• At press time Brent crude futures dropped $1.13 or 1.17%, to $95.83 a barrel, having climbed by 1.3% in the previous session. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down $1.08, or 1.21% at $88.01.
• Chris Samanns, president, Signal Peak Silica, Houston, talks to Hart Energy about his career and goals. Read it here.
• Harold Hamm, the billionaire fracking pioneer, agreed to buy the shares of Continental Resources Inc. not owned by him and his family for $4.3 billion in a rare deal that will take one of the largest independent U.S. oil-and-gas producers private.