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The Crude Life Vault: Dr. Bill Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, National Federation Independent Business from 2013 in Jackson Hole, Wy.
In this episode of The Crude Life Vault, Chief Economist, National Federation Independent Business, Bill Dunkelberg explains why we are in a technology boom and that we are out of “Jed Clampett oil”.
Dunkelberg believes the current oil play is more a two-fold tech boom.
“The first is the technology to retrieve the oil through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. They’ve been around for awhile, but have been refined,” Dunkelberg said. “The second is the investment going into the technology. Once there’s money in it, it moves to solves problems. Markets solve problems. Finding out how to get the gas out of the ground and into the market cheaper, faster and more environmentally sound are problems worth solving.”
It is technology, however, that got us to the oil in the Bakken and it will be technology that will get us to more of it in the layers below the Bakken such as the Three Forks and beyond. Chemistry is only one type of technology being tweaked in the Bakken. The other technology change pertains to traditional drill rigs.
Back then, Hess and Continental Resources were reporting roughly a 30% savings in pad drilling efficiencies last year (in 2012). Advancements in physical technologies, like drill sites that crawl and longer horizontal drills, are being tested and implemented everyday.
Mr. Dunkelberg is a former Professor of Economics at Temple University, the former Dean of the Fox School of Business, and serves as Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, the ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News programs, Good Morning America, and numerous local news and business TV and radio shows.
He is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. He also serves on the economic forecasting panels for USA Today, Business Week and Bloomberg and as an economic consultant to ABC News.
(Feature Article by Jason Spiess from 2013)
The Technology of the Bakken
In 2011, I asked former North Dakota governor and current Continental Resources board member Ed Schafer how important technology is in the Bakken oil boom.
His prioritizing of where technology ranks for this oil boom was surprising.
“This Bakken boom is really more of a technology boom,” Schafer said. “Companies are developing cutting-edge technologies to capture North Dakota resources.”
When revisiting the topic with Schafer in December 2013, he said current technology is only getting about 5% of the oil out of the ground, and as the technology improves, more oil can be extracted from the ground.
Venture capitalist Steve Fifita agreed with Schafer’s view on technology’s role. Fifita’s background is in technology and detecting emerging markets. He sees many of the same inflection points, meaning the paradigm shift from traditional to modern day drilling technology.
“What opened this market back up was a technology disruption,” Fifita said. “In a former life, my job was to literally identify those inflection points, preferably in technology, so those I worked for would benefit. And in the case of the Bakken, the technology of horizontal drilling that’s been applied has completely opened up this market.”
Fifita continued by theorizing that if the technology of fracking is improved, the recovery rate could reach eight or ten percent and increase output significantly.
In addition to horizontal drilling, one of the key drivers in this technology is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It has been referred to by many as a “game-changing tool” in terms of making oil production economical. Fracking involves injecting pressurized fluid into rock formations to create pathways for oil to gather for extraction.
Brian Hymel, partner with Five Diamonds Industrial Park in Dickinson, ND, completely agrees with mindset that the Bakken is a technology boom. Hymel added oil and gas technology is changing just like everything we see around us.
“It is amazing if you look at technology.I was looking at my smart phone earlier and I was frustrated with it because it just wasn’t working quite right. I had to stop and think to myself, a few short years ago before the world of the Apple iPhone and the Crackberry, I had a little tiny flip phone with just a few buttons and I could play the game Snake on it. Before that, it was the brick,” Hymel said. “It’s happening so fast, the technology is changing so fast and all of these companies are investing a tremendous amount money, time and energy into improving their technology just to recover a bit higher percentages. Every little bit helps.”
After former Governor Schafer set up the ground work for oil and gas companies to extract the natural resources from the state, current US Senator John Hoeven was elected governor and recalls being handed the baton from Schafer and charged with overseeing the oil and gas development “trying to crack the code.”
“I can remember as governor, meeting with the top executives of companies who were trying to crack the code,” Hoeven said. “Prior to then, companies – if they were in North Dakota – were leaving to go elsewhere.”
Hoeven continued saying he worked with companies like Marathon Oil, Continental, Brigham and EOG to create “the right business climate and develop the technologies that made producing oil in the Bakken very economical.”
“Because of all that hard work, communication and patience, we’ve seen amazing results.” Hoeven said. “We are now the second largest oil producing state in the country, nearing a million barrels a day, but none of it would have happened without the technology development.”
In order to better understand the role technology plays in the Bakken, you first have to understand what kind of oil is being drilled. Dr. Gerry Groenwald, director of the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), believes this oil boom is “absolutely a technology boom.” Groenewold points out there is an abundance of oil, just not “cheap oil.”
“I remember when one of the old petroleum engineers in the state said to me – this was 25 years ago,” Groenewold recalled. “He said, ‘I think we’re out of $3 oil Gerry.’ He came into my office about 10 years later and said, ‘Yep, I think we’re out of $15 oil now.’ We are not short on molecules, we are short on recovery rate.”
Chief Economist, National Federation Independent Business, Bill Dunkelberg agrees this is a technology boom and that we are out of “Jed Clampett oil”. Dunkelberg believes it is a two-fold tech boom.
“The first is the technology to retrieve the oil through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. They’ve been around for awhile, but have been refined,” Dunkelberg said. “The second is the investment going into the technology. Once there’s money in it, it moves to solves problems. Markets solve problems. Finding out how to get the gas out of the ground and into the market cheaper, faster and more environmentally sound are problems worth solving.”
Dr. Groenewold reminds us that the Bakken, as well as other shale plays around the country, really are part of a three-legged stool that not only includes technology and access to vast amounts of oil, but the third, critical leg which is economics.
“As we get to a point where the harder-to-access oil is the only oil left, then the only way we are going to go after that is due to the high price of oil which incentivizes the development of technology to cost-effectively capture that oil. That’s what happened in the Bakken,” Groenewold said. “The price went up, we knew it was there, people started investing in technological concepts – it worked – and now we have a major oil play. And it’s the model for the rest of the world with similar oil plays elsewhere. The Bakken is the training ground.”
It is technology, however, that got us to the oil in the Bakken and it will be technology that will get us to more of it in the layers below the Bakken such as the Three Forks and beyond. Chemistry is only one type of technology being tweaked in the Bakken. The other technology change pertains to traditional drill rigs.
Hess and Continental Resources reported roughly a 30% savings in pad drilling efficiencies last year. Advancements in physical technologies, like drill sites that crawl and longer horizontal drills, are being tested and implemented everyday.
The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) is gearing up for a project to change the game yet again.
“We’re constantly enhancing technology every day. We have a new program with the oil industry, with some funding also from the Oil & Gas Research Council. It’s going to be a $115 to $120 million project,” Groenwald said. “Drilling 14 oil wells in one location. Putting 3 or 4 each in the Bakken, the upper Bakken, the lower Bakken, the Three Forks… But all the horizontal portions will all be in the same direction and we’re going to do some of the most sophisticated geophysical work ever. We’re going to be fracking those wells and we’re going to be down there with geophones listening. With those, we can say which direction the frack went, what the orientation is, how deep, how far it went, etc.”
Joseph Mahan, economist with the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, said the technology boom is an interesting angle, but the Bakken is clearly an oil boom. He went on to say that the “grain of truth” in Schafer’s comments is that technology is clearly driving the access to the oil to create the boom.
“First order of business is that it is an oil boom,” Mahan said. “With that said, the combination of the technologies and the price of oil have made it cost effective and profitable to extract oil from the Bakken shale, where it otherwise might not have been, even five or ten years ago. That’s really what has made this current oil boom possible. The development of this new technology.”
Mahan also added a relatively favorable price of oil for the past decade has contributed to the Bakken success.
“It certainly hasn’t hurt that the world price of oil has been at a fairly high plateau for the past five years or so,” Mahan said. “That also makes it more cost effective to extract the oil.”
Jeff Zarling, Williston resident and founder of Dawa Solutions Group, agrees this modern-day oil boom is definitely different.
“When we explain to people how this oil boom works, they are just fascinated,” Zarling said. “They had this idea that oil and gas was just a bunch of roughnecks out there slinging chain and hitting the bars at night. That’s not what this is about”.
Zarling continued, saying that Richard Finley “changed the world in 1999” when he applied horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking in the Elm Coulee Field. Then EOG Resources applied staged fracking to the Parshall Sanish in 2005-2006. Zarling added it is all about tweaking and changing the technologies within the Bakken to reach the 413 billion barrels below the earth’s surface.
“All that tweaking and adjusting of sand, gels and fluids can result in a little incremental increase in the recoverable percentage of oil,” Zarling said. “Well, one percentage point of 413 billion barrels is a lot of barrels. So it is all about tweaking the technology.”
But the one slice of technology that is creating quicker timelines and greater efficiency is software and connectivity. Kerry Frank, CEO of software company Comply365, is seeing first hand how the advent of iPads, upgraded digital networks and custom software is contributing to the Bakken boom.
“Time is money out here,” Frank said. “If a safety document takes eight hours to travel in a car before the next step even happens, that’s millions of dollars in some cases.”
Frank continued with an example of a gas inspector out on location noticing a pipe that is corroded past a comfort level. The inspector would have to indicate the change, drive to a location to fax, email or upload the change, then the corporate office would have to make the change, process the work order and adjusted paperwork and work force would have to make it back to the location.
“We literally made a map of all the locations and personnel the form goes. It was crazy,” Frank said. “In oil and gas something like safety can affect the entire industry. The combination of mobile technologies and software allow us to create a safety community of best practices.”
Hymel knows the slice of technology Frank and Comply365 are providing in the Bakken, however has a difficult time monetizing a mobile enterprise system.
“The hard part is putting a dollar figure on it within a corporation. There is a savings ripple that is hard to track when these softwares are implemented,” Hymel said. “Technically, you could put a dollar figure on it once you flesh out your entire organization’s workflow. Then you can say we are saving ‘X’ amount of time on compliance issues with fines and fees, and those other pieces of your organization’s puzzle.”
Alex Warner, CEO, Pedigree Technologies, said connectivity isn’t an issue anymore in the Bakken.
“Typically for us, it’s not a problem because if we can field the hardware, which we usually do, we can link from anywhere, not only out in places like the Bakken but anywhere in the world,” Warner said.
Remote sensors, new safety guidelines and PHMSA regulations will increase speed and technology investments as companies upgrade both equipment and software to accommodate and anticipate future regulations stemming off the Tioga spill and Casselton derailment.
“The oil and gas industry is adopting technology pretty radically. We can use technologies to monitor, track, manage equipment and streamline logistics with cellular networks and data networks,” Warner said. “Everyone wants to make the whole oil and gas delivery process and service process very streamlined and so the educational market is already there.”
At the end of the day, in order to make all these technological slices work together and fuel the oil and gas machine, it simply takes good foresight and execution.
“The next time you are out in the field and you see a drill rig two miles away, just think about the geodriller inside that shack behind a couple of joysticks and screens,” Zarling said. “He has that drill thousands of feet below your feet, miles away and can punch a hole through a pie plate. That’s amazing technology. That’s science, that’s math, that engineering.”
Feature article and newsmaker interviews were from 2012 and 2013.
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Executive Coach Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins Jason Spiess to breakdown the executive decisions involved with benching Kirk Cousins and how they have handled the situation.
The two also discuss how organizations and management handles alternative information in decision making processes, like the New York Jets owner relying on Madden scores in NFL scouting.
Culture changes are discussed using the Southern Methodist University Penn State Playoff Game as the backdrop. Both universities had to change their culture in order to see future success.
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The matchup for the 2024 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl is set. Catch University of Louisville going against University of Washington on Tuesday, December 31. Coverage starts at 2PM ET!
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Executive Coach Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins Jason Spiess to breakdown some of the lessons the upcoming College Football Playoffs will offer in the first year.
Sinnott explains why its not a bad idea sometimes to allow things to play out, be patient and learn. The example of Boise State and Arizona State receiving an entitlement and how that compares to working for a company with glass ceilings.
Spiess explained what an “entitled economy” is and opined that Notre Dame is actually a victim in the College Football Players because they can not be seeded in the Top Four no matter what.
The interview also dives into the idea of leaving a legacy and how an exit strategy can be instrumental. Aaron Rogers, QB, New York Jets; Russell Wilson, QB, Pittsburgh Steelers and U of North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick are examples used in the discussion.
The two give some advice to energy workers and entrepreneurs revolving around Annual Reports and Meetings.
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Dexter®: Original Sin (Dec. 13)
The prequel series Dexter®: Original Sin stars Patrick Gibson as America’s favorite serial killer. Set in 1991 Miami, the show follows Dexter as he transitions from student to avenging murderer. When he can no longer ignore his bloodthirsty urges, Dexter realizes he must learn to channel his inner darkness. Guided by his father, Harry (Christian Slater), he adopts a code designed to help him find and kill those who deserve to be eliminated from society. Dexter must do this without winding up on law enforcement’s radar – a particular challenge once he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
In addition to Gibson and Slater, this 10-episode drama stars Molly Brown, James Martinez, Christina Milian, Alex Shimizu, Reno Wilson, with Patrick Dempsey, and special guest star Sarah Michelle Gellar.
And, yes, Dexter® fans: Michael C. Hall, who earned multiple Emmy® nominations as the original Dexter Morgan in Dexter® and Dexter®: New Blood, is back for Dexter®: Original Sin. He’ll provide the voice of Young Dexter’s inner monologue.
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Mark Workman, RMI Supply, gives an update from the supply chain logistical point of view as well as an update on his observations in the market.
Folding in the amount of uncertainty in industry, coming from leadership, the media and politicians regarding oil and gas, Workman dives deep into service and accountability. This organically created a conversation involving the realities of trust and integrity in the marketplace.
“You need to be able to call your customer within 30 seconds and finding that information out and telling the truth,” Workman said. “A lot of logistics is based on the idea of being truthful and then you know quick with your responses and literally that’s how i’ve ever established my business or grown this oil field side of the business since 2009.”
Workman continues explaining how customers need information, not manufactured happiness or misinformation.
“I literally have my customers tell me how quick I respond to things and answer questions and that kind of thing,” Workman said. “So it’s very important to me to respond quickly.”
While Workman is navigating the intangible waters of the energy marketplace, his business continues to grow. Especially in the “liquid blending” space.
“We stick to high quality on purpose. We don’t want to be selling tech grade it’s like API 13 you know,” Workman said. “People out there know what that means, it’s just sometime people just use the lowest possible thing you can put out there that is approvable by an operator or somebody, but we stick to the higher grades for sure so the performance is better and the problems are fewer if it all.”
The interview also discussed why quality products tend to cost a bit more on the front end, however, saves a small fortune the rest of the time.
“There’s all kinds of savings in going with the right quality product, in my opinion,” Workman said. “You go to the low end side, you do pay for it one way or another. And that’s the direction we’ve gone as a mission statement, is to stick to the highest end that we can get to and still try to be competitive, which is hard.”
RMI Supply is a leading provider of specialty oilfield chemicals, focusing on bringing trusted products to the market combined with a fast and responsive service.
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Energy expert, author and public speaker Robert Bryce joins The Crude Life founder Jason Spiess and The Word Merchant Stephen Heins to discuss his new docuseries Juice, nuclear energy, corporate greed and how the environment impacts energy.
Last week, Bryce released a new docuseries that highlights how bad energy policy decisions are making the United States and other countries more vulnerable to power shortages and blackouts.
Bryce and colleague Tyson Culver decided to launch the project following the Texas blackout associated with Winter Storm Uri in February 2021. Millions of people were without electricity for days, and several hundred deaths were attributed to exposure or other causes.
“That blackout and the fact that the ERCOT grid (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) nearly collapsed, convinced us that we had to do another film,” Bryce said. “And now, three years later, we accomplished what we set out to do.”
The five-part docuseries, Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid, is now available for free on YouTube. Rather than make a feature-length film, Bryce said they decided to make the content as user-friendly as possible, so broke it into five episodes, each lasting about 20 minutes.
The series features 34 interviews that were shot in Texas, Japan, Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado, California, Washington D.C., Illinois, Egypt, and England. The cast of characters includes many of the world’s top thought leaders on energy, including political scientist Roger Pielke Jr., Grid Brief editor Emmet Penney, civil rights leader Jennifer Hernandez, author Michael Shellenberger, Canadian nuclear activist Chris Keefer, author Meredith Angwin, former IEA director Nobuo Tanaka, World Nuclear Association director Sama Bilbao, Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal founder Madi Hilly, and many others.
Bryce said he is especially proud of Episode 3, which features the Osage tribe’s battle with Enel over a wind project the company built by violating the tribe’s sovereignty.
I have been covering this issue for more than four years, so I was thrilled last month when a federal court judge in Tulsa ordered Enel to remove all 84 of the turbines it built in Osage County,” Bryce said. “It’s a landmark ruling and an enormous embarrassment for Big Wind and Enel, a company that has endlessly touted its ‘green’ credentials.”
Bryce said the goal of the project was not to make a bunch of money, but rather to change the conversation.
“We want to help alert people and policymakers about the dangers facing our electric grid and the importance of what Chris Keefer calls our ‘civilizational life support system,’” Bryce said. “Our goal is to help people understand how our grid is being fragilized and why we need fission to fix it.”
Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid – the Trailer
Episode 1: Texas Blackout
Episode 2: Undermined by Enron
Episode 3: Green Dreams
Episode 4: Nuclear Renaissance
Episode 5: Industrial Cathedrals
Bryce has given over 300 invited or keynote lectures to dozens of groups including the Marine Corps War College, Sydney Institute, Jadavpur University, Northwestern University, and a wide variety of professional associations and corporations. He has also appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows including NPR, BBC, MSNBC, Fox, Al Jazeera, CNN, and PBS.
He spent 12 years as a reporter for the Austin Chronicle. From 2006 to 2010, he was the managing editor of the Houston-based Energy Tribune. From 2010 to September 2019, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
He lives in Austin with his wife, Lorin.
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The interview with filmmaker and National Energy Talk host Mark Stansberry started off discussing a shared petro-powered experience involving motion pictures and media. The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess had the privileged to be invited on to the production studio and set of Sherwood Forest, a docufilm about a historic time in American Oil and Gas’s impact on global independence and empowerment.
The short story is by the summer of 1942, the future of Great Britain and the outcome of World War II depended on petroleum supplies. At the end of that year, demand for 100-octane fuel would grow to more than 150,000 barrels of oil every day and German U-boats ruled the Atlantic.
In August 1942, British Secretary of Petroleum, Geoffrey Lloyd called an emergency meeting of the Oil Control Board to assess the “impending crisis in oil.”
Thus began the story of the “little-known, or at least seldom recognized, all-important role oil and oilmen played in the prosecution of the war,” according to two historians who extensively researched archives in Great Britain and the United States. Short story is they drilled in Sherwood Forest.
Oscar winner Gray Frederickson (left) and Mark Stansberry (right)The longer story is being told by Oscar Winner Gray Frederickson. Frederickson and Stansberry worked together on the docufilm on Sherwood Forest, which told the story of how Lloyd Noble along with 44 roughnecks played a critical role during World War II.
Frederickson is best known for being a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and winning an Oscar as one of the co-producers of The Godfather Part II at the 47th Academy Awards. In addition he was also nominated for Apocalypse Now.
Sherwood Forest was nominated for a regional Emmy in the historical documentary category. It was also picked up by NETA for national distribution.
“Sherwood Forest is an incredibly powerful documentary for our entire world right now,” Stansberry said. “There are several reenactments, which were filmed in Oklahoma locations, and around 58 cast and crew were involved. British Petroleum (bp) greatly assisted in providing footage from its archives of the 1943 timeline of Sherwood Forest. It has been quite a challenge to complete the project, especially due to COVID-19 restrictions. The release date is Spring/Summer 2022. I share with you the production team’s synopsis of Sherwood Forest:”
The interview segways into a “decade of discussions” in the oil and gas industry. Both Spiess and Stansberry talk about some interviews and events that transpired over the past decade in energy.
“I would say that one of my favorites is with Barry Corbin,” Stansberry said. “Barry has been in over 225 films, close to 250, everything from Urban Cowboy to Yellowstone. He was our narrator for Sherwood Forrest’s Top Secret.”
Actor Barry Corbin is the narrator for Sherwood Forest, the documentary on the oil and gas industry’s influence in World War II.The interview then went into Stansberry’s past, which involved international business and energy. From China to Russia to Oklahoma, Stansberry was active in the global marketplace.
“I had done work both in Russia and China in the oil and gas industry, primarily the oil and gas in Russia, meeting with the Minister of Energy and Eurasia products back in the 1990s,” Stansberry said. “And then also in the 90’s, it was with the Chinese that were there was a gas natural gas delegation that had met here in Oklahoma and they invited me to go over to to China and I started watching how they they acted on different things.”
The conversation pontificated whether NAFTA or other policies led to a major shift in the global marketplace, one that saw corporations flourish and small businesses disappear.
Through my company, it was called the Oklahoma Royalty Company, I was CEO,” Stansberry said. “We were one of the first, at that time, a small company signed an import-export agreement, which were unheard of for small companies, but mainly the big ones, Exxon and others, were working on these.”
The interview also discussed the emerging Agriculture and Energy markets synergizing into the Carbon Management Market.
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Jodi Johnson, CEO, Red Trail Energy, joins The Crude Life to discuss their pioneering project involving carbon capture and storage. Red Trail Energy, LLC (RTE), an ethanol producer near Richardton, North Dakota, is currently operating a CO2 capture facility adjacent to the RTE ethanol facility, to ultimately inject about 180,000 tonnes CO2 annually more than a mile below RTE property for permanent storage.
Red Trail Energy Begins Carbon Capture And Storage
The first carbon capture and storage project allowed under state primacy in the U.S. has commenced operations. Red Trail Energy LLC announces it officially began carbon capture and storage (CCS) at its ethanol facility located near Richardton, North Dakota, on June 16.
Already considered a low-carbon fuel, ethanol produced at RTE now has a lower carbon footprint than conventional ethanol sources thanks to carbon capture. This allows RTE to not only be better stewards to the environment but also places more value on the ethanol in the clean fuel market.
“They (investors) did go out and they gathered enough support that they needed to build it in this area. They somewhat chose this area due to the location next to the Burlington Northern Rail Line,” Johnson said. “Originally, we were constructed to be a coal-fired plant, and so they wanted to be close to where we could get lignite coal to fire the plant and keep it running.”
The RTE ethanol plant emits an average of 180,000 metric tons of CO2 annually from the fermentation process during ethanol production. With CCS, RTE is capturing 100 percent of their CO2 emissions from the fermentation process and is injecting approximately 500 metric tons of CO2 per day. The CO2 is permanently stored underground more than a mile below the surface in the Broom Creek formation.
Red Trail Energy at Richardton, North Dakota, produces about 65 million gallons of ethanol from about 23 million bushels of corn each year. (Photo Source: Red Trail Energy)About Red Trail Energy
Red Trail Energy, LLC (RTE) is a North Dakota-based investor group formed to finance, construct and operate a corn-based ethanol production facility located near Richardton, North Dakota. This vision became a reality when the $99 million, state-of-the-art plant began producing ethanol, in January of 2007. RTE now employs 47 personnel with an annual payroll of $4 million.
Originally constructed as one of the first coal-fired ethanol plants in the nation, RTE was converted to natural gas in 2016. RTE produces 59-64 million gallons of ethanol, using 21-23 million bushels of corn annually. The plant will generate 2.8 gallons of ethanol from every bushel of corn. Coproducts produced by RTE include 125,000 tons of dried distillers grain, 80,000 tons of modified-wetcake and 15 million pounds of corn oil annually.
The Richardton plant’s physical layout is composed of eleven structures, totaling 100,000 square feet of buildings, including administration, maintenance, processing, grain receiving, dried distillers grains storage, coal island, dryers and a pump house. The second-generation plant incorporates all the latest advances in ethanol processing, including equipment and technologies proven to boost efficiency and return on investment.
“One other things that we’ve done is switching from coal fire to natural gas,” Johnson said. “That was definitely a good upgrade for us just because natural gas is a little more consistent fuel source to use than the coal was.”
Governed by a 7 member board, RTE’s Team fosters the future outlook of the plant and its investors, as well as its impact on the environment and economy of North Dakota. Cornerstone Bank is the lead lender for RTE.
Recently, RTE was honored by the Central Stark Soil Conservation District with an Overall Achievement Award.
The Mission of Red Trail Energy is to create economic benefit for our investors, local communities, and the state of North Dakota by converting our natural resources and regional corn production into ethanol and beneficial coproducts.
Collaboration with the EERC (Energy & Environmental Research Center)
After a 5-year investigative period conducted by the EERC, in partnership with the North Dakota Industrial Commission Renewable Energy Program and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the RTE CCS Project was determined a technically viable option for the significant reduction of CO2 emissions from ethanol production.
The investigation was also supported by the EERC-led Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, which includes over 200 partners developing and demonstrating technologies for geologic CO2 storage since 2003. Work continues as the project transitions into the first fully operational commercial CCS facility in North Dakota.
In October 2021, less than five months after receiving the RTE application, the North Dakota Industrial Commission approved the Class VI injection well and the reservoir pore space RTE needed to operate the facility. Part of the approval process required RTE to demonstrate the Broom Creek formation contained the characteristics needed for proper CO2 storage. These characteristics include a deep porous layer to absorb the CO2 but also contain impermeable rock layers above and below the Broom Creek formation that keeps the CO2 from escaping into the atmosphere or ground water. RTE is utilizing state-of-the-art monitoring technology from the Japan Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) for real time CO2 plume monitoring.
“We are thankful for the North Dakota Industrial Commission and the staff at the Department of Mineral Resources who never gave up on receiving Class VI primacy from the EPA,” said Johnson. “We are especially grateful to the Energy and Environmental Research Center for their dedication to understanding North Dakota’s geologic storage potential, without them this wouldn’t be possible.”
“It is rewarding to see this carbon capture and storage project begin in North Dakota,” said Charlie Gorecki, EERC CEO about the RTE carbon capture project. “The EERC has been researching and testing the geologic storage potential of North Dakota’s resources for decades. The location of Red Trail Energy’s ethanol facility always made it a perfect candidate for CCS.”
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from a large stationary source, compressing the CO2 into a liquid and injecting it via a Class VI injection well deep underground for permanent geologic storage.
North Dakota was the first state to be granted primacy from U.S. EPA in 2018. Wyoming followed in 2020.
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Joe Sinnott, CEO, Witting Partners and the host of the Energy Detox Podcast gives his post election thoughts on how President-elect Donald Trump will impact the energy sector, how to manage change in an organization while the day-to-day operations have to continue and his attendance at an event that celebrated the first successful hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation in the Marcellus Shale play that took place in 2006.
“Well, I probably speak for most Pennsylvanians when I say that I’m happy not to have about 20 text messages a day and phone calls and mailbox half filled with flyers,” Sinnott joked to start off the podcast.
When asked about how he felt the election went from a person living in Pennsylvania, amongst their diversity of energy and politics, Sinnott segwayed into an anecdote that summed up his election thoughts.
“Jason, I actually just had this conversation last night, and I was retelling a question that I had asked of a CEO who had moved here from California, and I asked him, I said, Hey, you know he was here about a year, I think, at the time, and I said, Well, what’s your impression of this area? You know. What? What are you surprised by?”
Sinnott continued sharing the story from the executive who recently relocated from California to Pennsylvania.
“He was surprised how really balanced it was from a political standpoint, not just in terms of the numbers of the State,” Sinnott said. “Again, as you said, we are a not just, probably a swing state, but the swing state of all swing States. But basically how, you know, especially here in southwestern Pennsylvania, you know you have the red and the blue, but you’re actually able to get stuff done. You’re not living on the extremes.”
Sinnott continued explaining how the state and industry does try to work together on many issues even if the national media paints a different picture.
The conversation transitioned into public image for energy and how the oil and gas industry has performed over the past decade against the likes of Greta Thunberg and others who have taken on the industry’s public image.
“Yeah, I I think you’re you’re spot on in in several different ways,” Sinnott said. “As an engineer. I know that you need to support your claims with facts and data and sound conclusions, and and all of that. But it needs to start with a story.”
The interview also spent some time discussing the First Frac in the Marcellus.
“My company, Witting Partners, sponsored an event that actually just occurred last night as we record this and that was celebrating the 20th anniversary of Range Resources,” Sinnott said. “Well, that was the the first Marcellus frac here that kicked off the boom, and that was 20 years ago, and so there was an event last night put on by the Washington County Chamber of Commerce here in western Southwestern Pennsylvania.”
Sinnott gives a short recap of the event that celebrated the first successful hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation in the Marcellus Shale play that took place in 2006.
The first frac in the Marcellus was carried out by Range Resources Corporation in Washington County, Pennsylvania. This marked the beginning of large-scale development in the Marcellus Shale, a region within the Appalachian Basin known for its vast natural gas reserves.
The operation utilized horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, a method that involves injecting fluid at high pressure to create fractures in the rock, allowing natural gas to flow more freely.
This pioneering effort demonstrated the economic viability of extracting natural gas from shale formations and sparked a boom in shale gas development across the region, significantly influencing the U.S. energy landscape
“This continues to produce tremendous amounts of gas and providing tremendous amounts of opportunities and jobs for people,” Sinnott said. “And again, like we talked about much earlier in this conversation, bettering human lives, not just here in Pennsylvania, but really throughout the country, and you know, even beyond the borders of the United States.”
To contact Sinnott, reach out via LinkedIn or his website.
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Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, LANDMAN is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The new original drama series will star Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton.
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Lieutenant Colonel Mike Foss, President of the Warrior Bonfire Program, discuss how the organization supports Purple Heart recipients with therapeutic outdoor activities to foster healing and build supportive relationships among veterans.
As described by Mike, the Warrior Bonfire Program is primarily designed to provide continuous support and relief to combat-wounded veterans, Purple Heart recipients. In a vivid account, Mike detailed the program’s activities which include hosting bonfire retreats, recreational therapies, and outdoor activities designed to foster healing and transform lives.
Mike’s insights into the importance and impact of shared experiences among veterans were strikingly profound. He emphasized the immense therapeutic power in shared experiences as veterans find it easier and more comforting to open up to others who have been through similar ordeal. This understanding is vital to the Warrior Bonfire Program, equipping them with the knowledge to foster and encourage such connections.
Warrior Bonfire retreats are structured around three “formal” activities, the power of which Mike sheds light on:
- Personal Story Telling: This involves veterans gathering and sharing their personal struggle stories. It’s a therapy in itself, as it makes them feel heard and understood.
- Coping Session: These are discussions on coping mechanisms used by the veterans for handling various physical, mental and emotional challenges.
- The Bonfire Ceremony: This activity involves a distinct flag retirement ceremony. It’s an emotional moment for veterans, as it enables them to honor fallen comrades and can help bring them a sense of closure.
Warrior Bonfire Program continues to strive for expansion and growth across America. Its operations restricted not by regions or states, but with one mission to serve – enabling the healing and support community for combat-wounded veterans.
Mike also drew attention to the exceptional contributions made by board members, partners, donors, and volunteers. Citing that their belief in the purpose of Warrior Bonfire drove their passion and efforts.
The episode featuring Mike Foss, undoubtedly, shed ample light on the vision, mission, and life-changing work of the Warrior Bonfire Program. It is a vivid reminder of the power of shared experiences and how the communal bonds of military service can foster healing. As Mike rightly suggests, the underlying fuel that drives both leadership and service stems from love.
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Kara Glenn, Trades Powered by Her, is helping women change tires, get back into industry after having a baby and assisting with FR Clothing costs too. Glenn also celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Trades Powered By Her is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Watford City, North Dakota, with a mission to empower and support women in trades. Founded by Kara, this organization aims to break barriers and open opportunities for women to excel in traditionally male-dominated fields such as construction, welding, electrical work, and more.
Kara is a creative professional and educator, known for her work in welding and helping women understand trades, specifically oil and gas.
She has applied her background and leadership skills to this initiative, striving to provide women with the necessary tools, training, and resources to thrive in the skilled trades industry.
Through workshops, mentorship programs, and community outreach, Trades Powered By Her promotes gender equity in the workforce by enabling women to gain technical skills, confidence, and job placements in the industry.
In addition to educational support, the organization fosters a sense of community among women in trades, offering networking events and collaborative projects. This helps create strong bonds, ensuring that participants not only succeed individually but also lift each other up within their professional journeys.
Joe Sinnott, CEO, Witting Partners and the host of the Energy Detox Podcast talks about the Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Southwestern Energy Company, who officially completed a high-profile merger, creating a new entity named Expand Energy Corporation.
This strategic move has positioned the combined company as the largest natural gas producer in the United States. Sinnott, who lives in Pennsylvania is immersed in natural gas discussions right now in the heart of the Marcellus Shale Play.
Announced earlier in 2024, the merger was part of a broader trend of consolidation within the energy sector. Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy had both been facing significant shifts in the industry due to fluctuating energy prices, regulatory challenges, and the ongoing transition toward more sustainable energy practices. By merging, the two companies sought to leverage their strengths and pool resources to navigate the evolving energy landscape.
The newly formed Expand Energy Corporation now holds a vast portfolio of natural gas assets and production capabilities, effectively tripling Chesapeake’s reserve base and more than doubling its production capacity. Approximately 60% of Expand Energy’s production comes from natural gas, a critical resource as the U.S. continues to focus on energy security and reducing carbon emissions. The merger has not only bolstered the companies’ individual positions but also solidified their role in the future of energy production in North America.
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Suspension Trauma also known as Harness Hang Syndrome can occur within 10 minutes of a fall, while symptoms can appear in as little as five minutes.
When you fall from a structure while harnessed, the pressure placed on your body can reach more than 1,800 pounds. This amount of force can potentially cause injury to your spine, neck, ribs, and internal organs.
Within minutes of falling and being suspended from your safety harness, blood begins to pool in your legs. Simultaneously, your heart will begin to beat faster, increasing the blood flow to your heart, while continuing to pump blood to your legs.
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Warren Martin, Kansas Strong, explains how their Touchdown for Teachers donation and grant giveaway works.
Touchdown for Teachers is a program sponsored by Kansas Strong that donates $100 for each touchdown scored by the University of Kansas football team.
“So every time that the University of Kansas scores a touchdown we put $100 into a kitty, and last year, I believe it was $5,900 that we gave to a teacher,” Martin said. “So all the teachers that sign up we draw one of them out of the hat, and we gave it to a teacher last year who was a shop teacher that taught taught shop and mechanics, and they used the money to build a Hovercraft as a as a school project.”
Lori Hinz of BEK News joined Talk of the Town to discuss the taxpayer costs associated with Enhanced Oil Recovery, the state-sponsored special treatment given to Summit Carbon Solutions. Hinz joins Talk of the Town every Monday with an update on the carbon pipeline being proposed by Summit Carbon Solutions where North Dakota is the terminus for a 2,500 mile pipeline carrying carbon waste from 57 ethanol plants across five states.
Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a CO2 pipeline across 5-states with the terminus storage for carbon in North Dakota. The project basically consists of a proposed high-pressure CO2 pipeline that would be built close to residential Bismarck, ND. This has become the topic of controversy among residents and rural landowners along the pipeline’s route.
The pipeline would transport carbon dioxide captured from ethanol plants in five Midwest states to an end point north and west of the Bismarck-Mandan area, in Oliver and Mercer counties.
The three storage facilities Summit is applying for will serve as the end point for the company’s Midwest Carbon Express project, a 2,500-mile pipeline expected to collect carbon dioxide from 57 ethanol plants and one sustainable aviation fuel facility across five states and transport the CO2 to North Dakota for permanent storage underground.
“Not everybody knows really what’s going on with the carbon capture,” Hinz said. “(It’s almost as if) Not really anybody cares unless they have been paying close attention or they have neighbors or friends who are being affected by a pipeline route.”
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Trades Powered By Her is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Watford City, North Dakota, with a mission to empower and support women in trades. Founded by Kara Glenn, this organization aims to break barriers and open opportunities for women to excel in traditionally male-dominated fields such as construction, welding, electrical work, and more.
Kara Glenn is a creative professional and educator, known for her work in welding and helping women understand trades, specifically oil and gas.
She has applied her background and leadership skills to this initiative, striving to provide women with the necessary tools, training, and resources to thrive in the skilled trades industry.
Through workshops, mentorship programs, and community outreach, Trades Powered By Her promotes gender equity in the workforce by enabling women to gain technical skills, confidence, and job placements in the industry.
In addition to educational support, the organization fosters a sense of community among women in trades, offering networking events and collaborative projects. This helps create strong bonds, ensuring that participants not only succeed individually but also lift each other up within their professional journeys.
By empowering women through education and advocacy, Trades Powered By Her plays a crucial role in advancing gender inclusivity in the trades sector across North Dakota and Texas.
Women have been entering trades like welding, construction, plumbing, and electrical work for decades, yet their numbers remain relatively low compared to men. These fields have long been perceived as male-dominated, partly due to historical exclusion, societal norms, and workplace cultures that have often been unwelcoming to women. However, women in these trades have made remarkable strides, breaking barriers and reshaping the industries they work in.
A Historical Look at Women in the TradesWomen’s participation in trades can be traced back to the early 20th century, especially during times of war. During World War II, women famously took on industrial jobs to replace men who were off fighting, a movement symbolized by “Rosie the Riveter.” Welding, in particular, became a prominent trade for women during this time as they contributed to shipbuilding and munitions production. Over six million women joined the workforce in roles previously reserved for men, leaving a lasting impact on gender roles in labor.
Yet, after the war, women were largely pushed out of these jobs as men returned, and it would take decades for women to re-enter trades in significant numbers. During the 1970s and 1980s, as women’s rights movements grew, trades like welding and construction became more accessible to women, albeit slowly and with persistent cultural resistance.
Women Welders and Trades TodayDespite increased opportunities, women still make up only a small percentage of workers in industrial trades. For instance, as of 2020, women comprised only about 5% of welders in the United States. Similarly, women represent 9.1% of the construction workforce and hold less than 10% of roles in many other trades, like plumbing and electrical work. These numbers illustrate the challenges women still face when entering these professions, even as the need for skilled labor continues to grow.
Cultural and Workplace ChallengesThe underrepresentation of women in trades stems from a variety of cultural and systemic issues. Below are key challenges they face:
- Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Women in male-dominated industries often report harassment, ranging from sexist comments to more severe forms of discrimination. A 2019 study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that women in these industries experience harassment at higher rates than women in other fields. This hostile environment can deter women from entering or staying in trades, where they may feel isolated or unwelcome.
- Bias and Stereotypes Trades like welding and construction are physically demanding, and women are often stereotyped as being less capable of handling such work. Many women welders face the assumption that they cannot perform the job as well as men, despite evidence to the contrary. Women who thrive in these roles often have to constantly prove their competence, a burden that their male counterparts do not face.
- Lack of Female Role Models and Mentors With so few women in trades, finding mentors and role models can be difficult. Having visible, successful women in leadership positions can make a significant difference in how younger women view their potential careers. Organizations like the Women in Welding Mentorship Program and NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) have been crucial in creating support networks for women, but the lack of representation remains a challenge.
- Gender Pay Gap The gender pay gap persists even in trade industries where pay is often determined by skill level rather than tenure. On average, women earn less than men in similar roles. Though wages in trades like welding can be lucrative—often surpassing $40,000 to $50,000 annually—women are still paid about 20% less than their male counterparts in some cases.
- Balancing Family and Work Many women in trades struggle with balancing demanding jobs and family responsibilities. Trades often involve irregular hours, long shifts, or travel, making it harder for women who have caregiving responsibilities. While this is also an issue for men, societal norms often place a greater burden on women to handle child-rearing or eldercare.
Breaking Barriers and Changing the NarrativeDespite these obstacles, women welders and tradeswomen are breaking new ground, bringing fresh perspectives and skills to their industries. In fact, women are often praised for their attention to detail, precision, and problem-solving skills—traits that make them particularly successful in trades like welding and electrical work.
Programs and AdvocacySeveral organizations and initiatives are working to close the gender gap and improve conditions for women in trades. Some notable efforts include:
- Women Who Weld: This nonprofit organization provides training and certification for women interested in welding, offering both introductory courses and advanced instruction. By creating a supportive environment, Women Who Weld empowers women to pursue careers in welding with confidence.
- Tradeswomen, Inc.: One of the oldest advocacy organizations for women in trades, this group focuses on recruitment, retention, and leadership development for women in construction and other skilled trades.
- Sisters in the Brotherhood: A women’s organization within the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America that seeks to recruit, train, and mentor women in carpentry and related fields.
Success Stories: Pioneers in the FieldSeveral trailblazing women have helped reshape their industries and become role models for future generations.
- Barbie Parsons: A welding instructor from Washington state, Barbie is known for her welding artistry and her advocacy for women in the trade. Her efforts to mentor young women and challenge the status quo have earned her a prominent place in the industry.
- Judaline Cassidy: A pioneer in plumbing, Cassidy has been in the trade for over two decades. She is the founder of Tools & Tiaras, a nonprofit organization that introduces girls to skilled trades through hands-on workshops.
These women have not only overcome the barriers of working in male-dominated industries but have also paved the way for future generations to do the same.
Changing Attitudes and the Future of Women in TradesAttitudes toward women in welding and other trades are gradually changing. As the workforce ages and the demand for skilled labor rises, industries are increasingly recognizing the value that women bring. The advent of technology and automation in trades, like advanced welding machines and digital tools in construction, has also made physical strength less of a factor, allowing women to thrive in these environments.
Moreover, companies are becoming more aware of the importance of diversity and inclusion. Some firms are actively recruiting women, offering training programs, scholarships, and support networks to ensure their success in traditionally male-dominated roles.
Conclusion: Building a New LegacyWomen welders and tradeswomen are rewriting the narrative of what it means to work in industries like welding, construction, and plumbing. Despite significant cultural and systemic challenges, women are increasingly making their mark, breaking down stereotypes, and reshaping the future of these trades. With the help of advocacy groups, mentorship programs, and changing industry attitudes, the future looks promising for women in the trades. The work continues, but each new generation of women welders and tradeswomen brings the industry closer to a more inclusive and equitable future.
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The Kansas State Fair has long been a showcase of the state’s rich cultural heritage, agricultural prowess, and local industries. In 2024, Kansas Strong, The Kansas Oil & Gas Resources Fund (KOGRF), is taking center stage at the fair to educate visitors about the vital role that oil and gas play in the state’s economy and daily life. Through interactive exhibits, informative sessions, and hands-on activities, KOGRF is set to engage the public with facts, history, and the benefits of Kansas’s oil and gas industry.
“For the next 10 days they’ll be coming by our booth and I’ll be spending my nights here in the RV,” Executive Director Warren Martin said. “Our goal is to help people understand what we do, how we do it, why we do it, why, it’s important to them, and why oil and gas development matters to the world.”
Kansas has a long and storied history with oil and gas, dating back to the late 1800s when the first commercial oil well was drilled.
“Education is really a key to people having a better understanding of the oil and gas industry, and also having a better understanding about our energy future,” Martin said.
Today, the state ranks among the top oil-producing states in the nation, with thousands of active wells and a robust network of local operators contributing significantly to the economy. The Kansas oil and gas industry provides thousands of jobs, generates millions in tax revenue, and plays a crucial role in supporting schools, infrastructure, and community services across the state.
“I’ll go into schools, and sometimes the principal say, is it really necessary for you to come in and talk to our kids about oil and natural gas,” Martin said. “So I’ll sit in that principal’s office, and I’ll ask the principal if you can find one thing in this office that is not made utilizing oil and natural gas, then I’ll agree with you that I do not need to come into your classroom.”
Martin said no one has been able to find anything that isn’t touched by oil and gas development.
The interview segwayed into the unique business and companies involved in Kansas’ oil and gas industry.
“Here in Kansas the vast majority of us are independent oil and gas producers,” Martin said. “The average oil company here in Kansas only has 3 employees.”
The Kansas oil and gas industry is characterized by a diverse mix of operators, ranging from small, family-owned businesses to larger, well-established companies.
“We have almost 2,000 independent producers that are in the state,” Martin said. “We only have one company that could even really be considered a major that’s doing actual production. We have lots of pipelines, refineries, those types of things.”
These local operators are not just economic contributors but are also deeply embedded in the community, often leading local philanthropic efforts and supporting local events, including the Kansas State Fair.
“You can go into any area of Kansas even places where we don’t produce oil and gas and you will see oil and gas’ donations,” Martin said. ‘Look at any of the nonprofits are out there, look at the art centers, look at the exploration centers, look at the discovery centers, look at the theaters and go look at the roles of the donors that have made the donations to keep those things going, to keep those things moving forward.”
Martin added most of those donations are made anonymously or are from the family’s name rather than the oil and gas company.
They also employ many Kansans, contributing to a robust job market that extends beyond the energy sector into manufacturing, transportation, and service industries.
Benefits of Oil and Gas in Kansas
- Economic Impact: The oil and gas industry is a significant contributor to Kansas’s economy, bringing in billions of dollars annually. It supports nearly 120,000 jobs directly and indirectly, providing livelihoods for families across the state.
- Energy Independence: Kansas’s oil and gas production contributes to the energy independence of the United States, reducing reliance on foreign oil imports and enhancing national security.
- Community Support: Revenue generated from the industry supports public services, including schools, roads, and emergency services. Local operators are also active in community engagement, sponsoring local events, scholarships, and various charitable initiatives.
- Technological Innovation: Kansas has been at the forefront of embracing new technologies in oil and gas extraction, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. These innovations have allowed operators to extract resources more efficiently and responsibly, minimizing environmental impact while maximizing output.
Touchdown for Teachers is a program sponsored by Kansas Strong that donates $100 for each touchdown scored by the University of Kansas football team.
“So every time that the University of Kansas scores a touchdown we put $100 into a kitty, and last year, I believe it was $5,900 that we gave to a teacher,” Martin said. “So all the teachers that sign up we draw one of them out of the hat, and we gave it to a teacher last year who was a shop teacher that taught taught shop and mechanics, and they used the money to build a Hovercraft as a as a school project.”
Woodshop/CAD Teacher Mr. Michael McCullough, Yates Center High School, was presented a check in the amount of $5,400. He was the lucky teacher out of 282 teachers across Kansas who entered to win.“So any Kansas teachers right now you can sign up and it might be drawn out and get a chance to win some money to use in your classroom any way that you want,” Martin said. “You’re able to use it the way you want to use it in the classroom, but it’s just a way to kind of give back to education.”
Kansas Strong’s presence at the 2024 Kansas State Fair is a testament to its commitment to educating the public about the importance of the oil and gas industry. Their booth features interactive displays that showcase the history, technology, and future of oil and gas in Kansas. Visitors can explore a drilling simulator, see real-time data from active wells, and learn about the cutting-edge technologies that make modern energy production possible.
