July 2, 2025
Happy Independence Day to our American readers, happy Canada Day to our Canadian readers, happy (week early) Independence Day to our Argentinian readers, and happy early July to everyone else.
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And now, the news…
With three months until our 3rd Canadian Frac Sand Summit, we wanted to give three reasons why we’ve invested our time, money, and efforts to bring high-quality networking events to Canadian Frac Sand (and yes, that was three 3s in one sentence).
Concerns over a global supply glut and uncertain demand prospects continue to weigh on crude.
For this owner-operator, two tractors is better than one.
It would be a landmark combination of two so-called supermajor oil companies, a group of multinational behemoths that dominate the production of the world’s most important energy sources.
Quantum Capital Group CEO Wil VanLoh warned oil and gas operators that the fear of AI doesn’t change anything—either way, it’s coming.
U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 3.8 million barrels, as imports increased and exports fell sharply from the week before
The fraught politics of carbon capture are dividing the oil industry
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