Frac Sand Weekly News Digest
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.
This week’s news is pretty short, so you can get updated and wrap up everything else pretty quickly. So, before you fire up the grill or fire off one last pre-holiday email, fire up your browser and read through the latest.
And now, the news…
This Week's News
3 Reasons why Canada’s frac sand supply and supply-chain deserves a look…
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).
Wall Street Banks Nudge Oil Price Forecast Higher But Outlook Stays Bearish
Concerns over a global supply glut and uncertain demand prospects continue to weigh on crude.
Betting on equipment diversity as failsafe: Trucker of the Month
For this owner-operator, two tractors is better than one.
Shell in Early Talks to Acquire Rival BP
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.
Wil VanLoh Issues Warning: Embrace AI or Go Out of Business
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 Stockpiles Post Surprise Build as Exports Fall
U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 3.8 million barrels, as imports increased and exports fell sharply from the week before
The Oil Tycoon and the Philosopher Threatening Big Oil’s Carbon Capture Plans
The fraught politics of carbon capture are dividing the oil industry
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