One of the key attractions is a series of educational sessions led by industry professionals. These sessions cover topics like the environmental measures taken by local operators, the economic benefits of the industry, and career opportunities within the sector. Kansas Strong also emphasizes the industry’s commitment to responsible stewardship of natural resources, highlighting initiatives for reducing emissions, recycling water, and rehabilitating land post-drilling.
The Kansas State Fair, held annually in Hutchinson, is the largest celebration of all things Kansas. Established in 1913, the fair has grown from a small agricultural showcase to a sprawling event that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. It serves as a platform for local farmers, businesses, and industries to present their products and services to the public.
Over the years, the fair has become synonymous with family fun, featuring livestock shows, concerts, food stalls, and educational exhibits. It is a reflection of Kansas’s rural heritage and the spirit of community that defines the state. For many families, the fair is a cherished tradition that spans generations.
The Kansas State Fair 2024 provides the perfect stage for Kansas Strong to connect with the public and share the vital story of the oil and gas industry’s role in the state. Through engaging displays, educational outreach, and community interaction, Kansas Strong is helping to ensure that Kansans understand the benefits of this essential industry. As the fair celebrates the best of Kansas, the KOGRF booth stands as a testament to the state’s rich history, innovative spirit, and commitment to a prosperous future fueled by its own resources.
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Executive Coach Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins Jason Spiess on This Week In Energy for a movie review on Friday Night Lights.
“Friday Night Lights,” directed by Peter Berg, is more than just a football movie—it’s a poignant reflection of the socio-economic realities of West Texas, where the oil and gas industry holds both the lifeblood and the vice grip on communities. Based on the true story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers, the film captures not only the fierce and deeply ingrained culture of high school football in Odessa, Texas, but also how the town’s identity and power structures are intertwined with the oil and gas sector.
The film’s backdrop is unmistakably tied to the rise and fall of oil prices, which mirror the fortunes of the townspeople and, by extension, the football team. Odessa’s economy, heavily dependent on oil and gas, creates a landscape where success on the football field seems as essential as a new well producing black gold. The stadium lights don’t just illuminate a game; they cast shadows over an entire community whose prosperity and morale are often dictated by the volatile energy market.
Oil money in Odessa isn’t just wealth; it’s influence, a near-omnipotent presence that drives community decisions, funds local politics, and dictates social status. The boosters—local businessmen and oil executives—are portrayed as powerful puppeteers, their donations and pressures serving as constant reminders that winning isn’t just about school pride; it’s about sustaining an economy and lifestyle. The job security of Coach Gary Gaines, played by Billy Bob Thornton, often feels as precarious as the next well’s production figures, with every loss reflecting not just on the team but on the economic anxieties simmering beneath the surface.
Power and Money: The High Stakes of Texas Football
The film’s portrayal of power dynamics fueled by oil and gas money is strikingly accurate. In many oil towns, those who control the rigs often control the narrative. The pressure on high school athletes to perform isn’t just about scholarships or dreams; it’s a reflection of a town’s collective need for a win, a respite from the economic cycles that dominate their lives. These young players are unwittingly thrust into roles as local heroes, their performances on the field scrutinized as intensely as any market report on oil futures.
The boosters’ influence over Coach Gaines and the team speaks volumes about how money and power often go hand-in-hand in these communities. They’re not just funding the team; they’re trying to buy a sense of pride and distraction from the economic uncertainties of the oil market. The high-stakes environment parallels the oil field’s boom-and-bust cycles, where fortunes can change overnight, and so too can the social standing of the town’s leaders.
Positive Elements: Self-Respect and Honor Through Coaching
Amidst the pressures and the oil-soaked reality of Odessa, “Friday Night Lights” shines brightest in its portrayal of Coach Gaines. Despite the immense pressures from oil-fueled power brokers, Gaines manages to instill a sense of self-respect, honor, and resilience in his players. He challenges the town’s narrative that winning is everything and instead focuses on building character, teamwork, and a sense of personal dignity—qualities that transcend the scoreboard.
Gaines’s approach to coaching is a powerful metaphor for leadership within an oil and gas-driven community. Just as a good oil executive knows the importance of investing in human capital, Gaines invests in his players’ minds and spirits. His speeches remind us that even in the high-stakes world of Texas football, there are values more enduring than economic success. He teaches his players—and by extension, the town—to define themselves not just by their wins and losses but by the effort and heart they put into every moment.
The transformation of the team under Gaines’s leadership mirrors what any oil and gas professional knows about the industry: resilience, adaptability, and grit are essential for success. Just as the industry faces setbacks and challenges, Gaines’s team learns to handle their own adversities with grace. The film doesn’t shy away from the harsh realities of life in an oil town, but it also showcases how leadership and personal growth can provide a path to self-respect and honor, even when the odds are stacked against you.
Final Thoughts
“Friday Night Lights” is a raw and unflinching look at the impact of oil and gas money on small-town life and high school football. It captures the duality of the industry’s influence—both the pressures it creates and the sense of community it fosters. For oil and gas professionals, the movie serves as a reminder of the far-reaching influence of the industry, not just in economic terms but in shaping the very fabric of towns like Odessa.
Ultimately, the film’s greatest triumph lies in its depiction of Coach Gaines, whose ability to inspire and uplift his team transcends the challenges imposed by the oil-driven power dynamics of the town. “Friday Night Lights” isn’t just about football; it’s about the spirit of a community and the enduring value of leadership that prioritizes character over cash.
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Andrew Dittmar, Enverus joined The Crude Life to discuss some of the recent M&A activity in the energy sector.
“So power, hydrogen, carbon capture and sequestration really run the gamut. And then my team within the broader Inveris universe is the research team,” Dittmar said. “We’re comprised of Over 100 analysts, we write research reports that are sent out to industry participants as well as financial institutions and cover a broad array of topics. But my particular focus is on the mergers and acquisitions side and mostly within the upstream or oil and gas production portion of the business.”
Enverus Intelligence® Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, an energy-dedicated SaaS company that leverages generative AI across its solutions, is releasing a summary of power and energy transition M&A for the first half of 2024.
EIR has tracked $79 billion in power asset and energy transition M&A through the first half of 2024 across 234 deals with a reported value putting M&A slightly ahead of 2023’s pace of $74 billion in the first six months, although the count for deals with a disclosed value declined by 35%. Including those where no value was disclosed, there were 540 announced deals in 1H24 compared to 877 deals in the first half of 2023.
Recording nearly $80 billion through the first six months of 2024, plus an additional $26 billion so far in 3Q24, is a showing of strength for power and energy transition deal markets despite multiple challenges including macro-economic factors like sustained higher interest rates that have raised financing costs.
“Industry specific challenges have included weakening pricing for renewable fuel credits (LCFS and D4/5/6 RIN prices) as well as lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) pricing. A volatile environmental credits market has sparked uncertainty in investors’ minds leading to a compression in deal flow in alternative fuels in the U.S.,” said Ian Nieboer, managing director and head of Energy Transition at EIR.
Source: Enverus Intelligence® Research, Enverus Energy Transition M&A
In other power markets, particularly generation and storage assets in North America and Europe, have been a primary driver of energy transition deal value with $32.5 billion transacted through the first half of 2024. Europe led all regions with $17.1 billion in generation deals followed by North America with $7.4 billion transacted. The heightened activity in Europe is driven by the continent’s aggressive carbon reduction goals and efforts to pivot away from Russian natural gas. Within the U.S., ERCOT, MISO and PJM independent system operators have been a primary driver of deal activity in 2024. U.S. total load is forecast to grow 42% by 2050 from today driven by population growth, increased data center demand and electric vehicle adoption.
“Overall growth in the load, combined with greater integration of renewable generation assets, is creating unique opportunities in both generation and storage for nimble buyers,” Nieboer said.
Within generation deals, solar deals led through the first half of 2024 with $8.2 billion in announced deal value closely followed by offshore wind at $8 billion and onshore wind with $5.3 billion in announced deal value. Despite offshore wind leading in recently announced deals, markets have historically been cool to the idea of companies adding more offshore wind exposure with buyers declining on average 1.9% after announcing offshore wind acquisition while acquirers of onshore wind saw an average 1.3% gain. That is likely related to apprehension about high capital costs, long project timelines and regulatory risk for offshore wind.
While renewable penetration into power markets is increasing, some buyers see the value in owning existing gas assets that will provide reliability to the grid. In one of the more notable recent transactions in the power market, private equity firm Quantum Capital Group purchased Cogentrix Energy for $3 billion from Carlyle Group. The deal adds more than 5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired generation primarily in PJM, where gas generation is vital due to grid stability issues caused by coal retirements, intermittent renewables and increasing data center demand.
The largest decline in deals associated with energy transition has been in raw materials, with mining sector deals falling from $11 billion in the first half of 2023 to just $1.7 billion in 1H24. That tracks a precipitous decline in pricing with LCE declining in 2Q24 to sub-$12,000/tonne after hitting a peak of $81,000/tonne in December 2022. Alternative fuel deals were similarly challenged due to the decline in credit pricing in the U.S., which had been a primary focus of transactions in this space. However, a large investment by KKR in European biorefining and biomethane assets kept alternative fuel deal value relatively flat at $2.2 billion in 1H24 compared to $2.7 billion through the first six months of 2023.
“International investment by firms like KKR highlight the global nature of energy transition combined with differing policy priorities and incentives between regions that allow firms to reduce risk by diversifying geographic exposure,” Nieboer said.
Other energy transition technologies like CCUS and hydrogen remain at a less commercial stage of development and investment there is still largely focused on asset development and partnership rather than M&A. According to EIR data, 96% of tracked U.S. clean hydrogen capacity skewed to early development stages. However, deal activity should accelerate as more companies look to speed up exposure to these technologies by buying in to existing projects. Hydrogen M&A has increased sevenfold in deal value so far in 2024 compared to 2023.
“Looking forward toward 2025, we see continued strength for power market deals on the back of U.S. load growth and potential tailwinds from the macro-economic environment as the Federal Reserve pivots to rate cuts,” added Nieboer.
Enverus also released a list of top drillers and customer rankings in the U.S., as well as detailed drilling rig analytics.
Included in the release is a compilation of exclusive tables showing the most active drillers by footage, ranking both the contractors and their customers. Powered by Enverus Core® data, these leaderboards also include average drilling speeds, measured depth (MD), laterals and rig counts, average fluid and proppant loads per foot, and comparison to their rankings the previous quarter. The list was featured in Oilfield Pulse, a bi-monthly report that covers the oilfield services sector, including contracts, the deal market, finance and new technology offerings.
“Enverus empowers us with unparalleled access to vital information, enabling us to maintain a competitive edge,” said Thomas Greene, senior marketing analyst at Tenaris and current customer of Enverus Intelligence® Research. “In our data-driven culture, where critical decisions rely on robust analysis, Enverus is absolutely essential. Without their comprehensive data resources, we would lack the insights necessary to excel in our roles and retain our leadership position in the market.” Neither Tenaris nor their employees were compensated for this statement.
“Enverus’ top drilling and customer rankings reveal who’s leading among some of the most important drilling matrix in the industry,” said Mark Chapman, principal analyst – OFS at Enverus Intelligence Research. “Rankings like these provide a comprehensive overview of market dynamics, identify who’s who and help operators make informed decisions to optimize efficiency and reduce costs. These rankings are a testament to Enverus’ commitment to delivering actionable insights that drive the energy sector forward.”
Enverus is also making its Drilldown Report, which provides a weekly summary of North American rig activity, broken down by target hydrocarbon, well orientation, operator, contractor, region and play, available to the media. Other activity metrics presented in this report are permits, detected pads, frac crews and DUCs, with regional breakdowns. Regional leaderboards track the top 10 operators by rig count and permits.
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Executive coach Joe Sinnott and The Crude Life founder Jason Spiess discuss the Brian Flores and Tua Tagovailoa situation that has many in the sports world buzzing.
According to many reports, the two have had a strained relationship since their time together with the Miami Dolphins. Tagovailoa recently stated that he hasn’t spoken with Flores since their public exchanges about their relationship dynamics during Flores’ tenure as head coach.
Flores, who coached Tagovailoa for two seasons before being fired in January 2022, expressed support despite criticisms from Tagovailoa. Their communication breakdown highlights ongoing tensions despite their shared history in Miami.
Sinnott and Spiess discuss how their communication and issues are common in the workplace and life.
The two discuss how management friction is a real issue very few discuss.
“The keyword there that you mentioned is friction,” Sinnott said. “If there’s a lot of friction in place that’s preventing you from moving forward and progressing, from being on the same page or team, then you’re doomed to fail.”
Sinnott continued discussing how workplaces can become places of friction, using the media reports of the Tua/Flores situation.
“How does it feel when you show up and your superior is basically saying, hey, look, you know, you don’t belong here,” Sinnott said. “You know, essentially you’re not going to succeed here. And at that point, things grind to a halt, right That’s friction.”
Spiess shared a story from his publishing days and working with newspapers across the country, explaining how they would love to guess which department the publisher came from based on the meeting, rhetoric and management style.
“Did they come from sales? Did they come from editorial? Did they come from circulation?” Spiess asked. “Because their management style generally came from their pedigree and I wonder how much of that played into this whole Tua Flores issue.”
Spiess added additional context in that Flores came from the Bill Belichick learning tree, whereas Tua was coming in from a decorated high school and college football career.
The two next discussed how easily two people under the same company umbrella can be on different pages due to interpretation of the message and presentation.
“Often times when someone reads an email, whatever mood they are in, that’s how they will interpret it,” Spiess said. “If someone is in a bad mood and they read an email, they may interpret it as negative when the sender had no intention of negativity at all.”
Sinnott agreed with Spiess and added some additional coaching context.
When I look at the Flores to a situation, Flores is a defensive coach and he’s talking to an offensive person,” Spiess said. “He also came from the Bill Belichick school of, hey, listen, I’m going to just beat you down with some very hard words, toughen up like Tom Brady did.”
Sinnott related this to the corporate and company world.
“At the end of the day, it comes down to your audience, right?” Sinnott said. “As cliche as it is, the better you understand your audience. Where they’ve come from, the lens that they’re looking at things through, where they want to head, well, the better off you’re going to be when it comes to motivating them.”
The two also discussed the difference between “taking the high road and low road”. The world of social media has changed communication and many former employees have been known to vent or air their one-sided issues on social media, a podcast or in the media. On the flip side, some will use the same mediums and speak gracefully and with gratitude about their experience and how life is always an opportunity to learn and grow.
Whether it’s true or not, there’s clearly a narrative out there. Clearly I failed in communication,” Sinnott said. “Flores, in this examples is asking himself ‘how I can grow from this opportunity. What are all the ways I can grow from this’?
Sinnott continued coaching on how the coach handled the situation.
“What are all the ways to grow?” Sinnott asked. “And that is, I mean, that is the universal conclusion that adds value in any circumstance.”
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Kunal Patel, Dallas Federal Reserve, joins Jason Spiess, founder, The Crude Life to review the latest energy survey and discuss their upcoming Energy and the Economy: Meeting Rising Energy Demand in November.
The Dallas Fed conducts a quarterly survey of about 200 oil and gas firms located or headquartered in the Eleventh District—Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Louisiana—which operate regionally, nationally or internationally.
The information collected is a valuable component of economic analysis and serves as input for Federal Open Market Committee monetary policy deliberations. Survey respondents are asked whether various measures of their firms’ business activities have increased, decreased or remained unchanged relative to the prior quarter and the year-ago quarter. Responses are aggregated into diffusion indexes; positive values indicate expansion while negative values indicate contraction.
Activity in the oil and gas sector grew in the second quarter of 2024, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index, the survey’s broadest measure of the conditions energy firms in the Eleventh District face, increased from 2.0 in the first quarter to 12.5 in the second quarter.
Oil and gas production was little changed in the second quarter, according to executives at exploration and production (E&P) firms. The oil production index advanced from -4.1in the first quarter to 1.1 in the second quarter. The near-zero reading suggests production was essentially unchanged. Meanwhile, the natural gas production index also turned positive, but barely so, increasing from -17.0 to 2.3.
Costs rose at a slightly faster pace for oilfield services, but at a slower pace for E&P firms. Among oilfield services firms, the input cost index increased from 31.2 to 42.2. Among E&P firms, the finding and development costs index declined from 24.2 to 15.7. Meanwhile, the lease operating expenses index declined from 33.7 to 23.6.
The equipment utilization index of oilfield services firms turned positive, increasing from -4.2 in the first quarter to 10.9 in the second. The operating margin index remained negative but increased from -35.4 to -13.0, suggesting margins declined at a much slower pace. The index of prices received for services was relatively unchanged at -4.4.
The aggregate employment index was little changed at 2.9 in the first quarter. While this is the 14th consecutive positive reading for the index, the low-single-digit result suggests slow net hiring. The aggregate employee hours index was largely unchanged at 8.1. Additionally, the aggregate wages and benefits index decreased from 32.8 to 24.0.
The company outlook index was essentially unchanged at 10.0. The outlook index was 16.8 for E&P firms compared with -2.1 for services firms, suggesting modest optimism among E&P firms and a neutral outlook among services firms. The overall outlook uncertainty index was unchanged at 24.1, suggesting uncertainty continued to increase on net.
On average, respondents expect a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of $79 per barrel at year-end 2024; responses ranged from $62.5 to $100 per barrel. When asked about longer-term expectations, respondents on average expect a WTI oil price of $83 per barrel two years from now and $88 per barrel five years from now. Survey participants expect a Henry Hub natural gas price of $3.01 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at year-end. When asked about longer-term expectations, respondents on average anticipate a Henry Hub gas price of $3.58 per MMBtu two years from now and $4.28 per MMBtu five years from now. For reference, WTI spot prices averaged $79.94 per barrel during the survey collection period, and Henry Hub spot prices averaged $2.61 per MMBtu.
Questions regarding the Dallas Fed Energy Survey can be addressed to Michael Plante at Michael.Plante@dal.frb.org or Kunal Patel at Kunal.Patel@dal.frb.org
Energy and the Economy: Meeting Rising Energy Demand
The ninth joint energy conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and Kansas City will focus on the outlook for global energy markets as well as developing domestic energy infrastructure at scale and meeting rising power demand. Participants include business leaders, central bankers, government officials, academics and financial market representatives.
When
- Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. CT
Conference: 8:40 a.m.–4 p.m. CT
Where
- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
2200 N. Pearl St.
Dallas, TX 75150
Directions
Registration
The conference will be hybrid. Attend in person for $149, or live stream at no cost.
- Register online
For more information contact Kunal Patel at Kunal.Patel@dal.frb.org.
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Warren Martin, Kansas Strong, joins Jason Spiess on This Week In Energy to give a movie review on how the movie series Mad Max reinforces the need for oil and gas in a modern civilization.
The Mad Max series, starting with George Miller’s original 1979 film, is a stark portrayal of a dystopian future where the scarcity of oil and gas leads to societal collapse. From the perspective of an oil and gas advocate, this series serves as a powerful narrative that underscores the critical role these resources play in maintaining civilization as we know it.
In the original Mad Max, the world teeters on the brink of anarchy, with gasoline becoming the most precious commodity.
“We have fought wars over oil and wars have been dependent upon oil,” Martin said. “I mean, that is one thing that makes Kansas the most historic state when it comes to World War I, between 1915 and 1919, one county in Kansas, Butler County, Kansas, produced 9% of the world’s oil. Not 9% of Kansas, not 9% of America, 9% of the world’s oil.”
The film illustrates how the lack of a stable energy supply can destabilize societies, reduce mobility, and drive desperate conflicts.
“And that 9% of oil that was found in Butler County put the Allies over the top and led us to outlasting the Germans,” Martin said. “When it came to oil production and being able to fight that battle, so oil has been a part of our life for a long time and it’s been a historic part, especially when it comes to wars.”
The sequels, particularly The Road Warrior and Fury Road, further amplify this message, depicting a world where entire communities are built around oil refineries and the pursuit of fuel dominates every aspect of life.
“You can’t live without it, because the entire movie revolves around people trying to find oil that’s left over,” Martin said. “And you look at what they’re wearing, they’re wearing shoulder pads that come from football, helmets that come from hockey. They’re wearing all this stuff that was made out of oil that they’re having to recycle and keep on.”
These films, though fictional, highlight the dangers of underestimating the importance of oil and gas in our modern world. They portray a future where energy scarcity leads to a breakdown of order, illustrating that access to these resources is not merely a convenience but a fundamental pillar of civilization.
The Mad Max series serves as a cautionary tale, reinforcing the necessity of sustaining and responsibly managing our oil and gas supplies to prevent the kind of societal decay depicted on screen.
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Warren Martin believes everyone should understand oil a little bit more. Gas too. Even Carbon and Helium. Martin is a man on a mission to educate the masses on natural resources and how they are critical to our lifestyle and quality of life.
“Our job is to teach people what we do, how we do it, why we do it, why it’s important to you, why it matters for our future,” Martin said. “And so we do that through a variety of ways. We do that through education, going into schools, doing presentations, helping teachers explain to students the importance of the oil and gas industry in their current lives.”
Martin, who is the executive director for Kansas Strong, continued listing off a few places he’s been in the past several months educated the masses.
“We do that through education, going into schools, doing presentations, helping teachers explain to students the importance of the oil and gas industry in their current lives,” Martin said. “We do that through doing that in the communities, going into Lions Clubs, Rotaries, Kiwanis, all those social clubs and doing presentations there as well.”
Martin said there are major events Kansas Strong sponsors in order to brand the industry to everyday folk going to a college football game or high school basketball game.
“We utilize those opportunities just to get the word out about how important oil and gas is here in Kansas,” Martin said. “We produce oil here in Kansas in 89 out of the 105 counties. And so it is a vital part of our industry here. We’re consistently ranked in the top industries in the state.”
Martin added that the University of Kansas did a study a few years ago that showed that if you looked at the jobs in the state the majority of the jobs are dependent upon the oil and gas industry.
“We provide about 118,000 jobs here in the state,” Martin said. “So it’s a significant part of Kansas.”
Martin continued explaining why Kansas and the oil and gas industry are connected to the rest of the nation in a variety of ways.
“We only have one major oil company that works here in the state on the production side,” Martin said. ‘We have a lot of pipelines, we have refineries, midstream, downstream. We have a lot of those consumers that are big oil companies that are here.”
He continued breaking down the reasons why Kansas energy is at the heart of the nation.
“On the production side of it, we only have one major oil company that does any real production here in the state,” Martin said. “The rest of the state are those independent producers that are out there that are producing that oil, which really makes Kansas a battleground state, specially when it comes to the methane issues that we’re talking about in the oil industry right now.”
Martin also discussed the orphan and abandoned well issue.
“So what we had here in Kansas and have here in Kansas is we have a scenario where you have legacy wells that are 80, 100 years old that have been drilled into the ground but have never been properly plugged,” Martin said. “They’re labeled as orphaned or abandoned wells on the register. And they’re really a problem.”
The state, federal government and energy companies have been working together on fixing the issue at hand.
“They’re a problem for people who want to buy a lease because they don’t want to take on the obligation of these abandoned wells that are on that lease that are a problem for property owners who want to buy property but have an abandoned well on that property.” Martin said. “And so the federal government and the state have been a part of this program for the past two years to really go out and plug a vast number of those abandoned wells and get those taken care of and get them off of the books.”
He added that plugging these wells are opening up opportunities for landowners to use their property in ways they could not while an orphan or abandoned well was unplugged.
So that’s been a really, really good thing in in the oil industry. As you know, diversification has always been the key,” Martin said. “It’s a boom and bust economy. Companies are always looking to diversify.”
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“I think (using) Peak Oil is what they intended and I think they failed miserably because on the one hand, they start out the movie and they show basically exactly all wars are taking place due to oil,” Martin said. “And let’s be honest, we have fought wars over oil and wars have been dependent upon oil. I mean, that is one thing that makes Kansas the most historic state when it comes to World War One.”
Martin continued his movie review.
“During World War I, Stapleton No. 1 was hit in 1915. And when Stapleton No. 1 was hit, it started an oil boom that took place here,” Martin said. “Between 1915 and 1919, one county in Kansas, Butler County, Kansas, where I live in El Dorado, one county in Kansas produced 9% of the world’s oil, not 9% of Kansas, not 9% of America, 9% of the world’s oil.”
He added more historical context on why Kansas was one of the major contributors to World Peace using oil and gas resources.
“And literally, you can look at World War I in a lot of different ways, but it came down to whichever side ran out of oil first lost,” Martin said. “And that 9% of oil that was found in Butler County put the Allies over the top and led us to outlasting the Germans when it came to oil production and being able to fight that battle.”
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One-third of humanity prepares meals over open fires or polluting stoves, contributing to premature death and limiting human potential. Anne Hyre of the Bettering Human Lives Foundation joins The Crude Life to discuss this important energy poverty issue.
“The Bettering Human Lives Foundation aims to increase access to clean cooking fuels by directly supporting local innovators and entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses,” Hyre said. “Together, we are committed to providing families with a pathway out of poverty through access to modern energy that betters human lives.”
The launch of the Bettering Human Lives Foundation (BHL Foundation) complements Liberty Energy’s initiatives focused on alleviating poverty.
“Currently, one-third of the global population relies on open fires or polluting stoves for meal preparation, contributing to poor health and premature deaths, and hindering human potential,” Hyre said. “This issue is urgent, and the foundation is committed to increasing access to clean cooking fuels.”
According to Hyre, the Bettering Human Lives Foundation aims to achieve its mission by directly supporting innovators and entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia, enabling them to establish and expand their businesses in the clean cooking sector.
“By fostering solutions at the grassroots level, the foundation seeks to empower communities and provide families with a viable pathway out of poverty through access to modern, clean energy,” she said.
Hyre has over 30 years of dedicated service in public health across Africa and Asia, and will play a pivotal role in steering the foundation’s clean cooking initiatives toward creating a lasting and positive impact on communities.
Furthermore, Liberty Energy has made an initial commitment of $1 million and is confident that the foundation will raise significant funds from others inside and outside our industry given the immense impact on human lives and opportunities provided by access to clean cooking fuels.
Chris Wright, Founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, expressed the company’s dedication to making a positive impact in their initial press release for the foundation.
“We believe that access to clean cooking fuels is the largest single step in the emergence from dire poverty,” Wright said. “Through the Bettering Human Lives Foundation, we are committed to supporting local initiatives that bring about lasting change and contribute to the well-being of individuals and families.”
The foundation’s initiatives will include financial support, mentorship programs, and partnerships with local organizations to advance clean cooking solutions. Liberty Energy invites collaboration from like-minded entities, philanthropists, and individuals who share the vision of a world where everyone cooks over clean-burning stoves, leading to improved health, economic prosperity, and a brighter future.
Hyre also responds to questions involving ESG (Environmental Social Governance). She discusses the release of their 2024 Bettering Human Lives report, which highlights the central role that energy plays in human lives, which ultimately demonstrates the ESG pillars in action.
Key Takeaways from the 2024 Bettering Human Lives Report:
- Energy is essential to life and the world needs more of it!
- The modern world today is powered by and made of hydrocarbons.
- Hydrocarbons are essential to improving the wealth, health, and life opportunities for the less energized seven billion people who aspire to be among the world’s lucky one billion.
- Hydrocarbons supply more than 80% of global energy and thousands of critical materials and products.
- The American Shale Revolution transformed energy markets, energy security, and geopolitics.
- Global demand for oil, natural gas, and coal are all at record levels and rising — no energy transition has begun.
- Modern alternatives, like solar and wind, provide only a part of electricity demand and do not replace the most critical uses of hydrocarbons. Energy-dense, reliable nuclear could be more impactful.
- Making energy more expensive or unreliable compromises people, national security, and the environment.
- Climate change is a global challenge but is far from the world’s greatest threat to human life.
- Zero Energy Poverty by 2050 is a superior goal compared to Net Zero emissions by 2050.
Here is a Letter from Anne Hyre also available to read on their website.
Despite significant cultural and geographical differences amongst countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the scenes outside the window, as I drive from town to town, are remarkably similar, and all include women and girls standing in lines at water pumps, walking in groups in search of firewood and cow dung, and carrying heavy loads of firewood and water-filled buckets. Whether in Malawi, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, or Kenya, I pass clusters of homes and see women cooking amidst harmful smoke from open fires that are fueled by wood or cow dung. We are in the year 2023… how is this acceptable? I feel so disheartened that the daily lives of women and girls in many lower-income countries continue to be filled with tedious, physically demanding, and often dangerous tasks of collecting fuel and water for cooking, cleaning, laundry, and heating homes.
I am a nurse-midwife, and I have spent the past 30 years working to improve poor-quality health services for women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. For 25 years, I worked primarily in Southeast Asia, where access to energy and sustained economic growth contributed to visible progress in improving health and quality of life. For the past 5 years, my work has shifted to Sub-Saharan Africa, and I have encountered a very different reality. Governments and donors have made huge investments in health over decades, and yet most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remain far from reaching global targets for development in any social sector, including maternal and newborn health. I continually ask myself, “How can a woman possibly enjoy a healthy pregnancy, access health services, and demand better quality services when she spends her time collecting firewood, cooking over polluting stoves, and missing out on education and revenue-generating activities that ultimately translate into her ability to make decisions and take action to improve her family’s well-being?” Better health services are essential, but far from sufficient. There is a great need to tackle more fundamental problems that perpetually constrain women and their families.
A clean-burning cookstove, such as those powered by Liquified Petroleum Gas can be a life-changer for families, particularly women and girls.
It liberates them from the drudgery of collecting fuel and cooking in smoke-filled spaces, affording them time for school or other income-generating activities. It immediately improves their health, safety, and quality of life. The Bettering Human Lives Foundation will mobilize financial and human resources to support LPG and cookstove entrepreneurs and innovators in Africa and Asia with one goal in mind: get a clean cookstove into 1 million households. As a midwife and a mother, my heart breaks when I see a postpartum mother and her newborns inside dark, smoke-filled homes. I am eager to get on a more impactful path toward bettering human lives.
Onwards and Upwards,
Anne Hyre
For more information or to contact Hyre or Wright, click here
Tom Shepstone, Energy Security and Freedom joins Jason Spiess to talk about a variety of energy issues, capitalism concerns and sustainable solutions.
Shepstone, who is located on the eastern side of Pennsylvania, gives an update on natural gas and former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt.
“I’m 73 years old. I lived at least, I would say, 63 years of those years. Not imagining, of course, I think I was about 12 when the Kennedy assassination happened,” Shepstone said. “I’ve lived 51 years of my life post-Kennedy assassination, supposing that the Warren Commission report was, if not perfect, was close to the truth. And I’ve since become very educated in how our government really works.”
Shepstone continued his context of his thoughts regarding the attempted Trump assassination from a few hours away across the state.
“I think that’s the magnificent thing Trump has done, whether he intended to or not, is by the visceral reaction other people have had to him,” Shepstone said. “Trump has exposed the rot in our government that has existed for a long time. And I now believe there’s significant reason to suppose that our FBI or CIA or a combination thereof was involved in Kennedy’s assassination. So I’m very skeptical as to their involvement in this one.”
Shepstone also expressed his concerns over Kamala Harris’ energy policy.
“I think she’s a communist,” Shepstone said. “You know, she’s clearly a Marxist in her philosophy.”
Once again, showing his age, Shepstone reverted back to his former years with adding context to the conversation.
“I used to be embarrassed to throw around the word communist because it sounded like we were going back to the early 50s,” Shepstone said. “But, you know, a lot of that was true. If you read any of the literature on that, you realize a lot of that was very true.”
The two discussed whether the oil and gas industry transition was more about ending capitalism than EV cars and solar panels.
“I believe one of the off shoots or main drivers in the energy transition is to end capitalism,” Jason Spiess said. “One of the reasons I got into this industry was because it was the last bastion of capitalism.”
The conversation dove deeper into this topic with historical examples peppered into current context.
“When I first got into this industry 15 years ago a roustabout with a high school education could become a millionaire with hard work and ingenuity,” Spiess said. “If he figured out how to make that metal rod go twice as fast, twice as safe and cheaper would get rewarded with a company contract to better his family’s freedom.”
Spiess continued his example.
“Now, those days are gone. It’s more about getting direction from the government and public private partnerships,” Spiess said. “They get the money and direction from an orphan well fund or green initiative fund and control the market instead of letting the free market operate.”
That conversation transitioned into Environmental Social Governance and Diversity Equality and Inclusion. Spiess mentioned how other countries have really embraced these acronyms through financing and insurance. Shepstone agreed, however, cited examples of how America is starting to push back.
“Farm and Tractor Supply really came out with quite a statement,” Shepstone said. “They were like ‘hey, we made a huge mistake. We’re sorry, we’ll never do this again.’ This was absolutely, it was phenomenal. I mean, I want to go shop there now, you know.”
He added more examples to the ESG and DEI movement.
“If you’re an investor in Disney, you’re not very happy,” Shepstone said. “So, so the DEI thing is, is doing the D-I-E thing.”
Tom Shepstone is the owner of Shepstone Management Company, Inc. a planning and research consulting firm located in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Richard Welch, former political candidate for US House and current lobbyist for the oil, gas, coal and carbon industries talks about many of the changes happening and that have happened within the oil, gas and coal industries.
Specifically, the oil and gas industry has experienced significant transformations over the past five years, driven by technological advancements, geopolitical shifts, and evolving market dynamics.
Here’s a quick look at some of the changes discussed in the interview:
- Government Subsidies: The oil and gas industry continues to benefit from substantial government subsidies aimed at encouraging domestic energy production. In 2022, global fossil fuel subsidies reached $7 trillion, reflecting a significant increase from previous years due to heightened government support. Many oil and gas companies have taken the subsidies and changed their day-to-day focus while still marketing their past endeavors and political beliefs.
- Carbon Market Impacts: Carbon markets have gained traction as an effective tool to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. By creating economic incentives for reducing emissions, carbon markets help manage environmental impact and usher in new leadership and values within the industry.
- Public-Private Partnerships: The rise of public-private partnerships has been pivotal in advancing energy projects and infrastructure. These collaborations combine resources and expertise from both sectors, enhancing innovation and efficiency in energy production and distribution. How this has impacted the free market is discussed in detail.
- Industry Veteran Retirements: The Great Crew Shift has brought in new personnel, new values and a new green core for many companies. The industry has seen a wave of retirements from seasoned veterans. This generational shift has prompted a need for different talent and “environmental innovation”, driving changes in company cultures and operational strategies.
- Rebranding to Energy and Carbon Management: Oil companies are increasingly rebranding themselves to focus on broader energy solutions and carbon management. This shift reflects a strategic move to align with global sustainability goals and address growing environmental concerns. The emphasis is now on being energy providers rather than just oil and gas companies, showcasing a commitment to a greener image and reinforcing a more liberal energy narrative.
These changes illustrate the industry’s adaptive strategies in response to global energy demands and environmental challenges, positioning itself for a more sustainable future.
You know, back in the 80s and 90s, the government was merely just they were overwatched, that’s all they did. They made sure that there was compliance and that was it,”” Welch said. “You look at what happened with Obama when he started trying to mandate the 10% ethanol, that was the end of the free market when the government started dictating exactly what oil and gas companies had to sell in their product.”
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Executive coach Joe Sinnott drops by The Crude Life to discuss operational failures and organization communication using Saturday’s assassination attempt as talking points and examples. Sinnott, CEO of Witting Partners, lives about 45 minutes from the Butler, PA, site.
On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, a former president of the United States and at that time the Republican Party‘s presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election, was shot and wounded while addressing a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,fired eight rounds with an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a nearby building outside the rally venue. He killed an audience member, critically injured two other audience members, and injured Trump in his upper right ear.Crooks was then shot and killed by the United States Secret Service Counter Sniper Team. The incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination and as a potential domestic terrorist act.
Sinnott discusses how the Secret Service could have handled the situation differently from an organizational point of view and how transparent communication is key moving forward.
The interview dives into several examples from the assassination attempt and how organizations would handle similar situations. From communication breakdowns to employees defying the organization’s mission to whistleblowers.
“Clearly there was tons of opportunities for communication that did not happen,” Sinnott said. “Communication about what people saw and people that were saying things, again, locals that were there that spotted something that was amiss, and clearly that information did not flow to people that could have made the immediate decision to out of an abundance of caution to pull them off the stage, even if it wasn’t a threat.”
The conversation also dove into what happens when employees decide to “go into business for themselves”, whether that is “standing down” or doing a side-hustle on social media while working, the trend is increasing in almost all areas of employment.
“The first is, you know, what is the end goal of an organization, right?” Sinnott said. “I mean, what is everybody working towards? What is success defined as?”
Sinnott explained that often times when a leader or a manager is not able to train or articulate clearly with the mission is, employees will fidn their own purpose.
“You know, when that happens in organizations, it’s often because people don’t have a sense of the big picture and how they can contribute beyond how they should be contributing beyond just their assigned tasks,” Sinnott said. “Again, if that’s almost implied, well, people are going to do whatever, right? And they’re not all going to be working towards some ultimate goal, which in this case would be what? Protecting the former president of the United States. So that’s, again, sometimes it sounds really cliche, Jason, but that’s where you start.”
To contact Sinnott, visit his website, connect on LinkedIn or his podcast The Energy Detox.
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Warren Martin, Kansas Strong, joins The Crude Life to discuss the realities of Energy Poverty.
A philosophy graduate of Texas Tech University, Warren is an author, teacher, minister, artist, quasi-philosopher and speaker known for his unique teaching style. His passion is to inspire & invest in the next generation of leaders.
He currently serves as Executive Director of Kansas Strong for the promotion of the quality of life created by the oil & natural gas industry. He previously served as Executive Director of the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum and was the primary presenter of all Inspired Leadership Experiences.
Warren has been leading leadership workshops, presenting keynote presentations and consulting with Fortune 500 corporations and non-profit organizations for 22 years.
“Informing the public about the many ways the Kansas oil and natural gas industry contributes to our state and our nation is an important part of our mission,” Martin said. “Kansas Strong has implemented a multi-platform campaign to reach Kansans with our message.”
Energy poverty refers to the lack of access to modern and sustainable energy services, such as electricity and clean cooking facilities. This issue predominantly affects low-income households and communities, especially in developing regions.
Energy poverty can manifest in two main ways:
- Lack of Physical Access: This involves households not being connected to electricity grids or lacking the infrastructure for modern energy services.
- Economic Access: Even when energy services are available, high costs can prevent households from affording sufficient energy for basic needs.
Impact of Energy PovertyEnergy poverty has far-reaching impacts on individuals and communities:
- Health Risks: Without access to clean energy, people often rely on traditional biomass (wood, charcoal) or kerosene for cooking and heating, leading to indoor air pollution. This is a significant health risk, causing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
- Economic Barriers: Lack of reliable electricity hampers economic development. It restricts opportunities for education, as students cannot study after dark, and limits the productivity of businesses, which often require power for operations.
- Educational Challenges: Energy poverty limits access to information and educational resources, as students cannot use electronic devices or internet services. This hampers their ability to perform well academically and reduces future job opportunities.
- Quality of Life: Basic household tasks become labor-intensive and time-consuming without modern energy. This includes cooking, heating water, and lighting. The absence of refrigeration affects food security and nutrition .
- Environmental Impact: The use of inefficient and polluting energy sources contributes to environmental degradation and climate change, exacerbating the overall impact on communities already struggling with energy poverty .
Addressing energy poverty requires a multifaceted approach, including infrastructure development, financial assistance, and policies promoting sustainable and affordable energy access.
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Stacy Schaffer, founder of the 31:8 Project joins Jason Spiess and two Social Media Sleuths to discuss the Mica Francis JP Miller investigation in relation to the domestic violence and human trafficking elements of the case.
The 31:8 Project provides informative seminars, conduct research, and create curriculum applicable to all levels of education and forms of human trafficking. Through their research they examine the causes, impact, and issues surrounding this crime and the victims. It is through this process that they are able to equip society to tackle issues relating to human trafficking. ‘
Schaffer is the Founder and Executive Director of 31:8 Project. She has based her work in advocacy on the ideal that no one person can do everything, but everyone can do something. Stacy is the coordinator for the Demand Reduction Program and an adjunct professor at the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND.
She currently serves as a board member of the North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations, committee member of the North Dakota Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Task Force and member of the Farwest Rotary Club. With a passion
towards serving others, Stacy has dedicated much of her time advocating for human rights. This pursuit has influenced her education, career, and community work.
Stacy graduated with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. Prior, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Behavioral Sciences from the University of Mary. In 2011, she was crowned Miss ND International and represented a platform on combating human trafficking. She launched 31:8 Project in 2015 to rally the general public to “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
Stacy was awarded the ND Emerging Leader Award for her work in the non-profit sector and was selected as one of the Bismarck Tribune’s “20 Under 40”. Stacy was the 2018 University of Mary Bell Banner Alumni of the Year, and has been recognized as one of Bismarck’s Hidden Hometown Heroes.
Stacy often credits her motivation, work ethic, and determination from growing up on a farm near the town of Wishek, ND. Stacy hopes to inspire individuals across the state to join 31:8 Project on the journey to help end modern day slavery, starting right here in North Dakota.
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Here is a recent news recap of the Mica Francis JP Miller investigation.
A Myrtle Beach woman found dead last week in Robeson County had a tracking device placed on her car that was discovered after she took it to a dealership to repair a tire that had been slashed, according to Horry County police reports.
Mica Miller’s body was found on April 27 at Lumber River State Park with an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to NewsNation. An official cause of death has yet to be released.
Pastor released from ministerial functions amid wife’s death investigation
Miller’s husband, John-Paul Miller, is the senior pastor at Solid Rock Church in Market Common. He announced her death to the congregation. He was “released from ministerial functions” on Monday, the church announced.
Sheriff Burnis Wilkins told Nexstar’s WBTW in an email on Monday that he expects a report to be available on Tuesday.
“We have Detectives in S.C. now and plan to have the findings of our full investigation as it relates to the death of Mica Miller available tomorrow,” Wilkins said.
WBTW has also asked for a copy of Miller’s death certificate and other documents from the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but has not received them.
According to reports, Mica Miller had filed multiple times for a legal separation from John-Paul Miller. In October 2023, she filed for divorce.
NewsNation reports that Mica Miller posted a video on Facebook discussing abuse just weeks before her death, offering advice for people who may be in abusive relationships. Some believe the video is proof that Mica Miller was in an abusive relationship herself, according to NewsNation.
Mica Miller, 30, made two complaints on March 11 — the first coming after her vehicle’s tire was found slashed near Springmaid Pier, the report said. The second complaint, filed hours later, came after Miller took her vehicle to East Coast Honda on Highway 17 Bypass to have the tire repaired.
The police reports indicate that the suspect in both incidents was a male, but did not identify him.
According to the police reports, Miller first contacted officers at about 1:20 a.m. on March 11 to report one of her tires had been slashed. Officers met her at a Margarita Drive address.
Miller told officers that “this is the second time a razor has deflated her tire in the last week,” the report states. Miller said she was leaving Springmaid Pier when she “heard a pop and noticed that a piece of metal was protruding from her tire.”
By the time she got to Margarita Drive, the tire was fully deflated. The officer “observed the tire and upon removal of the metal piece it was found that the metal was a tire deflation device that can be purchased online,” according to the reports.
The suspect’s identity is redacted in both reports, but Miller said she “noticed strange activity and what she believes as people following or watching her.” Miller also told officers that the suspect “has a history of similar actions against her.”
Police said there was not enough evidence to charge anyone in the tire-slashing incident. Then, just before noon on March 11, an Horry County police officer went to East Coast Honda to investigate a harassment complaint.
Miller told him that another officer had helped change her tire and that she then headed to a gas station before going to East Coast Honda.
While getting fuel, “the suspect in this incident showed up next to her at the pump trying to talk to her,” the report said. “She told him to go away she does not want to talk and then when she pulled her out to record he sped off.”
As Miller was talking to the officer at the dealership, the report said she received a call from the suspect using a “No ID” number. “The suspect was advised that the victim does not want any further contact and if he proceeds then warrants may possibly be written up.”
“The victim advised me she was afraid for her life,” the officer wrote in the report. “She also advised she blocks his numbers and still gets calls and texts from him on other numbers.”
After the officer left, the report said a mechanic discovered the tracking device on Miller’s vehicle. She then headed to court “trying to get a restraining order.” Miller handed the GPS device over to police outside the courthouse.
“While I was standing out front of the magistrates office with the victim a white in color Honda Accord slow rolled down Scipio Lane in front of the magistrates office,” the officer wrote.
Miller said the suspect was driving her car. The vehicle “sped up and drove off,” the report ends.
No charges were filed in either incident.
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MICA’S STORY
Mica Acacia was born on March 7, 1994, and tragically was found deceased on April 27, 2024. Mica was over 100 miles away from her home and family in a state park that neither she nor her family had ties to. Robeson County in North Carolina has suspected and initially ruled Mica’s death as a suicide but her family does not believe this ruling.
Mica’s favorite scripture was Micah 6:8 “Seek justice, love mercifully, and walk humbly with your God.” and that’s exactly what we intend to do. To seek justice and find answers for this tragic incident. Mica was a God-fearing woman and loved her community. There are so many unanswered questions so this website is dedicated to her and her family to help them on their long journey ahead as they fight these issues regarding her untimely death.
Thank you to everyone who has donated their time, energy, and resources towards this cause. The family is very grateful and needs all the support they can get. God Bless. #justiceformica
Interview conducted by Jason Spiess. Spiess has over 39 years of media experience from being the host to the publisher to an editor to the executive producer to having principal ownership in several media companies.
Spiess is currently the host of several newsmagazine programs and podcasts that carry a radio network that spans five states and two countries, as well as worldwide through iHeart and other podcast platforms, as well as a professional social media audience of over 400K followers.
In addition to his newsradio programs and industry podcasts, Spiess is a regular contributor to many industry publications, newspapers and news websites.
Spiess is a full-time father, cancer survivor, environmentalist, author and graduate of North Dakota State University. Spiess also operates an off-the-grid office integrating sustainable solutions, including the best practices with an Industrial Forest and Digital Diversity.
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Jason Isaac, founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute and a Senior Fellow for Life:Powered, a national initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joined Jason Spiess and Steve Bakken to discuss the impacts of the Supreme Court Decision or Deference regarding the 1984 Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council case.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, overturned Chevron and handed authority back to Congress and the courts. Overturning the doctrine is a significant ruling that limits federal regulatory power.
