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Drilling Deep: The first in-person industry meeting of the COVID era

· Thursday, July 16, 2020

There were fewer people than usual, as well as some canceled receptions, but it looks like a whole lot of effort resulted in a successful in-person truck industry gathering without anybody getting sick.

Ed Crowell, the president and CEO of the Georgia Motor Trucking Association, joins Drilling Deep podcast host John Kingston to talk about the steps the organization undertook to put together the group’s recent annual meeting in Florida and how it turned out.

We’ll also be looking at how OPEC has managed to tighten the oil market, boosting the price of crude but with diesel trailing the increase. The group and its allies are declaring victory in the first-round effort to increase the price of oil.

What do they have for round 2? Kingston will discuss oil’s future, all of this on Drilling Deep.

John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.