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Ron Gusek

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, LIBERTY ENERGY INC

Search every verified Ron Gusek interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ron Gusek, president and CEO of Liberty Energy, discussed the company's expansion beyond oilfield services into power generation during an EnerCom interview in September 2026. He described Liberty's transition from a pure frac company into power generation, initially for its own operations, and highlighted the growth of Liberty Power Innovations amid rising electricity demand from data centers. Gusek also detailed the company's use of artificial intelligence, including in logistics optimization for sand delivery and equipment monitoring, reporting that AI-driven oversight has increased component longevity by 75 to 100 percent and reduced frac stage cycle times by seven minutes per stage. He said Liberty is moving toward agentic AI systems to execute frac jobs with human augmentation. On North American production, he cited commodity price volatility and a forward curve that does not support meaningful growth, projecting a "flatish" outlook for lateral feet completed next year. In closing remarks at Liberty's Q3 2026 conference call on October 22, Gusek argued that the United States faces an inflection point driven by demand from artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and reshored industry, and called for increased investment in energy infrastructure including generation, transmission, pipelines, and storage. He stated that the country needs "more certainty" in decision-making and policies that encourage investment while respecting community interests, and he cautioned against both unrestricted development and a "moratorium mentality." He described energy as the infrastructure challenge of the current generation, asserting that a growing nation requires a growing energy system and that the greatest risk is allowing disagreement to prevent progress.

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“We certainly are. We've seen I think a number of opportunities to put AI to work and in each case seen meaningful impact on the bottom line as a result of that. We started in logistics. We move more than a million truckloads of sand on an annual basis. That's a complicated problem and AI trained appropriately does a very very nice job of optimizing that logistics question. Oversight of our equipment is an is another ”

“We've certainly evolved a little bit. We were a purely focused frac company. We were great at that and we wanted to be great at one thing and one thing only. But recognized that of course when opportunities come along, you want to take advantage of those. Chances to have the business evolve to be something greater than it is or was a few years ago. For us that opportunity came in the form of power generation. We had ”

“I think the most important takeaway in any conversation around energy is that energy policy has to be a global conversation. You cannot make energy policy sitting in a glass bubble thinking only about the world that is immediately around you. It is a far far bigger picture than that. And certainly for the friends and allies of countries like the United States, uh they are there are people out there who are heavily re”

“We've gone through probably the largest disruption of oil and arguably LNG supply the world has ever known, at least for sure, going back to the 70s. And yet here we are with anou for a piece accord between the United States and Iran. And we have a situation where WTI has fallen back below $70. We took more than a billion barrels of oil out of the global supply over the last four months. That's oil that did not get d”

“You might be looking at an energy services agreement that is 15 years in length, and that payment for that energy stream comes month after month, year after year, consistently for 15 years. I expect it will provide a very stable foundation of cash flow for the company.”

“We should not have expensive electricity in the United States; it's unfortunate we have states now where people are being put in a position where their energy bill is that high.”

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