The decision was split along ideological lines, with the conservative majority voting to overturn Chevron. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, called the Chevron framework “unworkable” and said the court was ending “our 40-year misadventure with Chevron deference.”
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine is expected to have far-reaching implications for federal regulations across various sectors, including environmental protection, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections. It impacts the power of federal agencies, such as EPA, to issue regulations.
The Chevron doctrine previously allowed agencies to interpret vague laws. This change provides opponents a clearer legal path to challenge regulations, potentially forcing agencies to be more cautious in drafting rules.
Simply put, the Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. decision in 1984 is a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of “Chevron deference.”
The ruling held that courts should defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutory language as long as the interpretation is reasonable. This principle arose from the Clean Air Act, where the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had to interpret certain provisions.
Impact on the MarketplaceChevron deference significantly influenced the marketplace by allowing regulatory agencies to implement and enforce rules without excessive judicial interference. This led to a more predictable regulatory environment, as businesses could rely on agencies’ interpretations. However, it also resulted in increased compliance costs and regulatory burdens for businesses, particularly in highly regulated industries such as energy, pharmaceuticals, and finance.
Impact on Regulatory AgenciesFor regulatory agencies, Chevron deference was a powerful tool. It provided them with the authority to interpret and implement ambiguous laws, thereby enabling more flexible and adaptive regulation.
This authority allowed agencies to address complex and evolving issues without waiting for Congress to update legislation. Consequently, agencies like the EPA, FCC, and FDA could more effectively pursue their regulatory goals.
Impact on Special Interest GroupsSpecial interest groups, which aim to influence public policy, also felt the effects of the Chevron decision. These groups often lobby regulatory agencies to interpret laws in ways that benefit their interests.
Chevron deference meant that these agencies had substantial power to shape policy through interpretation. This dynamic empowered well-organized and well-funded interest groups to exert considerable influence over regulatory outcomes, often through lobbying and litigation strategies.
Recent DevelopmentsThe recent Supreme Court ruling in June 2024, which effectively ended Chevron deference, marks a significant shift. The court now requires a more stringent review of agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, which may lead to more judicial challenges and uncertainty in regulatory enforcement.
This change could reshape the landscape for businesses, regulatory agencies, and special interest groups, potentially leading to less predictable regulatory environments and more litigation.
Jason Isaac is Founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute and a Senior Fellow for Life:Powered, a national initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Jason has appeared live on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, and other national news shows, and his commentaries have been published in Fox News, Fox Business, The Hill, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, and other publications.
Prior to starting the American Energy Institute, Jason, a fourth-generation native Texan, was elected four times as the State Representative for Hays and Blanco counties in the Texas Hill Country. He served on the Energy Resources and Environmental Regulation committees, among others. During his eight years of service, he successfully passed legislation to reduce taxes, strengthen election integrity, improve public education, preserve Second Amendment rights, protect local groundwater, and protect private property rights.
He was repeatedly honored for his commitment to limited government and proved to be an effective leader, excelling at both advocating for conservative principles and working across the aisle to find responsible solutions for the future of the Lone Star State.
Jason is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University and lives in Central Texas with his wife, State Representative Carrie Isaac, their sons, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Daisy.
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David LaGreca, Managing Director of Voluntary Carbon Markets Services, EcoEngineers, joins Jason Spiess and Steve Bakken on Townsquare Media’s SuperTalk 1270 Talk of the Town to share his experience working on the first voluntary carbon sequestration for ethanol in the nation.
Voluntary carbon sequestration involves the capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) through various projects funded by private entities. This process aims to offset emissions by removing CO2 from the atmosphere or preventing its release. These projects often include reforestation, afforestation, and soil carbon enhancement, among others.
Key Aspects of Voluntary Carbon Sequestration:
- Market Dynamics: Voluntary carbon markets allow businesses and individuals to purchase carbon credits to offset their emissions. These credits finance projects that sequester carbon, contributing to overall climate goals.
- Verification and Standards: Projects in voluntary carbon markets must adhere to stringent verification and monitoring standards to ensure their effectiveness. Organizations like Verra and the ICVCM set these standards, ensuring that carbon credits represent real and verifiable climate benefits.
- Global Initiatives: Various global initiatives and evolving models are enhancing the structure and credibility of voluntary carbon markets, making them more robust and effective in addressing climate change.
- Economic Incentives: Voluntary carbon credits direct private financing to climate-action projects, enabling initiatives that might not receive funding otherwise. This can stimulate economic growth while promoting environmental sustainability
The Red Trail Energy (RTE) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project represents a significant milestone in the integration of carbon capture technology within the ethanol production industry.
Located near Richardton, North Dakota, this project is a pioneering effort to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from ethanol production, making it more sustainable and competitive in markets with stringent low-carbon fuel standards.
Project Overview
The RTE CCS project officially commenced operations in July 2022. This project involves capturing CO2 emissions from the ethanol production process and securely storing them underground. This initiative aims to capture more than 90% of the CO2 emissions produced by the ethanol facility, significantly reducing its carbon footprint .
Technology Used
The CCS technology employed by RTE includes several advanced components:
- Capture: CO2 is captured from the fermentation process during ethanol production. This step involves separating CO2 from other gases using amine-based solvents.
- Compression: The captured CO2 is compressed to a supercritical state to facilitate transport and injection.
- Transportation: The supercritical CO2 is transported via pipelines to the injection site.
- Injection and Storage: The CO2 is injected into deep geological formations, such as saline aquifers, where it is securely stored and prevented from entering the atmosphere.
Environmental and Economic Benefits
Implementing CCS at RTE’s ethanol plant brings both environmental and economic benefits. By significantly reducing CO2 emissions, the project helps mitigate climate change impacts.
Additionally, it enhances the competitiveness of RTE’s ethanol in markets with low-carbon fuel programs, potentially leading to economic incentives and regulatory advantages.
Milestones and Statistics
- Start of Operations: The project began capturing and storing CO2 in July 2022.
- Capture Efficiency: The technology can capture over 90% of the CO2 emissions from the ethanol production process.
- Emissions Reduction: The project aims to reduce the net CO2 emissions of the ethanol plant, contributing significantly to the overall goal of lowering the carbon intensity of ethanol fuel.
Conclusion
The Red Trail Energy CCS project is a landmark development in the ethanol industry, showcasing how advanced carbon capture technology can be effectively integrated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This project not only positions RTE as a leader in sustainable ethanol production but also sets a precedent for other industrial facilities aiming to lower their carbon footprints.
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The Blockchain for Energy (B4E) consortium provides its members with forward thinking learnings and solutions. It collaboratively drives digital transformation by providing members with opportunities to accelerate their digitalization journey.
Through collective synergies, B4E seeks to resolve, reinvent, and transform the industry’s standard ways of working with external parties.
Blockchain for Energy is a safe venue to create transformational change – for the energy industry – by the energy industry. Current B4E members and collaborators include Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, ExxonMobil, Repsol, Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Enovate AI, Emerson ZEDI, Hedera, GBBC/IWA and Tolam Earth.
Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, and host of The Energy Detox Podcast, breaks down the ConocoPhillips Marathon merger for $17.1 billion dollars. Sinnott was part of one of largest mergers in history, at the time, and explains what some of the employees, shareholders and company executives might be thinking.
First off, a few of the numbers. ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $17.1 billion as energy prices rise and big oil companies reap massive profits.
The deal is valued at $22.5 billion when including $5.4 billion in debt.
“Pretty easy math on paper to say when you have some complimentary assets and you have resources,” Sinnott said. “Obviously, you know, quite often from the human side of things that you can really manage more.”
Crude prices have jumped more than 12% this year and the cost for a barrel rose above $80 this week. Oil majors put up record profits after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and while those numbers have slipped, there has been a surge in mergers between energy companies flush with cash.
When asked whether this was a “Merger” or “Acquisition”, Sinnott explained why he disagreed with many of the headlines that said “merger”.
“Well, my perspective is this definitely checks the acquisition box, so all things will be ConocoPhillips,” Sinnott said. “They’re taking these assets, they are clearly the big player in all this.”
The two discussed several other big mergers lately and their impacts.
For examples, Chevron said last year that it was buying Hess in a $53 billion acquisition, though that deal faces headwinds. The company warned the buyout may be in jeopardy because it will require the approval of Exxon Mobil and a Chinese national oil company, which both hold rights to development of an oil field off the coast of the South American nation Guyana where Hess is a big player.
In July of last year, Exxon Mobil said that it would pay $4.9 billion for Denbury Resources, an oil and gas producer that has entered the business of capturing and storing carbon and stands to benefit from changes in U.S. climate policy. Three months later, Exxon announced the proposed acquisition of shale operator Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion.
All of the proposed acquisitions could face pushback from the U.S. which, under the Biden administration, has stepped up antitrust reviews for energy companies and other sectors as well, such as tech.
“But one key big player that’s going to take these resources, take these assets from Marathon and apply their best practices and what they think is best to generate those synergies and generate more value for their shareholders,” Sinnott said.
As part of the ConocoPhillips transaction, Marathon Oil shareholders will receive 0.2550 shares of ConocoPhillips common stock for each share of Marathon Oil common stock that they own, the companies said Wednesday.
As part of the ConocoPhillips transaction, Marathon Oil shareholders will receive 0.2550 shares of ConocoPhillips common stock for each share of Marathon Oil common stock that they own, the companies said Wednesday.
“No matter who you are in the company, no matter what side you’re on, there’s going to be a lot more questions than are answers for some period of time,” Sinnott said. “Looking at it through the leadership lens, a lot of my energy working with people who are navigating these types of things is being prepared to address questions that you don’t have answers to.”
ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that the transaction will add highly desired acreage to its existing U.S. onshore portfolio.
“This acquisition of Marathon Oil further deepens our portfolio and fits within our financial framework, adding high-quality, low cost of supply inventory adjacent to our leading U.S. unconventional position,” ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Ryan Lance said in a prepared statement.
The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. It still needs approval from Marathon Oil stockholders.
Separate from the transaction, ConocoPhillips said that it anticipates raising its ordinary dividend by 34% to 78 cents per share starting in the fourth quarter. The company said that once the Marathon Oil deal closes and assuming recent commodity prices, ConocoPhillips plans to buy back more than $7 billion in shares in the first full year. It plans to repurchase more than $20 billion in shares in the first three years.
Shares of ConocoPhillips declined 3.3% before the market open, while Marathon Oil Corp.’s stock rose more than 7%.
“When it comes to the realities of corporate mergers and acquisitions, you can’t just go through the motions and you can’t just be on autopilot,” Sinnott said.
Interview conducted by Jason Spiess
Article written by Jason Spiess. Spiess has over 39 years of media experience from being the host to the publisher to an editor to the executive producer to having principal ownership in several media companies.
Spiess is currently the host of several newsmagazine programs and podcasts that carry a radio network that spans five states and two countries, as well as worldwide through iHeart and other podcast platforms, as well as a professional social media audience of over 400K followers.
In addition to his newsradio programs and industry podcasts, Spiess is a regular contributor to many industry publications, newspapers and news websites.
Spiess is a full-time father, cancer survivor, environmentalist, author and graduate of North Dakota State University. Spiess also operates an off-the-grid office integrating sustainable solutions, including the best practices with an Industrial Forest and Digital Diversity.
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In the heart of Oklahoma, Red Dirt Energy, LLC is spearheading a transformative approach to the oil and gas industry. Founded on the principles of superior service, cutting-edge technology, and a commitment to environmental sustainability, this company is making significant strides in revitalizing legacy oil and gas fields.
Scott St. John of Red Dirt Energy joins Jason Spiess and Steve Bakken to talk about abandoned and orphan wells in addition to the energy transition.
“Reagan Smith (parent company) focuses on the federal side of things, drilling permits on BLM, BIA, Forest Service, you name it,” St. John said. “We work all across the country, so as a genesis to Red Dirt Energy, we saw a niche a couple of years ago when the when the Biden administration unleashed a tremendous amount of funds to clean up well sites.”
Red Dirt Energy’s mission is clear: to restore land, increase production, and monetize existing assets in a responsible manner. Their operations, headquartered in Oklahoma City, involve not only enhancing the efficiency of oil and gas extraction but also addressing the environmental impacts associated with these activities.
“Reagan Smith and Red Dirt Energy kind of share resources between the two companies, and with our knowledge of wells, how they’re drilled,” St. John said. “Together we kinda have an overall soup to nuts in the oil and gas industry from the land side of things to the environmental side of things.”
One notable initiative is their recent addition of oil and gas well plugging services, a crucial step towards long-term sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Collaborations are a cornerstone of Red Dirt Energy’s strategy. For instance, the company has partnered with local organizations and indigenous tribes to tackle the issue of orphaned wells, which pose significant environmental hazards. These partnerships highlight the company’s dedication to community engagement and sustainable practices.
Another topic was the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies that can make it more difficult for one area, company or person to get a permit versus another.
Securing a permit for oil and gas drilling varies between private lands and tribal federal lands due to differing regulations and governance structures. Here are a few of the reasons and regualtions:
- Regulatory Framework: Private oil companies on private lands primarily navigate state and federal regulations for permits. On tribal federal lands, the process involves additional oversight by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and adherence to tribal laws and agreements.
- Ownership and Governance: Tribal lands can be held in trust by the federal government for a tribe or an individual, or owned as restricted-fee land. This means any development on these lands requires coordination with tribal authorities and compliance with specific tribal governance structures.
- Permit Application: For private lands, companies file applications directly with state or federal agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). On tribal lands, the process also involves the BIA and may require tribal council approval, making it more complex and potentially lengthier.
- Rights-of-Way: Obtaining rights-of-way on tribal lands involves specific applications that must be approved by the BIA and the respective tribe, ensuring that the development respects tribal sovereignty and land use policies.
“The process is the same to a large extent, but each office and each BIA office has their own little, you know, projects or their own interests that they want to preserve. So it is different,” St. John said. “It’s just something they want to protect or something, so you have to understand first who you’re dealing with.”
These distinctions underscore the need for private companies to navigate additional layers of regulation and community involvement when operating on tribal federal lands compared to private lands.
Red Dirt Energy stands out in the industry not just for its technical prowess but for its unwavering commitment to sustainability and environmental protection.
As they continue to innovate and expand their services, the company is poised to set new standards in the oil and gas sector, demonstrating that profitability and environmental responsibility can go hand in hand.
The three talked briefly about the rise of corrupt and fake orphan well companies that popped up over the past several years too.
“We are one of the only company plugging companies that has a website, which is very valuable,” St. John joked. “It’s a www.reddirtenergy.net.”
Interview conducted by Jason Spiess
Article written by Jason Spiess. Spiess has over 39 years of media experience from being the host to the publisher to an editor to the executive producer to having principal ownership in several media companies.
Spiess is currently the host of several newsmagazine programs and podcasts that carry a radio network that spans five states and two countries, as well as worldwide through iHeart and other podcast platforms, as well as a professional social media audience of over 400K followers.
In addition to his newsradio programs and industry podcasts, Spiess is a regular contributor to many industry publications, newspapers and news websites.
Spiess is a full-time father, cancer survivor, environmentalist, author and graduate of North Dakota State University. Spiess also operates an off-the-grid office integrating sustainable solutions, including the best practices with an Industrial Forest and Digital Diversity.
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Adam Davis, Paddington County Emergency Management and Clint Kling of Shepherd VR talk about their recent virtual reality training session for fire management.
“We were trying to go through a VR simulation of the fire extinguisher systems that are handheld,” Kling said. “Adam and his team they do trainings here in Pennington County with fire extinguishers and so we decided to look at the VR system to see if you know this could be an option.”
Kling and Davis spent the day training staff members on fire management operations and safety procedures.
According to Davis, the advantage with virtual reality is many. From weather concerns to CO2 waste to other idiosyncrasies involved with outside circumstances with training in emergency services.
“I’ve got a pretty good appreciation for how virtual reality works and integrates into emergency management,” Davis said. “Just as a technology set can be leveraged in a whole myriad of different safety trainings.”
David spent 15 years in helicopter search and rescue before going to work for Pennington County Emergency Management.
“For examples, VR can be used for teaching people how to do hoist rescue out of the back of a helicopter to doing really good awareness training with fire extinguishers as Clint demoed for me today with his system,” Davis said.
Pennington County, South Dakota, is supported by the South Dakota Office of Emergency Management, which oversees preparedness, response, recovery, and disaster mitigation efforts across the state. This includes fire safety management.
The Office of Emergency Management develops operational and procedural plans specifically tailored for handling various emergencies and disasters, including fires.
In addition, the county benefits from general emergency services provided by the state, which emphasize thorough preparedness planning.
These services include creating strategies to prevent, manage, and mitigate the impact of fires and other disasters. This holistic approach ensures that the county’s emergency management practices are well-coordinated and effective in enhancing community safety and resilience against fires.
“I’ve taught a lot of students in various virtual systems, and if I’m speaking on generalities, I would say that the younger demographic tends to adapt better to it,” Davis said. “But again, don’t get caught up in absolutes. That’s obviously not going to be the case across the board as many seasoned veterans are embracing virtual reality in training and the workplace.”
Kling agreed with Davis on how the younger demographic was quick to adapt to virtual reality training, but he is seeing an increase in older interest.
“Many of the older workers are really enjoying it,” Kling said. “At first they are not sure what to expect, but shortly after engaging with it, they are all about it.”
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Article written by Jason Spiess. Spiess has over 39 years of media experience from being the host to the publisher to an editor to the executive producer to having principal ownership in several media companies.
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In addition to his newsradio programs and industry podcasts, Spiess is a regular contributor to many industry publications, newspapers and news websites.
Spiess is a full-time father, cancer survivor, environmentalist, author and graduate of North Dakota State University. Spiess also operates an off-the-grid office integrating sustainable solutions, including the best practices with an Industrial Forest and Digital Diversity.
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Blockchain for Energy (B4E), is the energy industry’s first comprehensive emissions management solution, leveraging blockchain, artificial intelligence, and IoT systems.
Camilo Mejia, Enovate and Rebecca Hofmann, Blockchain for Energy, joins The Crude Life to discuss how Blockchain for Energy is integrating into the industrial sector through a variety of ways.
“Blockchain for energy is actually a member-led consortium made up of energy companies that leaned in and said ‘let’s come and find a way to learn more about this technology and how we can use it for our companies,’” Hoffman said. “So the actual mission of blockchain for energy is to drive industry innovation beyond traditional technological boundaries.”
Blockchain technology can be used to create more efficient energy grids, reduce waste, and promote renewable energy sources. Blockchain for Energy is using blockchain to manage resources better and push for greener energy solutions.
“We’re achieving success through synergizing our efforts and our expertise to create a trust network, that word’s important, trust network, where collaboration is now a catalyst for value creation. So we’re talking about how can we redefine operational efficiency, foster growth using automation, robust standards, cutting edge technology for faster adoption.”
One of the main reasons Blockchain for Energy is getting the attention of some of the major energy companies is artificial intelligence (AI).
“So I think AI is everywhere today, but for us, AI is just the capacity to do things better, faster, to be more efficient, and to streamline processes,” Meijia said. “That’s really what we bring to the table when it comes down to B4E Carbon and the collaboration with B4E.”
Transparency and trust are often ushered in with a blockchain technology, due to the decentralized ledger that ensures that all transactions are secure, transparent, and tamper-proof. This transparency helps build trust among donors, volunteers, and stakeholders, ensuring that funds and resources are used effectively and honestly.
“Now, as you go into the process, you have more automated ways of doing things, the reporting piece, which is a big focus for us,” Meijia said. “Then you’re saving time. You’re having people focus on really what matters.”
Streamlining operations is another theme from the podcast interview. For example,.something as basic or under the radar as Blockchain for Energy simplifying administrative processes by automating workflows and reducing the need for intermediaries. This allows companies to focus more on their mission and less on bureaucratic tasks.
“We built a background around the traditional core segments for oil and gas production, drilling, completions production, then went into the transfer of knowledge from oil and gas to the low-carbon market,” Meijia said. “In that journey, we had the privilege to work with B4E and to collaborate with Rebecca (Hoffman) across the board.”
Hoffman believes The Blockchain for Energy (B4E) consortium provides its members with forward thinking learnings and solutions.
‘It collaboratively drives digital transformation by providing members with opportunities to accelerate their digitalization journey,” Hoffman said. “Through collective synergies, B4E seeks to resolve, reinvent, and transform the industry’s standard ways of working with external parties.”
Meijia sees security and fraud prevention as another main component of Blockchain for Energy. In addition to helping eliminate fraud by providing an immutable record of transactions, which is crucial for maintaining donor trust and ensuring the proper use of funds, it works ahead to prevent future fraud too.
“I think there is a big challenge in the industry today, which is really about how we can have a solid framework,” Meijia said. “Where we can actually validate our environmental claims. We see regulations being stronger in terms of the disclosure. We see operators or customers really trying to figure it out.”
Meijia added that he sees a significant value today in terms of the governance of that data and the security of those claims, “because it’s not like the industry is doing right or wrong”.
“It’s like the industry is trying to figure it out. And I think that’s probably the biggest application today, the security, the framework, the collaboration,” Meijia said. “From that point onwards, once you start bringing IoT, AI, then you can start building so much.”
Hoffman added some of the transparency and cost-saving elements in logistics as well.
“There’s tracking and tracing of a valve, for example, from the manufacturer all the way through payment,” Hoffman said. “All of these things Blockchain for Energy is working on so many others where Providence and knowing that you owned it at some point in time and when did that ownership crossover.”
Hoffman said this is not only supply chain logistics but also seismic.
“I mean, think about seismic has a 60 year life that you have to track and trace that is data. And that data is an asset,” Hoffman said. “It could be sold. leased, bought, mergers happen, that data has to be transferred.”
She added that this past November they released a report on logistics that summed up how everything is working together.
“The report said what happened in the field, you know what really happened in the field and both parties agree that that’s what happened,” Hoffman said. “And now it’s trusted, it’s immutable on a blockchain, pay.”
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Interview conducted by Jason Spiess
Article written by Jason Spiess. Spiess has over 39 years of media experience from being the host to the publisher to an editor to the executive producer to having principal ownership in several media companies.
Spiess is currently the host of several newsmagazine programs and podcasts that carry a radio network that spans five states and two countries, as well as worldwide through iHeart and other podcast platforms, as well as a professional social media audience of over 400K followers.
In addition to his newsradio programs and industry podcasts, Spiess is a regular contributor to many industry publications, newspapers and news websites.
Spiess is a full-time father, cancer survivor, environmentalist, author and graduate of North Dakota State University. Spiess also operates an off-the-grid office integrating sustainable solutions, including the best practices with an Industrial Forest and Digital Diversity.
Warren Martin, executive director, Kansas Strong, talks about the industry’s newest awareness and education campaign “Do Your Own Research”.
“Kansas Strong encourages people to do their own research on oil and natural gas before making informed decisions,” Martin said. “The campaign title is Do Your Own Research. And the idea behind it is we’re trying to encourage people to really investigate energy issues more thoroughly rather than just taking what the news media says, taking what the clickbait social media posts and all that that’s sent out. Really do some research and learn.”
Energy poverty refers to the condition where households are unable to access essential modern energy services and products. This includes access to electricity, clean cooking facilities, and sustainable energy solutions.
It affects both urban and rural areas, where poor households often consume lower amounts of energy due to limited availability or high costs.
The concept encompasses not only the lack of access but also the economic burden of high energy prices relative to income and the inefficiency of energy use in homes.
Addressing energy poverty involves improving energy access, affordability, and efficiency to ensure that all households can meet their basic energy needs without undue hardship
Martin began citing facts and statistics that lay the foundational context for the research.
“Kansas has more local oil and natural gas producers than any other region in the United States, and the industry contributes more than $2.8 billion to the state’s economy each year. This money helps fund schools, support families, and build roads.”
Martin continued painting the picture of how oil and gas contribute to the economic activity across the planet, but also the state’s energy spectrum.
“Between now and 2050, it’s estimated that we are going to add 1.7 billion people to our planet,” Martin said. “More people means more energy, but wind and solar energy cannot do it alone, oil and natural gas remain the primary sources of energy and are continuously striving to minimize their environmental impact.”
Energy poverty affects a significant portion of the global population:
- Approximately 760 million people lack access to electricity.
- Around 1 billion people, or 13% of the global population, do not have access to electricity.
- An estimated 2 billion people worldwide experience energy poverty.
- Around 3 billion people are still living in energy poverty today’
“Really do some research and learn,” Martin said. “And what you’ll find is that between now and 2050, we’re gonna need 28% more energy than we currently produce.”
Martin reminds people that before you make an informed decision about any energy – learn more and do your research.
“In Kansas, we have more local oil and natural gas producers than any other region in the United States, and we help make a difference in the production of affordable and reliable energy,” Martin said.
He added that as complex as energy can be, many still believe it’s as simple as flipping a switch.
“In the United States, we get our energy by simply turning a knob or flipping a switch, but 60% of the world’s population is energy deprived. Almost 40% of the population still relies on firewood to heat their homes and cook their meals. Access to affordable and reliable energy is essential for those without to improve their circumstances. Let’s work together to make this happen.”
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Jodi Johnson, CEO, Red Trail Energy, joins The Crude Life to discuss their pioneering project involving carbon capture and storage. Red Trail Energy, LLC (RTE), an ethanol producer near Richardton, North Dakota, is currently operating a CO2 capture facility adjacent to the RTE ethanol facility, to ultimately inject about 180,000 tonnes CO2 annually more than a mile below RTE property for permanent storage.
Red Trail Energy Begins Carbon Capture And Storage
The first carbon capture and storage project allowed under state primacy in the U.S. has commenced operations. Red Trail Energy LLC announces it officially began carbon capture and storage (CCS) at its ethanol facility located near Richardton, North Dakota, on June 16.
Already considered a low-carbon fuel, ethanol produced at RTE now has a lower carbon footprint than conventional ethanol sources thanks to carbon capture. This allows RTE to not only be better stewards to the environment but also places more value on the ethanol in the clean fuel market.
“They (investors) did go out and they gathered enough support that they needed to build it in this area. They somewhat chose this area due to the location next to the Burlington Northern Rail Line,” Johnson said. “Originally, we were constructed to be a coal-fired plant, and so they wanted to be close to where we could get lignite coal to fire the plant and keep it running.”
The RTE ethanol plant emits an average of 180,000 metric tons of CO2 annually from the fermentation process during ethanol production. With CCS, RTE is capturing 100 percent of their CO2 emissions from the fermentation process and is injecting approximately 500 metric tons of CO2 per day. The CO2 is permanently stored underground more than a mile below the surface in the Broom Creek formation.
Red Trail Energy at Richardton, North Dakota, produces about 65 million gallons of ethanol from about 23 million bushels of corn each year. (Photo Source: Red Trail Energy)About Red Trail Energy
Red Trail Energy, LLC (RTE) is a North Dakota-based investor group formed to finance, construct and operate a corn-based ethanol production facility located near Richardton, North Dakota. This vision became a reality when the $99 million, state-of-the-art plant began producing ethanol, in January of 2007. RTE now employs 47 personnel with an annual payroll of $4 million.
Originally constructed as one of the first coal-fired ethanol plants in the nation, RTE was converted to natural gas in 2016. RTE produces 59-64 million gallons of ethanol, using 21-23 million bushels of corn annually. The plant will generate 2.8 gallons of ethanol from every bushel of corn. Coproducts produced by RTE include 125,000 tons of dried distillers grain, 80,000 tons of modified-wetcake and 15 million pounds of corn oil annually.
The Richardton plant’s physical layout is composed of eleven structures, totaling 100,000 square feet of buildings, including administration, maintenance, processing, grain receiving, dried distillers grains storage, coal island, dryers and a pump house. The second-generation plant incorporates all the latest advances in ethanol processing, including equipment and technologies proven to boost efficiency and return on investment.
“One other things that we’ve done is switching from coal fire to natural gas,” Johnson said. “That was definitely a good upgrade for us just because natural gas is a little more consistent fuel source to use than the coal was.”
Governed by a 7 member board, RTE’s Team fosters the future outlook of the plant and its investors, as well as its impact on the environment and economy of North Dakota. Cornerstone Bank is the lead lender for RTE.
Recently, RTE was honored by the Central Stark Soil Conservation District with an Overall Achievement Award.
The Mission of Red Trail Energy is to create economic benefit for our investors, local communities, and the state of North Dakota by converting our natural resources and regional corn production into ethanol and beneficial coproducts.
Collaboration with the EERC (Energy & Environmental Research Center)
After a 5-year investigative period conducted by the EERC, in partnership with the North Dakota Industrial Commission Renewable Energy Program and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the RTE CCS Project was determined a technically viable option for the significant reduction of CO2 emissions from ethanol production.
The investigation was also supported by the EERC-led Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, which includes over 200 partners developing and demonstrating technologies for geologic CO2 storage since 2003. Work continues as the project transitions into the first fully operational commercial CCS facility in North Dakota.
In October 2021, less than five months after receiving the RTE application, the North Dakota Industrial Commission approved the Class VI injection well and the reservoir pore space RTE needed to operate the facility. Part of the approval process required RTE to demonstrate the Broom Creek formation contained the characteristics needed for proper CO2 storage. These characteristics include a deep porous layer to absorb the CO2 but also contain impermeable rock layers above and below the Broom Creek formation that keeps the CO2 from escaping into the atmosphere or ground water. RTE is utilizing state-of-the-art monitoring technology from the Japan Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) for real time CO2 plume monitoring.
“We are thankful for the North Dakota Industrial Commission and the staff at the Department of Mineral Resources who never gave up on receiving Class VI primacy from the EPA,” said Johnson. “We are especially grateful to the Energy and Environmental Research Center for their dedication to understanding North Dakota’s geologic storage potential, without them this wouldn’t be possible.”
“It is rewarding to see this carbon capture and storage project begin in North Dakota,” said Charlie Gorecki, EERC CEO about the RTE carbon capture project. “The EERC has been researching and testing the geologic storage potential of North Dakota’s resources for decades. The location of Red Trail Energy’s ethanol facility always made it a perfect candidate for CCS.”
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from a large stationary source, compressing the CO2 into a liquid and injecting it via a Class VI injection well deep underground for permanent geologic storage.
North Dakota was the first state to be granted primacy from U.S. EPA in 2018. Wyoming followed in 2020.
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Stuart Turley, CEO, Podcast Host, Elimination of Energy Poverty, joins The Crude Life to discuss some recent energy issues and activities.
After some friendly banter, the interview dives into the evolution of politics being injected into energy.
“So my research started 15 years ago. the energy industry was not political. Not even close to where it was today. In fact, when I was growing up, the only thing about politics was the gas prices,” The Crude Life founder and host Jason Spiess said. “And by the way, this was after Exxon Valdez had like a big spill. And there was more jokes about a drunk sailor than there was about problems with the oil spill, okay?”
Turley agreed with Spiess on the level of politics involved in energy today.
“I want to eliminate energy poverty,” Turley said. “The only way that you can eliminate energy poverty is to have low cost, abundant energy that has the least amount of impact on the environment and sustainable through not printing money. And by not printing money, it means it can be fiscally sustainable. I’m all in on all forms of energy, oil, gas, nuclear, wind, solar. It does not matter to me. Let’s take care of humanity first.”
The interview also cites examples of people and companies who are becoming leaders in energy (and humanity) rather than specifically oil and gas. Chris Wright, CEO, Liberty Energy is one of the ones cited.
“He is a humanitarian,” Turley said. “When I met Chris Wright, maybe four or five years ago, and I saw his presentation on humanitarian and delivering everyone from eliminating energy poverty. I absolutely think the world of Chris Wright.”
Carbon management and the integration of Ag and Energy are also discussed in detail.
“I believe that anybody that is going to take government funds is going to need to get into that carbon market, even if carbon is either right or wrong, whether or not we need enough CO2.” Turley said. “I think CO2 is not the bad man in the room, my personal opinion but those that are going to manage that are going to be able to use government funds and survive politically. So Oxy, Exxon, Chevron are all doing great things.”
Public relations in energy, oil, gas and community engagement is also discussed in detail.
“I’m going to brag on myself for half a second,” Turley said. “And that is when I was working for Intercom, which had the big investor conferences and everything else. They had Oil and Gas 360, And I’d said, guys, we got to change this and get it to energy. And they said, no, well, I went and started it energy.”
The two discussed the college bowl game history as an example of missed opportunities for oil and gas to connect with their end user in energy – the general public.
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Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins The Crude Life to discuss how the season of change can impact your bottom line and workplace culture.
The interview centered around the themes of sports with Major League Baseball’s Spring Training and Opening Day fresh in the minds and American lexi-culture. The upcoming NFL Draft and change in direction of NBA Playoffs too.
“As the energy sector continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and expansions into new territories, professionals in the industry are faced with the constant need to adapt and reinvent themselves“ Sinnott said.
Embrace Change as an Opportunity:
First and foremost, it’s essential to recognize that change brings opportunities for growth and development. Instead of viewing mergers, acquisitions, or the expansion into new territories as disruptions, see them as chances to expand your skill set, broaden your network, and enhance your career trajectory.
The conversation started off with what we can learn from OJ Simpson in the news.
“People yearn for CONSISTENT justice, whether it’s in criminal courts, inside families with siblings obsessed over ‘fairness’, or in corporations,” Sinnott said.
Assess Your Strengths and Weaknesses:
Before diving into a new role or territory, take the time to assess your strengths and weaknesses. What skills do you bring to the table, and where do you need to improve? Understanding your capabilities will help you identify areas for growth and development as you navigate new opportunities.
In Spring Baseball for example:
“Keeping with JUSTICE theme Jason, there is an ever-increasing scrutiny of umpires strike zones,” Sinnott said. “Yes, there are egregious examples of poor ball/strikes calls, i.e. the infamous Angel Hernandez, but also some thoughts on the PERCEIVED strike zones because ever game now has the strike zone box.”
The interview also dives into Artificial Intelligence making it’s way into minor league baseball too. This robo-umpire of the future is compared to the increasing us of AI vs. human conversations in Corporate America.
Set Clear Goals:
Whether you’re transitioning to a new role within your organization or stepping into a new territory, setting clear goals is crucial for success. Define what you want to achieve in the short-term and long-term, and develop a plan to work towards those objectives. This will help you stay focused and motivated, even when faced with challenges along the way.
Spring Reset and NFL Draft:
“Key to getting ready for any new season is de-cluttering and getting rid of crap you don’t need, which is easier said than done in life and business… let alone the NFL,” Sinnott said.
Adapt to Different Cultures:
Expanding into new territories often means interacting with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. It’s essential to adapt your communication style, leadership approach, and business practices to align with the cultural norms of the region you’re entering. Embrace diversity and leverage it as a strength in building successful relationships and driving business outcomes.
“The age-old question in sports and business – do I draft/recruit/hire the best TALENT/ATHLETE or do I focus on the specific roles/positions/gaps my team/company has?” Sinnott asks.
The interview dives into the different strategies how in business and the NFL Draft.
Seek Mentorship and Guidance:
Navigating transitions in the energy sector can be daunting, but you don’t have to go it alone. Seek out mentorship and guidance from experienced professionals who have successfully navigated similar challenges. Their insights and advice can provide invaluable support as you reinvent yourself and pursue new opportunities.
Stay Agile and Resilient:
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, agility and resilience are essential qualities for success. Be prepared to adapt to unexpected changes, pivot when necessary, and bounce back from setbacks. Cultivate a growth mindset that embraces challenges as opportunities for learning and development.
Invest in Continuous Learning:
As the energy sector evolves, so too must your skills and knowledge. Invest in continuous learning and professional development to stay ahead of the curve. Whether it’s through attending industry conferences, pursuing advanced certifications, or seeking out relevant training programs, commit to lifelong learning to remain competitive in your field.
Whether you are faced with the Number One pick in the NFL Draft or navigating mergers, acquisitions, and the expansion into new territories in the energy sector, it requires a proactive approach to reinventing yourself.
By embracing change as an opportunity, assessing your strengths and weaknesses, setting clear goals, adapting to different cultures, seeking mentorship and guidance, staying agile and resilient, and investing in continuous learning, you can position yourself for success in an ever-changing industry landscape.
Joe Sinnott is an 18-year oil and gas veteran who empowers industry leaders to achieve sustained success for themselves, their teams, and their organizations via his energy-centric executive coaching, workshops, and keynotes. As the founder of Witting Partners, Sinnott delivers practical and proven strategies to identify and eliminate the hidden — and often toxic — barriers that unwittingly impede long-term performance among oil & gas professionals.
Leveraging an unconventional leadership development approach, Sinnott draws from his experience as an offshore field engineer at Schlumberger and from the functionally diverse leadership roles he held at EQT Corporation as it evolved into America’s largest natural gas producer.
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The interview with filmmaker and National Energy Talk host Mark Stansberry started off discussing a shared petro-powered experience involving motion pictures and media. The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess had the privileged to be invited on to the production studio and set of Sherwood Forest, a docufilm about a historic time in American Oil and Gas’s impact on global independence and empowerment.
The short story is by the summer of 1942, the future of Great Britain and the outcome of World War II depended on petroleum supplies. At the end of that year, demand for 100-octane fuel would grow to more than 150,000 barrels of oil every day and German U-boats ruled the Atlantic.
In August 1942, British Secretary of Petroleum, Geoffrey Lloyd called an emergency meeting of the Oil Control Board to assess the “impending crisis in oil.”
Thus began the story of the “little-known, or at least seldom recognized, all-important role oil and oilmen played in the prosecution of the war,” according to two historians who extensively researched archives in Great Britain and the United States. Short story is they drilled in Sherwood Forest.
Oscar winner Gray Frederickson (left) and Mark Stansberry (right)The longer story is being told by Oscar Winner Gray Frederickson. Frederickson and Stansberry worked together on the docufilm on Sherwood Forest, which told the story of how Lloyd Noble along with 44 roughnecks played a critical role during World War II.
Frederickson is best known for being a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and winning an Oscar as one of the co-producers of The Godfather Part II at the 47th Academy Awards. In addition he was also nominated for Apocalypse Now.
Sherwood Forest was nominated for a regional Emmy in the historical documentary category. It was also picked up by NETA for national distribution.
“Sherwood Forest is an incredibly powerful documentary for our entire world right now,” Stansberry said. “There are several reenactments, which were filmed in Oklahoma locations, and around 58 cast and crew were involved. British Petroleum (bp) greatly assisted in providing footage from its archives of the 1943 timeline of Sherwood Forest. It has been quite a challenge to complete the project, especially due to COVID-19 restrictions. The release date is Spring/Summer 2022. I share with you the production team’s synopsis of Sherwood Forest:”
The interview segways into a “decade of discussions” in the oil and gas industry. Both Spiess and Stansberry talk about some interviews and events that transpired over the past decade in energy.
“I would say that one of my favorites is with Barry Corbin,” Stansberry said. “Barry has been in over 225 films, close to 250, everything from Urban Cowboy to Yellowstone. He was our narrator for Sherwood Forrest’s Top Secret.”
Actor Barry Corbin is the narrator for Sherwood Forest, the documentary on the oil and gas industry’s influence in World War II.The interview then went into Stansberry’s past, which involved international business and energy. From China to Russia to Oklahoma, Stansberry was active in the global marketplace.
“I had done work both in Russia and China in the oil and gas industry, primarily the oil and gas in Russia, meeting with the Minister of Energy and Eurasia products back in the 1990s,” Stansberry said. “And then also in the 90’s, it was with the Chinese that were there was a gas natural gas delegation that had met here in Oklahoma and they invited me to go over to to China and I started watching how they they acted on different things.”
The conversation pontificated whether NAFTA or other policies led to a major shift in the global marketplace, one that saw corporations flourish and small businesses disappear.
Through my company, it was called the Oklahoma Royalty Company, I was CEO,” Stansberry said. “We were one of the first, at that time, a small company signed an import-export agreement, which were unheard of for small companies, but mainly the big ones, Exxon and others, were working on these.”
The interview also discussed the emerging Agriculture and Energy markets synergizing into the Carbon Management Market.
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Human trafficking remains a pervasive and deeply troubling issue that plagues societies worldwide. Despite concerted efforts to combat it, numerous challenges persist, hindering progress towards its eradication.
Stacy Schaffer, Founder and Executive Director of 31:8 Project, discusses the realities behind human trafficking, pornography, identifying signals and what are some resources people can use for help.
”Men, women, and children are sold into a $150 billion annual market for sex and labor. This is happening globally, nationally and locally; in hotels, restaurants, and on street corners,” Schaffer said. “Slavery is wrapped up in almost every industry’s supply chain, tainting the food we eat, the clothes we buy, and the electronics we love.”
Schaffer added that human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery and involves the movement of people by means of violence, deception or coercion for the purpose of forced labor, servitude, or slavery-like practices.
“It is a market-based economy that exists on principles of supply and demand,” Schaffer said. “It thrives due to conditions, which allow for high profits to be generated at low risk.”
Here, are some of the key hurdles faced by society in addressing the complex issue of human trafficking.
- Misunderstanding and Awareness: Human trafficking is often misunderstood, leading to misconceptions about its prevalence and nature. Raising awareness and fostering a deeper understanding of the multifaceted aspects of human trafficking is crucial in combating this crime.
- Victim Identification and Support: Identifying and assisting victims of human trafficking pose significant challenges. Victims may fear seeking help due to threats, coercion, or mistrust of authorities. Additionally, there is a lack of adequate resources and support systems for survivors, making their recovery and reintegration into society challenging.
- Legal and Prosecution Challenges: Prosecuting traffickers requires navigating legal complexities and jurisdictional issues. Furthermore, many victims face obstacles in accessing justice, with some preferring healing and prevention over confrontation.
- Public Health Perspective: Recognizing human trafficking as a public health issue is imperative. Addressing the physical and mental health needs of survivors, as well as implementing preventive measures, is crucial in combatting this crime.
- Global Collaboration and Coordination: Human trafficking is a transnational crime that requires coordinated efforts at local, national, and international levels]. Collaboration among governments, law enforcement agencies, NGOs, and communities is essential for effective prevention, prosecution, and protection of victims.
“I experienced my first case of human trafficking with a little girl named Anna. She was eight years old at the time,” Schaffer recalled. “And we don’t typically see this in North Dakota the way it was portrayed in Guatemala, but she was taken from a playground and brought to a brothel where she was repeatedly sexually abused over and over again.”
Schaffer continued to share her story.
“Now, regardless of who you are or your ages, that’s going to be a traumatic event because it was for Anna, and we were fortunately able to intervene, which is very uncommon in underdeveloped areas,” Schaffer said. “So we were able to provide her with services, and she went on to live a pretty stable life. She ended up getting married, having kids, and is doing well. So she’s really my motivation and inspiration for launching 31:8 Project in 2015.”
Schaffer reminds people that combatting human trafficking demands a multifaceted approach and collective action from all sectors of society. By addressing these challenges head-on and fostering collaboration, we can strive towards a world free from the horrors of human trafficking.
“You never know what can trigger you,” Schaffer said. “So our goal is to set them up with the skills so when they are triggered that they don’t go back to something that’s dangerous or relapse in some capacity, but instead they have the tools to keep moving forward.”
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Clint Kling of Shepherd VR joins TownSquare Media KLXX 1270AM’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken and special guest co=host Jason Spiess.
The interview stems around a discussion on how Toyota and several police departments are integrating VR Training into their HR, safety and overall culture.
“I mean a lot of my university research was based on assessing effectiveness in training just because everybody said VR was better,” Kling said. “Nobody really had any hard data. I spent a year and a half or so setting up experiments and running them and basically showcasing what is effective training and as far as VR goes, what’s effective training as far as our traditional methods go. So VR definitely has taken leaps and bounds on the effectiveness of the training.”
Toyota Motor of North America produced and developed a VR experience that teaches team members about assessing risks associated with new equipment on the factory floor. Kling discussed how this translates into other areas of heavy industry and manufacturing training.
“So in that environment we ended up designing an open pit mining scenario so you know when you put on the goggles you’re basically transported from the classroom into the open pit environment,” Kling said. “Everything’s adjusted to scale so everything looks like it should if you were on that site. So the equipment sizes, the high wall sizes, we had a conveyor crusher units presented in a kind of a real life scale.”
At last week’s Sioux City city council meeting, the council voted unanimously to allow the department to use a $75,000 grant to purchase a Virtual Reality training system.
This simulated training will allow officers to use VR headsets to work on movement commands, learn how to de-escalate hostile situations; all while in a mobile and safe environment.
“So like what the police academies are doing, that’s fantastic,” Kling said.
Kling is a seasoned professional in mining and oil operations with over a decade of hands-on industry experience. Kling bolsters his practical knowledge with robust academic qualifications – a Master of Science degree in Mining Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Safety Management. But his ingenuity doesn’t stop there.
In the course of his doctoral studies, Kling has been meticulously creating and refining virtual reality modules to amplify the effectiveness of safety training. By weaving together advanced neuroscience and psychology principles, he’s brought to life the unique Functional Integral Training (FIT) method.
This groundbreaking approach capitalizes on the immersive nature of VR to facilitate superior knowledge retention, positioning Shepherd VR’s training modules a cut above the rest.
“With Shepherd VR, you’re not just learning safety – you’re experiencing it,” Kling said. “Experience the mining environment like never before and cultivate the safest practices with our unique VR training module.”
Kling added that the magic of an impactful VR training module lies in the ingenious crafting of its storyboard.
“Leveraging an in-depth understanding of brain functions and learning mechanisms, I’ve harnessed this knowledge to construct immersive virtual reality modules,” Kling said.
At the end of the day, what is the goal? To Kling, it’s to “help individuals fully understand the crucial concepts of safety and thereby fundamentally transform their thought processes and behaviors – the very core driving factors behind our actions.”
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Warren Martin, executive director, Kansas Strong, joins The Crude Life with an update on the Jayhawk State.
Martin has been very active educating and promoting the benefits of oil and gas, including tax revenues, community development projects and everyday uses for petroleum products.
“Informing the public about the many ways the Kansas oil and natural gas industry contributes to our state and our nation is an important part of our mission,” Martin said. “Kansas Strong has implemented a multi-platform campaign to reach Kansans with our message. See how Kansas Strong is helping educate and inform Kansans about the critical role our industry plays.”
Martin provides periodic messages dedicated to topics related to the oil & natural gas industry and how they impact our lives. He has appeared at over 200 events in the past year.
“So Kansas is a unique oil and gas producing state. We’re 11th leading producing state in the nation. Yet we do not have big oil here in Kansas. We don’t we do not have any of the major oil companies here. Only one that it could even slightly be considered a major oil producing company that actually does production here in the state,” Martin said. “We have a lot of pipeline companies. We have a lot of refining companies. But oil and gas production is predominantly done by local, independent oil and gas producers across the state. We are almost exclusively a marginal well state.”
