<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[CrueClub]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crueclub]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:48:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.crueclub.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[CORPORATE CULTURE IN THE OIL &#38; GAS INDUSTRY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring 2026 | Presenter: Operations Leader, Riley Permian | Oklahoma City, OK ROUNDTABLE SUMMARY Event:  Crue Club Roundtable | March 5, 2026 | Oklahoma City Theme:  Corporate Culture in the Oil &#38; Gas Industry Overview An operations leader at a small independent Permian operator — with nearly fifteen years of prior experience at ExxonMobil and XTO Energy — led a wide-ranging conversation on what makes culture real versus performed, why large companies talk about it more and practice it less,...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/corporate-culture-in-the-oil-gas-industry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69deacefb9feb7db43ba8982</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:11:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_4280c24e4cdf40c18e31b294e6e54398~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_938,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SIMOPS, PAD-CENTRIC PLANNING, AND CYCLE-TIME-TO-REVENUE IN UPSTREAM OPERATIONS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring 2026 | Presenter: Operations Leader, Phoenix Energy | Denver, CO ROUNDTABLE SUMMARY Event:  Crue Club Roundtable | February 24, 2026 | Denver Theme:  SIMOPS, Pad-Centric Planning, and Cycle-Time-to-Revenue in Upstream Operations Overview An operations leader with experience across the Rockies, Midcontinent, and Permian Basin opened with a scenario that set the tone for the evening: a 52-well pad at 10,000 feet elevation, simultaneously running three drill rigs, a rope frac crew,...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/simops-pad-centric-planning-and-cycle-time-to-revenue-in-upstream-operations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69deaa8ab9feb7db43ba82de</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:00:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_152bacbedfa34d2d92e0297bfbbedfab~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_935,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Silos, No Shortcuts — Small Operator Survival in DFW 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The defining advantage of a small operator has nothing to do with acreage or production rate. At the February 2026 Crue Club roundtable in DFW, a veteran VP of Engineering made the affirmative case for what small operators do better than anyone — and why the industry needs them to keep doing it.]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/no-silos-no-shortcuts-small-operator-survival-in-dfw-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dea7e9b9feb7db43ba7ba0</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:53:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_d317482f47f140a1a7c60b9e6225cc5a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_924,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture Built on Accountability — Houston Roundtable 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[One spill. One response. Everything changed. At the January 2026 Crue Club roundtable in Houston, a veteran operator laid out a three-pillar framework for building organizational culture that actually holds — not as a philosophy exercise, but as a measurable management discipline. The question he left the room with is worth sitting with.]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/culture-built-on-accountability-houston-roundtable-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69de51c766c8cbf1f4c12fff</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:58:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_cc195e15482a4a03b92b575d736361e4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_923,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the Drilling Clock Still Has Room to Move — Midland 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Midland Basin drilling story of the last 15 years is remarkable. Wells that used to take 30-plus days are now running sub-10 routinely. The best wells are at 7 to 7.5 days. So our first Crue Club dinner of 2026 asked the next logical question: what's left?]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/where-the-drilling-clock-still-has-room-to-move-midland-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dd2341c31b00fb85143699</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:13:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_ad24e04ffc554538ba8e177e8f24d607~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_921,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data Governance and AI in the Oil &#38; Gas Industry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Event:  Crue Club Roundtable — November 20, 2025 | Houston, TX  Featured Speaker:  [Senior Data Analytics Leader — 29 years in petroleum data management; formerly with major operators and currently with a midsize energy company] Season:  Fall 2025 Opening: This Is Not an IT Problem The evening's featured speaker — 29 years in petroleum data management across companies ranging from supermajors to independents — opened by making one thing clear: "This is not an IT problem. I love IT, but it is...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/data-governance-and-ai-in-the-oil-gas-industry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d3bde0d36a85c300c0ae9c</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:07:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_0ba3d3372155414f8bda3734427d8a17~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_926,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[OPERATOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEF · FALL 2025 · ISSUE 4]]></title><description><![CDATA[CRUE CLUB]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/operator-intelligence-brief-fall-2025-issue-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d3bab6c53e2b8fe12411a4</guid><category><![CDATA[Operator Intelligence Brief]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:56:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil &#38; Gas Industry Challenges, Vendor Collaboration, and AI Integration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Event:  Crue Club Roundtable — November 13, 2025 | Midland, TX Season:  Fall 2025 Opening Context  The table opened against a tightening macro backdrop. Operators are stress-testing $45 oil and $4.60 gas scenarios. M&#38;A consolidation is compressing deal flow for private operators and creating scale disadvantages — majors running 12-well pad programs operate at a fundamentally different cost structure than an independent running one or two wells at a time. ConocoPhillips' first layoff round had...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/oil-gas-industry-challenges-vendor-collaboration-and-ai-integration</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d3b92511b9dfb4baa4f251</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:47:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_fec3c4c919f44512b26c4ce22ad1b495~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_929,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From New Wells to Base Production — Shifting Focus in a Competitive M&#38;A Landscape]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crue Club | October 14, 2025 | Midland  Featured Voice:  A production-focused engineer with direct operating experience deploying chemical re-stimulation programs in the Permian Basin. Additional voices included a chemical service company representative specializing in CLO2 (chlorine dioxide) well remediation, and a roundtable of operator and service-side participants in Midland. Overview The October 14 Midland session addressed what is increasingly the most operationally relevant question...