Martin, a philosophy graduate of Texas Tech University, is an author, teacher, minister, artist, quasi-philosopher and speaker known for his unique teaching style. His passion is to inspire & invest in the next generation of leaders. He currently serves as Executive Director of Kansas Strong for the promotion of the quality of life created by the oil & natural gas industry.
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When supply chains run smoothly, the economies they support do too.
But when even the smallest disruption occurs, supply chains can quickly turn into the equivalent of a daisy chain — where one event sets off a cascading impact down the entire logistics value chain.
Experts fear that this is what could happen up and down the East Coast as businesses and shippers try to manage the fallout from the March 26 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as a result of a cargo ship collision.
According to Maryland Governor Wes Moore port is responsible for over 51 million tons of foreign cargo. That’s the largest in the country. For everybody who was buying cars, everybody who was buying farm equipment, we’re the largest port in country that does that. So, this is not just impacting Maryland.”
In regards to the Energy Industry, smaller companies like RMI Supply are able to remain nimble, ready and able for new business opportunities.
“The big companies and ones involved with mergers or buyouts have an added layer of issues related to time and supply chain,” RMI Supply president Mark Workman said. “Smaller companies can make a decision in the moment, whereas a larger company can take months to make a simple decision.”
Workman explained how this can create financial impacts as well, especially considering the rate of inflation on goods and services.
“The fundamentals of logistics are playing out in front of me where I can see an increase in cargo costs coming, prompting me to make a decision now,” Workman said. “The larger companies can become so bureaucratic it’s hard on them.”
Workman added that during these supply chain impact issues the inability to make a decision will often result in the market making the decision for you and your company.
RMI Supply is a leading provider of specialty oilfield chemicals focusing on delivering environmentally-friendly products to the market combined with a fast and responsive service.
Among the questions around what happens now is what the accident means for shipping and the economy.
The port handled a record amount of cargo last year. While President Joe Biden has said he intends for the federal government to rebuild the bridge, and called on Congress to support that effort, the port is directly responsible for about 15,000 jobs and generated $4.7 billion in economic value to the state of Maryland.
The bridge’s collapse stranded at least 10 vessels in the water and ships outside the blockage have had to reroute to other East Coast ports, such as Norfolk and New Jersey. For global shipping, this comes at a time when companies are contending with route disruptions along the Suez and Panama canals.
Along with being the top U.S. port for autos, Baltimore is also the nation’s furthest inland port, said Houston Mason, adjunct professor of supply chain management at Loyola and Georgetown universities. Companies may have to spend an extra day traveling up the Chesapeake Bay and into Baltimore’s harbor, but once their product is unloaded, it’s closer to the Midwest than it would be at any other East Coast port.
In the last decade, after increasing the depth of berths at its primary cargo terminal, Baltimore has been able to handle substantially larger ships than other East Coast ports, Mason said.
The port is also a major source of employment across the region. A 2018 report found that along with 15,000 direct jobs there were nearly 22,000 other jobs either supported by or indirectly related to activities at the port.
“(The supply chain issues) These are a typical thing over my whole career,” RMI Supply president Mark Workman said. “And during COVID we would be told day in and out that our order was going out today, when the reality was the supplier was just telling me what I wanted to hear.”
Workman, who worked in trucking and logistic prior to oil and gas, said the supply chain issues can become very real and very quick.
“Things become constant after a while, like not having enough drivers or enough trucks,” Workman said. “We learned to adjust to the marketplace and now our company has streamlined our processes from 15 people down to three.”
Workman added that streamlining certain portions of his business rippled into other areas too, which resulted in a huge savings of time and money.
“We can now unload a whole truckload of product for the oil field, label it and get it ready to go on a truck that same day,” Workman said. “In fact, we can now do all that in about two hours.”
RMI Supply is a leading provider of specialty oilfield chemicals focusing on delivering environmentally-friendly products to the market combined with a fast and responsive service.
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Kunal Patel, Dallas Federal Reserve, joins The Crude Life to breakdown the recent Energy Survey. This quarter’s survey also includes for the first time a set of questions regarding price expectations for oil and natural gas over six-month, one-year, two-year and five-year horizons.
According to Patel, activity in the oil and gas sector was relatively unchanged in the first quarter of 2024, as documented in the survey in regards to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.
The business activity index, the survey’s broadest measure of conditions energy firms in the Eleventh District face, was 2.0 in the first quarter, suggesting little to no growth during the quarter. The index was essentially unchanged from last quarter.
Oil and gas production decreased in the first quarter, according to executives at exploration and production (E&P) firms. The oil production index moved down from 5.3 in the fourth quarter to -4.1 in the first quarter, suggesting a small decline in production. Meanwhile, the natural gas production index turned negative, falling sharply from 17.9 to -17.0.
Costs increased at a slightly faster pace for both oilfield services and E&P firms. Among oilfield services firms, the input cost index increased from 21.3 to 31.2. Among E&P firms, the finding and development costs index was relatively unchanged at 24.2. Meanwhile, the lease operating expenses index increased from 22.6 to 33.7.
Oilfield services firms reported modest deterioration in nearly all indicators. The equipment utilization index remained negative but increased from -8.4 in the fourth quarter to -4.2 in the first. The operating margin index moved down from -32.0 to -35.4, suggesting declining margins. The index of prices received for services was unchanged at -6.2.
The aggregate employment index was relatively unchanged at 3.4 in the first quarter. While this is the 13th consecutive positive reading for the index, the low-single-digit reading suggests slow net hiring. The aggregate employee hours index increased from 2.8 in the fourth quarter to 6.9 in the first quarter. Additionally, the aggregate wages and benefits index increased from 21.2 to 32.8.
The company outlook index rebounded in the first quarter, jumping 24 points to 12.0. While the company outlook index increased, it is still below the series average. The overall outlook uncertainty index fell 22 points to 24.1, suggesting that while uncertainty continued to increase on net, fewer firms noted a rise in the recent quarter. The uncertainty index this quarter was slightly above the series average.
On average, respondents expect a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of $80 per barrel at year-end 2024; responses ranged from $70 to $120 per barrel. When asked about longer-term expectations, respondents on average expect a WTI oil price of $83 per barrel two years from now and $90 per barrel five years from now. Survey participants expect a Henry Hub natural gas price of $2.59 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at year-end. When asked about longer-term expectations, respondents on average expect a Henry Hub gas price of $3.18 per MMBtu two years from now and $3.94 per MMBtu five years from now. For reference, WTI spot prices averaged $82.52 per barrel during the survey collection period, and Henry Hub spot prices averaged $1.44 per MMBtu.
In the top two areas in which your firm is active: What West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price does your firm need to cover operating expenses for existing wells?
The average price across the entire sample is approximately $39 per barrel, up from $37 last year. Across regions, the average price necessary to cover operating expenses ranges from $31 to $45 per barrel. Almost all respondents can cover operating expenses for existing wells at current prices.
Large firms (with crude oil production of 10,000 barrels per day or more as of the fourth quarter of 2023) require prices of $26 per barrel to cover operating expenses for existing wells, based on the average of company responses. That compares with $44 for small firms (fewer than 10,000 barrels per day).
In the top two areas in which your firm is active: What WTI oil price does your firm need to profitably drill a new well?
For the entire sample, firms need $64 per barrel on average to profitably drill, higher than the $62-per-barrel price when this question was asked last year. Across regions, average breakeven prices to profitably drill range from $59 to $70 per barrel. Breakeven prices in the Permian Basin average $65 per barrel, $4 higher than last year. Almost all firms in the survey can profitably drill a new well at current prices. (The WTI spot price was $83 per barrel during the survey period.)
Large firms (with crude oil production of 10,000 barrels per day or more as of the fourth quarter of 2023) require a $58-per-barrel price to profitably drill, based on the average of company responses. That compared with $67 for small firms (fewer than 10,000 barrels per day).
How do you expect the number of employees at your company to change from December 2023 to December 2024?
While the the most-selected response among E&P firms was for employment to “remain the same” in 2024, the most-selected response of support service firms was for employment to “increase slightly.” Only a small percentage of executives expect the number of employees at their firms to decrease. (See table for more detail.)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released guidance earlier this year regarding the methane charge from the Inflation Reduction Act. What net impact will the methane charge have on your firm?
The most-selected response among E&P firms was “slightly negative,” chosen by 46 percent of respondents. Another 34 percent selected “significantly negative,” while 19 percent selected “neutral,” and 1 percent expect a positive impact. Meanwhile, the most-selected response among support services firms was “neutral,” chosen by 41 percent of respondents. The next most-popular response was “slightly negative,” selected by 27 percent of support service firms, followed by “significantly negative,” 20 percent. A small group, 11 percent, expect a “slight positive” impact.
When considering small and large E&P firms, executives at small E&P firms were more likely to report a significantly negative impact, 38 percent for small versus 20 for large. (See table for more detail.)
About The Dallas Federal Reserve Survey
Data were collected March 13–21, and 147 energy firms responded. Of the respondents, 97 were exploration and production firms and 50 were oilfield services firms.
The Dallas Fed conducts the Dallas Fed Energy Survey quarterly to obtain a timely assessment of energy activity among oil and gas firms located or headquartered in the Eleventh District. Firms are asked whether business activity, employment, capital expenditures and other indicators increased, decreased or remained unchanged compared with the prior quarter and with the same quarter a year ago. Survey responses are used to calculate an index for each indicator.
Each index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of respondents reporting a decrease from the percentage reporting an increase. When the share of firms reporting an increase exceeds the share reporting a decrease, the index will be greater than zero, suggesting the indicator has increased over the previous quarter. If the share of firms reporting a decrease exceeds the share reporting an increase, the index will be below zero, suggesting the indicator has decreased over the previous quarter.
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Terry Etam, author of The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air’; columnist for the BOE Report and blogger for Public Energy Number One; gives an update from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Etam talks about how natural gas continues to be a wild card, yet foundational energy source for Canada. He explains how politics and policies have creates issues for almost all energies north of the border.
The author also discusses the emerging carbon management industry in Canada. Companies are vying for tax subsidies and carbon credits in order to create new revenues for their respective shareholders.
The discussion also veers into similarities and differences between doing business in the United States and Canada when it comes to energy services.
Everyone knows that fossil fuels won’t last forever. Something needs to change at some point, regardless of whether the issue is climate change or because we need a practical replacement for petroleum as cheap supplies run out.
But while headlines suggest that a green-energy paradise is around the corner, not many are aware of the immense technical challenges that stand in its way. To turn our backs on fossil fuels, a staggering amount of work will be required to refit a global energy sector that has grown systematically for over a century. News of the latest green advancements can make it seem like plug-and-play technology, and simply a matter of switching from one source to another. In reality, the challenge is far greater, and infinitely more complicated.
To make matters worse, environmentalists and fossil-fuel defenders wage continuous but fruitless war, and the growing gap makes it impossible to have any sort of constructive dialogue. Each camp becomes more locked in their position with every exchange, and the most revolutionary ideas never see the light of day. Instead of building, time and money are wasted sparring.
Sparing no sacred cows, Terry Etam cuts through the media rhetoric, government propaganda, and widespread ignorance of the energy sector to get to the heart of what needs to change-and what needs to stay the same-if the challenges of moving away from fossil fuels are to be met, while maintaining the quality of life we have come to expect and rely on.
Terry Etam is a twenty-five-year veteran of Canada’s energy business. He has worked at a number of occupations spanning the finance, accounting, communications, and trading aspects of energy, and has written for several years on his own website Public Energy Number One and the widely-read industry site the BOE Report.
His goal is to kickstart new energy dialogues in a constructive manner as the world faces, and begins to understand, the real challenges of moving away from fossil fuels. In today’s welcome but hyper-vigilant state of environmental scrutiny, where natural ecosystems are treasured and measured far more than ever before, any large-scale changes to energy infrastructure will face huge challenges, as any project manager can attest. It will be far, far harder than many imagine to move away from fossil fuels rapidly.
Mr. Etam has been called an industry thought leader and the most influential voice in the oil patch. He lives in Calgary, Alberta with his family and, for some reason, a little dog.
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Energy transition and industry engagement were the Talk of the Town this week on Townsquare Media’s KLXX SuperTalk 1270AM. Specifically the positive work Chris Wright and the team at Liberty Energy are doing for the oil and gas industry.
Talk of the Town host Steve Bakken asked The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess about his opinion on Chris Wright and the recent changes at Liberty Energy.
“Before CO and carbon capture became a catchword, Liberty Energy figured out the industry was more expansive than oil and gas and we are an energy company and not limited to oil and gas,” Bakken said. “They grew into some other spaces and have done a great job being vocal and pushing out the messaging.”
Spiess agreed with Bakken and advanced the conversation further.
“What their CEO Chris Wright has done, in my opinion, has become of the true leaders in the petroleum space to educate global leaders on how the oil and gas industry is a leader in carbon management and environmental innovations,” Spiess said.
The two continued the discussion citing examples of how the industry used to be very “boiler plate” on how to conduct public relations, however, time have changed.
“What Chris Wright and Liberty do different than many of the other leaders in the industry is they do not present their message from an ego-centric point of view rather a this is what we do and this is why we do it,” Spiess said. “He’s really been one of the first ones to crack the presentation culture where I think the rest of the industry has missed.”
Bakken agreed.
“Chris and Liberty stepped outside the box,” Bakken said.
Chris Wright is the Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Energy in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Wright was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2020. He also serves on the Denver Branch Board of Directors.
From the perspective of Denver Branch Board Director Chris Wright, “energy is the infrastructure of the economy. It makes everything else possible.”
Wright, a pioneer in hydraulic fracturing, is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Liberty Oilfield Services in Denver. He also is the executive chairman of Liberty Resources and Liberty Midstream Solutions.
He previously served as chief executive officer of Pinnacle Technologies, which created the hydraulic fracture mapping industry and helped launch the modern “fracking” industry and commercial shale gas production in the 1990s.
“We bring out the technology, the trucks, and the horsepower” to release oil and gas from shale, Wright said on the Federal Reserve’s website. Large producers like Exxon and ConocoPhillips are among Liberty Oilfield Service’s customers.
Wright serves on numerous organizations’ boards of directors and is involved in several initiatives to provide scholarships, career opportunities, and other resources in communities across the Denver region. He sees his Denver Branch Board director service as an extension of that commitment to helping others pursue their dreams.
Learn more about Wright and Liberty Energy here.
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Dr. Loren Scott joined Jason Spiess to discuss the EPA’s decision to award Louisiana the power to approve carbon capture projects.
Louisiana is the third state—after North Dakota and Wyoming—given primary authority by EPA to issue permits for the Class VI wells used in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). North Dakota approved its fourth well permit last spring, and an ethanol producer is already capturing and storing carbon there.
Texas, West Virginia, and Arizona all have similar requests into EPA. The federal agency took 4 years to approve Louisiana’s bid for primacy.
Proponents say giving more states primary authority to issue permits will accelerate approval of new projects essential to reduce CO2.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2023 fueled additional interest. Companies can receive a tax credit up to $85/ton to capture and permanently store carbon about a mile below the earth’s surface.
As applications continue to flow in, EPA now has a backlog of Class VI well-permit applications, including about 20 from companies operating in Louisiana, an EPA spokesman said Jan. 4 in a written statement. Under the new agreement, Louisiana will handle all new Class VI applications in the state, and EPA has begun discussing handover of permit applications already submitted, the EPA spokeswoman said.
Louisiana is an emerging hub of carbon management deployment working within the regional Gulf Coast context.
In the state, there are 324 facilities that qualify for the 45Q tax credit, ranging from various power generation sources, refineries, and more industrial sectors. The emissions from these 320 facilities represent an estimated 99.7 percent of all the emissions from facilities in the state.
Louisiana recognizes the potential that carbon management presents to curb these emissions while strengthening the state’s economic base. As such, Louisiana has enacted policies to further deployment in the state and applied for Class VI primacy from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Critics of carbon storage, including environmental groups and local citizens, questioned whether Louisiana was capable of proper oversight and storage safety. Dr. Scott pointed to successful carbon projects being run by Denbury for decades.
In fact, Denbury, pipeline and carbon sequestration company, announced this past summer that they have two new projects in south Louisiana, marking at least its sixth carbon capture endeavor in the state.
The first of the two new projects is a joint venture with Lapis Energy, a Dallas firm that specializes in carbon sequestration. The joint venture, dubbed Libra CO 2 Storage Solutions LLC, calls for a carbon sequestration complex at Lapis Energy’s 14,000-acre site in St. Charles Parish, about 20 miles west of New Orleans.
Denbury and Lapis Energy will each own a 50% interest in the joint venture, according to a news release.
Lapis Energy will lead the initial construction of the project and the carbon injection well permitting process, while Denbury will assume operatorship and construction management once carbon injection begins, the news release said.
Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., is a 35-year old firm that provides economic consulting and public speaking services for a wide range of clients. Consulting activities include impact studies, forecasting services, analysis of policy proposals, and general economic analyses. Consulting clients include BP, ExxonMobil, Entergy Corporation, J. P. Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, Nucor, Sasol, and a diversity of others. Our objective is to put together the very best team of associates to attack our client’s problems. Dr. Scott makes 50-70 presentations a year on the state of—and the outlook for—the economy and the energy sector in particular.
He is one of the 32-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of state, national, and international interest. This group has experts who cover international trade, Washington economic policy, retail trade, trucking, steel, chemicals, etc.
Dr. Scott is an energy specialist on the NBEIC. He has been appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness—a group made up of the CEOs of the Fortune 100, top university presidents, and presidents of three major unions.
He has been interviewed on MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and several local TV stations and his work has been cited in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Moscow Times, to name a few.
Dr. Loren C. Scott is President and founder of the firm. He was on the Economics Department faculty at Louisiana State University from 1969 to 1998, where he rose through the ranks from Assistant Professor to the holder of the Freeport-McMoran endowed Chair of Economics. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Economics at LSU.
Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, Dr. Scott was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department’s ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 38th. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.
Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each fall. He was a co-investigator on over $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports in addition to reports written for consulting clients.
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Energy expert, author and public speaker Robert Bryce joins The Crude Life founder Jason Spiess and The Word Merchant Stephen Heins to discuss his new docuseries Juice, nuclear energy, corporate greed and how the environment impacts energy.
Last week, Bryce released a new docuseries that highlights how bad energy policy decisions are making the United States and other countries more vulnerable to power shortages and blackouts.
Bryce and colleague Tyson Culver decided to launch the project following the Texas blackout associated with Winter Storm Uri in February 2021. Millions of people were without electricity for days, and several hundred deaths were attributed to exposure or other causes.
“That blackout and the fact that the ERCOT grid (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) nearly collapsed, convinced us that we had to do another film,” Bryce said. “And now, three years later, we accomplished what we set out to do.”
The five-part docuseries, Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid, is now available for free on YouTube. Rather than make a feature-length film, Bryce said they decided to make the content as user-friendly as possible, so broke it into five episodes, each lasting about 20 minutes.
The series features 34 interviews that were shot in Texas, Japan, Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado, California, Washington D.C., Illinois, Egypt, and England. The cast of characters includes many of the world’s top thought leaders on energy, including political scientist Roger Pielke Jr., Grid Brief editor Emmet Penney, civil rights leader Jennifer Hernandez, author Michael Shellenberger, Canadian nuclear activist Chris Keefer, author Meredith Angwin, former IEA director Nobuo Tanaka, World Nuclear Association director Sama Bilbao, Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal founder Madi Hilly, and many others.
Bryce said he is especially proud of Episode 3, which features the Osage tribe’s battle with Enel over a wind project the company built by violating the tribe’s sovereignty.
I have been covering this issue for more than four years, so I was thrilled last month when a federal court judge in Tulsa ordered Enel to remove all 84 of the turbines it built in Osage County,” Bryce said. “It’s a landmark ruling and an enormous embarrassment for Big Wind and Enel, a company that has endlessly touted its ‘green’ credentials.”
Bryce said the goal of the project was not to make a bunch of money, but rather to change the conversation.
“We want to help alert people and policymakers about the dangers facing our electric grid and the importance of what Chris Keefer calls our ‘civilizational life support system,'” Bryce said. “Our goal is to help people understand how our grid is being fragilized and why we need fission to fix it.”
Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid – the Trailer
Episode 1: Texas Blackout
Episode 2: Undermined by Enron
Episode 3: Green Dreams
Episode 4: Nuclear Renaissance
Episode 5: Industrial Cathedrals
Bryce has given over 300 invited or keynote lectures to dozens of groups including the Marine Corps War College, Sydney Institute, Jadavpur University, Northwestern University, and a wide variety of professional associations and corporations. He has also appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows including NPR, BBC, MSNBC, Fox, Al Jazeera, CNN, and PBS.
He spent 12 years as a reporter for the Austin Chronicle. From 2006 to 2010, he was the managing editor of the Houston-based Energy Tribune. From 2010 to September 2019, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
He lives in Austin with his wife, Lorin.
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Monte Besler, FRACN8R, joins TownSquare Media’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken and guest co-host Jason Spiess with a boots-on-the-ground update from the Bakken oil fields.
“Well, one thing is we’re significantly more mature than a lot of the other areas,” Besler said.
When asked to define the term “mature”, Besler added some context.
“Well, all of the competitive acquisition of leases, drilling to hold production, a lot of that stuff has been taken care of,” Besler said. “Now it’s gone into more of a steady state development where you’re going back into areas that you control the lease on and you’re now drilling additional wells to develop that resource. And that allows a little more controlled operation.”
One of the first companies Besler spoke about was Chevron and Hess.
“You mentioned Hess and Chevron, now, I think that’s still being worked out, the details, because of the size of the companies and the sort,” Belser said. “Chevron likely went after Hess, not just for North Dakota, but also for their offshore properties in Guyana, which was huge that Hess owned, and I believe would probably make them the operator in that offshore field, which is huge.”
The three discussed the Carbon Management industry in the Bakken as well.
“The premier pilot project for bringing CO2 to the Williston Basin, you know, currently down in the southwest part of the basin in the Cedar Creek Anticline,” Besler said. “They’re making plans at least to be able to move it further into the basin. Of course, the Summit (Summit Carbon Solutions) deal is also a CO2-related project, bringing ethanol plant CO2 into the basin for storage, but also potentially for subsequent use for EUR later on. There’s a tie-in to the oil and gas industry there with that.”
Belser also gave an update on Chord Energy, which is a combination of Whiting Petroleum Corporation and Oasis Petroleum Inc., creating a scaled unconventional U.S. oil producer with a premier Williston Basin position with top tier assets across approximately 972,000 net acres.
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Kelly Marshall, Creative Director in the oil and gas industry as well as an Energy Ambassador, joins The Crude Life to talk about Energy Day at the Capitol in Colorado.
Representatives of Colorado’s oil and gas industry, along with hundreds of supporters, gathered on the west steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday for a rally opposing a proposal to ban all new oil and gas drilling by 2030.
“Well, they started across the street and we were politely asked to leave that venue because the group was a little too boisterous for that closed area,” Marshall said. “So we went across the street to the Capitol steps.”
She explained that leadership members Dan Haley, Colorado Oil and Gas Association president and CEO, Kim McHugh, COGA board chair and vice president of the Chevron Corp. Rockies Business Unit, and Kait Schwartz, the American Petroleum Institute Colorado director made speeches to the crowd.
“Colorado Oil and Gas Association is the one who put the day together and Dan Haley spoke very eloquently about the issues and was incredibly thankful for the 200 plus people that showed up to support not pushing through this legislation,” Marshall said. “They got the mic up and working and everyone stood and listened to the facts about the bill, the bills that are under review and about the vote and Dan was incredibly thankful for everyone that came out and showed up.”
Marshall also addresses one of the less talked about issues facing oil and gas in Colorado – industry spirit.
“I feel like this group of people is so beaten down by the public opinion of fossil fuels and oil and gas and the steady barrage of green energy, green, green, green, that they don’t really feel like they are allowed to speak up,” Marshall said.
Marshall also talked about some of the groups educating the public in Colorado, including the nonprofit CRED – Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development.
Senate Bill 24-159 is scheduled to be heard on Thursday in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
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Mark Workman, RMI Supply, gives an update from the supply chain logistical point of view as well as an update on his observations in the market.
Folding in the amount of uncertainty in industry, coming from leadership, the media and politicians regarding oil and gas, Workman dives deep into service and accountability. This organically created a conversation involving the realities of trust and integrity in the marketplace.
“You need to be able to call your customer within 30 seconds and finding that information out and telling the truth,” Workman said. “A lot of logistics is based on the idea of being truthful and then you know quick with your responses and literally that’s how i’ve ever established my business or grown this oil field side of the business since 2009.”
Workman continues explaining how customers need information, not manufactured happiness or misinformation.
“I literally have my customers tell me how quick I respond to things and answer questions and that kind of thing,” Workman said. “So it’s very important to me to respond quickly.”
While Workman is navigating the intangible waters of the energy marketplace, his business continues to grow. Especially in the “liquid blending” space.
“We stick to high quality on purpose. We don’t want to be selling tech grade it’s like API 13 you know,” Workman said. “People out there know what that means, it’s just sometime people just use the lowest possible thing you can put out there that is approvable by an operator or somebody, but we stick to the higher grades for sure so the performance is better and the problems are fewer if it all.”
The interview also discussed why quality products tend to cost a bit more on the front end, however, saves a small fortune the rest of the time.
“There’s all kinds of savings in going with the right quality product, in my opinion,” Workman said. “You go to the low end side, you do pay for it one way or another. And that’s the direction we’ve gone as a mission statement, is to stick to the highest end that we can get to and still try to be competitive, which is hard.”
RMI Supply is a leading provider of specialty oilfield chemicals, focusing on bringing trusted products to the market combined with a fast and responsive service.
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Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins The Crude Life to discuss how March Madness coaching is like managing a business.
The interview starts off with a discussion of how the overall culture in business has changed. In sports the comparison is made with the NIL (Name Image Likeness) and how college athletes are more of a business person than athlete.
The comparison to “side hustles” while at work is made during this thread of the interview.
Nick Sabin from Alabama recently cited this issue as a reason for retiring from coaching. Catlin Clark’s debates about whether going pro is a pay cut or not from college is also discussed in detail.
The interview next tackles the “One and Done” colleges like Rick Pitino and John Calipari are known for. The professional comparison is made how statistics show that professionals who work 8 jobs in 10 years make 40% more than a person who stays with the same employer for 10 years.
The value of intangibles, fringe benefits and stability are discussed in this thread as well.
Has your business ever had a viral moment on social media or a huge sale that was cause for celebration? Well Duquesne, North Carolina State and a handful of other colleges pulled off the upsets of the year in order to punch their March Madness ticket. Sinnott talks about how to manage that energy within an organization and how to prepare for the next game or sale.
On the flip side of the Cinderella Story are those left out like Pittsburgh and Memphis. These are coaches who have legit arguments that their product and service is just as good or better than some selected.
How to navigate negativity is the main theme of this thread.
Controlling the narrative, understanding labels and how the Justin Fields Russell Wilson news compares to transitioning executives while maintaining the 5-year business plan.
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The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 556 is currently airing across a 5-state radio network. Here are the industry experts, community leaders and special guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 556:
WOMEN IN ENERGY: Kelly Marshall gives an update from Colorado and their Energy Day at the Capitol.
Representatives of Colorado’s oil and gas industry, along with hundreds of supporters, gathered on the west steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday for a rally opposing a proposal to ban all new oil and gas drilling by 2030.
“Well, they started across the street and we were politely asked to leave that venue because the group was a little too boisterous for that closed area,” Marshall said. “So we went across the street to the Capitol steps.”
She explained that leadership members Dan Haley, Colorado Oil and Gas Association president and CEO, Kim McHugh, COGA board chair and vice president of the Chevron Corp. Rockies Business Unit, and Kait Schwartz, the American Petroleum Institute Colorado director made speeches to the crowd.
“Colorado Oil and Gas Association is the one who put the day together and Dan Haley spoke very eloquently about the issues and was incredibly thankful for the 200 plus people that showed up to support not pushing through this legislation,” Marshall said. “They got the mic up and working and everyone stood and listened to the facts about the bill, the bills that are under review and about the vote and Dan was incredibly thankful for everyone that came out and showed up.”
SPECIAL FEATURE: Clint Kling of Shepherd VR joins Jason Spiess to talk about the rise of virtual reality training and technology. The interview starts off with a discussion on how Toyota and several police departments are integrating VR Training into their HR, safety and overall culture.
“I mean a lot of my university research was based on assessing effectiveness in training just because everybody said VR was better,” Kling said. “Nobody really had any hard data. I spent a year and a half or so setting up experiments and running them and basically showcasing what is effective training and as far as VR goes, what’s effective training as far as our traditional methods go. So VR definitely has taken leaps and bounds on the effectiveness of the training.”
INDUSTRY EXPERT:Mark Workman, RMI Supply, gives an update from the supply chain logistical point of view as well as an update on his observations in the market.
Folding in several past weeks of The Crude Life updates, there is an amount of uncertainty coming from leadership, the media and politicians regarding oil and gas. This organically created a conversation involving the realities of trust and integrity in the marketplace.
“You need to be able to call your customer within 30 seconds and finding that information out and telling the truth,” Workman said. “A lot of logistics is based on the idea of being truthful and then you know quick with your responses and literally that’s how i’ve ever established my business or grown this oil field side of the business since 2009.”
EXTENDING ENERGY: The Crude Life founder Jason Spiess joins KLXX-SuperTalk 1270AM’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken for Wattage Wednesday to discuss the Bakken’s recent dip in production.
The two question whether the temperature really played as big as a role in past years considering this year was one of the warmest winters on record.
The Crude Life sponsors every Wednesday’s Talk of the Town to ensure energy related topics are discussed within the Bakken communities.
Wattage Wednesday interviews air on TownSquare Media’s KLXX SuperTalk 1270AM from 9-11AM Central Time.
MARCH MADNESS: Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners and the host of The Energy Detox Podcast joins The Crude Life to discuss how March Madness coaching is like managing a business.
The interview starts off with a discussion of how the overall culture in business has changed. In sports the comparison is made with the NIL (Name Image Likeness) and how college athletes are more of a business person than athlete.
The comparison to “side hustles” while at work is made during this thread of the interview.
Nick Sabin from Alabama recently cited this issue as a reason for retiring from coaching. Catlin Clark’s debates about whether going pro is a pay cut or not from college is also discussed in detail.
The interview next tackles the “One and Done” colleges like Rick Pitino and John Calipari are known for. The professional comparison is made how statistics show that professionals who work 8 jobs in 10 years make 40% more than a person who stays with the same employer for 10 years.
Witting Partners helps energy industry leaders achieve and sustain peak performance by combining an unmatched blend of oil & gas experience, insight, and results with the power of leadership coaching, workshops, and keynotes so that you and your stakeholders don’t un-wittingly damage your odds of achieving long-term success.
If you want to produce 𝑺𝑼𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑰𝑵𝑨𝑩𝑳𝑬 results, then turn to a resource with 15+ years of proven success stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia, from service company to operator, and from drilling rig to downtown boardroom.
To learn more, visit Witting Partners’ website or follow on LinkedIn.
ENERGIZING GEN Z: Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions discusses how the industry can connect with the youth, women and non-industry workers.
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Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry.
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Here is a fantastic interview with Shawnee Christensen, Bodell Construction, gives an update on the recent activities from the heavy construction industry.
“We are a full service general contractor,” Christensen said. “We do everything from demolition to new construction and everything in between. We work coast to coast on everything from mine sites to gas and oil refineries, solar, wind, you name it.”
Christensen said they are still busy with their oil and gas work too.
“Gas and oil refineries we do a lot of turnover there,” Christensen said. “Still busy with that.”
She added they are also working on a couple “refueling stations” in Oklahoma, a furnace rebuild in Idaho and a water treatment plant in Maui, Hawaii.
Bodell Construction is currently hiring, contact Christensen on LinkedIn for more information.
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Clint Kling of Shepherd VR joins Jason Spiess to talk about the rise of virtual reality training and technology. The interview starts off with a discussion on how Toyota and several police departments are integrating VR Training into their HR, safety and overall culture.
“I mean a lot of my university research was based on assessing effectiveness in training just because everybody said VR was better,” Kling said. “Nobody really had any hard data. I spent a year and a half or so setting up experiments and running them and basically showcasing what is effective training and as far as VR goes, what’s effective training as far as our traditional methods go. So VR definitely has taken leaps and bounds on the effectiveness of the training.”
Toyota Motor of North America produced and developed a VR experience that teaches team members about assessing risks associated with new equipment on the factory floor.
This Toyota factory, they’re actually mimicking some sort of machine that they have on the floor,” Kling said. “That’s really cost effective to companies in the long run if you’re looking at it in that way because a lot of times if you’re gonna train a new employee on a piece of equipment, then you’re gonna have to slow down production or shut down production to train that employee where now they’re getting that in a virtual reality system that it’s exactly like the real thing.”
At last week’s Sioux City city council meeting, the council voted unanimously to allow the department to use a $75,000 grant to purchase a Virtual Reality training system.
This simulated training will allow officers to use VR headsets to work on movement commands, learn how to de-escalate hostile situations; all while in a mobile and safe environment.
“So like what the police academies are doing, that’s fantastic,” Kling said.
Kling is a seasoned professional in mining and oil operations with over a decade of hands-on industry experience. Kling bolsters his practical knowledge with robust academic qualifications – a Master of Science degree in Mining Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Safety Management. But his ingenuity doesn’t stop there.
In the course of his doctoral studies, Kling has been meticulously creating and refining virtual reality modules to amplify the effectiveness of safety training. By weaving together advanced neuroscience and psychology principles, he’s brought to life the unique Functional Integral Training (FIT) method.
This groundbreaking approach capitalizes on the immersive nature of VR to facilitate superior knowledge retention, positioning Shepherd VR’s training modules a cut above the rest.
“With Shepherd VR, you’re not just learning safety – you’re experiencing it,” Kling said. “Experience the mining environment like never before and cultivate the safest practices with our unique VR training module.”
Kling added that the magic of an impactful VR training module lies in the ingenious crafting of its storyboard.
“Leveraging an in-depth understanding of brain functions and learning mechanisms, I’ve harnessed this knowledge to construct immersive virtual reality modules,” Kling said.
At the end of the day, what is the goal? To Kling, it’s to “help individuals fully understand the crucial concepts of safety and thereby fundamentally transform their thought processes and behaviors – the very core driving factors behind our actions.”
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Leveraging over a decade of industry expertise in mining and oil, Shepherd VR combines neuroscience and psychology with our innovative FIT methodology to revolutionize safety training. Experience the difference, elevate your training program, and see astounding results.
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Jason Maxey, the director of the Weld County Oil and Gas Energy Department, joined TownSquare Media SuperTalk 1270’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken and Jason Spiess for a special interview on some of the critical energy issues in Weld County. Weld County, situated in northeastern Colorado, is a region rich [...]
Joe Sinnott, CEO, Witting Partners and host of The Energy DeTox Podcast joins Jason Spiess of The Crude Life for a conversation that centers around the transition from summer to the back-to-school season and the challenges of planning and preparations associated with it. Plus the importance of slowing down and [...]
Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest and chairman of the ND UAS Council, talks about the Workover Rig Training program and the UAS Integration. Nebeker has served as the Regional Director for Technical Programs and Training at TrainND Northwest since November of 2018. TrainND Northwest meets the workforce training needs of northwestern North Dakota [...]
Here are this week’s industry experts, community leaders and energy enthusiasts appearing on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 514. Terry Etam, author of The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, writer for the BOE Report and blogger for Public Energy Number One comments on the Canadian Energy Market [...]
Jim Willis, owner, Marcellus Drilling News gives an update on the MVP Pipeline project as well as the Shell Ethane Cracker Plant in the Marcellus Utica Appalachian Basin. Willis discusses the MVP Mountain Valley pipeline, a natural gas pipeline that spans 303 miles from West Virginia to Virginia. The pipeline [...]
Bailey Midkiff, Performance Pulsation Control, Inc, stops by Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken and Wednesday co-host Jason Spiess, the founder of The Crude Life. Midkiff work with major oil and gas companies (Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream) to diagnose positive displacement pump issues and provide solutions. Midkiff talks about [...]
Canada’s Greatest Export Terry Etam, author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil and gas activity north of the border, how logging policies are leading to wildfires and his [...]
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Kenly Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest and the chairman of the North Dakota UAS Council discusses the use of drones in the oil and gas industry, highlighting their different applications including pipeline and site inspections as well as ensuring safety.
He stresses the significance of training for working in the unmanned aircraft sector as an early opportunity for entrepreneurs and new career minded professionals.
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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CNBC’s Brian Sullivan gives a few energy related tips.
Kunal Patel of the Dallas Federal Reserve gives the results from their latest Energy Survey.
Dr. Bill Dunkelberg is a Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business explains why Small Business is the best way to jump start the economy.
Raymond Gentry talks about the boom and busts of Shale Play USA from a Pawn Brokers’ perspective.
Bobby Adkins with iTankData talks automation, energy and saving money in real time.
Kenley Nebeker, TrainND and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations with an update on EVolution Hybrid.
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Weekly Sponsor: Stephen Heins, The Practical Environmentalist
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Heins is also a vocal advocate of the Internet of Everything, free trade, and global issues affecting the third of our planet that still lives in abject poverty.
Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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In the fifth part of the EVolution Hybrid series, Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations and Jason Spiess, founder of The Crude Life, discuss the roadblock known as the supply chain.
Perkins explains how the rare earth minerals and foreign imports have created a new issue in the economy. He specifically discusses the surge in EV Agriculture equipment.
Perkins attended a World Ag Show recently and was taken back by the number of EV Projects now existing in agriculture compared to last year.
“Last year at the show I do not recall any EV farm machinery or equipment,” Perkins said. “This year it’s all I can recall is the number of companies pitching EV services.”
Spiess specifically asks if this is policy driven rather than free market. Perkins believes so. The two discuss how the recent legislation has created a marketplace where dollars are directing who gets preferred treatment.”
“Are these companies showcasing multiple EVs or are they showing a prototype and hoping for orders?” Spiess asked.
“Prototypes mostly that I could see,” Perkins said. “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen and experienced, I do think the Agriculture market got and is getting preferential treatment with the supply chain right now.”
The two discussed the rationale from feeding the world to political posturing, thus pontificating whether the distribution channels would be next on the government EV priority list.
The conversation also dives into several examples of how smaller companies are having issue getting parts, information and access to the EV supply chain.
If definitely looks like they are favoring the larger vehicle manufactures, that’s where we are seeing all the batteries and controller components going into because they have large production numbers.”
Perkins gives an update on Tesla and Panasonic’s latest EV Batteries as well as parts from companies like Rockwell. He also explains why China is leading the EV market right now due to their historical use and mineral access.
In the fourth part of this series following EVolution Hybrid, a project integrating a traditional semi truck with a combustion engine with a EV battery and electric vehicle technology we get an update on the engine features, roadblocks and successes.
In this exclusive interview with Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovation, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, the two discuss how EVolution Hybrid is ready to take on these traditional challenges, plus a couple anticipated ones too.
In Part Three the challenge is towing and range anxiety.
“If we have a greater amount of weight that we are towing or resistance whether it be a vertical incline or bad roads or a low tire, just things that will impact how much power we are using and increase the amount of amperage by the motor, and that would consume the battery quicker.”
Towing creates conversations about torque as well.
“The electric motors we are using they can build what we call Peak Torque at a really low if not zero RPM,” Perkins said. “This is different from a reciprocating piston where your peak torque could be at a specific RPM usually in the RPM range.”
The interview also discussed tires and how many electric vehicles have specific tires for the vehicle and if someone put new tires on, it impacts how far you can drive. So does temperature.
“An individual going to see his son on Christmas on the east coast was set to drive 200 miles in the below freezing temperature after he hit the SuperCharge Station close to his house,” Perkins said. “When he left his garage the Tesla battery was warm enough to start and drive, only when he got to the charge station and at that point the battery has discharged some but it’s cool enough it will not allow him to charge.”
This transitioned into one of the biggest issues right now for the EV Transition is “Range Anxiety”. Nebeker has had first hand experience and says it is a real thing.
“I experienced range anxiety first hand and absolutely it is real,” Nebeker said. “That question of am I going to get where I need to get is a real worry with range anxiety. With an internal combustion engine with gas motors, you know you have until empty then you have to fill it up. It’s a consistent draw versus unpredictability really.”
In Part Two, the two talked about time and money.
When it comes to life, time is money. In transportation it’s time and weight that equal money. Well in the world of EV Transportation, it’s time, weight and temperature that mean money.
In Part One, the two gave an overview of project EVolution Hybrid, which is integrating an electric battery into a traditional combustion engine while maintaining the classic trucking look. With maybe a hint of flare or contemporary fashions.
“One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the transportation and trucking industry,” Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest said. “We are really trying to find a way to expose our students and the community to the potential that lies within the electric truck, or in this case a hybrid truck. I’ve never been a believer in all-one-way or another.”
Nebeker is referring to an all EV solution or an all fossil fuel solution. Nebeker believes this project will shine a light on how a “marriage” between the two concepts will ultimately become a viable solution to an energy transition.
“One important part of this project is the look,” Nebeker said. “I like that traditional Americana semi truck look and understand that still connects with the public too.”
Click here for Part Two of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
Click here for Part One of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
One of the ways the electric combustion collaboration can occur is weight. According to Perkins, the weight of fuel, the batteries and cargo are factors when determining your bottom line in business.
“Most Class A trucks vary as there are different models from the manufacturers, but there’s a lot that is similar” Perkins said. “The less a truck can weigh, the more freight you can haul and essentially, generate higher revenues because of it.”
For fleets, this could have significant savings. Perkins dives into the details of sleeper cabs, drop steer axles and other accessories when discussing the weight and revenues in trucking. All these additional details matter when discussing electric batteries and transition.
“Most electric trucks are going to be in the 400-600 kilowatt hour range. Tesla just released a 1000 kilowatt hour battery,” Perkins said. “But interestingly enough in the past three years the battery technology has allowed us to have reductions in weight but still, it is over 10,000 pounds in battery weight.”
The interview also discussed the difference between fuel weight and battery weight. Which would save money in the long haul? Host Jason Spiess cited an example of an interview with Keri Frank, CEO, Comply365, and her integration of iPads in aviation.
“Before iPads, the industry had a 50-plus-pound black metal box that contained procedure papers required by law,” Spiess said. “After Keri Frank got the industry to transition those papers to an iPad, not only did they see an immediate impact by not printing new sheets every time a new code was issued. But the real savings they saw was over a year in fuel savings. The weight over time was nickels turning into dollars.”
Both Nebeker and Perkins agreed with the sustainable savings and how trucking companies will see similar results.
Another area of change or transition EVoltion Hybrid will see is jobs. Nebeker is anticipating changes with mechanics, IT and other areas of trucking and transportation, and is in constant contact with the supply chain and supporting cast.
Here are some supporting interviews for EVoltion Hybrid and the community of Williston, ND.
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The project is scheduled to take 9-12 months, depending on the supply chain, according to Nebeker.
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Dr. Loren C. Scott joins The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess for an update from Louisiana’s innovation, importing/exporting natural, extracting energy and the overall refining industry.
According to Dr. Scott, the state is experiencing some healthy economic activity, primarily due to the refining industries and natural gas.
“Right now countries are racing for the cheapest natural gas molecules and the United States is considerably cheaper than the rest of the world,” Dr. Scott said.
Dr. Scott continued to explain why foreign countries are especially interested in LA.
Dr. Scott also explains why the pipeline system in LA is critical to the energy activity currently happening as well as the Mississippi River.
“What they (foreign countries) are figuring out is the best places to come are on the Mississippi River, between Baton Rouge and the mouth of the Mississippi River, and The Calcasieu Ship Channel over in Lake Charles and then on the Southeastern Coast of Texas,” Dr. Scott said.
The Pipeline Grid in LA is massive in size and according to Dr. Scott, it is critical to the nation’s infrastructure and energy security.
“What you see when you look at a pipeline map of the United States is a mass of pipelines along the Louisiana and Texas Coast,” Dr. Scott said. “So not only will they be able to get cheap natural gas, but they would have accessibility to it.”
Right now, according to Dr. Scott, the Haynesville shale play is the main reason for the state’s oil and gas activity.
“In terms of oil and gas extraction, the really bright spot is the Haynesville Shale,” Dr. Scott said. “The reason the Haynesville Shale is doing very well right now, which the rig count has gone from about 16 to about 45 in the Louisiana portion of the shale, and the reason for that is that there has been a tsunami of new chemical firms and LNG export firms that have come into the southern part of the state.”
Dr. Scott also explains why ocean-going ships can travel up the Mississippi River giving that area of the world an advantage in transportation and distribution.
Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., is a 35-year old firm that provides economic consulting and public speaking services for a wide range of clients. Consulting activities include impact studies, forecasting services, analysis of policy proposals, and general economic analyses. Consulting clients include BP, ExxonMobil, Entergy Corporation, J. P. Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, Nucor, Sasol, and a diversity of others. Our objective is to put together the very best team of associates to attack our client’s problems. Dr. Scott makes 50-70 presentations a year on the state of—and the outlook for—the economy and the energy sector in particular.
He is one of the 32-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of state, national, and international interest. This group has experts who cover international trade, Washington economic policy, retail trade, trucking, steel, chemicals, etc. Dr. Scott is an energy specialist on the NBEIC. He has been appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness—a group made up of the CEOs of the Fortune 100, top university presidents, and presidents of three major unions.
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Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, Dr. Scott was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department’s ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 38th. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.
Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each fall. He was a co-investigator on over $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports in addition to reports written for consulting clients.
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Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners and host of the Energy Detox Podcast, joins The Crude Life founder Jason Spiess to talk about how mental health is part of the oil and gas industry.
From the early days of “throwing some dirt” on your mental health issues to actual programs companies are installing into their company culture.
Sinnott and Spiess also discuss the mental health impacts of a company “using” an employee for marketing purposes – i.e. Women’s History Month or Minority Month. Themed months can become a tricky employment marketing plan as highlighting someone’s interests, genders and cultures once a year can open up new conversations for the other 11 months of the year.
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices
Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in May in the United States since 1949. The month is observed with media, local events, and film screenings. Mental Health Awareness Month began in the United States in 1949 and was started by the Mental Health America organization.
The Crude Life celebrates and honors all struggling with personal demons and those attempting to better their mind, body and soul. All energy has a purpose and we are all energy.
Sinnott gives a boots-on-the-ground update from the Marcellus Utica with an update on the Shell Ethane Cracker Plant.
Sinnott said despite efforts of transparency and communication, the plant is facing some PR hurdles with flaring and environmental activists. (The day after the interview with Sinnott, Shell was served legal papers and was sued by a local environmental group.)
The “cracker” plant, located along the Ohio River about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside Pittsburgh, opened in November and uses ethane from a vast shale gas reservoir underneath Pennsylvania and surrounding states to makes polyethylene, a plastic used in everything from consumer and food packaging to tires.
Clean Air Council, it alleges that operator Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC, a subsidiary of British oil and gas giant Shell plc, is violating state and federal limits on smog, as well as emissions limits in its state-approved operating plan.
The company had projected to spend $6 billion on the refinery, which took years to build. At full capacity, the plant is expected to produce 3.5 billion pounds (1.6 billion kilograms) of polyethylene annually.
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Sinnott has been a resource for the industry with over 15 years of proven success stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia, from service company to operator, and from drilling rig to downtown boardroom. For more info on Sinnott, visit his website or LinkedIn Profile Page.
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Heins is also a vocal advocate of the Internet of Everything, free trade, and global issues affecting the third of our planet that still lives in abject poverty.
Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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It’s Wattage Wednesday on SuperTalk 1270AM Bismarck-Mandan’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken. Bobby Adkins and Stuart Schmidt of iTankData and joins The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess and Bakken during two segments of the 2-hour daily talk and news program.
The four discuss the technology of the Bakken and other oil and gas basins across the United States. The conversation specifically dove into what iTankdata does for oil and gas, which is remotely monitoring fluid levels in tanks and provides management data to mobile devices.
Adkins says the cost is $625 plus $20 a month for the data plan. Spiess compares it to a past article and interview with Kerry Frank and Comply365, which revolutionized the aviation industry with the use of iPads to save gas money.
Adkins explains that their technology is more cost-effective and accurate than competitors like SKAA systems. Stuart recently spoke with operators from Murphy Oil and OXY about bringing in additional chemical and oil field technology.
For example, in this case the technology can remotely monitor tanks and identify leaks and slow-downs, improving efficiency and catching negative events sooner. It can be used by anyone with a tank, including farmers and fuel storage facilities.
To contact Adkins or Schmidt of iTankData, click on their names or here.
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Studio Sponsor: The Industrial Forest
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Heins is also a vocal advocate of the Internet of Everything, free trade, and global issues affecting the third of our planet that still lives in abject poverty.
Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 506.
Energy professional Dennis Lindahl comments on whether the new ecological thriller “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is appropriate for public venues and Netflix with an aggressive title.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a 2023 environmentalist action film directed by Daniel Goldhaber, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol. It relies on ideas advanced in Andreas Malm‘s 2021 book of the same name, published by Verso Books.
It stars Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary and Irene Bedard.
According to Wikipedia, Malm’s book is a work of nonfiction that uses a history of social justice movements to argue that property destruction should be considered a valid tactic in the pursuit of environmental justice.
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Luke Eggebraaten recaps his new book Moving Digital Dirt. Eggebraaten considers himself more than a serial dirt entrepreneur and a Dirt Bag Podcaster, so he used that momentum to springboard into becoming an author too.
The book “The Digital Dirt World” is now available on Amazon and is for a very small audience, according to Eggebraaten.
“This book is written for about 1% of people. We’re taking a deep dive into the fundamentals of digital marketing for construction companies,” Eggebraaten said. “This is for the construction management student that wants to understand how to market a construction company. I’m writing to the innovative and curious 63-year-old septic company president, who inherited the business from his great-grandfather and is motivated to keep it running and well-branded for future generations.”
Bobby Adkins, iTankData, joins The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin to discuss how time is money. Adkins explains how their software is allowing companies to access real data on their phones and laptops in order to see uptime, downtime and other metrics.
“CFOs get it in a blink. Operational guys figure it out. Field guys they love it too cause it makes it a little easier on their lifestyle,” Adkins said.
Raw costs of production, downtime, pulling units are just a couple areas cited as examples of what their software detects.
“You can punch in your own data whether it is a 6 barrel a day well or 60 barrel a day, maybe it’s much larger with a horizontal,” Adkins said. “We are in 18 states and working with oil companies, chemical companies and even salt water. This also helps with pick ups and deliveries in real time fashion. These digital tools allow you to see your physical return.”
iTankData has 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Services include remote tank level monitoring technologies and well site data. They also serve operators with daily needs in the oilfield, along with current information technology allows us to identify an operator’s cost and time lag issues.
The Voice of West Texas Kris Moore leads a discussion on energy issues and empowering women in oil and gas.Franki Osburn gives advice for new women working in industry. The interview is conducted by The Voice of West Texas Kris Moore. Franki, a single mother of three, talks about her support system for her three children and how the industry has become a surrogate family.
Kenley Nebeker, TrainND and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations with an update on EVolution Hybrid.
In the fourth part of this series following EVolution Hybrid, a project integrating a traditional semi truck with a combustion engine with a EV battery and electric vehicle technology we get an update on the engine features, roadblocks and successes.
In this exclusive interview with Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovation, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, the two discuss how EVolution Hybrid is ready to take on these traditional challenges, plus a couple anticipated ones too.
In Part Three the challenge is towing and range anxiety.
“If we have a greater amount of weight that we are towing or resistance whether it be a vertical incline or bad roads or a low tire, just things that will impact how much power we are using and increase the amount of amperage by the motor, and that would consume the battery quicker.”
Towing creates conversations about torque as well.
“The electric motors we are using they can build what we call Peak Torque at a really low if not zero RPM,” Perkins said. “This is different from a reciprocating piston where your peak torque could be at a specific RPM usually in the RPM range.”
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Kunal Patel is a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas joins The Crude Life’s founder Jason Spiess for an update on the oil and gas activity in the 11th District, including the Permian Basin, Eagleford and Haynesville basins in Texas.
Growth in the oil and gas sector stalled out in first quarter 2023, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms—was 2.1 in the first quarter, down sharply from 30.3 in fourth quarter 2022. The near-zero reading indicates activity was largely unchanged from the prior quarter, a break from the more than two-year stretch of rising activity.
Oil and natural gas production increased at a slower pace compared with the prior quarter, according to executives at exploration and production (E&P) firms. The oil production index remained positive but declined to 10.5 in the first quarter from 25.8 in the fourth. Similarly, the natural gas production index fell to 7.4 from 29.4.
Firms reported rising costs for a ninth consecutive quarter as all series remained significantly above their averages. Among oilfield services firms, the input cost index was roughly unchanged at an elevated 61.6. Among E&P firms, the finding and development costs index slipped to 46.8 from 52.5. Additionally, the lease operating expenses index declined 11 points to 37.6.
The supplier delivery time index for all firms moved into negative territory, declining to -14.0 in the first quarter from 14.4 in the fourth. This is the first negative reading since fourth quarter 2020 and signals that it takes less time to receive materials and equipment relative to the prior quarter. Among oilfield services firms, the measure of lag time in delivery of services declined to zero from 20.0, suggesting delivery times for these firms are no longer increasing.
For oilfield services firms, the equipment utilization index slid 29 points to 3.9 in the first quarter. The operating margin index declined to 1.9 from 25.9. The index of prices received for services remained positive but declined to 25.0 from 43.6.
Indexes related to employment and hours worked eased in the first quarter. The aggregate employment index posted a ninth consecutive positive reading but dipped to 14.3 from 25.7. The aggregate employee hours index declined to 12.3 from 27.7 in the prior quarter. Meanwhile, the aggregate wages and benefits index edged higher, to 43.6 from 40.2.
The company outlook index turned negative in the first quarter, falling 27 points to -14.1. The overall outlook uncertainty index increased 23 points to 62.6, pointing to firms’ continued heightened uncertainty regarding their outlooks. Sixty-eight percent of firms reported greater uncertainty.
On average, respondents expect a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of $80 per barrel by year-end 2023; responses ranged from $50 to $160 per barrel. Survey participants expect Henry Hub natural gas prices of $3.43 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at year-end. For reference, WTI spot prices averaged $68.51 per barrel during the survey collection period, and Henry Hub spot prices averaged $2.23 per MMBtu.
Next Dallas Federal Reserve Study will be released June 22, 2023
Other topics included in the interview:
– Companies are finding the factors behind cost increase and potential ways to reduce them.
– Explore new methods to attract younger workers to the industry, such as apprenticeships or training programs.
– Monitor the impact of new regulations on the industry’s performance and plan responses accordingly.
– Explore options for providing more work-life balance or flexible schedules for employees.
– Consider offering competitive compensation packages to attract and retain skilled workers.
– Investigate ways to improve the efficiency of processes to decrease the need for labor.
– Monitor cost inflation and global economic conditions closely and adjust strategies accordingly.
– ESG-related questions not included in survey, however the acronym has popped up in the past surveys and is often one of the concerns of oil and gas companies.
About the Survey: Data were collected March 15–23, and 147 energy firms responded. Of the respondents, 95 were exploration and production firms and 52 were oilfield services firms.
The Dallas Fed conducts the Dallas Fed Energy Survey quarterly to obtain a timely assessment of energy activity among oil and gas firms located or headquartered in the Eleventh District.
Firms are asked whether business activity, employment, capital expenditures and other indicators increased, decreased or remained unchanged compared with the prior quarter and with the same quarter a year ago. Survey responses are used to calculate an index for each indicator.
Each index is calculated by subtracting the percentage of respondents reporting a decrease from the percentage reporting an increase. When the share of firms reporting an increase exceeds the share reporting a decrease, the index will be greater than zero, suggesting the indicator has increased over the previous quarter.
If the share of firms reporting a decrease exceeds the share reporting an increase, the index will be below zero, suggesting the indicator has decreased over the previous quarter.
Jason Spiess
Let’s go to the Zoom Line where we’ve got Kaal Patel with us with the Dallas Federal Reserve. I forget which chapter. Which district it is. It is the 11th district. Seventh district. Which district? Canal?
Kunal Patel
Uh, we, we’re with the, the 11th
Jason Spiess
district. All right. Thank you very much for joining us. How are you doing today? By the way,
Kunal Patel
I’m doing great, Jason, how are you doing today?
Jason Spiess
You know, not too bad. I’m up here in the Dakotas and we’re starting to get our, uh, spring thaw coming in. We just got socked with two ft of snow like last week and then two days later it’s 50 degrees. So we might have another flood season on our hands. Who knows? Um, you’re down in Dallas. What, uh, what is 75 degrees today? Everything’s fine. People in shorts. What
Kunal Patel
Good guess on the 75. I think that, uh, we had a little bit of cold weather earlier a couple of days ago. So
Jason Spiess
You guys got hit too with a little bit of 40° weather. …
Kunal Patel
The funny thing is, I don’t even know if it got to 40. It might have been a little bit close to the 50s. It was definitely a surprise for April,
Jason Spiess
you know, not to editorialize here because that’s not why you’re brought in. But isn’t it funny on social media to see the different geographies and how they react to weather?
Kunal Patel
Oh, without a doubt. I, I think I had a friend growing up that would wear like shorts when it was like, 30° outside in Dallas and he’s from Canada. So it was kind of like, you know, it’s much more colder in Canada than it is here. It’s OK to wear shorts outside. Even when it’s 30°.
Jason Spiess
I can just remember like 10 years ago when social media first started becoming more national, if you will. And, uh, Dallas, when Dallas would get an inch of snow, you guys would shut the freeways down and everything. Of course, up in North Dakota, we laugh, we’re like an inch of snow. Great. Yeah. Ok. Walk to school today. And so it’s a, it’s a whole different, you know, uh, a geographical ball game when we look at these different things.
But that’s the way it is. You know, my son, you mentioned the shorts. You know, my son, he’s a teenager. He just turned 17 last week and he still wears shorts every day. It would be, I mean, we actually had to have a family meeting in case the car stalled and he’s in shorts that at least he’s got to bring with a pair of sweatpants because I get it that, you know, you get in the car, it’s warm, you walk outside for two seconds, you’re inside the building.
But, you know, if we get stuck in a snow bank and you’re in shorts and it’s minus 30 degree weather, we’re gonna go to jail. We don’t care about your legs. We’re more concerned about going to jail, son. So we had to have those conversations with them. Always,
Kunal Patel
always a good idea. I, I, during the winter time, I generally keep the jacket the summertime. You know, don’t, don’t need anything. Hopefully, it doesn’t get too hot in, in, in Texas, but always good to keep at least one jacket in the car. You never know when you need
Jason Spiess
it. Speaking of hot in Texas, uh, most of the oil and gas activity seems to be coming out of Texas, at least the, uh, oil activity. I know Pennsylvania is very big in the gas activity. But, uh, when we’re taking a look at the Permian basin and the Eagle Ford, the Haynesville, I’m not sure if the wolf camp came up in the survey or not. But, uh, let’s go ahead and take a look at the recent survey that came out.
March 29th is available at the Dallas, uh, fed dot org if you’d like to go ahead and take a look at this survey. But, uh, what’s kind of the, the quick takeaway for those if you’re an oil exec or you’re an investor. Uh What’s, what’s the takeaway for those people?
Kunal Patel
So the, the main takeaway and let me take a step back just in case like, uh I think there’s quite a few that are familiar with the survey, but it is, you know, in this latest survey we did survey 100 and 47 upstream oil and gas firms, the data was collected from March 15th to the 23rd. Um 95 were exploration of production firms. 52 were oil and gas support services firms generally known as services firms.
And we, we have these indexes that kind of give you an idea whether there’s an expansion or a contraction over the prior quarter. It gives an idea of direction and, and the main takeaways is that many of you noticed that there’s been an expansion over the past like two plus years. And the latest activity index is suggesting that the expansion since she is, I mean, it was kind of like stall out.
Uh the index came in close to zero. So it’s kind of indicating the activity was just largely unchanged from the prior quarter. Uh The other key takeaways, many of, you know, this, you know, cost they could just continue to increase. Um We did see a little bit of easing in the supply chain for this, this current quarter. Um employment growth that continues, but it does suggest maybe it’s a, a little bit slower than in prior quarters.
But that wage inflation continues to remain if I was to leave off 11 another big, big takeaway, just the executives have started to, you know, their outlook. It, it turned negative again. This is a quarter of a quarter. So compared to where they were last quarter, they’re a little bit more pessimistic. Um And then when it comes to uncertainty, they significantly more uncertain.
I think what we saw in this latest quarter was, of course, you know, a softening in commodity prices, both oil and natural gas. And then of course, in our comment section, uh if the executives allow us to publish their comments, um they’re anonymous, but they, they can give you an idea of the, the um reasons for them to be uncertain whether it’s cost inflation, whether it’s continuing to be labor and material shortages, uh or it just could be price volatility.
Um And of course, uh there’s a lot on the regulatory environment. So a, a lot of takeaways. Uh I try to shorten it down as much as I could, but I think that’s, those are the main takeaways from our latest survey.
Jason Spiess
You know, one of the memories that was going through my head when you were talking was, you know, we started the conversation with Dallas and I’ve been to Dallas a few times and, and I’ve been to a few um skyscrapers down there. A lot of oil and gas companies have skyscrapers in Dallas. And um that’s where the corporate offices are. Houston, Dallas, et cetera, Denver, I guess would be another place.
But, uh, in Dallas, I, I specifically remember one company and I, and I’m not gonna mention their name because that I don’t want to take away from the story, but there was four, they got at least be making six figures if you’re, you know, you’re, if you, if you’re ac suite executive. So I, I figure there’s close to a million dollars worth of salaries in this room.
And I’m trying to explain to them that, you know, the oil and gas industry really is going down the path of cigarettes and coal and just being targeted in a very public anti, you know, pr way. And I basically got escorted out of the office with security. I mean, boy, they didn’t want to hear that nothing to do with it. And now that, you know, a week later the Wall Street Journal had a headline that said oil and gas is the new cigarettes or something like that. And I thought, yeah, someone
else says that they, they hear it. I’m hearing more and more people really start to. This sentiment is picking up more and more that they’re right. Really getting concerned now that this might become a reality where the image of oil and gas is not as popular as they once thought. Uh, did that come up in your survey at all? Uh the the industry image impacting any part of the industry because I’m hearing it up here in the Bakken. …
Kunal Patel
So, so we, we, we did not ask like a specific like question around this. Um uh Obviously the topic has come up from time to time and we, we do have these anonymous executive comments and, and they do kind of reference, uh you know, the sentiment that the industry has from, let’s say whether it’s the public or the government or from, even from uh financial providers.
Um some of it could be just, uh there’s just, it, it could, it could be something related to as, you know, E S G, but sometimes it could just be just a, a view about fossil fuels in general, but we actually did not ask any like specific questions. So it kind of falls outside like the, the study in many times is purely about, you know, the, what’s the activity um in oil and oil and gas, you know, what’s the employment, what’s happening to costs?
Um uh But the sentiment can make a difference, right? Um uh Sentiment can impact as, you know, uh financing, it can impact valuations. Um uh but, but, you know, the, you know, the, the comments do kind of touch on some of this maybe, but they don’t, they don’t, I guess call it out as much as it, they kind of mentioned it,
Jason Spiess
you know, the, um the E S G s part of it and, and some of those investment parts, um, that I definitely can see, but even part of some of the workforce actually is where I was more or less coming from with the question because it seems a lot of the younger generation just isn’t really coming into the industry.
And in, in North Dakota anyways, they’re already talking about looking overseas to like the Ukraine or Poland or some other places to bring in some workers. And so, uh how about from like the workforce side of things I did, did that sentiment come up in, in there at all?
Kunal Patel
So the most one that we could kind of correlate to one of the questions we asked, we did ask, it’s a one off question. It was which of the following is the primary factor causing worker shortages in the oil field. And we asked this question because pretty much for the last two years, every energy surveyed in the comment section, there’s at least two or three comments around uh challenges, you know, securing labor, um turnover, wage, inflation and so on and so forth.
So we get 128 responses. Again, they were asked to pick the primary factor. Um the first most picked act uh choice was cyclical nature of the industry. You know, that kind of covers the, the the price volatility that we’ve seen over the past, let’s say 15 years. Um but the second most picked one which was picked by 27% was a perception of limited career potential due to the energy transition.
But kind of debate, what would be the right choice to kind of capture this? Could it just be like you mentioned, is it just The the sentiment about the industry itself? We thought though, since it was a job-related question, we’d ask about limited career potential. Again, 27% are other choices. Um you know, lack of work life balance and flexible work schedule that got less than 10%.
But you hear a lot about it where people would like to work from home for some days of the week or like to have a flexible work schedule. That’s really not the, the jobs in the oil which are 60 plus hours. Um We have compensation in other industries, maybe the compensation in the others are, are getting better, less than 10% less attractive work locations as you know, you were mentioning Dallas and Houston and Denver, but many of these oil fill jobs are not in these cities, especially
if you’re working for oil services. Um And so I think everyone would agree that, you know, you know, people like to live in, some people like to live in bigger cities, maybe it’s less, less attractive again, less than 10%. Um and then inability to pass drug test and, or background check that was actually the lowest. Um But, you know, when we look through the comments.
Uh you know, I think there was one that kind of caught me. It was like currently finding skilled labor is our biggest challenge. Rates of pay have risen to the point that they’re diminishing our gross margins and competitors are over paying sometimes paying to the point of offering raises based on the ability to steal the work from our customers.
Um in some cases, it is close to a 30% bump in wages. So there is a lot of wage inflation. Um Some, another person wrote many left the in 2020 are not coming back either due to the age to their age or the booms and busts. Um And, and, and so there is, and, and I guess they also had perceived energy transition concerns seemed less impactful than the overall perception of for work. So each person kind of has kind of debated, You know, what, what is really, really driving it.
Um but like you mentioned, I think the most big answer was the cyclical nature of the industry at the other day. Like I think people looking for a career, right? And if you had the the oil price fell in 2009, 2020. Um And even today, there’s a lot of volatility in the price of oil. I think that can also impact whether you see it as a long term
Jason Spiess
career. It’s interesting too because when I take a look at like the last 10, 12 years when, you know, I, I’m a media guy that happens to be covering oil and gas at the end of the day. So, you know, I, I had to learn kind of that, that cyclical nature and how companies react and how companies kind of go. But in the world of uh artificial intelligence and in the world of uh uncertainty, whether it’s uh image or subsidies or Joe Biden or, you know, whoever they’re going to blame this week in
politics, whatever it might be, the bottom line is that this, this go round of the cyclical nature is different now, whether it’s a supply chain issue, they’ve handled those in the past, but that’s part of it. And I don’t remember the wages ever being an issue over the past 10 to 12 years. That one seems to be coming up at least up in the back. And, um, and in the rocky mountain region, even in the Marcellus, I’m hearing that the wages aren’t as high as what a lot of the entry level people
thought. And then the other kind of, uh, uh bizarre that I, I, I’m curious about is the skilled labor too because as we’re getting into the world of automation and we’re getting into the world of U A s and we’re getting to the world of E S G and scope and acronyms that we’ve never heard of before, whether it starts with a G or an H or a Q or A, or an elemental P, there’s all kinds of acronyms that the stock was another one I saw the other day Stock Act.
So it just, I think they start with the words and then they work their way backwards from there. I’m starting to realize that. But, uh, the question is this, uh, wages are the entry level wages, uh, the same, I guess that they’ve been, or did that come up in your survey? And then the skilled labor part too, is that changing at all? Do you see from this latest survey? …
Kunal Patel
So, uh, I think, I think it would be kind of hard for me to say like, you know, the, they do definitely mention the increasing wages and it continues to be a concern because the wages continue to increase at a very, very strong pace. I’m trying to think of in our last survey. I think someone actually referenced the amount, but it was either, let’s say about 10% or higher, which is pretty, pretty strong, pretty strong wage wage inflation.
And so there continues to be the strong wage inflation when it comes to jobs. As you know, there’s always been commentary that many of these jobs would go away would be placed by something automated. But I think the reality is that, um, you, you, you look at the jobs and today jobs are in total jobs. Our, our levels not seen since 2007 in Texas.
But additionally, what I should add though is the rig count is significantly lower. Um and so when it comes to these old field services jobs in some ways that employment is kind of mirroring that rig count. Um and then when it comes to the EMP jobs, there just isn’t as much of a need for as much planning um and monitoring of uh of wells because you can use technology to remote monitor them.
Um And then when it comes to planning, we, we, you know, shell development has been here since let’s say 2008 with each year, you know, you become more and more sure of, you know, what you’re gonna get from that specific well. And so these companies have been able to do with less employees what they used to do. So I think that’s kind of like the really skilled aspect um uh from, from the corporate perspective is also obviously skilled labor in the, in the oil field itself.
Um But I think that like a lot of it is just efficiency. These, these, these rigs are able to drill these wells significantly faster, they’re able to complete them significantly faster. You’ve heard of Si si, which is allowing them to, I believe my understanding, complete multiple wells at once. Pad drilling definitely helped on the drilling end.
That’s where you’ve seen that impact in terms of labor. Um I think to go back to your question on, on wages in other industries, it’s kind of hard sometimes to, to compare them. Um, because in the old food you’re gonna work 60 hours a week. There may also be overtime tie, I believe there is overtime tied with those additional hours. Uh, maybe in construction it’s, it’s, it’s less hours.
Um, and so there’s a lot of different things you have to consider, um, in terms of wages, in terms of overtime, in terms of a lifestyle. But what I think most people would agree with is that um I think coming out of the pandemic, I mean, sorry, coming out of the, the 2008 downturn, uh you know, oil bounced back pretty strongly. Um and so there was a lot of demand for these four workers um coming in today, there’s still, there’s a lot of demand for many other industries like construction.
Um and, and so it’s kind of hard to say that’s why we asked the question, you know, is it the wages that might be driving them away? They definitely did not put it as their primary, but it could be a secondary or, or third type of uh of of challenge …
Jason Spiess
inflation, supply chain issues. How about with those? Uh have we seen the prices stop? Are they still going up? Are they going backwards? And um what are people talking about with that?
Kunal Patel
So for so when it comes to cost inflation, they continue to see that cost inflation So we have these indexes that kind of compare this quarter versus the the last and within services, that index remains elevated And unchanged, suggesting that those input costs going into services continue to remain, continue to, to increase um at a, at a similar pace with an EMP you know, elevated but slightly slowing in terms of uh uh uh uh of those increases.
So cost inflation continuing, you may see it slow compared to the really strong pace we saw in 2022. I think most would say that it will slow. Um but it may still be above what most would obviously want. I think from the various earnings calls that are out there from publicly listed E MP firms, you know, at 10% is kind of what’s kind of thrown out there for inflation this year and then when it comes to the supply delivery time index that was negative.
So an easing of supply chain issues, essentially the time to receive Uh your delivery from suppliers was was less this quarter versus last. But that that’s the supplier delivery time. The index suggests it’s been increasing since the fourth quarter of 2020. It is kind of debatable. Why did it decrease? Could it just be that it takes time?
Do you know when you put in an order to receive the equipment? It could be that and it may be that the equipment, a lot of it came in the first quarter, it could be also that since activity didn’t continue to increase, uh maybe that provided some relief for this supplier inputs to arrive faster than previously. …
Jason Spiess
What do you think the biggest concern is for the oil and gas operator right now? Down in, down in the permian, down in the Texas area? Is it, is it um uncertainty or, or is there anything specifically? I guess that jumps out as a concern?
Kunal Patel
So we did ask this question um which was which of the following do you believe will have the most influence on the profitability of your firm this year? The the the top two choices that they pick, again, they were only allowed to pick their top one. But cost inflation got 30% of responses and health of the global economy got 30%. So cost inflation very straightforward, they’ve been dealing with very strong cost increases.
Um I think there has been uncertainty of course, on what will costs look like this year. I think last year the the the expect expected cost, inflation was much smaller than what actually occurred. Um And so cost inflation very near very close to their, their operations, something that they are likely uncertain about. Um The other one is the health of the global economy. Uh Again, that can also impact commodity prices. Um I think there are quite a few comments around just concern
about what may happen to the global economy. Did this survey was right after the, the recent banking Uh um and not the right, it’s not sure what the right word to use, but essentially the the the developments in the banking sector, I think that started on March 10. Um and so that can also impact uh you know, that could increase your uncertainty, right? Because you just, you become a little bit uncertain about what, what may happen next. …
Jason Spiess
Do you guys um get into E S G at all? Um That um doesn’t seem like it’d be in your wheelhouse yet. It will be once it’s a little more established. But uh is that in the survey at all? Do you guys get into that much? …
Kunal Patel
It’s a great question. I mean, primarily, you know, it, it may come up in the commentary um as you know, E S G though has been here for quite some time. And so I think when E S G like the started, there was a lot more comments. Um but recently they just haven’t called it just E S G, they may just say something related to sentiment or to financing, but calling out E S G specifically, uh doesn’t happen as much we have.
I don’t believe we’ve ever asked a specific question on E S G. I think he kind of mentioned, you know, it’s like it’s still taking some time to kind of define and so writing the right question is kind of hard.
Jason Spiess
Well, you’re, you’re, you’re kind of in a role where you can’t do anything with it yet. Like you can’t go on official record with it. You, you can’t really, because the fed, you guys have to kind of, you got, you got procedures and rules and protocols, you got to go through before you can just start. You can’t be like, you know, Kevin o’leary Chuck and Molotov cocktails on Fox News.
You can’t do that. Uh We all want to do that kind of stuff but you know, that’s the type of the in the media we’re trained on, on certain, you know, ok, he’s a professor. He can’t really do this, he can’t do that to be respectful to us to, to don’t back him in a corner, you know, on live, on live radio or live television type of a thing.
So that’s why I phrase it the way I did that. I’m not even sure if you guys can even comment on that E S G. What do you guys have an official statement when some like let’s say I’m cold calling you from the media and I want to know about E S G. Do you guys even do anything with that yet? …
Kunal Patel
I, I think that um uh when it comes to E S G, you know, it really, it depends on what the specific question honestly is. Um And uh what happens is that like, we just haven’t asked a specific question around it. I’m not exactly sure what question we would ask to our survey participants. Um But they will comment from time to time about the impact of E S G on their business.
Um I, I think that like, I, I’ve read that they are working to create, like it’s called E S G scores. Uh Companies are working to kind of integrate E S G into their um various practices, but there’s nothing too specific and it just again, depends. I think a lot of times on the question and
Jason Spiess
folks, if you, if you go to the crude life dot com, um we’ve got past interviews with Kaal Patel and E S G has come up in the past, but I, I noticed it didn’t come up in this survey very much. And what made me kind of go go off on this little tangent, I guess was the last question, which of the following do you believe will have the most influence on your profitability of your firm this year?
Uh The first one, as you mentioned, cost inflation 30% 2nd half of the global economy and then the, the fourth was access to and cost of capital last year. That would have said something to do with E S G without a doubt. There’s no question about it. So I see where that’s kind of, it’s changed and evolved and people have either gone away from it or it’s gotten out of their vernacular, but also supply chain issues.
I’d put in cost inflation too. Boy, that’s, those are definitely related. Um ok, so getting back to the survey here, um what do you want people to kind of walk away from this knowing as, as far as if they’re preparing their business? Because there’s so much uncertainty out there. What is certain, …
Kunal Patel
I, I think that, um, so there’s a lot of uncertain certainty out in, in the oil field. Uh I, I think a lot of times though they find certainty in, um, they know what the price of oil is. Um, there’s the, they, they, they, they, they know that, um, there’s a lot of challenges ahead. I, it, it’s, I think that like the, the main thing when they read through this is they kind of can understand what executives are thinking, um, in regards to whether it’s the uncertainty or the outlook.
Um, it’s kind of hard to say though, like, in terms of like takeaways, like what, what, what, um, an executive should think. I think that, I think many people though within, uh, the oil gas space have felt uncertain. I mean, I don’t, I don’t think that’s anything that’s different. Um, I think it’s, it’s the, the future of fossil fuels has always been a topic of, of uncertainty, you know, we’ll be, be using fossil fuels in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years.
Um, but I think that, like, what we have to see is, you know, how, how does this evolve. I think what we, we do know right now is that there is there is quite a lot of cost inflation, at least, maybe we got some relief on the supply chain and uh the the outlook has turned a little bit negative, but you know, sometimes it may be related to the the price of oil and the price of natural gas. And of course, uncertainty is really high.
And so I think we just kind of have to see throughout this year. Do do some of these questions around our uncertainty kind of get answered or did they not? I think the topic that always comes up is the under investments in the oil and gas industry. Um And, uh, but we have to see what impact that has. I think that that under investments may be related just to uncertainty at the end of the day. …
Jason Spiess
Well, one thing that’s certain is that North Dakota is definitely probably gonna flood this year. We just got an email from Governor Berg who’s declaring a statewide emergency for spring flooding, direct state resources to be on standby. Hi. So you might be hearing about us in the news this week. Canal Patel from the Dallas Federal Reserve. We started the interview talking about the potential of a spring flood up here and we’re ending the interview with an email from the
governor declaring a statewide emergency for spring flooding. Well, it looks like we’re gonna be doing some sand bagging of a different kind uh, this year up here. So. Well, sir. Uh I appreciate the time today. And when’s the next survey coming out? And, uh, what kind of information should people know about this one where they can find it and all that good stuff? We’ll have the links at the crude life. But, uh what type of information do you want people to know?
Kunal Patel
Definitely. And of course, uh, stay safe, Jason, it’s always good talking with you. I think that we’ve, we’ve talked many times in the past our, our second quarter release scheduled for Thursday, June 22nd 9 30 AM. Uh, as always, we’ll have some new special questions we’ll ask and then of course we’ll have our regular indexes, but definitely do check it out. It’s on the Dallas fed dot org website and you just go out to surveys and choose the energy survey or you can find it in many,
many other places just straight through Google. Um, but June 22nd 9 30 AM. Uh, it’s a Thursday. Um, uh, and, uh, definitely look out for it. We always appreciate, uh, the, the wide readership that we get, whether it’s people in the industry, people in government, people in academia or, and of course, reporters. Yeah.
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Kenley Nebeker, executive director of TrainND Northwest and president of the TrainND Foundation, joins The Crude Life and ESG University founder Jason Spiess on KLXX 1270AM SuperTalk’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken to talk about the new non profit that legislators and UAS leaders to “promote autonomous efforts in the state”.
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April is Financial Literacy Awareness Month and The Crude Life has one of the best in the business CNBC’s Brian Sullivan. This interview is from when $100 oil was new and prices were out of control. Sullivan reacts to his trip to the Bakken oil fields in 2016.
Jason Spiess: Just so we can get some context for the interview. Tell me about your first trip to the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.
Brian Sullivan: First trip to North Dakota was 2013 when things were really heating up. We wanted to go see how Williston and the Bakken region was dealing with the boom. I’ve been through this business enough to have seen some booms, like the Internet boom. Sadly I’ve been doing this now for over 20 years in financial journalism.
I wanted to see how they dealt with the boom and met some key players and spoke to some locals. It was a classic growth story of ‘we can find enough of this’ or ‘find enough of that’. I’ll never forget one of the cool anecdotes from that Bakken trip, I stayed at this hotel, which you’ll have to forgive me because I forgot the name, but now it is a Ramada. I think it was sold (after that Bakken trip). Anyway, it was on a dirt road because the hotel developer wanted to put the thing up but the town was slower than the developers because there was so much growth happening. So I have this rental car on sort of driving on this dirt driveway. (laughs)
This was a brand new hotel and it was nice, but it was also like $400-a-night. I was shocked by not only the level of growth, but the level of cost. How much everything cost. It was just shocking. We were up there for about 2 days, then we came back to the studio and returned to the oil fields in December of 2014.
Brian Sullivan is anchor of CNBC’s “Last Call” (M-F, 7PM-8PM ET), which broadcasts from CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. He is also Senior National Correspondent for the network, covering some of the nation’s biggest stories.
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In his 25 years of financial journalism and television experience, Sullivan has reported from five continents. He has been twice nominated for the prestigious Loeb Award; one for being recognized as among the first financial journalists to highlight the risks of the housing bubble in 2007, and the other for the 2013 CNBC documentary “America’s Gun: The Rise of the AR-15.”
Prior to CNBC, Sullivan served as an anchor at Fox Business News as well as a producer, reporter and anchor for Bloomberg Television.
Sullivan has a B.A. in political science from Virginia Tech, where he serves on the Alumni Board, as well as a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. In his free time, he is an avid race car driver with two SCCA divisional championships.
Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan B, Ria N S U L L I VA N I am the co hosts of the C NBC program, Power Lunch from 1 to 3 PM eastern time Monday through Friday. I am, I have just returned from my third trip to the bake up in Williston, North Dakota, Tioga, Ray, North Dakota to dig further into the oil and energy story.
Jason Spiess
So, uh let’s talk about your first trip out there if you wouldn’t mind. I mean, if you want to start by with the most recent information, that’s fine. But uh just for a little context, I guess I was kind of wondering about your first trip out to North Dakota. 1st
Brian Sullivan
Trip to North Dakota was October of 2013 when things are really heating up and we wanted to go see, how how Williston sort of the Bakken region was dealing with the boom. Uh I’ve been through this business enough to have seen some booms like the internet boom. I’ve been doing this now for Sadly over, I guess this is my 20th year um in financial journalism.
And so when they dealt with the boom and we met some key players and spoke with some locals and it was just a classic growth story of things. Can’t, you know, we can’t find enough of this. We can’t find enough of that. I’ll never forget. One of the cool anecdotes is that I stayed in this hotel and you forgive me. I can’t remember the name of it. It’s now a Roma uh I think it was sold, it was on like a dirt road because the hotel developer, you know, wanted to put the thing up.
But, you know, the town is slower to put the roads down because there’s so much growth. But, you know, you get this rental car, you’re sort of driving on this uh this dirt driveway, You know, to a brand new hotel and the hotel was, was nice, but it was also, I think $400 a night, you know, and I was just sort of, I was shocked by, by just not only the level of growth but just the level of cost, I mean, how
much everything costs. Um It was just shocking to me. So we were up there for, for, you know, two days or whatever we were and came back and then we returned in December of 2014 …
Jason Spiess
And 2014. That was two years ago. So oil prices were probably around that $60 range if my memory serves me right, the bottom hadn’t fallen out at that point yet. But the, but the beginning had start. Uh you started hearing oil companies talking about changing their, their operations in 2015. I can recall Lynn Helms uh director for the North Dakota uh Mineral Resources.
Start to give that kind of ominous warning during the uh annual meetings in October of 2013, I wanna say, or 14. Um when you went back out there, December 2014, what was the activity like then? Was it still dirt roads at $400 a night? Ramada or had it changed a little bit?
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Yeah, it was, I can’t remember what the name of it was. No. Listen, you’re right. I mean, the price of oil had come down dramatically very quickly starting in October. So that’s why we wanted to go, what’s going to happen here. Listen, it’s not a complicated story globally or in North Dakota or it doesn’t matter where you are just look at the production numbers versus demand numbers and you see that the world has too much oil and hard to believe we came from peak oil a few, you know,
decades ago to now too much oil. But we went there to kind of see where the follow up was. Things were still humming along because the price of oil has only been down for a couple of months and everybody was fully committed. Contracts were in drilling activity was high. We sat down, had dinner with a bunch of locals and various businesses. And, you know, they were all of course, very optimistic, you know, as you would imagine that entrepreneurs are going to be, I mean, to be an
entrepreneur, I think you have to be an optimistic person. Uh But, but it was also a sort of a sense of, I mean, it’s just some respect because we met some nice people up there. Everyone was kind of like we’re gonna be fine, everything’s fine, it’s gonna recover oil bounce back. I wasn’t quite so sure. I mean, you know, I’m just a journalist but you look at the numbers and you’re thinking there’s a lot of gap there to make up in terms of oversupply.
Things are still, things are still expensive. Hotels still in the 300 buck range um restaurants, there’s a couple of nice places there. We’ve done, we’ve been to this place called the Williston Brewing Company, kind of the nicest restaurant in town all three times. I met the owner had him on the show and he’s a very successful entrepreneur by the way in Minneapolis and other places. But you know, we went there and the menus were expensive and the restaurants were crowded and um I
mean, they were still humming along because because the price had just come down and there was a great expectation that it was going to recover very quickly. I also do remember that it was -20. I never been so cold in my life. I grew up in southern California. Um, it was negative 20 and obviously it hasn’t happened. And so we paid a visit to him, uh, last week to kind of figure out, you know, the third stage.
Jason Spiess
Ok. So last week you, you went back to the Bakken and you did? Ok. So let’s, let’s same question. Uh, now you’re back to the, uh, dirt roads. $300 400 dollar a night, Rama. What, what, what was the new normal? Because I’m actually doing a story. Oh, hang on one second.
I’m, I’m 29. I’m sorry, one second here. Um I, I’m actually doing a story called uh The New Normal is what we’re calling it right now. Uh talking about some of these new communities. So I guess, yeah, I mean, what was the new normal? Uh, 100 and 29 you were saying?
Brian Sullivan
Yeah, I paid 129 a night for, for the hotel that was in the 300 the last time I was there. Here’s the weird irony that, and this isn’t even me saying this, this is the restaurant owner from the brewing company and others who live there, which is the last two times I was there. There wasn’t enough of anything, there wasn’t enough hotel rooms, there wasn’t enough restaurants, there wasn’t enough cranes for the oil rig, there wasn’t enough anything.
Now there’s suddenly too much of everything and there’s too many hotel rooms, there’s too many restaurants. There’s something like 33 restaurants now in Williston, North Dakota, that’s what this restaurant owner was telling us. Marcus Johnson’s name J UN D T. And there’s, you know, and new hotel is opening up. So there’s a glut of rooms.
There’s a glut of hotels. We met a guy the first time we were there. Really nice guy named Andy, uh in J OS who owns Dakota West Crane Company and they started with one crane, him and his cousin And they went down to Houston and drove this crane back, took him like a week and a half to drive this Crum and a crane. You know, I’m talking about these giant cranes, you know, with like, you know, 20 tires and stuff like that.
They go 50 mph back And they got up to nine cranes. And in fact, he went out to Columbia, South Carolina and drove a crane back, um, 45 mph from Columbia, South Carolina to to Williston took him 16 days a gate because he had to stop and get permitted and nothing was slow and gas problem. And now he’s down to four. So he went from 1 to 9 to four in the course of three years.
And, you know, and he’s, and he’s had to lay people off and they’re, they’re small business, a family business. They’re struggling to sort of, you know, keep things going. Um, so we went from, from not enough of anything to, too much of everything. And here’s the, here’s the sad reality of that type of world. If everybody Jason is half full, they’re all don’t. So, what’s gonna have to have happened is either we’re gonna see a recovery and we’re gonna see the rooms get filled back up
and the restaurants get filled back up and the apartments get filled back up, or There’s gonna be a lot of closing stuff down because you, you need to have businesses 75% full to really, to really stay in business. I don’t care what you are right.
Jason Spiess
You know, you, you, you bring up a very interesting point. I was just talking with uh a real estate uh commercial broker out of Minneapolis yesterday and he represents a number of firms out in the bakken. And what he was talking about was the drop in rents from 3000 down to 1000 to 1500. But not only do you have a drop in rents but you have a drop in occupancies. So actually your 75% projection is really more of a 25% projection.
And that if you don’t start to see some heads in the beds, you’re gonna start seeing some bankruptcies and possibly some uh you know, you know, some properties that are gonna be for sale because a lot of these people who own the buildings, they didn’t intend to be landlords. Did you see anything along those lines or hear any of those numbers, like I just said.
Brian Sullivan
Yeah. Well, listen, there’s a gigantic private equity firm called Colberg Kravis and Roberts. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of them? They’re colloquially referred to as K K R. They’re one of the biggest, most established private equity firms in the world. The, the, the, the book and movie Barbarians, the geek was about their takeover, Nabisco.
I mean, they’re a legend, you know, I mean, they’ve been around forever. They built a giant apartment community in Williston. I mean, for them to go to Williston, North Dakota, that number one says something, right? And this is a firm that does $20 billion deal. They went to Williston built a giant apartment community and uh we wouldn’t buy it, you know, listen again anecdotally.
So don’t quote me on this. You know, you can dig in the numbers yourself anecdotally didn’t look back to as many people there. And the guy we were with, who lived there, who’s a land developer like they’re getting killed and, and I think that they might have even left or sold off. You might want to do some research into that on your own. But the point is a giant New York private equity firm goes there and getting its real estate, you know, you know what handed to it.
The other thing too is that if you’ve got everything said empty or partially empty, it’s not good for crime. I mean, it’s not good for anything. Right. I mean, there’s, it looks, things get, things start to look run down again. The city, the people up there are wonderful. We made some good friends and Williston is going to be fine. Long term.
I want to make that point clear. I mean, Williston will continue to go on but they, they went through this huge building boom and you’re right. I mean, things have got to physically shut down. I mean, there’s, you can’t have that many restaurants in a town like that. I mean, you can’t have a half full restaurant. You, nobody will make it. Everyone will just kind of bleed along.
So there’s gonna have to be, uh, either a recovery and here’s the other thing too and, you know, you would know more about, I do, gosh, I’m not an oil and gas guy, by the way, I’m just a TV anchor who likes oil and gas and I’ve been covering it for a while. Is that even if the price of oil recovers to $100 tomorrow? I mean, are they gonna be able to get the people back If people have left, they found other jobs, you know, or they didn’t and maybe they’re, they’re less
willing to come back to Williston because they got, you know, they’ve lost 15,000 people in the county in the, in the course of a year. I mean, could they even get the rates back up.
Jason Spiess
Uh, you know, actually, that, that’s about a 12 to 16th month lag time. I did a story on that and I asked that specific question and it was, if oil prices went up to say $100 tomorrow, what would we, what would we look at for when the rigs would be back? And they said they would be about a 12 to 16 month, uh, time window. And that, that really resonated with me because what you’re saying is right that um some of these places, they got to take a look at their long term projections here and to say,
where are we at today? Because it might not be another year or year and a half until we actually can start seeing some projections that come near. What the originals were. How much money do we want to continue to shovel in this or do we want to cut our losses and move on? Um I wanted to ask you about some of the other shale plays as well. Uh You’re visiting some of these other shale plays. Uh What are you seeing in comparison to the activity when it comes to the Bakken? …
Brian Sullivan
Well, the activity is down everywhere, but I will say this, the permian base. Is that what you’re referring to the other physical place? Uh Yes. Yeah. The Permian is, is, is probably doing the best of all of them. Um And again, everybody’s hurting at this price point. But uh the Permian is the oldest play. Um I think the Texas operators kind of, uh some of them anyway, uh the diamond back is the pioneer, natural resources of the world.
They saw it coming, they started cutting costs early. Um And, you know, they can be, they can be profitable. Uh Some of these companies have told me that they’re profitable under $20 a barrel. And I mean, not much, but they are, in other words, they can, they, you know, they can continue to grow and to, you know, not maybe to expand but yet to survive without a problem.
Eagle Ford is a little more difficult. You know, it comes up in price and listen, you get these weird things that come out of Pennsylvania and stuff that’s more like North Dakota where it’s newer, it’s a more expensive land and, you know, you probably need A $60 number. I mean, again, you would know more beside you. But if you talk to oil companies as I have, I mean, first off, they’re very reluctant to tell you, you know, where they’re profitable.
No, I’m gonna say like it’s $62.50. You know, just that rarely happens if ever. But you know what you hear from, from people up there is I asked the guy at work in a rig, I mean, you know, and he’s a manager of one of the 33 remaining drilling rigs up there. He said 65 is a nice number. I pressed him on it, you know, 65 is a nice number. But around the country, yeah, 50, 40, you can make money in some places.
But if, if you’re a late bloomer to this game, no matter where you are and you paid a lot of money for land and mineral rights cruises And didn’t manage your balance sheet. Well, you’re in trouble and I’ve said on my show that 40 is not much better than 30 for a lot of these companies. It’s, they’re, they’re losing less money, but they’re still losing money.
Jason Spiess
So look, look, look at this from the big, a
Brian Sullivan
big play, by the way, you had a big, sorry to interrupt. You had a big play today. The former $14 billion company called Lin Energy L I N N $14 billion company three years ago based today came out and said, we don’t know if we can continue to exist. Wow, They use the term going concern. That’s, you probably know that’s the business concern. We are question something like we are questioning our ability to continue as a going concern.
That’s accounting term. Basically saying not sure we can pay the bills. They deferred a debt payment. This was a $14 billion dollar company three years ago and that’s why I got involved in this story. It’s not just that I enjoy oil and gas, that the debt levels, the debt angle to the story is the one that, that has not been told or was really understood a couple of years ago.