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/from-new-wells-to-base-production-shifting-focus-in-a-competitive-m-a-landscape</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d2c31f072d140cb959d237</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:17:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_78c85a91db9c4683a9ecbca22683c5d2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_928,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[CRUE CLUBOPERATOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEFFALL 2025 · ISSUE 3 OCTOBER 2 · OCTOBER 8]]></title><description><![CDATA[FROM THE TABLE]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/crue-cluboperator-intelligence-brieffall-2025-issue-3-october-2-october-8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d2c16d4cec55fe0675469a</guid><category><![CDATA[Operator Intelligence Brief]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:13:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North American Oilfield Is Pivoting to the Long Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crue Club | October 8, 2025 Featured Voice:  An independent market research analyst and founder of a market intelligence firm, with prior career experience in pricing strategy and market research at a major oilfield service company, a well services company, and an industrial reliability solutions firm before launching his own practice in early 2024. He tracks 15 publicly traded E&#38;Ps and 18 publicly traded oilfield service companies from the bottom of their quarterly SEC filings. Overview The...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/the-north-american-oilfield-is-pivoting-to-the-long-game</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d1404a2a4608ae0021e9ac</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:46:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_8f2ec97c60374dbd84fc1b4c61088d3d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_924,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Adoption and Systems Strategy in Oil &#38; Gas Operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Event:  Crue Club Roundtable Date:  October 2, 2025 Season:  Fall 2025 Format:  Multi-voice roundtable discussion Topic:  AI Adoption and Systems Strategy in Oil &#38; Gas Operations This was a wide-open, multi-voice roundtable — no single featured presenter, just a table full of operators, geologists, and service company representatives working through an honest inventory of where AI actually sits in oil and gas today versus where people think it sits. The conversation was anchored by the EVP of...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/ai-adoption-and-systems-strategy-in-oil-gas-operations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d13dbf2a4608ae0021e494</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:37:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_b886f26fef9a499793c0d71cd044c6a3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_927,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[OPERATOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEF | FALL 2025 ISSUE 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[CRÜE CLUB OPERATOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEF FALL 2025 · ISSUE 2 · SEPTEMBER 2025 EDITOR'S NOTE  JP Warren · Founder, Crüe Club Issue 2 of the Crüe Club Operator Intelligence Brief covers two dinners from September 2025 — one in Denver and one in DFW — that together make the case for why the energy industry needs to show up, build relationships, and stop waiting for someone else to fight the battles. The Denver table heard from a California operator who has been watching his state's oil and gas...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/operator-intelligence-brief-fall-2025-issue-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d0190c535e7bcd269b2ddd</guid><category><![CDATA[Operator Intelligence Brief]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:53:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operator and OFS Alignment for Mutual Success]]></title><description><![CDATA[ROUNDTABLE SUMMARY Event:  Crue Club Dinner — DFW Date:  September 11, 2025 Season:  Fall 2025 Topic:  The Collective Model — How a Small Operator Drilled 3-Mile Horizontals 11% Under Budget by Rethinking Service Company Relationships A Delaware Basin operator who came up through Anadarko and built a career around vertical wells in West Texas led the DFW table through a detailed case study of how he structured an unconventional service company relationship to drill six three-mile horizontal...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/operator-and-ofs-alignment-for-mutual-success</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d016188fa22b8daa055983</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:35:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_49325bead4ff4ad3aa7b0f9037430768~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_924,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Policy, Public Perception, and the Battle to Unleash Domestic Production]]></title><description><![CDATA[Event:  Crue Club Dinner — Denver, CO Date:  September 4, 2025 Season:  Fall 2025 Topic:  California's Energy Collapse — The Playbook and What It Means for Colorado A California-based operator and nonprofit founder led the table through an unvarnished account of how California's oil and gas industry has been systematically dismantled — and why Colorado should treat it as a preview, not a cautionary tale from another state. The speaker came up through finance and M&#38;A before becoming an...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/energy-policy-public-perception-and-the-battle-to-unleash-domestic-production</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d013a92a4608ae001ff52e</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:26:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_e6f6b4c942b94765b4587b68c12ff3de~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_923,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[OPERATOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEF · FALL 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[CRUE CLUB]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/crue-club-operator-intelligence-brief-fall-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d00ffc40e74dbec4015885</guid><category><![CDATA[Operator Intelligence Brief]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:11:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Energy, Power, &#38; Water Paradigm for Texas, the US &#38; The world has changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening Fall 2025, Houston. A capital markets and ESG consultant — who spent years sitting between European investors and American energy companies, getting called a left-wing hippie by operators and a Texas brute by Europeans — walked the table through the sharpest macro read on energy's moment this season. His core thesis: the industry doesn't have a survival problem. It has a messaging problem. And the window to fix it is about three to four years. Tech Can't Run on Renewables and They...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/the-energy-power-water-paradigm-for-texas-the-us-the-world-has-changed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d00b612a4608ae001fe5a6</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:49:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_487693d8e666437a9377c0628cbab848~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_923,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovating the Clean-Out ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening Fall 2025, Midland. The guest — a completions engineer who came up through the service side before crossing to the operator seat — specifically asked to bring this topic to Midland. Extended laterals are no longer a future planning problem. They're happening now, the cleanout side is struggling to keep pace, and this table had the people and the data to have the real conversation. The Math Stops Working at Three Miles Going from a two-mile well to three is not a step change — it's an...]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/innovating-the-clean-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d0068d535e7bcd269b0c9d</guid><category><![CDATA[Roundtable Summary]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:28:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f202f_a744f1165fa445e98882dcec0d2ccbf5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_925,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Crue Club Member Intelligence Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Crue Club platform is now live. Every roundtable conversation from Spring 2026 and Fall 2025 is being processed and published here — organized by market, topic, and season. New content drops every two weeks following each dinner. Welcome to the table.]]></description><link>https://www.crueclub.com/post/welcome-to-the-crue-club-member-intelligence-platform</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cfd02e2a4608ae001f73da</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:36:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>JP Warren</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>