And that’s why this is different than previous booms and busts because of the amount of debt that was taken on by companies and individuals. I mean, look at the State of North Dakota, you got a billion dollar budget shortfall. How is that possible? Didn’t, did they save anything? No. …
Jason Spiess
So um one of the reasons I got interested in this story, um which is known as the Shale Play was, was because of the change that something felt different. Much like how you gravitated to it because this, this play does seem different. And when I heard uh John Gibson, the former uh CEO of One Oak tell me who I’ve interviewed and he told me that there writing their business plan.
So did Harold Hamm um James Volcker from Whiting, alluded to the same thing when I started hearing these men of that caliber, tell me they’re rewriting their business plan. The first thing I thought of in all honesty was my industry, the media. I’ve been in the media now for 2025 years is, and when the internet came around, I had to literally rewrite my whole business plan multiple, multiple times because you know, nobody would pay for it. And then how do you get them to pay for it?
And yada yada yada and then you started seeing uh the Los Angeles Times go out of business because, you know, after 100 years of being a successful company, the internet put them out of business. So, to me that’s what the shale revolution kind of reminded me of. Is this, this technology wave that is changing oil and gas to the tune to where the deepest pockets are gonna win. And, and I don’t know, I, I guess, uh, do you got any comments on that? I guess?
Brian Sullivan
Well, you know, I like the analogy actually. Um, I hadn’t thought of it before so I think it’s pretty, pretty good. I guess the idea would be this, I mean, it’s kind of like deerpoint media now. Print or TV doesn’t really matter. I mean, print ad rates can come down a lot more than, than I think, broadcast. But the point is the same is that the whole industry has changed and I, and I feel like, like with the oil producers, it’s kind of like, well, it’s just a matter of time before oil
recovers and goes higher again and, and it’s kind of like us saying, well, it’s just a matter of time before ad rates go higher again. What if they don’t, what if they don’t? And you have to operate your company like that and if they do great, if they don’t, then you’re prepared but you can’t assume price, you’re gonna go high. You know, it, I think we have, you know, recent bias because oil has been above 100 a barrel twice in the last five or six years.
If you go back 40 or 50 years and inflation at just the price of oil is like $40.45 bucks. I mean, that’s where oil wants to be. For the nineties. Oil did nothing. Right. I mean, and so for, for most of the 90s and so it’s, it’s entirely possible that just because oil has collapsed as much as it has that it’s not going to recover it, it may not. What if it doesn’t?
And I think if you’re running a company, you have to have, you know, you have to have a budget and, and an operating plan that says, what if oil is 40 to $45 for the next five years, how does the X Y Z corporation get through that? And that’s what you have to do. And the good news, I guess is that People are going to learn to operate a lot smarter and that, you know, if they can operate at 40 to 45 that if we see a turn, you know, that until labor rates go back up, that they’re going to be able to make
some money and possibly grow. So, but if they don’t be darn well, better be able to have your balance sheet in order. And if you took on a lot of debt and can’t renegotiate your debt or issue new equity or whatever it is, you’re in trouble. That’s why I said 40, I would go and 30 for some of the companies. … Uh
Jason Spiess
How are you doing on time? You got time for one or two more? Ok. Uh I wanted to ask you about the reverse ripple. Um, I, I, I did a story called the Bach and Ripple and explained how, you know, miles city and buildings and Rapid City and Minneapolis were really early um successors because of the distribution arteries that were set up. And just some of the, you know, three M out of Minneapolis made everything just so natural for the Bakken. They, they were an early victor in the, in the
success of the Bakken. Um Now there’s a reverse ripple that’s coming through. Um when it comes to the jobs that have been created and now the jobs that are being eliminated because of this volatility of price. Ok. That’s kind of the context behind it. So what, what, what do you see or do you get any comments when it comes to the reverse ripple? That oil and gas provides the job market or the American economy?
Brian Sullivan
Well, ok, so I’ve been very vocal in saying about about a year and a half ago, I came out and tweeted and said on the other, I thought the oils dropped of this magnitude was bad for the economy. And people were saying I was an idiot because you know, that’s low gas prices, low gas prices are good. Yes, low gas prices are good. But when you look at all the jobs that have been created in this industry over the last five or six years, keep in mind this was the only industry adding jobs during the
financial crisis. If you had a high school diploma and wanted a job and you were willing to bust your butt and freeze, freeze it off as well. You got in a car and went to Williston from wherever you were. You could make a good living if you worked hard for it. And that during the financial crisis, this was the industry that was growing. We’re talking tens or hundreds of thousands of good jobs.
And that’s why I’ve said that I don’t think that it’s a positive for America just because we have cheap gas. People aren’t going to buy a home because gas is cheap, right? They may change the car, they’re driving and drive more miles and maybe order an extra dessert at work. I’m not saying it doesn’t matter, it does. But also the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are going to be either lost or have their pay slashed does have a negative effect as well.
If you look at the national data, Texas and North Dakota had an outsized impact on the data in America when you say, oh things and that’s important psychologically, right? And if you look so the reverse ripple to your effect is this if you look at the data now. Ok, like we had retail sales data, but if you dug into it, you saw that gas stations were the only one really that was down big.
And that’s because it’s based on dollars and if gas is cheap because they bring in fewer dollars on an absolute basis. So it’s, now, it’s, now when you look at the monthly jobs numbers, what’s the only industry that’s losing jobs, mining? Which by the way is that the US government puts oil and gas under mining. So now, now it’s not going to bring America down. That’s not what I’m saying, but it does make the data look weaker and the data does reinforce psychology.
So if we’ve got this thing, sort of, it’s like if you had a B A B and then ad on your, you know, your grade point average is gonna come down even though you’re really an A and B student, you might have ac average all of a sudden and that’s kind of what oil and gas is doing right now, dragging things down, making things not look as good and, and, and it matters a lot
Jason Spiess
you mentioned about the uh some of the efficiencies in technology earlier, bringing some of the cost down and that sort of thing I wanted to ask you, are you seeing any um new companies emerging? Wow,
Brian Sullivan
that’s a good question. I can’t think of one off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s a lot of seismic type testing companies that matter. A lot, you know, that are coming out of the, you know, to your point, the technology has gotten so gone good. It’s like fishing. You know, you’re going to catch a fish though. Every time you put the hook in. It’s just how big the fish is going to be and how hard it’s going to be to reel it in.
But there’s no, there’s, there’s no empty hooks, there’s no dry holes anymore. I’m sure there’s some seismic companies and doing all kinds of computer aided testing. I haven’t seen them. I’ve got about 100 and 50 stock on this. Um, this, basically this stock screener. I built I track in real time using a program called, uh, and there’s some names that, you know, you look at you like, what do they do?
I probably should dig in a little more. But, um, it’s pretty ugly by the way over the last year. Uh, almost every of the, all of those 150 companies. Stocks are down pretty big. I mean, you look at Houston, I went down to Houston. I ran a stock screen. It was like 200 14 publicly traded companies in the Houston area and 100 and 68 of them were oil and gas related. You know, like it’s, I mean, Houston is a huge city and it’s diversified, but oil and gas will still the blood that pumps through
its veins, right? And I think we’re gonna see this. Not just the Williston story, I think it will. If oil stays low for a year or two, you’re gonna start to see it that those ripples. You talked about housing trucking rail pipes, All the pipe manufacturers. According to the American Petroleum Institute, there’s 300,000 companies that are directly or indirectly involved or benefiting from the oil and gas industry.
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In this interview, host Jason Spiess talks to Mary Anderson, executive director, ABLE Inc. and Monte Besler, Frackinator Consulting, Williston, ND about ABLE Inc. and how it is impacting the Bakken oil fields. Anderson discusses the integration into the Bakken oil fields and some of the projects underway. Besler gives a first hand testimonial on how ABLE’s social services have allowed him to continue to work in the oil and gas industry.
Prior to 1984, people with intellectual disabilities were referred to the State Institution at Grafton, ND. During this time there were very few or no community supports available to people with intellectual disabilities and families. In 1980, the Association of Retarded Citizens of North Dakota filed a class action suit against the State of North Dakota, declaring that the state’s method of providing care for people with mental retardation violated their constitutional rights. In 1984, The North Dakota ARC won their lawsuit and people began going home. ABLE, Inc. was incorporated in October 1984 as a result of people moving back to their home communities. A southwest regional board established supports in the communities of Bowman, Dickinson and Hettinger.
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Heidi LaBree, American Cancer Society, talks about MBI’s leadership on the Relay for Life project. She comments about how they were able to bring other companies together for the BBQ and pull off a top notch event. She also shared her observations of giving in the Bakken. LaBree believes there is a community within the Bakken and her observations have been that the giving has far exceeded her expectations.
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Heidi LaBree
I’m from Brandon and I cover the Western North Dakota area.
Jason Spiess
And how long have you been working out here in the Bake? And then
Heidi LaBree
I have been working out here for about nine months, nine months.
Jason Spiess
Relatively new position.
Heidi LaBree
Yes, very
Jason Spiess
new before you took this position nine months ago. Where did you work? You don’t have to give the name of the place. But territory, I
Heidi LaBree
was a loan officer at a bank in Western Montana.
Jason Spiess
Western Montana. Okay. So you’re over on the Yellowstone side, kind
Heidi LaBree
of
Jason Spiess
not a lot of oil activity out there, tourist areas. And so what are your experiences since coming out here and working in the back in nine months ago? From Western Montana?
Heidi LaBree
It does, it’s, it’s a lot busier. Um My parents live in Dickinson and they’ve been here for quite a while. So even when I came here to visit, I’ve noticed the influx of people in the area. Um traffic is a lot heavier is the main thing. So it takes, it takes longer to go out to eat, just takes a little bit longer to do everything.
Jason Spiess
So, and what challenges have you experienced since coming out and working here in the Bacon. …
Heidi LaBree
I honestly don’t, I haven’t run into any challenges. It’s actually been very, very smooth transition and has gone very well.
Jason Spiess
Good to hear. Good to hear a lot of opportunity out here. Yes. Um You are with American Cancer Society. We’re here at the Bacon barbecue M B I is putting on the barbecue for a fundraiser for Relay for Life, which is a uh activity. What group organization? What is that? I know it’s a
Heidi LaBree
Walk. Yes. The relay for life is the signature or the signature fundraising activity for the American cancer society. Um it started in 1985 and just continues to grow every year. And this year we’re gonna reach the $5 billion dollar mark of funds raised throughout the entire um time of the relay for life.
And this is actually Missouri Basins. Fbi’s first year as a relay for life team. So they’re doing an excellent job and putting this, this event together here today. They’ve just gone all out. So it’s been really good
Jason Spiess
in the past nine months under your position at the American Cancer Society. Have you, have you noticed or have you heard any anecdotal or seen any technical numbers to indicate whether there’s a surge of giving out here in the, for non profits in the oil patch? Is it on par to what you thought it would be or is it less?
Heidi LaBree
I think it’s above and beyond what I ever imagined it would be. I’ve had um three relay for life events so far. Um My next one will be in Dickinson. But so far those three have well exceeded all their goals and expectations of myself and of the committees that plan the events. They’ve just all three have done very, very well. This is actually Missouri Basins, MB eyes. So they’re doing an excellent job and putting this, this event together here today.
They’ve just gone all out. So it’s been really good. I feel like there is a community within, within the bacon, especially working with the FBI relay for life team and just seeing how they’ve worked with all, not just other oil companies in the area, but just all, all companies in the area have, they’ve all come together to, to work to accomplish this. And it’s, it’s very neat to
Jason Spiess
see. Did you hear any stories about the bacon before you came out here?
Heidi LaBree
And
Jason Spiess
now that you’re out here, um, is there any facts or myths that stick out in your mind that now that you’re out here that, wow, I came out here and the traffic is as bad as I thought or it’s not as bad or the price of milk is X or um, whatever it might be or I, I’ve gone to a store and not harassed by everybody or whatever? Just, um, are there any facts or myths that you heard coming into here that you now have experienced that. Have your own
Heidi LaBree
opinion on. Well, the traffic is one of them. Um, whereas there is an increased amount of traffic, It hasn’t been as much as I expected when I had heard about it. I drive up to Watford City once a month and take highway 85 up that direction and it’s been pretty smooth, smooth drive every week. And, um, when I had first moved over here I had just heard horror stories about that highway and how busy it is and stuff and it hasn’t been as bad as I expected. Well, that’s good to hear.
Jason Spiess
Uh, it seems like everybody has a boxing story. I’ve, I’ve heard everything from car accidents to, uh, just guys driving out here having no money in their pockets and coming out here finding a job too. Um, a, uh, what was the other one? I heard that was just remarkable. Oh, a guy trying to run down, trying to beat the Amtrak to the next station because he missed his Williston one.
So it’s, you know, it seems like everybody has a bacon story that they tell friends and family from afar. Do you have one yet in the, in the nine months that you’ve been out here? Some unbelievable that could only happen out here
Heidi LaBree
type thing? Actually, I don’t, not yet. I’m
Jason Spiess
Sorry, but the fact that you call highway 85 somewhat safe, that’s, that’s the bucket story to me. I call it white knuckle highway.
Heidi LaBree
I haven’t, I mean, I haven’t felt uncomfortable on it yet, so that’s
Jason Spiess
good. Thank you much and appreciate the work you’re doing. I lost my mother to cancer. So I appreciate all the work that you guys are doing. It’s a, it’s a worthy cause and it’s something that I feel needs to be explored a lot further on. And that’s why we’re doing this for free. So,
Heidi LaBree
well, I appreciate your, your publicity here and I really appreciate the FBI team for putting it on, so it’s, it’s a great event so. Well. Thank you much. Alright, thank.
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Executive Coach Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners and host of The Energy Detox Podcast joined Jason Spiess to talk about expectations in March Madness, role players at work and an update on the Appalachian Marcellus Utica Basin.
During the podcast and interview, the two start off by talking about the Big Dance known as March Madness. From the loss of productivity to gambling brackets to skipping work to watch the game at the bar, it’s a special time of year for managers at work. Sinnott and Spiess pass and shoot around those topics.
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Jason Spiess
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Children of all ages. Welcome to the podcast known as the Energy Detox, the Crude Life E S G University. And anything else, Joe that I can get in there with my sports sounding voice. Did you know Joe? I used to be a sports announcer back in the day,
Joe Sinnott
Jason, we’ve had, I don’t know how many conversations, but that is news to me. I was unaware of your, at least that element of your past.
Jason Spiess
So this is the folks, my name is Jason, that is Joe Senate. He is the host of the Energy Detox podcast. Of course, he is the executive coach to the Real life rock stars with winning partners. He is an executive coach primarily in the oil and gas energy sector, but he will certainly go outside of that sector and that’s what we’re gonna talk about today.
We’re gonna talk about outside your comfort zone momentum. I might even talk about a gaffe or two that I’ve made on the air live. That’s what I came up with the Vince mcmahon of the W W E advice. If it happened live, it was meant to be So Joe with that. How you doing
Joe Sinnott
today? I’m doing fantastic, Jason, how about yourself? You know, not
Jason Spiess
too bad. We’re just about an hour away from tip off for the March madness extravaganza. Spectacular for those people who would like a little time stamp on the rationale and the reason for our reindeer games and our craziness to start the podcast off. But my question to you, Joe is, let’s, let’s start right off the bat here because um one of the most difficult things for anybody in any executive leadership role is that balancing of boss and friend.
And right now, everybody knows that people want to gamble, people want to watch the March madness. They want to pay attention to their brackets, they want to check out the scores. This is like one of the biggest weeks in loss of production for workplaces that exists. So talk to me a little bit about how executives can even navigate through this week because that’s one of
those things where the horse is out of the barn, the snowball is rolling down the hill and you kind of gotta deal with it. But at the same time, you can’t really enable it either.
Joe Sinnott
That’s a great question. And the answer of course is the answer to a lot of questions and that’s preparation. So the best thing that, you know, an executive leader or any leader, you know, any manager, even of a small team can do is prepare for the fact that every single year on the whatever it is. Third Thursday of March, March madness kicks off.
People are distracted come lunchtime and you know, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. But as is the case with many humans, when you’re caught off guard, you’re not aware, you’re not preparing. That’s when you make a short sighted decision in terms of, you know, cracking down on people and saying no, you can’t, you know, escape to the local watering hole to, to enjoy games.
So, I mean, the first thing Jason is if you have the time to prepare or if you didn’t prepare this year, you know, get your ducks in a row for next year. So that when March madness rolls around yet again, you can actually take advantage of it and use it as an opportunity to connect more with your employees and ensure maybe even more productivity in the, in the week or so leading up to March Madness instead of, you know, acting like the kid who, uh you know, didn’t do his homework to the last
minute and something happened and then, you know, he’s stomping around because he didn’t get to go out with his friends or do something fun. Well, guess what? Little preparation, a little bit of awareness, especially when it’s on the calendar. Basically, uh you know, indefinitely Until they expanded to like 128 teams. And, you know, things move forward a week or two.
Jason Spiess
Yeah. And that’s another, that’s a whole other podcast for another day. But I, I was gonna ask you about, you know, just kind of, some people are doing it from a team building standpoint, other people, of course, they just do not allow anything like it in the office. So, it all depends on the workplace and a lot of people have embraced it and figured out ways to channel and redirect that energy as opposed to resist it.
So, uh let’s talk a little bit about expectations now because I found it very interesting, you know, last year. Of course, it was ST Peter Wright. ST Peter’s had the big magnificent tournament run that was last year. Right.
Joe Sinnott
Yeah, that was last year …
Jason Spiess
And they were a 15 seed and it’s pretty rare for a 15 seed to win one game, let alone several games. So it was, it was rather interesting in seeing some of the media headlines leading up to this, that there won’t be another ST Peter’s and who is gonna be the Goliath that goes down and, you know, the speculation comes out, the speculation comes out and so relate that a little bit to the business world because sometimes you get a new employee and boy there, man, they, they’re like a fax
machine and a waffle maker put together. That’s an old Simpsons joke, man. I just dated myself there. But, you know, a lot of times the sizzle doesn’t match the steak and sometimes the steak is everything with no sizzle. So, talk to me about expectations, especially, you know, given that we’re in that March madness time when there’s upset specials and people are generally wrong out of the gate. So,
Joe Sinnott
well, I mean, I think you can call it expectations Jason or you can call it just the law of probabilities, you know, for all the gamblers that love this time of year, it’s all odds, right? It’s all statistics and in terms of the expectations of a new employee or of some business plan that was put in place three months ago, that now seems obsolete.
Obviously, things are gonna change and the leaders that are the most successful and sustainable if you will are the ones who have almost cold hearted view of risk and statistics And odds and when you boil it down to, yeah, there’s a, you know, whatever 15% chance that this new hire is gonna fail miserably and that we missed something. Once you accept that, then you can ask, you know, the next questions for the next higher to say.
All right. Well, what are all the ways to prevent that from happening in the past or to reduce the odds of a major upset if you will. And that’s again, were a lot of leaders who are humans. I only work with humans at, at this point in my career as a coach at least. But, you know, humans tend towards the emotional side of things. It’s, you know, it’s in our nature, but when you can boil it down to exes and ohs and statistics and say, all right, what are the finite risks to this new hire,
succeeding or again, whatever business need is out there or business decision once you can do that, Jason, and, you know, you can then start tackling specific threats, specific risks, specific challenges. It’s a lot easier to get people on board and motivate them. Then if you’re just their arm waving and huffing and puffing and looking upset because, you know, you’ve hired three people in the last couple of months and all of them turned out to be dud.
So that’s again, and I say that, you know, working with a lot of technically minded people so that tends to resonate with them. But I think for anyone who can boil it down to numbers and again, the exes and ohs just like a game plan. And, uh you know, in the sport of basketball, it sets you up for a much more, um you know, unbiased, straightforward conversation that’s gonna resonate with your audience or your, your fans, so to speak.
Jason Spiess
A lot of times in sports, their role players, in fact, most teams have role players and when you look at an office, a lot of times they’ve got role players too. And sometimes I think that we get caught up on so polarizing our ideology and our thoughts that we forget there’s five teams on a basketball team and that player that got four steals, six rebounds and three assists actually was probably the most valuable player on that game because all of those stats came at times when they
were needed as opposed to just the regular day to day stuff. Now, the star athlete who got all the kudos, yeah, he scored the most points and he did all the filler work and he’s the day to day work horse. But there are those players that I I of course, think of Ray Allen, one of the best college basketball players in his twilight years in the N B A. He went to play for the Miami Heat and he was basically there to shoot three pointers with a minute left and that’s what he did and they won an NBA
championship because Ray Allen knew how to shoot. I think it was, it was the Celtics or the heat, but he was able to basically shoot three pointers with a minute left and he was a clutch three point shooter. And sometimes when I look at, you know, conferences and going to that big meeting and these other things, I think we get kind of almost one side and we forget that that grizzled old veteran, they can bring a lot of wisdom into this and that young rookie man, they can bring a spark into
this like we’ve never seen. And that middle of the road kind of beaten down middle management person. Well, they’re probably your filler, they’re probably the person that’s gonna do the heavy lifting at that point. So Joe, talk to me a little bit about the role playing that certain organizations should be taking on, on a regular basis.
Joe Sinnott
Well, this comes up not necessarily in the way you put it, Jason, but this comes up a lot in organizations that I work with because people, you know, individuals who have specific roles, many of them cannot articulate how their role, their job is connected to the company’s bottom line. And that’s a huge failure. You can argue it’s a failure in governance, right?
When a company has, you know, hundreds if not thousands of employees and a and a significant number of them, they know their role, but they don’t know how it’s actually connected to that company winning, you know, to, to pull in some sports analogies here. So that’s the first thing to address is to help those individuals quantify their role, how are they connected to the bottom line?
Because if they’re not connected, then obviously there’s something wrong. But when they can see how their actions and their responsibilities actually contribute to the continued success of their team of their company that changes the conversation, right? You’re, you’re less likely to have people get lost. And on the flip side, Jason, you’re less likely to over promote the individuals who have might have the highlight reels and the sexy stats, but that once you actually
quantify their contribution to the bottom line, it’s maybe not as great as somebody would have guessed from the outside. So that’s again, if that makes sense to you, Jason, that’s a lot of what I do because when I’m working with people, one on one, that’s one of the first questions is, hey, how are you? And how are your team connected to the bottom line and helping them answer that question is one of the first things to understand.
Alright, well, how the heck are you expected to collaborate better with your teammates and other departments? If you don’t know your value, you don’t know your role basically, Jason. Um and in many cases, you don’t know how valuable you really
Jason Spiess
are. All right now we got a Mike and Phil Jackson this because now you’ve got to manage the egos because now you’re an employee. I’m sorry, you’re, you’re, yeah, you’re a coach or you’re a manager or you’re a executive that’s got to manage all these type a personalities that were just told their whole life how special they are and then they got hired and just told how important their job is.
They’re the most important person in the company you got, you know, Joe, there are C E O s who have told me that before. Okay, I was at a hotel At a hotel as a restaurant manager being told I’m the most important employee out of the 3000 employees in that whole place. Not the housekeeping staff, that poor woman that’s dealing with 90% turnover.
But anyways, so shout out to all, all the housekeeping staff in the hospitality industry. My heart goes out to every single day. Uh Joe, talk to me about managing some of those egos and type a personalities because whether it’s in sports or business, that is a really, really difficult thing to do.
Joe Sinnott
Yeah. Well, I agree 100%. It is a really difficult thing to do. And one of the best approach is not foolproof approach, but one of the best approaches is to basically ask them. So what, you know, when they’re, where they become so proud of some system they put in place or something, they, you know, if their new hire that’s brought in at some, you know, a senior level position, okay, they might be bringing some knowledge, some experience, some results from, from a prior role, but it
doesn’t matter how does it matter. So what, and just having them answer that question again, thinking through how they can leverage it. That’s a good thing, right? How can they build upon their prior successes? Whether again it’s from, from an external, uh point of view or even internally if they’ve grown through the ranks, asking them, you know, how applicable it really is or how they can build upon that and not just sort of kind of settle in and say, hey, look, I’ve got my role,
I’m here until they kick me out the door or, you know, force me into retirement or, you know, whatever the sports equivalent of that would be. And what that does, Jason, it starts to breed a culture, a sense of innovation, continually building upon the existing talent and not sort of stagnating and keeping the spotlight on any individual.
And that’s the key because if you don’t do that, Jason, you know, as cliche as it sounds, you’re gonna get these silos, right? And you know, everybody’s gonna be working towards some intermediate goal and lose sight of the fact that you wanna win, you wanna win, you know, certainly games. But here in March, you wanna win the whole tournament, right?
And that’s what happens with people that have maybe outsized egos if you will and you know, a pride that’s based in, in form of results, which is again, not, not a bad thing necessarily, but by and large, the problem is they start managing their own little team and again, they lose that connectedness to the bottom line, which is no different from somebody that might be eight rungs down on the ladder within the organization who doesn’t even have a glimpse of the bottom line, whether
it’s that person who’s all the way down the line or whether it’s a person towards the top, if they can’t visualize how everybody is connected then. Yeah, you’re gonna get into a position where people just think they’re the most important person out there or on the flip side, they don’t even realize that they’re important at all. Both of those are toxic. Both of those are damaging and both of those cost companies, a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of energy.
Jason Spiess
Hey, are people doing corporate retreats anymore? Um, in your world, I’ve, I’ve seen a real decline in corporate retreats in the last five years. Have you seen many of them? And where I’m going as cabin fever and spring and, you know, that’s that kind of thing. And those corporate retreat streets used to be a great way to satisfy a lot of that cabin fever and, yeah, I’m up here in the north of the Mason Dixon line.
We’ve had a lot of snow and a lot of negative temperatures this year and you’re up in Pittsburgh. So, um just curious, just, you know, anecdotal, just, you know, just your observation.
Joe Sinnott
Yeah, anecdotally. It is definitely less. But it’s interesting because a lot of companies are trying to fill the void of, you know, the pre COVID pre pandemic world of boondoggles and big gatherings and things like that. We get a little bit of Kumbaya and maybe a lot of bit of drinks and food and all of that. So I have not seen any organizations who have sort of cracked the code on how to, to get all those benefits, Jason. But anecdotally, yeah, it’s definitely less and it’s still
talked about perhaps. But, um, this is a different world and people are more in tune with. All right, what do people actually want? And it depends there. Of course, if you lean towards remote, still, if you, if you lean towards in person, if you, if your hybrid, clearly all of that plays into the potential value of one of those off sites or boondoggles or uh somewhere somewhere in between there in terms of the language, …
Jason Spiess
listening to you speak. I was thinking that COVID probably had a lot to do with the decline as well. And, and, and so people are kind of resetting and right setting and doing all these different things with their company trying to figure out how to even get their employees back in the office, let alone have a corporate retreat. So, but anyway, that’s, that’s where we’re at is, you know, people are just kind of figuring out what their new norm is and, and we’re getting there.
Actually, I think a lot of people are already there and that kind of next wave is starting to come in a little bit. And um you know, when, when we’re talking about spring, we’re talking about cabin fever, we’re talking about new beginnings if you will. Uh R E S G University has been tracking layoffs. Linkedin has been tracking layoffs. There’s been an abundance of layoffs this year.
So a lot of people are going through new beginnings. So whether it be just the spring of the fresh coat of paint or the fresh coat of Easter egg dye, if you’re a pause pan or whether, you know, you got laid off and you have to go get a new job or whether you just start having a new beginning. What, what’s the advice for people this year, Joe,
Joe Sinnott
if you’re going through a new beginning and you’ve landed somewhere in a new company, if it’s so if you’re, if you’re at that stage of the new beginning, the key is to take advantage of that excuse, the excuse to ask a ton of questions, the excuse to be ignorant. Now, successful leaders are always taking advantage of ignorance. They’re always, you know, unafraid to sound like the dumbest person in the room for most audience, at least internal audiences externally.
Sometimes you got to uh you know, you might have to, to put on a face and pretend like, you know, a little bit more than you do. But internally having that humility, having the ability to, to ask some dumb questions. Take it advantage of it. You’re, you know, a new kid on the block, take advantage of it for people who have not yet landed a new job.
You still have lots of excuses, of course, but they’re a little bit different right there. Excuses to, you know, revisit your personal life a little bit more revisit your timing, you know, understand what actually drives you and motivate you. You might have the ability to think a little bit more clearly than you did if you were working, you know, 60 70 hours a week at some jobs.
So taking advantage of those excuses that are unique, whether you’re in between jobs or whether you’re just, I got a new job, those are fairly or hopefully fairly narrow windows in the grand scheme of a, you know, 30 plus year career. So take advantage of those unique situations, whatever that means to you again, it’s open ended, right? What are all the ways to take advantage of this unique situation?
And a lot of people, Jason and it sounds so simple. A lot of people don’t view it that way, right? It’s like they’ve already fast forwarded to, you know, they’re gonna get their, their next job, maybe it’s a dream job and like they’re already projecting three years into that job and just wait a second. Let’s, you know, it’s just what, what leverage do you have now?
What freedom do you have now that you might not have couple months down the road? So that’s from a mindset standpoint, Jason, that’s the best thing you can do when you’re facing a new beginning is just recognize this is unique. How can you take advantage of it and treat this like it’s a um, you know, it’s a, it’s a once in a lifetime experience, right?
For all those kids that are playing in the N C double A tournament for the first time, perhaps the only time, right? This is their, their one shining moment, so to speak. How do you take advantage of it? How do you soak it in so that you don’t regret this unique opportunity that’s in front of you.
Jason Spiess
You know, I think listening to you speak, I was kind of reflecting on my past a little bit and I think one of my biggest problems has been that rather than learn from my past, I’ve been trying to compensate for my past and that that’s a different approach. And I definitely should be learning from my past than trying to compensate for the past because when I compensate, I get stubborn and I just don’t see the trees for the forest and the reality for what it is.
And sometimes I wonder if that’s um spring related personality related or just, you know, um just human related Joe has that ever come up in your world that people are compensating rather than learning from the past.
Joe Sinnott
It does. And actually even the words you’re using there, Jason, I think sometimes even learning from your past can be a bit of a pejorative right? You’re learning from your past, that implies that maybe you made some mistakes are mistakes were made and you know, again, that could cause you to want to compensate. I would say just from a visual standpoint, building on your past, that’s a much more positive.
I mean, there’s a visual right there even learning, right? When people think learn a lot of times they just default to sitting in a classroom and ingesting information, which is fine, there’s a purpose to that. But you know, what do you then do with it? You want to build something you want to grow, you want to develop. So even just from the language that you use, when I’m listening to people talk and tell their stories or talk about problems, they’re happening, sometimes it’s
something as small as that and say, okay, well, how we gonna build on your past experiences? How are you going to leverage those? How are you gonna move further faster? Whatever the case is? So that’s again, it, that’s the first step. Sometimes just changing your language. Jason and it’s not enough to just learn and intellectually understand what you could have done differently and how you’re gonna do things moving forward.
It’s hey, where can I go now that I couldn’t have gotten too if it weren’t for those prior experiences. And maybe what I just said, there is a fancy way of saying compensating. But regardless my mind, at least when I hear that, you know language, it’s your starting in the whole. So start positively use those language build, grow, develop, etcetera.
Jason Spiess
You’re talking to a guy that takes the words all the way down to the symbols that are involved. So you’re, you’re, you’re speaking my language big time on that. Um What’s, uh, let’s change gears a little bit here. What’s happening out in the east coast? Marcellus utica? Apple is Appalachia? Is that the 3rd, 3rd term that’s used out there? Occasionally?
Joe Sinnott
Appalachia or Appalachia depends where you are. I’ve heard different rules of thumb in terms of who says Appalachia and who says Appalachia. But uh yeah, you’re, you’re welcome to call this the Appalachian region if you will, the Appalachian Basin, but certainly the majority of the gasses coming from our beloved Marcellus and Utica shales here these days.
Jason Spiess
So the last time we checked in, there was there was gonna be a cracker plant, not, you know, not a Triscuit cracker plant, but it sounds like like some sort of ethane plant that was gonna be cracker in out there. So, do we have an update on that or is that pretty much the same old, same old, it’s
Joe Sinnott
still cracking away up there. You know, there’s still occasionally you’ll read some headlines about some, you know, additional thing that needed to get done or is, is finally in line. I think I just saw a couple of days ago, I think uh you know, they installed some new air monitors at the plant, but it’s been operating, it is running and uh it is, you know, it is doing its job there.
So really no update I guess Jason other than it’s, yeah, it’s clicking along there. That’s the Shell Cracker plant in Beaver County. So, just outside of Pittsburgh here,
Jason Spiess
Beaver County, outside of Pittsburgh. Okay. And where, what is that cracking, I guess? Is it, is it just gas, is there other things involved? What types of gas do you know that much into it yet? I mean, it is a pop quiz. So
Joe Sinnott
it’s actually pretty straightforward. So, you know, in the natural gas stream, most of what you have typically is methane. But you also have, you know, lots of other ma molecules and those other molecules are heavier, they’re bigger, they’re called, you know, NGL natural gas liquids. And one of those is ethane and methane is a key ingredient. You know, it takes a couple steps but you crack the ethane and you produce these little pellets basically that go on to produce all the
plastics that our world lies upon. So it is the ethane stream from the natural gas that we produce here. That is the reason that shell, you know, stuck that plant where they did because we got a lot of gas and in that gas is a sufficient supply of ethane to be cracked and to be turned into lots of the products that we enjoy on a daily basis.
Jason Spiess
Of course, a lot of people might be wondering what we’re kind of talking about, but there’s butane and there’s methane and there’s, and there’s pent Ain. That’s when I realized I was out of my element in my early days of the oil and gas industry. I was interviewing John Gibson from one Oak and he threw out the word plantain and I looked at him and I thought, boy, you’re just making stuff up
now because I’d never heard that before. But, hey, he was right. I was wrong. Imagine that Joe, the energy expert was right. And the podcast host was wrong, boy, you could.
Joe Sinnott
So I’ve learned two things now. So I’ve learned that in your former life, there was a little bit of sports commentating and I’ve also learned that there’s at least one time that you’ve been wrong. So those are two things that I’ve learned here on the crude life during this conversation. Jason …
Jason Spiess
anyway and close. Did what? Any final thoughts, any final words as we kind of lead right into spring here.
Joe Sinnott
Final words. Well, I mean, I guess sticking with the, you know, what’s going on here in the world of the Marcellus natural gas prices of course, are low. They dipped, they were, they were high at one point last year and now they’re low. And in terms of the ups and downs of the industry, there’s no question that, you know, it’s like it happened overnight almost.
But, you know, people are starting to worry again. They’re starting to question how long, you know, things are gonna be able to click along at the current pace and you know, that could take its toll on people. So what I would say is, and again, this comes out and a lot of the conversations I have with a lot of the people that I work with focus on what’s not changing, right?
You’re part of the energy industry, ups and downs. That’s part of the game. So focus on what is not changing and what you can control. And as cliche as that sounds, Jason sometimes it takes a reminder to say, hey, you know what, at the end of the day at gas prices are going down, but, you know, 95% of the other variables, they’re unchanged, they’re still in play and most of those variables, quite frankly, Jason are people and relationships and connections and your reputation, all of
those things are unchanged and most of those things you can control pretty easily. So that’s what I’d say to people, you know, as they look at gas prices and even oil prices, I think oil prices just dipped another, what, $3 yesterday. So, um, just keep that in mind and, you know, you don’t, you know, seasoned veterans of the industry, of course, we’ll talk about all the ups and downs they’ve been through and how they’re hardened to it.
But the reality is most of them still sort of feed into the, to the ups and downs and the swings. But if you’re in a leadership position, you can’t let that happen. That’s, that’s it. So, try not to give much advice in our conversations here, Jason. But you know, my advice to any leaders that are out there listening is be mindful of the words you’re using just like we talked before you.
No words are important. And if you’re conveying a sense of doom and gloom, unnecessarily, well, you’re setting yourself up for failure, you’re setting your team and your, your company up for failure. And you know, the odds of you making it through a grueling period, like the three weeks of March madness here in the six games that teams need to win or seven games. If you’re one of the playing teams that won earlier this week, you know, you’re not gonna make it if you’re, you know,
have any, any inkling of negativity and doubt that you’re sharing with your team. So maybe that’s my, my final word here. Weaving together the world of March madness in the world of ever decreasing and increasing and decreasing and increasing and decreasing commodity prices.
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Vicki Granado, VP Corporate Communications, Energy Transfer Partners, discusses the recent donations made to emergency service organizations across the Dakotas, Iowa and Illinois.
The donations from Energy Transfer Partners are on behalf the Dakota Access Pipeline. The local counties in North Dakota are receiving checks from Energy Transfer Partners for $20,000.
Energy Transfer Partners also made donations to 4-H, Future Farmers of America and a couple other local organizations. Granado talks about investing in the foundation of the communities is another way to invest in the community and their employees.
The donation follows a $15 million dollar donation to the state of North Dakota to be used for law enforcement purposes.
Host Jason Spiess directs the conversation with Granado into the symbolism behind the major investments energy companies are making in the Bakken.
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After a quick congratulations and an overview of Thomas’ services, the three dive right into a real lifestyle issue in the oil patch.
Franki starts off the round table discussion on how to balance the work involved in the oilfield and family life. Franki, a single mother of three, talks about her support system for her three children and how the industry has become a surrogate family.
Tiffany grabs that baton and balances the single mother living in multiple cities. She talks about having several places to call home is the right fit for her work home balance.
Heather continues the work home balance conversation and brings it back to the two other girls involved the interview how they are her family too. They joke about picking up each other’s kids and taking them to dinner while the other is wrapping up at work.
After the three describe what life is like for a woman working in the oil patch, they give a quick boots on the ground update from the Haynesville DUG Conference.
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We have the wonderful opportunity to talk to Stephanie Canales. She discussed a little bit about her role in energy as well as the difficulties of starting her position during one of the most tumultuous times in recent history.
We talk about new opportunities from surprising places, including a promotion with Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA) and a new position working with the Department of Energy. Stephanie also takes a moment to mention the seven different pillars the Equity and Energy Program that she, as an ambassador, helps to bring to the public.
This would, of course, include helping to show the public the variety of opportunities within the Energy Industry across so many different backgrounds.
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The oil and gas industry in North Dakota remains a powerhouse for the state, accounting for more than $42.6 billion in gross business volume and $3.8 billion in state and local tax revenues in 2021, according to two studies highlighted today by Governor Doug Burgum, researchers from North Dakota State University and industry officials.
North Dakota State University researchers Dean Bangsund and Nancy Hodur studied the economic contribution of oil and gas exploration, extraction, transportation, processing and capital investments to the state in 2021, the most recent data available. Similar studies have been conducted every two years since 2005.
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Their findings show North Dakota’s oil and gas industry directly employed 14,200 people in 2021, while economic activity from the indirect and induced effects of the industry supported an additional 35,185 jobs, for a total of 49,385 jobs attributed to the industry. Employment compensation, which includes wages, salaries and employee benefits, was estimated at $3.9 billion.
Total gross business volume, which includes direct sales in the oil and gas industry and business generated from indirect and induced economic activity throughout North Dakota, was estimated at $42.58 billion – an increase of $2.38 billion over 2019 and over 30% of the state’s overall gross business volume.
Bangsund said that while the pandemic made the last few years challenging, the oil and gas industry has learned how to maintain production through efficiencies and most of the industry’s key economic metrics are at or near pre-COVID levels.
“The North Dakota oil and natural gas industry’s economic contribution to our state has been very stable even through challenges, and it remains incredibly resilient,” said Bangsund, a research scientist in agribusiness and applied economics at NDSU.
Dean Bangsund, NDSU, being interviewed by The Crude Life Chief Intention Officer Jason Spiess.“The petroleum industry continues to be a foundational industry and energy source for North Dakota,” Jason Spiess, founder and Chief Intention Officer of The Crude Life said. “Taxes and royalties paid by the industry support the state’s selection of investments in infrastructure, schools, communities, tax relief and the Legacy Fund, among other areas.”
According to another recent study conducted for the Western Dakota Energy Association (WDEA) and North Dakota Petroleum Foundation, tax revenues paid by the oil and natural gas industry in North Dakota from fiscal years 2008 to 2022, supported $5.9 billion for local communities and infrastructure, over $1.8 billion for K-12 education, $1.4 billion for water and flood control projects, over $1 billion for property tax relief, and $32 million for outdoor heritage projects across the state. Additionally, $8 billion in oil and gas taxes went into the Legacy Fund, which benefits future generations.
Spiess noted that North Dakota’s petroleum and octane industries pay more than half of all state taxes collected and provides good paying jobs in the state.
“Thanks to the taxpayers and their assistance with energy innovations, the amazing resource of the Bakken, and billions of dollars invested in infrastructure by our industry, the state can count on more state assistance going to the oil companies in the North Dakota economy for years to come,” Spiess said.
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Dean Bangsund
One, Dean Bangsund research scientist, NDS you,
Jason Spiess
Mr Dean Bangsund, how are you doing today?
Dean Bangsund
Doing well, yourself?
Jason Spiess
Not too bad, not too bad. Of course, I go back about 10 years with Mr Dean Banks and well, maybe it’s been eight years. When did you do your first study for the Bacon? If I’m asked,
Dean Bangsund
you know, Our first contribution study, we’ve done a number of different types of evaluations, but the first one was in 2007 and it looked at what was going on in the state in 2005. We’ve been putting together an assessment every two years since then. This last effort would be our 9th biennial assessment. So I think if you do the math and you count the year that you started as one, I don’t remember it 17 or 18 years that we’ve been, we’ve been taking a look at this industry in north
Jason Spiess
Dakota. I think I just remember like 2013, I think was the first year when I started tracking this study. Um with Dean Bankston and Nancy Holder, we should mention Nancy Holder is a co author on this as well.
Dean Bangsund
Uh Nancy Nancy and I partner on nearly all of our projects. And um it goes back to when we were both working together in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics. She is now at the Center for Social Research but uh different office, but we’re doing the same thing. So
Jason Spiess
Boy agribusiness not is not the interview, but that is going to change dramatically in the next 10 years. For the same way the internet changed uh the newspaper and just the whole media world with that paradigm shift in the way that hydraulic fracturing and Joe Biden changed the oil and gas industry with that paradigm shift.
I think farming. Is it ready to go through that as well? With some of the no till uh farming methods that are going to be introduced along with the reduced pesticides and precision agriculture. I mean, you’re talking about, I mean, you might be pulled out of that retirement area into the other other department pal. Well,
Dean Bangsund
you know, the story with egg is interesting as well. Um you know, there are, there are some entities, let’s just call them that, let’s say let’s just say the grand farmers one where they’re trying to bring together individuals and companies and other groups that have technological advances and, and are looking to move, you know, certain things forward and in farming and production, agriculture and, and some of it is cutting edge and some of it is, is um been in the works for a long
time, but now we’re just starting to see the fruits of that. And you’re right. I mean, precision egg reduce pesticide use, aerial surveillance. Um you know, combining uh you know, remote sensing with fertilizer and pesticide applications. Um you know, just looking at a whole host of, of genetic uh continuations uh drought tolerant corn, there is no
shortage of topics and issues there but I digress. Uh I think this interview is to be on the oil and gas industry. So that, yeah, which by the way, there’s lots of interesting stuff.
Jason Spiess
But, but they do, they do relate because a lot of the oil and gas industry does go into farming, whether it be from the fuel that’s used, whether it be from the uh uh feed stocks that get used for other different uses, pesticides, fertilizers, et cetera. But then also just some of the energy that’s needed to produce a lot of the supply chain.
So what we’re talking about here is the economic impact of oil and natural gas through the state of North Dakota. And this is, is just just for 2021 or is it uh post COVID pre COVID. Just give me a quick synopsis of the study time frame.
Dean Bangsund
Sure. Um In 2021 we looked at 2 19 and at that point, I think everybody was painfully aware of, of what COVID had done. Not just to any particular industry in any one. State, but how it roiled the markets and how everybody wasn’t sure where things were going. And, you know, we saw mass layoffs and in a lot of our service industries and, and we were unsure what structural changes were going to occur in the economy.
Um, you know, to 19, the industry looked reasonably healthy albeit, um, you know, the writing was on the wall because we obviously already had observed what took place in 2020. Well, now it’s 2023 we took a look at what happened in 2021. And so I think, you know, we knew going in that the industry was gonna look a little different than it was pre COVID.
Um, but then there was some surprises, I guess positive surprises is what I would say that, you know, some of the things that, that maybe we were unsure of what the effect COVID might have had, uh, didn’t materialize to the degree that some people thought. Um, and, you know, I guess some of the markets have rebounded. Although I think, you know, you could argue whether whether COVID is still affecting markets or whether it’s now political unrest and the rest of the world
economy or not, there’s a lot of overlap there. But suffice to say some of the commodity prices have rebounded and the industry looks like they’re doing reasonably well.
Jason Spiess
How about when you take a look at your first takeaway? You’ve been doing nine of these studies. Did, was this an overall positive uh for the industry? Was there something eye opening to it? Um I know that a lot of the headlines have been 50% of oil and gas revenue, you know, goes into the general fund operates the general fund and all these different things. What was your takeaway from this being your ninth one?
Dean Bangsund
Well, obviously you hit on one of the, one of the issues that the state has. Um we are representative Lee small state compared to most economies in the U S. We have an industry that is, you know, arguably were a major player in the, in the world of oil and gas. Now that we didn’t used to be 10 years ago, the oil and gas industry emerged, you know, coming into the shale play and when we kept assessing this industry on a biennial basis, one of the first things that I think really jumped out was
looking at what’s the revenue streams that are going into the state coffers and what share that is coming from this one particular industry and that remains, I think, uh you know, one of the issues that, that the state is, is grappling with both positive and negative. Um you know, they have an industry that’s producing a ton of fiscal revenue.
But um you know, that’s a positive on the, on the downside of that is, is that, well, you know, there’s, there’s ups and downs in the commodity based business. We’ve got a lot of our horses hitched to one industry right now. And so that always garners a lot of attention is, is, you know, what do the tax revenues look like? The, the messaging on that I don’t think has changed much.
I think people now have come to grips with just understanding how much of, you know, the state’s tax revenue comes from this one industry. Um And so, yeah, that was, that was one of the positives coming out that, that we didn’t see a major hit to fiscal revenues from uh emerging out of COVID. Um If I had, if I had to say one thing about the takeaway that I would see in this particular study compared to the others is I think the, the maturing of the industry is even more present now than it
was before. We were watching the industry transition out of oil field development and infrastructure build out. And we were talking about that for a while. Um You know, we’re now putting in wells that have three mile laterals. So we need, we need far fewer wells than what, you know, people were thinking even, you know, a handful of years ago.
So when we look at the composition of the industry, whereas most of the dollars being generated, where most of the jobs being generated, it’s now in production. Um And that, that has continued. And I think looking at what COVID done, uh knocked down drilling rigs, they have came back a little bit, but we’re still, we’re still 50% below right now where we were into 19. So um this, this trend of, of doing more with less, um we’re adding more wells but production employment is
remaining about the same. So, you know, by and large, the industry was forced into another efficiency phase. The first one was back in 2 14 to 15 when the price collapse occurred and they, you know, underwent a number of changes. And now COVID has introduced another set of circumstances. And so, you know, the industry in North Dakota is I would say leaner than it’s been for quite a while. And yet we have a similar amount of business volume,
Jason Spiess
maturity part. And that’s one thing I wanted to revisit real quickly. I always laugh when I hear that word because in sports, you know, mature means it’s ready to take off. That means, hey, that, that young blue chip or he’s mature, he’s ready to go. But I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here. This is almost more of a sun setting. Um type of a mature, isn’t it? It’s, it’s talk to me about the mature part a little well, sunset might be a little dramatic too. So
Dean Bangsund
I would say the sunsets every day. But so far we’ve been fortunate, rises the next day as well. But, you know, um maturing in the sense that, you know, the industry was exploding back when shale came on the scene and the vast majority of what that industry was doing in the state was, you know, temporary jobs we knew they weren’t gonna last. There were being filled primarily by individuals that weren’t residents of the state.
They left the state when they weren’t working. Um We had a host of dynamics. The states never experienced before. You know what, what that industry did was not the state off its long term trajectory in terms of growth, both employment population, uh GSP gross state product business volume, all of that uh shut up, well, move forward now and now the industry is far more stable or what we call mature, is that what we can expect to see next year is going to be real similar to what we we
experienced this year. Barring, of course, you know, that the fluctuations that are going to come with, with commodity prices. But, you know, we, we don’t have an industry now that is is fickle with regards to factors that can’t control. And so, you know, right now we have a more steady workforce. Um those wells will need servicing whether you know, oil is $40 or oil is $80.
Um Back in 2013, 14, you know, things were moving at a pace that, you know, some people will say that’s just not sustainable, but nobody I think understood the dynamics at that point, what was gonna happen once the industry got their leases secured? So all of that is now changed. Um We’ve got infrastructure in place, the industry is now focused on production. We’ve got a number of wells that are producing and we’re adding roughly the number of wells we need to kind of keep
production steady. So from that standpoint, I think, you know, we’ve seen, we’ve seen the industry move from, hey, we gotta get stuff stuck in the ground at a haphazard manner to a much more businesslike process. You know, that we’re observing mountain today are
Jason Spiess
these um separated out by, you know, new wells, um um oil enhanced wells and um abandoned wells being capped. Does that at all break out at all?
Dean Bangsund
Well, … well, in the work that we do, I guess, you know, we look at well counts and we look at active wells and it’s not a major driver in how we’re measuring the economic sort of the industry. But you are right is that there are production decline curves with wells. And if people don’t understand how that works, you need to have a certain amount of new production coming online to maintain your existing production.
It’s not like other industries where once you build the factory and you keep the same number of workers going, output is going to be the same every, every year. That’s not the case with oil and gas. And so bacon wells have traditionally had a very sharp production decline curve. In other words, the vast majority of what comes out of that well over the well’s lifetime comes out the first year or
Jason Spiess
two. But by the way, when was that revised? Because that wasn’t always the case. That was, that was kind of a mid 2000 14 ish time frame, wasn’t it when that was really kind of revised or am I
Dean Bangsund
off? It still holds true that, that the crude oil coming out of these wells …
Jason Spiess
From back in the early 2000s, I mean, back back when they did a lot of those early projections, they didn’t think it was going to decline as much as it did and then they had to revise it because the decline came quicker than they thought. Right.
Dean Bangsund
Well, I, I think there was, you know, I didn’t get involved with measuring that per se as much as
Jason Spiess
I have been on the financial side of it. Yes. Right.
Dean Bangsund
Thank goodness, I’m not a geologist. Right. Failed miserably.
Jason Spiess
Here’s why I’m looking at one of the charts right now and I’m kind of looking at this, the spike that’s going and there was, you know, it was this major upward trend from 2007, 9, 11 13 and then the 2014, 15, 16, the downturn happened if you will and then it started taking off again and where I’m going with all this really is 2019 I believe is when the industry matured and a lot of people are pointing at COVID.
But um Chesapeake was laying off, people whiting was laying off people, the bacon started getting a little, little bit of down downturn. And as I’m looking at this graph a little bit, it did start to dip a little bit and then COVID came and just, just raspberry it out. So I, I actually, for a while there, I was thinking the COVID saved the bacon because it stopped that downward trajectory that started and people in the industry do not like hearing that.
But at the same time when I go back and take a look at a lot of those different trends, it seemed like that was the case. Um What was, what, what’s your takeaway from that, I guess because I, I don’t, I don’t want to get in trouble, but at the same time, I’m kind of curious because I, I saw that decline start in 2019. Actually, the
Dean Bangsund
maturity, well, I think the maturity isn’t necessarily a decline as it is a shift in what the industry is, what part of the industry is producing, what output for the state? That’s fair.
Jason Spiess
Yeah, that’s a much better way to state that. Yes.
Dean Bangsund
Yeah. And
Jason Spiess
so, and we’ll circle back to the jobs here in a second. But yeah, explain that a little bit how the, the output and just some of the that differs with the maturity versus some of the decline stuff. … I mean, it’s hard to, I know because we’re talking oil and gas. It’s very complex.
Dean Bangsund
You know, there’s, there’s, there’s a lot of dynamics that play to keep us doing what we’re doing with oil and gas in, in western North Dakota. But the bottom line is, is what’s the takeaway for the state? And right now the, you know, the, the industry is adding wells and improving output at a rate that is, is largely keeping production reasonably constant.
I won’t say that it hasn’t gone up and down. It always will. But, Um, this, the industry industry’s footprint in North Dakota has been extensive for the last decade, but we go back 10 years. And why was it large 10 years ago? Well, we had, you know, a huge number of drilling rigs. We had a ton of temporary or out of state employment. Um, the industry was generating a lot of sales tax because they were buying and building things and, you know, you’re not gonna, you’re not gonna go through
that and do that forever. And so at some point, we knew that, you know, the industry was gonna have things built, the state was gonna have things put into place and then what we’re gonna have after that. Well, we didn’t really see a major dip. Um, we saw a dip in 15 and 16, but that was, that was as the industry shed drilling rigs and now we’re looking at things and it’s like, well, the drilling rig count continues to kind of slowly taper off production is remaining relatively constant.
We have a more permanent workforce. Um We are now extracting fiscal revenues from production, which is expected to continue each year. And so, you know, as the industry of maturing is, is kind of the standpoint that, you know, now we’re seeing the industry focus on production and harvesting. Um We’re kind of done building things. We’re not likely to see the volatility that comes when you throw so many drilling rigs out there and you have to bring in all kinds of labor and you have,
you know, more folks than you have resources for. Um you know, we kind of, we kind of have left that behind and, and you know, things are, I guess lack of better word, things are more stable now uh for what the state is looking at,
Jason Spiess
how about for the workforce. Um The stability is a good thing because that was a problem for a long time. And you know, that’s one of the advantages of temporary housing. And there’s, there are things that the industry has traditionally had to really help communities kind of deal with for lack of better words of the boom bust cycle that oil and gas springs and, and honestly that it’s no different than any commodity.
I mean, hey, the wheat prices dropped in the seventies, Johnny Cash sang about it, the world, the world changed. So, uh this, this stuff happens in other, other areas too. So, but in oil and gas, it is a little bit different because it’s a lot more just global dynamics involved. But Workforce, you know, when we’ve been doing some stories going back, you know, the last 10 years and there was quite a push back in 2017 for workforce and again in 18.
And so now when I take a look at a lot of these workforce issues that the states publicly talking about. When I look at this study, this study, it makes it look like there’s some pretty good workforce solutions happening here. Talk to me about what’s going on with the workforce with this study.
Dean Bangsund
Well, you know, I think there are those in the industry that would say that we are choking off some well development, some oil field development because of uh workforce shortage that may or may not be, I guess that’s not really, you know, where we were, where we were digging into information on what the industry is doing or even that projections.
Jason Spiess
But don’t you think comments like that are, are like most of most of the time? Yeah, there’s some truth to it, but there’s other factors too. And so when, when people try to like, you know, point at one thing, yeah, that might be partially true, but it’s not the whole
Dean Bangsund
truth. Well, it this whole workforce thing in what North Dakota went through is got a ton of dynamics going on there. If you remember when the industry exploded in North Dakota, the rest of the country was in the tank. And I remember doing work looking at migration rates and what share of the folks that are out there right now want to have some type of permanent residents versus those that are happy to commute back and forth.
And we had with individuals from 400 counties working in Williston or not Williston, Williams County at one point in the development. Well, it’s pretty hard to sustain a, a stable, uh how do you want to call it community or uh develop a stable industry if you have that type of a workforce that is not living there? Nobody wants that. How do you provide the services that you’ve got to provide?
But you don’t have any of the, you need to fall back on any of the people that have any buying in the community. So that was, that was a huge issue back then. And one of the concerns was is how do we add housing so that we make this state attractive for those that do have permanent jobs to want to take up residence in the state and make it their home. And we’re seeing some of that now pay out in, in looking at the stability in the workforce, looking at student enrollments are still strong and
growing in many cases out west. And so, you know, we don’t have some of those same dynamics playing out now that we had before and again, those circumstances were so unique. I don’t know that, that we would ever revisit them anyway. But, you know, the workforce issue, uh, there are some that would say, well, we could do more if we had more workers.
Um, my thought on that is, is that, yeah, you know, we still have a workforce issue in the state. But I think the, the rest of the country is dealing with similar issues, more or less a different degrees. And so while the state is, is actively pursuing individuals to come work in North Dakota, I don’t think that that is going to materially shift the needle a whole lot on, on the side of the oil and gas industry.
So, you know, I mean, is it good or bad? Well, nobody wants to, to not have stability with their employees. But I think the problem is bigger than what’s happening in North Dakota. And oil and gas is not the only industry that’s struggling with this. What
Jason Spiess
kind of jobs are featured and highlighted in this study? I saw there’s some like direct and then uh secondary, uh and then looks like even a third type of thing to talk about the different types of jobs that were laid out direct secondary and then total, I guess, were the three that were highlighted …
Dean Bangsund
when if I’ve got the time to kind of bring your audience up to speed. Let’s use an example where um I work for an oil company that owns the well. So I would be considered a direct job in that industry, but the company that owns the well needs to hire somebody to come in and do well maintenance. So since that represents an expenditure by the by the oil producing sector, the jobs that are coming in to do that are measured as indirect.
And then my job and the job of the guy that comes to the well to do the work, I gotta go buy groceries and I got expenses that I incur and I, you know, all the things that goes with, you know, living, you can’t live for free. Those are the induced jobs. So that’s the business volume that’s supported by me and others going and purchasing consumer goods and services.
So we have a, a fairly complex set of modeling processes that, that map that out. Um But the reason why that’s such an important part of these studies is is that to get direct employment in the industry that the government tells you how many jobs you have in the industry. Um Just like any other industry you want to look at manufacturing, government says that you got exiles and jobs in manufacturing.
What the government statistics don’t do is they don’t tell you how the one industry influences the other sectors in the economy that’s not reported. So another example I’ve used is you have a farmer who takes out a operating loan, part of that operating loan is interest that’s income to the banking sector. Well, when the government reports statistics, they say here’s the farmer, this is what you grow and this is the extent of your contribution to the economy.
Over here, we have the banking industry they took in all this money and by the way, here’s their contribution. Well, someone might say, hold on a second, didn’t they get a bunch of money from the egg industry? And I’d say, yeah, the same capacity that the oil and gas industry operates in a similar manner. So you have to break apart the government numbers that are in these other sectors and look at the causality, the business follow the dollar volumes and that provides you then a
better measure of the number of jobs that are influenced by a given industry and the indirect and induced are just two pathways by which an industry and its employees uh generate business volume within a given economy.
Jason Spiess
I try to tell people all the time that I’m in the media industry, I just cover oil and gas. So we’re well because during the oh during the downturn and during some of the COVID and even during before then, um people would come up to me and they would just start talking to me about, you know, the oil and gas industry and lump me in like I was an oil company. Right. And I used to say that I, I used to say like, no, I get what you’re talking about but the conversation you’re having with me is more
from like an economic I R S second section, chapter filing code. And, uh, I technically wouldn’t fall into the oil and gas section I R S technical filing code. I’d be under the media or communications and, and, and so that would be what would secondary if you will.
Dean Bangsund
Correct. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. You know, you’re, you’re not, you’re not coded. Well, and this is how, I guess the question is, how do we know how to track all this stuff? Well, every good and every service that’s produced in the economy gets a number at some point and there’s a, there’s a system for, that’s called North American industrial classification system. … That’s, that’s the, that’s the government. There are two and, yeah. …
Jason Spiess
Yeah, I
Dean Bangsund
I R s and B E A that should be of economic analysis. They use tax revenue number. I shouldn’t say tax revenue. They use tax filings in some capacity. Bottom line is, is that everyone’s job and the goods and services that are producing economy all get a number. And so Jason, you would not get a number that would let me look at the government statistics and say, ah, I bet that Jason’s sitting in that
number right there. That says it’s oil gas industry you wouldn’t be. And so that’s, that’s in essence, the challenge that these studies present is, is how many jobs I’ll go
Jason Spiess
a step further though. A step further is take that flower shop in Dickinson. Take that flower shop in Williston, Williston or Williams County where they probably wouldn’t even be considered in the secondary jobs maybe.
Dean Bangsund
Well, those, those jobs are gonna show up in all your other sectors. That’s where they are initially measured. So you’ve got retail jobs, you got wholesale jobs, you got jobs and repairs, you got jobs in banking, you have professional services, you have personal services, you have medical, you have all that. Okay. You have the whole economy.
But if I’m an individual and I work in the oil and gas industry and I’m gonna go buy my wife flowers for Valentine’s Day. Well, if me and enough other guys do that, then we’re supporting some of the employment that exists in that sector that supplies flowers, um, much in the same way as I take my paycheck and I go to the bank and I deposited and, you know, we don’t write checks like we used to, but we still have banking accounts.
Um, all of that is integrated, um, in a way that makes it really tough to sort out unless you do a study like what we do. And that’s the big reason why we do that is, is to try to extract out, you know, the jobs that are in all these other sectors, how much of that kind of is attributable to this industry versus another industry.
Jason Spiess
And folks just so you know how deep some of these studies get. And I do believe this is the housing study. We talked about a number of years ago where you guys actually were like going into culverts and stuff trying to find people where they were staying. Right. That was, that was like one of the in depth
Dean Bangsund
studies. There was, there was some nonconventional data collection.
Jason Spiess
I mean, we had people living in culverts and in tractors and anyways. But so circling back though, I mean, if any of the listeners out there wanna know about direct jobs and secondary jobs and even kind of some of those third geographical jobs if you will because there are certain coffee shops and flower shops that if it wasn’t for the oil and gas business, they wouldn’t be there.
And if anybody disagrees with me, just go to Odessa or Midland, Texas and just walk into any business and asked them what would happen if the oil and gas business went away because that is actually one town where there literally is nothing else like the university would close the next day. Williston at least has the paddle fish business going, you know, they got the caviar eggs, you know, and so, you know, a little, little diversity up there, but no honest, when you go down to
Midland Texas, it is a desert. They cannot grow, they can’t grow agriculture, they can’t do ranching even like the agriculture they’re growing now. There’s a push back because there’s too much water being used to grow cantaloupes. Like honestly, if you miss one day, the heat will destroy your crops and they just can’t do it anymore. Um So there, this is a real deal folks that when there is a political agendas to remove industries, it affects other, other industries too, there is
a ripple effect, there is a butterfly effect and a lot of this um study goes into that long term jobs and careers for North Dakotans as the next one. Um You know, I’m looking at the different percentages, 2% infrastructure development That’s concerning uh processing and transportation.
16%. That seems pretty normal. Well, development 18%, on extraction and production. That tells me there’s a lot of extraction and production that is supposed to, is that just 2000 and um uh 21 or is that looking in the future, I guess?
Dean Bangsund
No, no, these are all of these contributions studies by definition is what, what did we contribute to the economy at some point in time there a snapshot and, and they’re either looking at the year that they’re, they’re done or the previous year. The problem we have is, is, you know, yeah, I’d like to have instantaneous data that I could just pull up and use whenever I want.
But we know that so much of this stuff is legged. And so we have a very difficult time giving somebody the contribution of the industry as it as it is occurring right now. So all of these usually are after the fact. Um And so we’re measuring something that’s taken place a year from now or a year and a half from now. You know, we started measuring these studies start probably six months to nine months after the, the period under which you’re trying to measure.
So we would have started this study in 2002, you know, mid summer, late, early fall. And, you know, we’re rolling the numbers out now because it takes time to kind of accumulate that. And, well, frankly, this isn’t the only thing that I do. So, um imagine that uh more than more than one project at a time. But yeah, so there’s always gonna be that leg there.
Um But getting back to your point on, on production and, and the share of jobs associated with that again, this, this kind of gets back to this uh is an industry mature or are we looking at factors that could change rapidly and just dramatically shift things? Um The one thing that we did observe with COVID, um and, and this was interesting is that there was a number of slated expansions primarily at this point what’s occurring in the box and his expansions of takeaway capacity or
what I call transportation, movement and gas processing. We are producing way more gas than what anybody thought, you know, 5, 10 years ago. So we’re having to add gas processing capacity and the take away that goes with that. But in looking at those projects, you know, there was several of them that got mothballed because of the uncertainty that COVID had and some of them even got curtailed and shut down because of the, you know, the safeguards that some companies wanted to put
in place with their workforce. In other words, you know, they didn’t want to have a crew of 500 workers working on a gas plant and have them all live in the same general area for fear that COVID is going to come in and knock them all out at once. So we did see that, that that was one very direct response, but it, in defense of what that means, we’ve also observed that the infrastructure build out is becoming a smaller and smaller share of the industry as it as it becomes more marginalized,
just looking at some of the incremental production changes that we don’t have capacity for right now. Um And so that’s, you know, that’s another one of those that we expect to continue to see, you know, we’re not gonna see that we’re not gonna see a big build out like we had before. We’ve already got the stuff built. So, you know, we may add some marginal capacity as needed, but um we don’t expect those numbers to return to what they were 58, 10 years ago.
Jason Spiess
So, okay, just kinda in summary, I guess a little bit when I’m taking a look at this because there’s quite a few people from other states that want to know some of the breakdowns of these different parts. You know, because uh you know, real estate, there was a lot of different people who invested in real estate out in the back and there was people that invested in natural gas out in the back and people that invested in, I mean, I met a guy that was from Omaha that opened up a liberty tax in
three or four cities out there in the back and, you know, so there was a lot of investment put into the bacon when it comes to infrastructure and roads and emergency services and education and all this to keep up with. Um you know, what the projections were Uh when you’re taking a look at that, where are we at?
You know, do we have too much built? Do we, do we have two little people out there? What, what was your kind of take away from this study? More of uh hey, we should probably take a look at this guys because you’ve been doing this for long, you know, since 2004, right?
Dean Bangsund
You know, the current study didn’t really measure any of the stuff that you’re talking about, but it’s not that those issues aren’t worthy of being looked at. This was, this was simply measuring okay. What’s the industry’s footprint? And we can do that looking at business volume and jobs and things like that. But, you know, the, do we need to add anything more on, on the more quality of life issues or personal services and things like that?
You know, my take on that and then I guess I’ll be honest, I have not taken in depth, look at this, I haven’t been hearing those issues float to the top like we used to, you know, um I haven’t heard the cries that we gotta, we gotta build, we gotta just wholesale, build out all new schools and, and expand this a lot of that has occurred and with the industry stabilizing to some extent, not looking at, at doing, you know, not making radical changes.
I think there’s a more cautious approach going forward now that, that, you know, we’re, we’re within the bullseye where we wanna be. Um, you know, mckenzie County is another example, um in an unrelated study, we looked at at the uh the expansion of their medical facilities and they’re now set up to handle, you know, the population that’s there, plus probably some, some surge.
So we wouldn’t see anything new there. Now for quite a while until if we were to continue to grow to the point where all of those new facilities were overwhelmed. So, you know, would, would some of those facilities like that like to have more, more staffing. Sure, you know, but that cuts across all the economic sectors and that goes back to, you know, we talked about with, with workforce and, and things of that nature and I really don’t think, you know, that the shortage of workers in
Western North Dakota’s do the oil and gas industry no more so than the shortage of workers in Fargo is due to the West acres, you know. Um And so, you know, that’s a, that’s a, that’s a socio economic dynamic that is, that is rooted in something that’s far different than, than just saying, here’s, here’s a big industry that does a lot for the state.
So, you know, do we need to still build some stuff? Well, there’s, there’s still issues with housing. Um We did a housing needs assessment. Uh My colleague, Dr Nancy Holder took the lead on that as we talked about the role that she and, and I played together in some of these, these projects and yeah, we’re still gonna need housing, but it’s not the mad scramble.
It’s probably not the, you know, the, the emergency sense of urgency that was felt when, when the industry, you know, took off like it did. And so can we manage those changes now going forward in a more in a more organized way I’d like to think we could. And so, you know, we’re just not, at least I’m not seeing and I didn’t specifically look into it but we’re just not seeing the, the, the big outcry of we’re getting killed out here.
We don’t have the roads. We don’t have, you know, we were trying to teach students in the hall hallway of these renovated buildings. You know, I think we’ve moved past that and, you know, a lot of these communities now have expanded, they’ve expanded a lot of, in a lot of different ways. And so, you know, now, now we’re kind of looking at, you know, things more on the fringe. We’re not looking at just, um, we got to build a school and, you know, now we’re looking at, okay, do we add
another, you know, another athletic program or do we want to expand the curriculum or do we want to do different things like that? And so things to some extent have normalized. Um, if you can say that. Um, so, yeah, it’s, it’s not quite the same dynamic as it was and I don’t think it’s the same issues as it was. So
Jason Spiess
When we’re taking a look at this, it’s for the year of 2021 economic impact of oil and natural gas and we’ve kind of gone outside the spectrum a little bit because of your, you know, just, you’ve been doing this for over 15 years. So, you you know, you’re, you’re more than just 2001. That’s one of the, that’s one of the things that folks, that’s why we go to the source here. We love to go to the source. Well, that’s the one thing the crude life has always done.
We politicians are fine but they’re just summaries of what you say. So we’d rather just listen to what you say and then, then see if we agree with what the politicians say or not. So, um, when we take a look at this though, uh did you come up with the percentage of how much of the Oil and gas revenue goes to the state of North Dakota or is it just the number 42.58 billion?
Dean Bangsund
Well, the 42 number is kind of the summation of all the dollar exchanges that take place when …
Jason Spiess
the,
Dean Bangsund
that’s a business volume number. When we, when we talk about taxes, we’re really talking about, I like to talk in broader terms and say government revenues because taxes are one form of revenue. Uh You got, you got fees, licenses, permits. That’s a whole part of the regulatory side. You’ve got royalties which the state benefits from as well.
I mean, there’s state minerals out there, all the federal minerals return a share of that back to the state. And of course, that’s a complicated discussion because you’ve got two types of federal minerals and good luck sorting that out. With anybody at the federal level. But suffice to say there’s some money that comes back that goes into the state.
But if we, if we pull back from all government revenues and just look at taxes so you can go to the state and you can ask them how many dollars do we get from all of the state’s key taxes. So you got sales and use corporate personal income, uh, property tax. Um, you’re gonna have a whole bunch of like excise taxes, like alcohol, fuel, all that type of stuff.
And then you’ve got, You know, severance taxes, which oil and gas industry pays. And so does the coal industry and any industry that has a severance based uh, circumstance where they’re removing a value from the ground that’s not necessarily renewable. They’re likely to be in that severance game when we take a look at those taxes and then we compare them back to what the state says they collected.
That’s where we get that 50% number. So when, when we do what I consider to be a fairly straightforward assessment, which is, you know, we got a good handle on what oil working payroll is. I mean, that’s a number that’s also reported by the government. We know about how much revenue, state revenue that, that generates because of, of the tax code in the state.
Um, sales and use taxes. Well, we got spending patterns for individuals and how much they buy and there are, you know, some of that is exempt and some of that isn’t. And so the models will take a look at that and come up with those numbers. So those are reasonably straightforward property tax. You can go to public records. We can look at all the centrally assessed pipeline taxes.
We can look at uh gas plants, we can look at the refinery, we can look at a lot of that stuff. The wells themselves do not have a property tax on them. So most of the numbers that you get from the industry are rooted in, in reported figures and not all are estimated. There’s some, there’s some numbers that we estimate like the secondary taxes. But basically, and this has been the case now for a number of years, you take a look at what the state collects and you take a look at what’s
attributable to the industry and we’re talking about 50%. So, you know, someone might say, well, that’s not anywhere close to the dollars that the industry generates in location X or state Y, maybe not. But compared to how big the state is, it’s a big deal. Um I can’t think of too many other states that might have 50% of their revenues hitched to one industry and that one industries in the commodity business.
So, you know, there, there lies the problem. Um you know, the industry has such a substantial um influence on the state’s economy. And the fiscal economy that this is the reason why there’s, you know, a two year assessment on this industry all the time is people like to know what’s, what’s going on. Are we still sitting where we were? Um, and, and that’s kind of why it’s big news in North Dakota.
Jason Spiess
It’s one of the reasons we appreciate you coming on here and giving us the kind of the in depth side of things because um you can only take so much from charts and figures and everything else. Just understanding some of the complexities and why they are is really what a lot of the business owners are looking for because it’s a difficult industry.
And even like the example you just gave, we’re not talking about uh fishing licenses. We’re not talking about vehicle registrations. We’re not talking about 25 to $50 State Secretary of State Business licensing so you can hang your hat. I mean, there’s a whole new wave of uh think Brent Bogart back when he was um with Jade Stone consulting.
I think he’s with a E two S now. But I remember when he did a study just indicating a lot of the taxes and it was just 60 70% when you start taking a look at some of these, you know, 2nd and 3rd and 4th ripple butterfly effect of what the industry did when it brought in a lot of the temporary workers out of state businesses and X Y Z. So, um I appreciate the time today because um we’re, we’re at a very interesting crossroads in North Dakota with the oil and gas industry because of what’s going on
with the, just the environment. And I don’t mean the littoral environment, I mean the metaphorical environment, but actually, it’s a little wordplay on that, but it works both sides. So um just kind of, you know, in, in conclusion here, what, what, what is your, you know, your 15 year take away on this, you know, for that investor in Texas, for that, you know, person out in our knee guard, North Dakota, just, you know,
we’re talking about a universal oil report here that’s supposed to be non political and all these other things. So what, what type of advice would you have for somebody?
Dean Bangsund
Well, I’m not very good at giving investment advice. I won’t stray off the path on that. Um You know, it’s, it’s, it’s becoming a more stable business, meaning that in all likelihood, if you come out here and get a job that jobs can remain for an extended period of time, um The state has worked hard to add to the things that are available for people to do in Western North Dakota.
Um Our state has a luxury of keeping its tax rates low because of some of the money that the oil industry is generating and there’s a lot of positives. Um you know, about, about looking at investing and getting a job in North Dakota. And one of those positives is that we have a very large and very good oil and gas industry that we don’t think it’s going to go away anytime soon.
So, you know, those are different things that I think we can keep in mind. I guess. I can’t, I can’t persuade some people’s opinion that the winters up here are kind of nasty. Um, you know, our, our climate is what it is and our geographic location is what it is. But we, we have a healthy economy and we have a lot of positive things going on in North Dakota,
Jason Spiess
Mr Dean Banks in, I appreciate the time today. And the takeaway is that we, we seem to be kind of into a regular industry as, as, as opposed to a volatile industry and, um, there’s still a little bit of volatility but it’s almost becoming more like the ag industry where there’s a little bit of safety nets and some predictability to help guide the long term investments by
people and companies and, and etcetera. So, um, all this information will be available at the website as well. And, uh, you got another next study in two years. Is that right?
Dean Bangsund
Well, we hope to, um, I intend hint, hint. Well, I guess I, you know, I’ve always told people it’s like you guys gonna continue to do this work. And I always say, well, if there’s an audience out there that wants to see it, then we’ll be doing it. So, um, you know, that’s, that’s kind of the nature of, of the work that I do is, you know, it’s funded by entities that need an answer.
And I’m here to measure economics and as long as those questions are being asked, I got job security. So, Um but, you know, we’re, we’re seeing other industries uh wanting to do this as well and other industries that have been doing this for a long time that are continuing to do it. We’ve been measuring the lignite industry since the early 80s and we’re in a position here not too long that we’ll be releasing some numbers regarding that industry.
And so, you know, there’s, there’s a lot of interest in understanding who the players are in the economy and what they’ve been doing and what direction are they heading?
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Mark Marmo
Mark Marmo from Deep Wells Services.
Jason Spiess
Excellent. Thank you for joining the program here today. As we go to our phone line out to the east coast west Virginia phone number, pennsylvania. I thought email address. I wasn’t sure. So which part of the country are you in today, sir?
Mark Marmo
We are. Well, the company’s located out of pennsylvania. Okay. We have yards in the Haynesville also.
Jason Spiess
Okay. Of course the reason for the interview here is you got some pretty exciting news at least in the oil and gas industry. It is because it sounds like you guys are doing some hiring and that is kind of a rare thing these days where people seem to be figuring out how to find business. So you went out and secured some business. So you guys are hiring? Huh?
Mark Marmo
Well, we’ve been hiring the last actually three years we hired 450 people last year. uh, we want a net at least 150 this year. If not
Jason Spiess
more. What kind of jobs are these that you’re looking
Mark Marmo
for? Everything from working in the field to mechanics, drivers, accounting, you name it? Admin payroll. It’s a little bit everything.
Jason Spiess
Where are you finding the growth? From where? Right now? Where are you out on the east coast? Are you down in texas? Where are you located right now?
Mark Marmo
Yeah. So we, we have, we’re in the Appalachian in Utica Basin, which were extremely active right now. We’re in the Permian. … They are also uh, you know, very strong.
Jason Spiess
We’ve had joe Senate on the program quite a bit over the last couple of years. He’s with um with partners and he’s out of Pittsburgh P. A. He kind of gives us a nice update from time to time on some of the different marcellus activity. Jim Willis from the Marcellus drilling news as well as Tom Shepstone from natural gas.
Now. Susquehanna County of course being one of the big, prolific natural gas counties. Are you guys doing mostly natural gas out in the marcellus or are you, cause I hear Haynesville, that’s a very big gas play too. Are you guys mostly doing gas? Are you doing some oil to or
Mark Marmo
well, we do, you know, done in the Permian Eagle food? We are doing oil and then uh, in P. A. It’s both natural gas liquids and dry gas. Uh, Haynesville obviously use dry gas.
Jason Spiess
So that’s the next question in the bacon where I’m located right now. Uh, they do a lot of wet gas of course, where you’ve got whatever 778 different kinds of molecules hydrocarbons that you can separate apart. Dry gas a little bit different in the Haynesville and marcellus of course with the dry gas, you’re finding some oil activity in the Eagle furred and the Permian as well. Are you hiring down there or all different areas are all four shell place.
Mark Marmo
Okay.
Jason Spiess
So if somebody is listening right now and they want a job. What’s the walk us through the process. I mean it’s tough because you don’t want to give out your cell phone number but at the same time you need people hired.
Mark Marmo
Yeah we do. We will hire as many as we can this year. And the best way to reach us is through our website www dot well services dot com. Get in touch with brandy Blazer, B L A C E
Jason Spiess
- And we’ll have the links at the crude life’s website as well for those different areas. Talk about the genesis of the company, How long have you guys been around? What’s the workplace culture like? Give give perspective employees an idea of why they might want to come work there.
Mark Marmo
We’ve been around since 2008. We mainly operated out of the Appalachian basin until 2018 when we moved into the Permian. And then last year when we moved into the Haynesville, we’re also actually in Argentina right now and soon to be uh in working for Saudi Aramco. So uh lots of room to grow. We give everybody a career path here when someone comes in uh from day one, if they’re going to go into the field as a green hat, we show them how they’re going to get to being a supervisor.
There’s I. A. D. C. Accredited training program. We have here, we’re all about continuous improvement uh and continuous education. We spend probably $300,400,000 a year on just educating uh people from business classes to emotional intelligence classes to well controlled. So it’s a, it’s a culture mainly built upon. Like I said, it’s continuous improvement.
Uh, we are, we are within the main focus here as one team, one family. And uh, we try to treat people with empathy and we have a servant mentality at this company and Uh, you’re not a number, you’ll never be a number. We have 550 people and we go above and beyond to know everybody help them personally or professionally.
Jason Spiess
You mentioned Saudi Aramco, you mentioned, I think it was South America Argentina Argentina. Um, you’ve got four, sounds like four different plays or shale plays or at least oil plays happening here in the United States. Is that gonna satisfy you for a little while. Are you looking beyond that? Um, that’s pretty aggressive what we just laid
Mark Marmo
out. Uh and in 2012 we did $7.5 million will do over 200 million this year. We uh, we grow, we grow responsibly and uh we, we’ve, we’ve just, we’ve proven that over the last 4 to 5 years that we know we, we put a plan out there and we execute. So yeah, there’s, if we, if we can add people, we will uh, we will grow even more, but …
Jason Spiess
you know, one of the issues happening right now is inflation. Of course people are trying to figure out how to make their personal inflation work because apparently the chickens have joined the union now and they need to have egg prices triple to what they were before. That’s my little chicken joke there, But or maybe it’s a union joke, I guess, I’m not sure.
But it was this was actually a cartoon we did in our business newspaper back in 2008 when chicken egg prices rose and it said, what did the chickens join a union? And I thought, boy, that’s funny, That actually came back full circle. But anyway, um, talk, talk to me a little bit about your inflation within the industry. The crude life we started talking about is $100 oil. The new $50 oil back in 2020 because we started seeing the price of steel going up and if the price of steel goes up,
everything is gonna go up. And then then when the price of oil went up, everything is gonna go up too. So we’re starting to think the $50 oil might be, or 100 and $10 oil might be $50 oil. We’re not sure how does that, how you got You guys are apparently figuring out how to make that chemistry set work. But with the spike of inflation that’s happened, how have you guys been able to manage that?
Mark Marmo
The company with a strong balance sheet? We have no debt, Which allows us to be able to free up, we’ve always operated um with high wages, we, we, we have a focus on paying people. Uh, what we feel is 10-15% better to market. So we’ve always been used to running that way and we run lean elsewhere to be able to pay our people more and we aren’t the cheapest.
We’re probably the highest price of anybody in the basis of what we do. And um, yeah, I mean inflation has affected everybody, but when you add value to companies, you can get your price, which can cover that inflation.
Jason Spiess
You mentioned that you’re one of the higher priced. Well, that for me means that you apparently must have the quality to back it up if you’ve been around for since 2008. Um, talk to me about how somebody, if they spend more money up front, how they save money on the long the long haul because that is kind of the idea, isn’t it?
Mark Marmo
That’s it. You know, what, what our focus is, uh, as we add value and we add value by showing up, getting onto that well safely and then getting off as quickly as possible. So we save that that burn rate per day, which is probably when we’re on a pad is about $70-$80,000 a day. Our focus is to get off of that pad a day or two or however fast and safely that we can to save the company that much money.
Um, you know, most, most of our competitors that’s they’re, they want, that, they want that day rate. And uh, what are our focus is, is that if we save you on that day rate, you’re going to give us more wells.
Jason Spiess
Yeah, well repeat business. That’s the name of the game that is. Um, I’m looking at your website right now. Deep well services dot com. Established in 2008, small town Appalachian roots to become one of the premier O. F. S. Companies over 70 different mps across north and south America. So 70 different of them. Huh? Well, you guys have really, You know, talk to me about the different shale plays because that this, this is more, I guess for me, which I find kind of fun because when I
started learning about the industry back in probably, actually when I was introduced to it for me, I found the chemistry of the different regions fascinating. When I was in my former life, I was a publisher and we did a magazine called From House to home. In fact, we had five of them in pennsylvania, eastern pennsylvania. We featured Mario andretti’s house and we were down in uh State College P.
- And Washington pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh. And so we we know Pittsburgh pretty well or the pennsylvania pretty well. But what I found interesting, it was a different geography is in, in landscaping, you’ve got seven different areas of the United States for planting essentially different regions. You know if you’re drilling in tuscaloosa, that’s pretty muddy in clay. So you got to spend a lot more money to get that that resource out of the ground.
Whereas you know you get to the Haynesville that’s a little bit more user friendly for the operator, how are these different shale plays that you’re in? Are they able to you know, can you bring the same equipment? Do you got to bring different equipment to a different shale play? How different are they? How similar are they?
Mark Marmo
It’s not so much different equipment, it’s the kind of equipment we’ve built and designed the efficient the efficiencies behind it but the we can handle anything from 10,000 P. S. I. Well to uh you know a £500 PS. I. Well we can handle, we’ve drilled all of the longest laterals, we’ve cleaned out all the longest laterals on uh in onshore us. Uh nobody can compete with us on our pressure or long lateral stuff. So we’ve really designed the company around that where the market was going.
And so you know if you’re in the marcellus uh your you know drilling maybe a 15,000 ft lateral uh it’s not gonna be as high pressure but whereas you’re over in the Utica and you’re on 7000 P. S. I. Well so we have the talent, we have the equipment to really operate anywhere in the world. Unlike anyone else, we have the largest fleet of what we have to do in the world. Um And I would say we’re probably even being a private company, maybe the fifth largest company in the world.
Jason Spiess
I’m caught up on the pressure part because Boy II that pressure seems to be like the secret sauce when you’re talking about any sort of energy extraction and that just seems like such a science. I used to think it was the um the frack chemistry but I think it’s more of the the pressure involved having the that’s like an art, it’s like an art to understand pressure, isn’t it?
Mark Marmo
It really is the people that work on these wells work over the wellhead are some of the smartest people you’ll ever meet. They
Jason Spiess
see the world different, don’t they? They just see it differently.
Mark Marmo
Yeah they really do but you know they get the reputation of being that roughneck. But these guys are in ladies, we have ladies working out there too that are extremely just talented, highly educated and what they do and very intelligent
Jason Spiess
when it comes to the um I don’t know if it be if you want to call it E. S. G. If you want to call it environmental, if you want to call it, I don’t know um reclamation recycling. There’s a lot of different words that you can be a little bit more entry level or you can get really aggressive with the language. So uh talk to me a little bit how you guys are handling that side of the world, whether it be, you know, recycling water or you know, meatless Mondays
or maybe some new emission management thing that we’ve never heard of. I’m not sure but uh that seems to be, you know, E S. G. Reports, everybody seems to be doing one now. So
Mark Marmo
yeah, you can see on our website we take we do we take the E. S. G. Reporting serious? We, I focus everybody more on the social and governance aspect of everything. Um you know, the I guess the politically correct, you know, when you say the environmental were quicker on wells, we’re not using uh as much fuel, we’re not burning diesel because we’re more efficient on the wells, we save chemicals going down whole uh so we do, we do our part on the environmental side of things but the more
the most important thing there is the social governance, it’s the making sure our people are educated, have a great workplace, have career path, are paid well that they can take care of their family and then, you know the governance pieces um we have a quality management system unlike no other, I think we’re the only ones in the probably north America that do what we do that have a A P I Q two Q.
- S. So and then our training program is I A. D. C uh accredited, so you know the social and governance. The governance piece is what I really like to focus on, uh you know, in community, we are Probably gave over $10 million we sponsor a lot of things. So that’s really what I focus on more so than
Jason Spiess
you mind. If I ask you about your journey to E. S. G. You seem like you’re pretty open about it. That’s the only reason I ask and you don’t have to get into the details. I just have, I’ve run into a lot of brick walls, so.
Mark Marmo
Well, I mean, you know, when you’re, when you’re in a position where you need to just be aware of everything that’s going on, you know, you pay attention to it, You want your company even though it’s privately held, you want your company to be like a halliburton or slumber J. And you want to be responsible. Um so you pay attention to those things.
Like I said, I’m probably not, I’m more of the, you know, I think our industry doesn’t defend what we do environmentally very well, we don’t get enough credit, We’re not going to get help from the media uh in that respect that we were all aware of it, we want to be responsible. I actually think that some of the best people in the world, environmental er the E. M. P. S. And the best services so we pay attention to it, we’re always gonna be responsible.
We’re not gonna hurt people, we’re gonna have safe operations and we’re not gonna hurt the environment. I mean we’re drilling in our backyards when you’re in the Appalachian basin. Right? I mean I have wells on my farm so I just have always been aware of it. We pay attention to it I guess. I’m just not as politically correct as
Jason Spiess
most know. And I understand that in fact what you were talking about is very similar to the way that we kind of did it at the crude life where we didn’t so much embrace it as much as we’re aware of it because it it’s to me it’s like this chat chat GTP automated robot thing. If if you’re in the world of writing or arts and crafts and all that stuff it ain’t going away.
So you better figure out how to embrace it into your world or it’s going to take you out. And that’s what I saw with the E. S. G. I went okay this csg is everything if you want to walk to the store and buy an apple. There’s an E. S. G. Score behind that. And then I saw the show called The Good Life and they flat out explained E. S. G. Without explaining E.
- G. What they said was everything you do has a positive and negative score in heaven and hell. And they gave some example of some guy that uh in the 15th century brought his grandma flowers. But because he planted the flowers himself and he watered the flowers and he didn’t use any pesticides and all these different things. It was a positive E.
- G. Score but they called it a good life score or something like that. And then in the modern day when he bought his grandma flowers, it was a minus score because it was mined by you know child labor. And the Ceo was sent an unwanted picks in the middle of the night of his genitalia. And you know, they went through all the different things that we do in today’s society and and that’s you know that’s the S.
- In a vacuum in a perfect world. It looks fantastic, but it’s like communism in reality it doesn’t work because there’s a thing called the human element. And when you introduce the human element, you just got to keep trying to improve. And if you just keep trying to improve, that’s as good as it gets guys
Mark Marmo
really said it, you really said it right and being responsible in your community, helping to develop your community, helping develop people uh making sure you know, they are our people go home every night to their families. That’s where the where the E. S. G. Things should come in. We’re not we’re we have great governance of the company, we have 30% minority.
Uh and none of that stuff is virtue signaling or or being woke. It’s just what we are and when you sit back and you think about it be one of the best industries in the world, art, oil, gas at all of this. They’re one of the most responsible And I don’t think that there’s a better industry in the world. … one
Jason Spiess
of the things that I’ve been speaking about E. S. G. Since 2015, I kind of mostly stumbled into it because we started doing an E. S. G. Report on the crude life every week with the Ceo of Meridian energy group with their refinery that they were going to build in North Dakota. So he saw the pushback that was coming and to his credit, he felt it was very important to do a weekly radio and podcast because we’re on the radio up here, we have about 20 radio stations were on up across five states
in the bacon here. And he felt it was very important to educate the public because he just was apart, he’s from Irvine California is where he lives. So he’s very aware of this wolf culture and the cancel culture and the and the uh anti fossil fuel movement. And so we did it, you know, we we we made sure that every week we had a different engineer on, we had a different citizen, the Ceo somebody involved in the project in some way or another, all walks of life, even if they had problems with
it, because one thing about E. S. G. If you’re civil, we’ll give you a voice that’s fine. So we started getting, you know, different conferences, inviting us to come speak and all these other things. Well, what we found was leadership did not like it, they did not like it because they don’t want to be aware of it, they don’t want to talk about it.
And this is one of those things where I kept trying to tell them no this you can’t look away from this, this is this is connecting with the kids in colorado. They had advertisements that didn’t even have words, All they did was have a woman holding a baby with an oil rig in the background, that was it, that was it, that was the whole ad, so that’s what I was trying to educate people on.
And so I’m very just very happy to hear that you’re accepting the awareness of it, not necessarily the ideology, not necessarily everything about it, but you’re just aware of it. And are you getting any pushback from your colleagues? Because I I didn’t even know you guys had it on your website that is gutsy.
Mark Marmo
No, no pushback, but again, I think it’s um and again it’s just all about being transparent and, you know, just because I don’t agree with what causes climate change doesn’t mean we’re not gonna be responsible stewards in the community and in the in our industry. So yeah we’ve got to be aware we gotta be aware of people that want to put us all out of business. And uh
Jason Spiess
that that was the thing that we kept trying to explain to the average person. And it’s and we do a pretty good job with some of our different educational entertainment style things with kids because It’s the the the kids are the ones that seem to be in the driver’s seat these days. And um if they I went through this with agriculture. So I grew up in the in the 80s where the farmer got taken out by the grocery store and what’s happening right now is the energy workers getting taken out by
the light switch. And it’s right before our eyes because you go to the grocery store you get your ground beef. There’s no such thing as a cow. You go to the you know light switch you turn it on. There’s no such thing as coal or natural gas. No it’s it’s it’s light, it’s power it works just fine. And it was tough because I grew up around farmers and they had a hard time accepting that movement.
You know that everybody was excited about the new grocery store and then they started shaming the farmer. Well that’s what I’m seeing happening right now. Everybody’s excited about these E. V. Vehicles and then they turn around and shame the people who created it because they renewables ain’t doable without fossil fuels. That’s just the way it goes. …
Mark Marmo
People that are afraid to say that it was, it’s not sustaining I think Orwell our industry just doesn’t have enough people that too. That’s um defending it. You know, people like chris wright who do an amazing job for us at C. N. X. We just don’t have enough of the C. E. O. S out there willing to stand up and defend and we’ve got to get better at it because this is the greatest industry in the world. It makes the world go
Jason Spiess
well, you know, you’re doing a good job, you’re coming on this program, you’re being active out there. Um what advice would you have for others to be like chris right from uh Liberty Oil, I’m sorry, Liberty Energy or yourself or some of these other Ceos to get out there or even just backing some, you know, employees to do it as opposed to maybe not the Ceo is necessarily because one of the things we did with the crude life as soon as my hair started growing gray, I got a younger guy into
interview, Harold Hamm immediately because I did not want to have two old guys with gray hair talking on social media. There’s no kids watching that. So I went and I got the young guy, you know, so maybe sometimes it’s it’s not bad to get some younger people to get behind the industry too, but that’s hard to find
Mark Marmo
a big focus of ours is, you know, winning the hearts and minds of the young people. I’m a Western P. A born and raised a kid. I would love to put 100% of the Western P. A. People to work deep. Well we we go out to the high schools we go out to, we actually teach accredited course at Penn state pitt marietta west Virginia on what we do to the petroleum engineers of those schools.
Our focus has been, yeah, I mean, we’re going after the younger community we want to recruit of course, but number two, we wanna, we wanna win the hearts and minds and show them, you know, this is a great industry, you can sustain a family, it’s not 10, 10 an hour. Uh but we’re not, we are extremely responsible. We are, we’re focused on people who are focused on career paths and I mean for somebody in the inner city to come out and make 50,000 At year one as a green hat uh out of, you know,
that probably wasn’t ever going to go to college. How great is that? Within 8 to 10 years? If you go through your competency program, you’ll be making 250,000 and that’s only working six months a year. So we’ve got to get people to realize that this is the kind of environment they can come into that’s gonna, you can build an amazing career and support a family on this, on this job.
Jason Spiess
Well, let’s talk a little turkey here real quick while we have you, we might as well let you have a plug for your company. I mean, I don’t think you need any more business. You need employees, but at the same time, what services, you know, specifically do you guys offer?
Mark Marmo
We are, we are really a technology and training company that just so happen to have hydraulic completion units. These completion units can clean plugs, they can fish tools down hole, they can do work overs. Uh, they can do clean outs toe preps, you name it. Um, and these things can work and we’ve proven that will grow over the world work in any base. So that’s what we’re all about.
Jason Spiess
What’s a hot tap kit.
Mark Marmo
Uh,
Jason Spiess
yeah, I’m looking at your brochure right now and I’ve never seen that word in consecutive words like that. And I thought I knew this industry at least better than the average person. So hot tap kit.
Mark Marmo
Okay. …
Jason Spiess
Okay. Is that, is that an industry term? Is that your guys? Okay. That’s, that’s new to learn something new every day right there. I thought, I, I know I know all the other terms that I’m seeing here, but I didn’t see the hot tap kit. That’s cool. Okay, well, I appreciate the time today. And of course the moral of today’s story is you guys are hiring, You need, uh, was it right? More than 100 people.
Mark Marmo
- … We’ll probably hire over 200, 230
Jason Spiess
people. And these are everything’s from administration to out in the field to, uh, rookies. If you’re a rookie, well, you’ll take them and train them. Huh?
Mark Marmo
We will train them. We’re more than happy to train them. We trained, we were on board at 430 people last year and I think over 30,000 hours of training.
Jason Spiess
Any final thoughts that you wanna? I guess anything we left out or anything you want to reiterate,
Mark Marmo
Thank you for what you do. And we really appreciate the defense of our great industry. I can’t thank you enough.
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The Executive Coach to Real Life Rock Stars and host of The Energy Detox Podcast, Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, helps host Jason Spiess through a podcast of love. Sinnott and Spiess discuss how show the love at work, at home and to yourself.
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Jason Spiess
Let’s head over to the zoom line where we have the executive coach for the real life rock stars. Mr joe Senate who also is the host of the energy detox podcast, but day job winning partners where he is the executive coach for the real life rock stars and joe I I was having a conversation the other day with a few people and I thought this would be a fun podcast title since uh it’s the month of february and valentine’s day is just right around the corner.
Is what if this podcast today was just powered by love? What are some of those areas that we can insert love into people’s lives or or their lifestyles that maybe can help them get an extra little perk around the office around their life, around the house at E S. G. University, we started tracking layoffs. Holy Anna. There has been layoffs since the beginning of the year and we’re talking about percentage of companies employees, layoffs.
We’re not talking about bob that shows up every day for work or Jason who spends too much time in the bathroom. No, we’re talking about like how I threw myself under the bus there, joe. It’s about the love today. How you doing?
Joe Sinnott
It’s a lovely day here in Pittsburgh. Not as lovely as the last couple of days where it felt like spring, but uh, so besides a little bit of confusion on what season we’re actually in. It is all good here in Southwestern pennsylvania.
Jason Spiess
Now, I don’t want to give away any secrets of my sauce, but generally I do not like to do timely type of questions with my interviews because I tend to like to have interviews that can transcend time that can really transcend borders, that we try to connect on things that are universal with the average person.
And right now joe you are in a state with one of the most universal topics going on across the world and that is the Super Bowl. You’re in pennsylvania, you’re a stone’s throw from, well, pretty far
Joe Sinnott
stone’s throw from
Jason Spiess
philadelphia. I mean you’re over that mountain throw of philadelphia. You’re on the gorgeous side of Pittsburgh,
Joe Sinnott
I mean it’s pretty much just one road Jason, I mean it’s just just hop on the pennsylvania turnpike and next thing you know, you’re in Phil so I, I’ve
Jason Spiess
driven it and I’ve done, you probably don’t know this, but I’ve done a half a dozen magazines in Pittsburgh. I didn’t want in Washington, which is, I believe just southeast of you. Is that right? …
Joe Sinnott
We
Jason Spiess
did one in um eastern pennsylvania as well. We did one up in the Wilksbehr country as well. Um, I think that’s matt Dillon’s old stomping grounds and also state college p a when lavar Arrington was finishing up school. So I gotta watch lavar Arrington comeback when he was a Washington Redskin and play some skin and shirts ball over there at happy Valley and boy, I tell you what penn state people can talk about what they want about the football and basketball and everything else that
is a gorgeous campus. That is like, one of my favorite campuses in the entire United States, all the trees and just that Nice Valley. But um, what’s going on with the Super Bowl talk? What’s happening in your state? What’s, what’s going on? We might as well get an update as long as we’re there. Right.
Joe Sinnott
Sure. Well, I don’t know if I can represent the chatter that’s going on on the eastern side of the state in philadelphia. But uh, here in Pittsburgh at least, you know, where there’s actually some attention on the pirates believe it or not. So typically this time of year, you know, people are still coming off of a successful Steelers season, which was not necessarily the case and looking ahead to next dealer season.
But uh, in terms of sports Jason, these Pirates are actually bringing back Andrew McCutchen who was homegrown talent homegrown in terms of coming up through their system. At least I think he’s actually from florida, but anyway, he is aging, but they decided to bring him back again depends who you ask actually doesn’t depend who you ask. I think everybody says it’s more for gimmick reasons. But uh, so it’s interesting to see Some chatter about the pirates, not because anybody
expects them to actually be competitive or win more than 60 games this year. But mainly because they, yeah, they’re bringing back, uh, you know, former all star and certainly a fan favorite to try to juice some interest in the team. So I know shifted quickly away from football, but again, we’re 300 miles away from Philadelphia. So we’re
Jason Spiess
you’re talking about where the love is coming from Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh. Apparently there’s not enough brotherly love to make it all the way to philadelphia and that’s okay. And we, you know, we can’t afford sound effects quite at this show. So we make our own up. But that’s the kind of fun we have here. Now. The whole idea about this podcast powered by Love actually came from a electric vehicle owner because they were finding out some of the realities about these electric
vehicles uh sometimes they take a little longer to charge than most. And of course that kevin Bacon Ad came on and that’s what sparks the conversation. And uh the comment was made that maybe we should just make a vehicle that’s powered by love. And I thought boy, that’s a pretty good line, I’m gonna use that going forward.
So here we are today, joe what kind of world can you power by love today? I brought the E. V. Vehicle. If we can just all get along maybe our cars will power themselves. What do you think about that?
Joe Sinnott
I think that any appearance on the Crew life is is magical and you never know where we’re going to go. So powered by love. I mean, I guess you said a couple minutes ago that you strive for more universal and timeless topics. I suppose there’s nothing more universal and timeless than the topic of love uh, in terms of its ability to power anything.
Well, I mean, I guess you could argue that there are people out there who think that their vehicles are powered by the electric vehicles are powered by magic and it’s magic when they turn on their light switch and don’t know the realities of things. So I guess kind of shifting back to our normal strain of conversation about leadership. It is a question of actually understanding the facts.
So, you know, even love as vague as it can be and as soft and fluffy as it could be. You know, at the end of the day, there are still very real rules that determine how love works and how sustainable love is and whether it’s actually gonna be able to fuel a relationship for any period of time or whether it’s just uh, you know, some fleeting passion or some feelings and obviously when it comes to energy and the things that actually power our lives, there’s a lot of feelings out there,
there’s a lot of emotion, but again, at the end of the day, a lot of them are fleeting. So with that Jason, I don’t even know if I answered your question, I don’t know what your question was, but uh, there’s my, my attempt to connect the world of energy and love and some of that figurative fuel that keeps people going, whether their leaders or corporations or whatever the case is
Jason Spiess
figurative fuel. I like that a lot figurative fuel because one of the things that I was just thinking about is, you know, when you’re working for an organization, you know, if you have a very good organization, a lot of times people stay there. So what you could say is that if you have an organization that really does convey a message of love, I would imagine you’d probably have a place that people would love to work at right Well in your personal life, this is a true story.
This was a conversation we had around the new year with a couple of people that were going through a divorce, they were getting divorced because the, as Bill Billy Joel sings the money got tight and we just didn’t count on the tears from scenes from an italian restaurant great song. It’s three songs. It’s three different songs and one actually, it’s like a meatloaf song.
Every meatloaf song you get three for one in every song. You know, it’s just great. You get three different melodies that makes Billy Joel did. That was scenes from an italian restaurant. Anyway point is that we were talking about this divorce and with some people and I made the unfortunate comment of sticking my foot in my mouth like I normally do and I just said to my buddy, I said, hey I remember when the two of you got together seven years ago you said it made sense financially.
You said that you moved in together because you wanted to share bills, You said that you got married because it made financial sense and now since the money got tight and you just didn’t count on the tears, oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, now you’re getting a divorce, you see how that makes sense.
So if you can have a relationship that is figuratively fueled by love, then a lot of these uh fights that Billy Joel talks about these things about just don’t happen. Mr joe senate I see where that can work at work and in your home life. But what do you think of that?
Joe Sinnott
Well I guess a couple of things from starting on the work side, yes. You know, companies might talk about love, maybe not use that word. Certainly companies talk about having familial atmospheres and such, but you know that can be dangerous and you know, you see chatter out there, I think Colin mcclelland of digital wildcatters fame. He had a post a week or so ago basically warning against companies that talk about, you know, we are a family and again you could argue one way or the
other, but one thing I think is is absolutely clear is that you need to be aware of situations where people are talking about unconditional love because unconditional love again is great in a true family, but it could be disastrous and certainly unsustainable in the corporate world. Yet a lot of managers, a lot of leaders, they get to the point unconsciously where they are in this unconditional love situation where they’re not seeing whether they are choosing to not see or
they’re just completely unaware of the things that are toxic that are hurting their odds of success that are damaging their company and you know, when they refuse to see those things and when they refuse to see those problems out of whatever you wanna call it love or or or something, again, more difficult to define, it’s disastrous. So coming back to the world that I live in and then I work in, it all comes down to being conscious of one the threats to a sustained relationship if you
will, and to being very intentional about why you have this relationship in the first place. So, to your story there, if your relationship is founded upon a financial agreement and then things inevitably change, well, shouldn’t be a surprise if you know that relationship doesn’t exist anymore. And … well, I mean in the world that I live in now, you know, in the coaching world, you know, a lot of people don’t like what I share.
You know, again, again, I’m not sharing my opinions, I’m sharing my observations, I’m sharing what I see, I’m sharing the facts, I’m sharing what I hear and again, that could be difficult at times, but
Jason Spiess
people might think, you know that oh we’re getting a little personal with people’s lives because we’re talking about their marriage and this and that. But no, actually it’s the same thing about a job. A lot of people there with their job because of the financial arrangement. That’s, that’s the whole reason, whether they love their job or not is a whole different conversation.
But when you’re agreeing with yourself that I’m gonna wake up next to somebody every day or I’m gonna go and go to this place every single day. You’re making an agreement with yourself and with someone someone else and you should love it. And the comment about unconditional love, here’s what I like to tell people whenever that word comes up because that is a word that was starting to get thrown around way too much for what it is.
I mean unconditional love. There’s very few people who actually can do that, but one who did is forrest gump when you’re ready to let the love of your life leave and go and screw up in the world and come back and use you and leave and come back and use you and come back and use you and in the end stay with you because that’s what forrest did forrest gump provided unconditional love for jenny so she could go out and screw up in the world, but she always had her forrest gump pad to go back
recharge, get that love that unconditional love that forest knew how to give and so that’s the example I like to give with for unconditional love. So um, we went on a little bit off the rail there, but I wanted to just add that in. So go ahead, joe take over from there. Yeah,
Joe Sinnott
well, I mean, even on, you know, the forest gump situation or uh, you know, and again, any marriage or relationship, is it a choice? That’s, that’s what it comes down to. You know, it was for making the choice to stick with jenny no matter what. And you know, as a husband or wife, are you making that choice to love your spouse no matter what? And as an employee, are you making the choice?
The conscious choice to stay at that company or do you feel stuck? You know, are you, are you just going through the motions and you don’t actually know why you’re there because again, that’s not sustainable if you’re making that conscious decision to be at that company for a whole host of reasons and you’re honest with yourself, that’s a very different situation than just kind of going through the motions and showing up and yeah, it pays the bills, whatever. You know, that’s,
you don’t want, if you’re the company, you don’t want a bunch of people who are not actively choosing to be there each and every day or who feel stuck stuck in a relationship. So, again, I think it comes down to making a choice and being conscious about it, which again, is the crux of what I do. So whether it’s on the personal side of the professional side, it’s about being intentional with your time, with your energy, with your money, in some cases, choosing to
Jason Spiess
do
Joe Sinnott
something and do it the right way, choosing to love someone, no matter what, and again, when people aren’t even aware that they’re making that choice or they’re just sliding back and forth unconsciously, that’s when they’re setting themselves up for failure. So, you know, to your point again, are we talking about people’s personal lives here?
Well, yes and no, but it’s all the same stuff, Jason, it’s about being intentional and conscious about what your ultimate purpose is, and heck, I’ll throw another thing in there, you know, hey, we’re talking about personal lives, we’re talking about love. You can even bring in a religious or, you know, uh theological element to this because one definition of love.
One definition of marriage that I heard several years ago was as a spouse, your job is to help get your spouse and the rest of your family if you have kids to heaven and again, regardless of you know, where people are at where your audience is at, in terms of that, I think about that for a moment, you have an ultimate mission and everything you’re doing each and every day regardless of your feelings is to help move that other party closer to some ultimate destination and that, you know,
situation or that description that being heaven. Think about that now, bring it back to your personal lives. Your professional lives is every action you’re taking, consciously moving you towards some ultimate destination. That that’s powerful. That’s a relationship that is more than just feelings, that’s consciousness.
And again, in a in a marriage, especially if you don’t have that level of commitment and awareness and intentionality, you’re setting yourself up for disaster. And it’s not much different when we’re talking about professional lives and careers
Jason Spiess
bring up a great point about sustainable love if you will, because, you know, it’s sustainable love is unconditional love, very difficult to achieve. Very difficult. Even for married people. Very difficult. That’s why divorce is over 50%. So when we take a look at how love is blind, whether it’s idol worshiping your your position, you know, your job, which a lot of times people love their job, but again, when the finances aren’t there or maybe they’re not getting the vacation
time or maybe the somewhat related to, you know, this finance stuff isn’t working out, they don’t love their job anymore. And on the flip side, maybe there’s some managers where love is blind because they might love this employee, but really they only like what the employee does for them, they don’t really care about the employee or the company.
They just like that the employee gives them time. So they can have a four hour lunch. That’s why they love the employee. So there’s different ways that people can love their job too. So talk to me a little bit about love is blind because a lot of times people throw around that word and they really don’t understand what it means to themselves.
Joe Sinnott
Yeah, again, it comes back to the same theme of being conscious and being aware, being winning. Again, we’ll throw a nod to my company name, right? It’s being a winning conscious partner to in the case you just mentioned an employee and part of that level of consciousness is being on the same page. If, if that relationship is purely transactional and it’s, hey, I employ you and I pay you and you make my life easier and I compensate you, you know, commensurate with that, you know,
level of value that you bring to the company and to myself, then fine. At least we get it out there. We’re not beating around the bush and pretending like there’s more to that relationship. But if you’re not open and transparent and whatever cliche word you want to use their about the dynamic of that relationship, whether it leans more towards transactional or whether it means leans more towards, you know, something deeper this, you know, again, like the deeper relationship
that should be between a husband and a wife. If you can’t put words to that, you can’t speak to. What type of relationship we have then? I mean, that’s a level of blindness that’s gonna lead all parties in, you know, some unfavorable direction Jason. So, again, it’s this not to beat a dead horse here, but it all comes down to just being conscious and aware of what the relationship is and what it’s supposed to look like
and what its ultimate purpose is. What is the purpose of a contractual relationship between employer employee and what’s the purpose of a relationship between spouses?
Jason Spiess
Excuse me. Here, I swallow coffee there for a second. Sometimes it’s hot, coffee gets a little hot and a hiccup,
Joe Sinnott
hot and hot and heavy episode of the crude life here in the middle of february. There, there we go.
Jason Spiess
Right, alright, so let’s talk about the love of your job and just the love of your family and why you do things because a lot of people, they either love their job or they love their family, and that’s why they go to work. But some people, they go to work because they’re afraid of what happens if they don’t pay their bills.
So maybe their intention isn’t so much love as it is fear. How can we get people to change their perspective so that when they wake up in the morning, they’re not really feeling fearful to start their day, but they’re actually embracing some of these joyful things that the day can bring. Does that make sense, joe?
Joe Sinnott
It does, I mean it brings up a couple, I guess maybe follow up questions I have for you in terms of what you mean there.
Jason Spiess
But uh you
Joe Sinnott
know, the first thing is, you know, does it really matter if people are going to work passionate and joyful about what they’re doing? Because
Jason Spiess
well,
Joe Sinnott
so again and again, I think you could, you can argue back and forth, I would say no matter what the first step is to be honest about the realities of things, you know, not not going in pretending like you’re doing what you’re doing when you don’t really do it or or vice versa, right? You know, pretending like this is drudgery when you know what you actually enjoy your, your 45 minute commute and the time by yourself and you actually enjoy that coffee break.
You actually enjoy interacting with people. But for for whatever reason you’re afraid to admit it because you know, you’ve you set this story for whoever else, maybe your spouse, Oh yeah, I’m going to work, you know, working, working for you, working for the family. Oh, another tough day where I actually only put in about, you know, 45 minutes of actual work and the other, you know, six or seven hours was actually just uh alone time or or Bs time or whatever.
So again, it comes down to first being honest with yourself about like, do I really hate this, or do I really like this, Jason and then you can talk about practical ways and tips and tricks to, to maybe enhance your enjoyment, but the first step is, hey, are you telling, have you created this darn story one way or the other?
That is unnecessary. Whether again it’s it’s, I’m passionate about my job or I’m not passionate, stop using those words if they don’t actually mean anything, and let’s get back to the facts of what you really do, truly enjoy and what you do enjoy and and quit this narrative. So I’ll stop there. I don’t know if,
Jason Spiess
you know, well, because sometimes for me, I find myself when I was, you know, it’s supporting my family and doing everything like that, it’s pretty easy to get caught up in the, in the love of the chase. You know, you’re chasing the money, you’re chasing the goal, you’re chasing the goal, you know, whatever it might be. And so it can actually take priority over, you know, your family at times, because in your mind, you’re thinking, you know, if I just get this taken care of, well then
the family will be fine and, you know, to me that’s more of, you know, the kind of the, not to get theological, but the money changers talking if you will, you’re trying to get your bills paid so that you can spend time with your family. So to me that’s where I personally, where I struggled was trying to get the family always ahead of paying the bills if you will and again I bring this up because just the amount of layoffs that are happening right now and the amount of people going through
an energy transition. So these money conversations are very um, uh they’re increasing quite a bit. And so what one of the reasons for the love podcast is to remember what, why are you doing this? Are you doing this for the money? Are you doing this for the love? If you’re doing it for the love, it could be for the love of your job, your trade, your family yourself a number of different things.
But if you invoke some love, install some love, embed some love into whatever it is you’re doing generally you’re not in a bad mood are you? Normally that term is supposed to mean mean put a smile on your face right
Joe Sinnott
normally, but but let me let me jump in there, Jason. I mean, even there, I mean there’s there’s general rules that that makes sense and most of the time, but especially if there’s, there’s people listening who have just gotten laid off. I’ll share. Let me share a story that I shared. Gosh, this was about a year ago, uh in a talk that I gave and it was actually during the Q and a section people were asking, well, practically speaking, you know, how do you how do you slow down and make
decisions when you feel like you’re you’re under pressure? And of course, you know, the first answer is, well, well coaching helps, right? I mean when I’m coaching people, it makes them pause. You know, it might be just for an hour out of a very busy week, but they actually need to slow down and think more clearly so that they don’t just default to the standard rules.
And the reason I’m bringing this up in terms of all these layoffs you keep talking about is that, you know, if, say you had a nice steady job and you were able to afford a nanny that helped you go to work so that, you know, your kids were taking care of, you know, that nanny was a big expense and then you lose your job and then, you know, your immediate thought as well, we can’t afford this anymore.
I gotta go look for a job, let’s let’s, you know, slim everything down again. There’s logic to that, right? Hey, you know, the income is stopping. So we need to obvious pause or look very closely at the money that’s going out the door. That’s a logical thought. However, when you slow down and you say, well, what if we actually increase the amount of support for our Children, you know, maybe not not just a nanny, but what we’ll actually have some extra babysitting time so that I can
focus on hitting the reset button and finding a new job during this period of time. Again, instead of now scrambling and making, you know, shortsighted panic decisions that might make sense, but might be hurting the long term, you know, sustainable goals that you have. That’s the type of thinking where if you can slow down and avoid just going to, you know, these default rules, you might start thinking differently and then almost go the opposite direction.
But a lot of people, Jason and this is human nature myself included, right? It’s, hey, we’re gonna go, go, we’re gonna make a quick decision, we’re gonna move forward and all else being equal. We’re just gonna go with the default approach to things and, you know, we’ll be just fine, but from a coaching standpoint being just fine or good enough, Clearly that is not, you know, that’s not my goal.
When I’m working with people. When people hire me, When companies hire me, obviously that’s not their goal. It’s to actually be more thoughtful and more conscious and more aware so that you make more sustainable and more inventive and innovative and whatever words we want to throw in their decisions that are, you know, gonna last. They’re gonna stick.
Jason Spiess
How about if you love what you do so much that you get shamed where you go. So let’s say you work in the oil and gas industry and you walk into a room and boy, you’re the new modern day leper, you’re the new cigarette. I mean you’re the person just smoking a cigarette and putting the ashes out on a baby right in the room. I’ve been in that room, by the way, people have actually, I’m serious, I’ve actually had people get up and leave because I said that you know, I do the crude life for example.
So it’s um it’s it’s a real thing. Uh how did you how do people stay with it, joe talk to me about, you know, keeping the love for yourself, keeping the love for your brotherhood, sisterhood, your comrades, comrades that you know, hey I want to have some natural gas in my life. I wanna you know, I want to be able to power my home when I at some point.
But it’s hard because there’s a lot of people not giving me the love, you know, it’s like what the farmers went through in the eighties when the grocery store took them out. Everybody loved going to the grocery store and making fun of the farmer. Well that doesn’t make any sense, but it happened. And look where we’re at with the farmers. There’s hardly any farmers left now. They’re all corporate farmers and robot farmers now they even got robot chickens.
I think I saw that, you know that was a futurama episode. See I get my my shows mixed up at times, but talk to me about how to keep the love going when you’re not getting it when you’re getting disrespected their back to the Super Bowl when you’re a J Brown and you’re getting disrespected by the titans, show me how to get some respect.
Joe Sinnott
Well, if you’re looking for respect and you’re looking to keep the love going as you just said, the worst thing you could do is default to the same stale talking points that everybody else is throwing out there. That is definitely, definitely, definitely the worst thing you can do because people hear it, you know, people are sick of it, you know, people have short attention spans, oh I heard that talking point, you know, last week, you gotta find something new.
So the answer Jason, at least in my experience and whether it’s in my personal life or again now in this coaching world is preparation. You can prepare yourself before you even engage with these people who might be, you know, again, casting you aside or inclined to, to walk the other direction. You can, you can take two minutes to just go through, you know, stream of consciousness, some questions that other people might ask, you know what might resonate in the response that you
could give to them or, you know, little tidbits that you could share with them, that again go beyond the normal talking points and you know, obviously working in oil and gas, we have our talking points and they’re great, they’re foundational, everybody should know them, but people should be sharing them in a way that is more directed at a specific audience, you know, people, for example, Jason uh you know, not to get on my soapbox here, but in oil and gas, it’s very easy to talk
about the economic benefits, the job benefits of what we do, and those are absolutely reel, but for a lot of audiences, they don’t care, they’re gonna tune out immediately because, you know, they don’t care, they’re gonna, they’re gonna have their own talking points to say, well, industries of all right, You know, if if we didn’t allow, you know, if we tried to protect the horse and buggy right, you know, we would have never evolved
just to protect those jobs, you know, you need to understand when that audience is gonna have that in their head and from what I see again, this is more of a macro thing. A lot of
Jason Spiess
people, they
Joe Sinnott
Don’t, they don’t recognize that there’s different audiences and this is obviously communication 101, but it takes an ounce of energy and and a couple of minutes of time to prepare and again, if we really want to bring it back to the to the love connection, if you will to this episode, Yeah, it’s the same thing, if you’re, if you’re coming home to your spouse and you know, there’s something you want to share, you just put it out of your mind until you show up or do you know, on the drive
home say say no uh no, I completely forgot about valentine’s day, how am I, how am I gonna frame this? You’re gonna prepare, right? Why wouldn’t you take that same preparation approach when it comes to those around you that you know, you want to listen to what you have to say, how can you get them to listen?
So maybe along with an answer there, Jason, but you know, it’s preparation, it’s slowing down. It’s the same thing we’ve talked about, you know earlier in this episode and on, you know, other conversations.
Jason Spiess
No, I love it. I love it all. Absolutely love it. … Oh, isn’t that great? Just a podcast powered by Love. I’m telling you if if I could invent an E. V. Car that’s powered by Love, I don’t think there’ll be an issue in the world again, I think everything will get taken care of. So I gentleman that I had that conversation with at that random place boy, if we get a bottle that up and sold it, we’d be uh right now,
Joe Sinnott
well, for now, for a little while, Jason as you know though, all great innovations ultimately will have their naysayers eventually. So I think again that’s another mistake that people make from a sustainability standpoint, they think that they’ve got it, they’ve got this magic answer only to be found that even if you found a car that was made entirely of love by love and and fueled with love somehow some way you’d get people out there with their pitchforks and they’re, you know,
they’re torches ready to run you out of town. So just just a warning for you again in the world that I’m in as much exuberance as people might have. They think they have a breakthrough. Part of my job is to, you know, say that’s great. But let’s build in a little insulation, a little insurance because it might not be as grand of an idea and approach as you think it is. So
Jason Spiess
no, and you know, I mean, a lot of things are cyclical and a lot of the, you know, ain’t nothing new under the sun if you will, but at the same time our lives are still our lives and we still have to wake up and we still have to be productive and we have to be stewards of whatever we’re stewards of whether it’s the land or whether it’s God or whether it’s our family or it’s um, what do, um, what it weakens the trees, the, you know, the god of the trees.
I can’t think of the week and got off top of my head. I try to include everybody’s, and sometimes I just, I, I don’t, and I apologize for those people who are left out Kwanza, for example, anyone who’s Kwanza. Um, but seeing that I kind of lose, lose track where I’m going with this joe
Joe Sinnott
there’s a lot of holidays Jason this week celebrated national pizza Day. So there’s a lot there’s
Jason Spiess
a lot of to you know and there’s a lot of religions too. So you know we try to keep the love out there as much as we can and when you don’t offer enough love out there, people get mad because you don’t give enough love. And so it’s a it’s a it’s a weird time we’re living in joe. It really is. But I do love this idea where we can take a concept and say hey listen let’s get more ridiculous than the ridiculous of hate. There’s so much polarizing profit profiting right now, you know profit wordplay
there. Use it twice, there’s so much of that going on that what if we just say what if we powered by love we’d make more money. That’s it came out of the E. S. G. Movement. What if we just powered this, bye bye bye love. Would we all be okay? And then of course that people get upset at that when you’re not angry they get they get upset. So
Joe Sinnott
um with
Jason Spiess
that, you know I I know you love feedback. So what type of feedback would you love to hear from people on something like this? Well
Joe Sinnott
I think the first thing Jason going back to what you just said? You know it’s it’s easy to laugh. Yeah what if we focused on love instead of hate and being angry and you know, again, a good portion of the population is gonna set that aside. But I think the bigger question that I would ask people and and again, I’d be curious their feedback on this. How much energy and time are you investing if you will in hate or negativity? …
Jason Spiess
Well
Joe Sinnott
then I’ll then I’ll stop and I’ll stop talking there because that’s it. That’s the question. I mean, you know, again, I I we talk a lot here. I mean, the ironic thing is Jason and my day job as a coach. My job is to actually, you know, shut up and listen and ask questions and then listen some more. Uh so you know this this I love this conversation. This gives me a chance to hop up on my soapbox a little bit. But Coming back to my day job of asking questions.
That’s the question, sit with that for a couple of minutes, 160 868 hours in the week. How many hours and it probably is hours are spent on things that don’t actually add any value. And then the next question again, were facts here. We we’ve moved beyond love and feelings. The facts are if you invested that energy and that time on something positive, … I’ll
Jason Spiess
talk about something that I did that I think other people could do and save their job right now. There’s a huge movement happening on social media, where are you spending your time? And if individuals shifted their time on social media and that’s what I did. So I took x amount of hours. I want to say it was uh was it 30 minutes a day or 45 minutes a day?
It was one of the two because I needed 15 minutes or 30 minutes to do the thing that I did. So um as you know joe I work in the media. So we have a certain amount of hours that we spend on social media, a certain amount of hours we spend creating content, Certain amount of hours we have to spend doing like sales and just administrative work type of a thing.
And when we looked at our party, our pie chart. Social media is always the one that has to get taken from first because it doesn’t generate any money and it’s where we produce the most of our time without return because sales you can get returned called sales administration, you can get a return which is keeping the I. R. S out and keeping the government out and fines and you can actually organize your business a little bit.
So there’s a return there when you look at social media and honestly, if if you don’t make it in the moment now it’s just branding. So if you don’t monetize that social media post in the moment essentially what you’re doing is branding for your company or yourself. So businesses are starting to say why is the person I’m paying to be in charge of social media tripling their followers because I’m paying for them to go to all these events.
And my company now only has four posts in the last two months, why are they not posting on my company? So what I advised the company to do was say we’ll just have your employee post on the social media through uh, the company and have them share it on their personal. And the guy goes, well, that makes sense. I said, well, that’s how you’re supposed to do it.
That’s how it was designed originally, just about shifting your energy. Well then the conversation with me was okay, can you take the half hour out of your day and do what you love to do? Well, I love to write. So if you go to the crude life right now, you’ll see that we’re doing a lot more writing now. If you go to some of the other sites that I do, I’m doing a lot more writing now because for me I can write an article over lunch really easy because I’ve interviewed experts for 30 years, so
it’s not difficult for me to recall things and remember and etc. So what I did Joe I shifted a half hour away from social media and directed it to a different media, which is writing. So therefore my companies can create more of a social media presence at the end of the day, instead of me giving the content and my energy to linkedin or facebook or so or instagram, I’m giving the energy to myself
first and then I’m gonna turn around and give my energy to the social media platforms, but only 25% of my energy is gonna go there with 100% of my product. Does that make sense?
Joe Sinnott
It all makes sense. And it all ties back to what you said at the outset of that comment, which was essentially time management and this focus on where are you investing your time? And that is one of the major themes that comes across and all the coaching that I do, and in fact Jason, the idea of time management and where are you investing your time?
And is it is it structured in the right way, the order of operations, right kind of to your point, you know, do you get your energy first and then you’re able to share that versus trying to do the grunt work while Euron energized and you know, being out of whack all of those questions, whether it’s prioritization order of operations, where your bucket in your time, that’s huge, not just for an individual who is, you know, going through coaching because their company sponsored it,
but for that same individual in his or her personal life, you know, one of the, again, most of the coaching do is under the corporate umbrella, you know, it’s people who are employed, many of them are being sponsored by their company to, you know, to gain value from coaching, that helps them as an individual employee, but also helps the bottom line of the company.
But I’ll tell you, Jason, one of the things that really impacts the personal lives of the people that I work with is when we sit down and we talk about time management and structuring an ideal week and determining when makes the most sense to focus on your wife or your husband or your Children and finding the optimal time for that instead of just trying to squeeze it in.
Because if not, it could become like social media, I’ll do a little, a little bit here, a little bit there. Oh, I got this great idea, let me pop over here, maybe this person can do that, and it becomes this, this unconscious hodgepodge of things, instead of being intentional and saying, no, no, no, I am at my best on thursday afternoons and when I’m at my best, I want to be with my family, so I’m gonna block that time.
Is it gonna happen every thursday? Absolutely not. But at least I’m gonna try, I’m gonna be intentional about it, and that’s exactly what I think you were just sharing in terms of a social media strategy and that’s why Jason the things that I work on with people, they have very practical application, especially in the energy industry, but they also apply to people’s personal lives and it’s the same approach, it’s the same mindset, it’s the same tools and again, if nothing else,
it helps strengthen relationships, which is a lot of what we’re talking about here. You know, those bonds, whether it’s love or whether it is something more transactional. The moral of the story is if you want to strengthen your connection, strengthen those relationships, you need to be intentional and you need to be smart with your time and your energy.
Jason Spiess
Now I know we’re going into overtime here because it’s the big Super Bowl edition of the Love podcast. I’m sorry, It’s the Super Bowl Edition podcast powered by Love. I got a wordsmith that a little bit. I love it. Either way. Okay, so where does your energy go first? I’m paraphrasing what you said uh where does your energy go first? That is a really important thing for every company to ask themselves right now, whether you’re you’re an employee, but mostly if you’re a business
owner or you’re a decision maker, let’s take that social media example joe that I gave for a second and this could go any way you want to go in any department, where does your energy go first. Okay, so if you’re the Department of Transportation or you’re the company that sells widgets and you got that social media manager that we talked about for an example.
Now if your energy or your money is going to that person so they can go to networking events and they’re only posting on their personal where does your energy go first? If you are paying someone to go market and brand your company and they are continuously doing it on their personal and not your company or your government page. Where does your energy go first?
In fact, I would even ask how much energy are you getting in return? That is one of the biggest issues going on right now. And it’s really hard for the average person to understand for one. They’ve never worked in the media and number two it’s just not fun when you got to change. So right now a lot of work places are making changes. I even know some places joe they’re outlawed on social media now.
I talked to one guy the other day, he called me and he said were outlawed and now we’re not even have it anymore because he did an audit and found out how much time people are spending on their personal versus their work stuff. Um So that was my example. I wrote down where does your energy go first? I think you got a book there. That’s a book right there because that csg that’s E. S. G. In a nutshell right there.
What what is the supply chain of your energy? Take a look at it and how does it come back and this isn’t like trying to be a bitter or trying to get bad or anything, this is just trying to be professional with the supply chain because joe I don’t think that the energy detox podcast has its own brand, does it? You do it all through winning partners, correct,
Joe Sinnott
correct. It’s all under the umbrella, obviously it’s its own entity on all the podcast platforms. It’s got its own domain. For
Jason Spiess
example, where does your energy go first for you? Your energy goes to the umbrella of willing partners first, correct?
Joe Sinnott
Yes and no, Jason, unless you want to get more philosophical. I mean, my energy ultimately is going through winning partners. So I guess, yeah, it goes there first, but It’s to the people, it’s to my audience. I mean, at the end, at the end of the day, Jason, you know, winning partners is not some 10,000 personal organization. So, I mean, I’ll be honest people, they’re not hiring me, you know, for winning, but they’re not hiring willing partners on paper.
They are certainly from a contractual standpoint. But at the end of the day, you know, I’m doing the coaching. They’re hiring me for my experience for my insights for the results that I’ve generated. And
Jason Spiess
so for
Joe Sinnott
that reason, my energy, I would say really doesn’t go to winning partners and when I have an opportunity to connect to an individual first, you know, somebody who already have a relationship with or you know, somebody who I know needs the type of services that I offer, that’s where I I turn to first, now again, whether I use winning partners as an avenue to to expand that connection relationship.
Yeah, that’s a different story. But in terms of where my energy goes, Jason, it’s focused on the end user, the audience, the person who’s gonna benefit from me, not some intermediate step, which again, stay on my soapbox here for a moment. That’s where a lot of companies get screwed up in their social media strategy is they forget as simple as it is, and, you know, you’ve been immediate for all these years, right?
They forget who their audience is. So that’s where your that’s where your energy needs to go first, in terms of the avenue to get there, there’s a million different ways to do that. And some of it, like you said, you know, if you have a passion for one approach to connect with that audience, fine, do what suits you best. You know, leverage the resources that you have at your disposal, that enthuse you.
But by all means don’t get stuck there because a lot of people do. And, you know, their message. Again, we’re Super Bowl’s coming up here, you know, from an advertising standpoint, you spend million dollars on an ad that, you know, people leave people scratching their heads and saying, what did I just watch? What’s that for? You know,
Jason Spiess
that’s, you
Joe Sinnott
Know, marketing 101, if you will, so audience audience audience audience audience is where my energy goes first and then if it happens to flow through winning partners or the energy detox or a conversation with you, Jason, so be it.
Jason Spiess
And yeah, thank you for making me look like a fool with the technicality of yes, you’re the independent contractor, you’re, you kind of like, yeah, everything goes through me and but I get your point and actually you bring up a good point because uh sometimes there is that person that it’s just, they need to be the identity and not necessarily have the company become their identity.
That’s a case too. And that’s actually one of my biggest things because I’ve got three or four different companies, I’m trying to juggle. So as I try to do one, I can’t have the other one, you know, mix and match because it pollutes the water if you will. It gets too confusing for people because there are a lot of people that like to just label and they like to be very singular with certain things and check boxes and, and etcetera.
But you bring up a really interesting point about that joe you do because there are some other variables that that go into this and at the end of the day, you know, where does your energy go, where do you put it, where do you put it first? And in the Super Bowl ad that you brought up, you just, that was a great little side bar there because sometimes a lot of these Super Bowl ads now, you actually have to go and watch a netflix series before.
You can even understand the ad. Like if people had never seen Wayne’s World before, imagine what that ad looked like to them. First of all, Gareth, I loved Mike Myers to death, but he looked really old and kind of creepy and scary for wearing that clothes and trying to present himself as a teenage boy from what I remember back when Wayne’s World first came out.
Great Movie, rob. Lowe, Fantastic. Okay, but 30 years, 40 years later that, that didn’t play well. But even worse, somebody made a ton of money to just basically give me a homework to go watch movies. There’s a lot of this kind of rehashing of certain things. Re energy where you grab energy from someone else and put it to you and now you’ve given people homework. Now you gotta go watch Lord of the Rings. Now you gotta go watch game of Thrones, which I’ve never seen.
So anybody that does any advertising with those two things is completely lost on me. And that’s what I see a lot of these Super Bowl ads now joe is there just kind of doing their own little micro movie of some show they liked as a kid or something like that. So anyway, that’s my comment on the Super Bowl commercials. I don’t know if that’s you want to comment on that, that’s kind of against the love podcast
Joe Sinnott
here? Well, I mean for all those corporations who love money, I’m assuming they’re they’re doing, you know, they’re they’re figuring out the rate of return on that. And if they’re doing something that’s only gonna resonate with a handful of people or that’s gonna require homework for everybody else to actually go and figure out what they’re saying.
And at the end of the day, if they figure that’s still going to give them the return they want, then, you know, so be it. But in the real world where we are communicating every single day as human beings, we need to be asking ourselves what the rate of return is on our words and our time and more importantly, the time and the attention of our audience and in a corporate environment, especially in the world of oil and gas, that’s go, go, go the leader or the manager who’s relying on, uh,
analogies that don’t hit or things that they say that people don’t understand, but they’re afraid to, you know, ask questions about because it’s go go go or they’re gonna feel stupid or whatever, which speaks in many ways to some of the generational gaps that also help, uh, companies work through. They need to ask themselves, am I being clear rule number one for communication, am I being clear and to your point, Jason, if the audience has to go and do homework or doesn’t
understand your reference to Seinfeld because, you know, they weren’t even born until 10 years, You know, after Seinfeld went off the air, You’re probably not being terribly efficient with your communication ability, even though there’s one or two people in the room who are laughing hysterically and got your point 100% and are ready to barge out.
Maybe that’s good enough, but it’s up to you as the communicator to determine whether it’s good enough and not just unconsciously keep going to the same old well of uh of analogies and whatever else to get your point
Jason Spiess
across. … Well, as much as I loved this podcast, you should probably wrap it up and I know that you like business and your family loves it when you’re making the bacon, so to speak. So how can people get in touch with you and give yourself a few plugs if you will, so that we can generate some business your way, sir?
Joe Sinnott
Well, despite saying a couple minutes ago that, you know, winning partners is really just there as a pass through the easiest way is to go to winning partners dot com. If, if you wanna connect and learn a little bit more about what I do and how I do it and the results that I’ve helped companies in the energy industry and beyond generate in terms of leadership development coaching training workshops, keynotes and all of that.
So, winning partners dot dot com but also always happy to connect on linkedin. Always happy to have a conversation. I’m even a fan of the good old fashioned phone call. So the numbers out there, you can call 4124445563. Even in this age of texting and emails and all of those various ways to communicate.
Sometimes a nice normal human conversation is the most efficient and effective. So all those means are fine. And as we said earlier, you can always find the energy detox, go ahead and google or you can find it on any of your favorite podcasting platforms.
Jason Spiess
The supply chain of that promotion was the energy first came from waiting partners and then there was a website avenue, a phone call avenue and email avenue, a social media avenue, there was all kinds of avenues for that energy to go to be channeled through. And in the end it ends up back at winning partners for the return on that investment of energy. And that’s how I look at it, joe in all honesty, is that that’s how it goes and that’s how we’ve always taken the crude life and we’ve
been able to grow every year now, it’s not 100% growth. It’s that traditional 10 15 20% but it’s that slow and steady, wins the race. And quite honestly when you love what you do, that is a very, very successful career just to have a slow and steady wins the race, because that means every day you wake up and you do, you love what you do, you really do. And that sounds like what you do to joe, you really love what you do. So maybe you don’t. But
Joe Sinnott
to me
Jason Spiess
it seems like you
Joe Sinnott
do, it’s all just a facade Jase that last hour that we just talked about actually have no passion for the energy industry or leadership or love or any of those things, but no, in all seriousness, whether you call it slow and steady or whether you call it in, uh, you know, hedging your bets and locking in good prices, that will ensure a steady return for years to come.
I think that’s the key to healthy relationships, that’s the key to a marriage, that’s the key to uh, you know, ensuring that your love isn’t just a flash in the pan, but something that is able to sustained. So again, for everybody listening, you’re looking to sustain success, whether it’s personal success or professional success.
Always happy to have a conversation like this one with Jason and always happy to engage with anybody who’s listening out there as part of your audience there, Jason, you got a great audience, a great show and certainly appreciate you having me on again to have this lovely conversation today. …
Jason Spiess
Beep and artificial chat on love. Now, …
Joe Sinnott
that was, that was great. I was trying to, trying to find the, hold on, Let me
Jason Spiess
uh
Joe Sinnott
well, just make sure you make sure you end this. But if if you forget to end this and people are still listening again, this is the real Jason and joe. Hopefully it sounds exactly as the same as the last hour or so that you subjected yourself to. So okay, now I will officially end the recording.
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Canada’s Greatest Export Terry Etam, author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil and gas activity north of the border.
Etam explains how the country’s view on oil and gas has changed under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Host Jason Spiess and Etam talk about the foundational oil and gas developments in Canada. Spiess uses his education in sports citing that in hockey Edmonton is called the “Oilers” for oil development and Calgary is called the “Flames” for natural gas.
In addition to an update on Canadian energy, the two discuss how the oil and gas industry has changed due to Environmental Social Governance (ESG) in Canada.
The two continue the ESG discussion into whether the youth is embracing this as a new religion or if ESG is purely just a new credit score with a few more bells and whistles.
Below is the raw, unedited transcript from our artificial intelligence translator.
Jason Spiess
Head over to the zoom line where we have Canada’s greatest export on the line with us terry Etem exporting that information, That energy information, public energy number one information as well as B. O. E. Report and the author of the book, the end of the fossil fuel insanity and what’s the whole title again? Mr terry adam,
Terry Etam
clearing, …
Jason Spiess
clearing the air before cleaning the air, the end of the fossil fuel insanity available at amazon as well as other places to correct
Terry Etam
Oh,
Jason Spiess
big time. Big time Barnes and noble baby. Alright. International author Canada’s greatest export as well as
Terry Etam
as
Jason Spiess
well as a blogger on public energy number one, I love that name. By the way, Public energy number one, I’m gonna I’m gonna listen to motley Crue later, Public Enemy number one. I like that motley crew first album, Livewire. That was pretty good. Hey, look at me showing my age here. Little deep, deep track on that motley Crue album. But well sir, up in Canada europe in Alberta, correct. … Well, let’s,
Terry Etam
let’s
Jason Spiess
get an update from Canada Last we spoke, the Prime Minister was waging a war against the oil and gas industry. And then the other time we spoke, he was waging a war against the fertilizer industry because they were connected to the oil and gas industry house the Prime Minister doing today, who’s he, who’s he taken out of the marketplace this week.
Terry Etam
Uh, well, it’s a friday afternoon and I really don’t want to talk about him. But uh, it’s he’s continues on with his theme and it’s, it’s singling out an industry that the latest uh program that they’ve unveiled is what they call their just transition employment program, where they’re going to uh move trying course workers to leave the oil and gas sector, we want you out of the sector and we want you to go into green energy.
And they had some of their discussion documents that were uh leaked or released, and they just make a mockery of the industry in a way, they just say, well, oil and gas workers should be able to find jobs as truck drivers or janitors, or they can install solar panels. And it was wildly insulting and um, brainless, but it passes in the public sphere these days,
Jason Spiess
but but but I bet they did it with a smile and they probably, you know, maybe even did it over a Molson. Huh?
Terry Etam
Well, I I wrote a story a couple weeks ago about profiling Canada’s climate change minister, a guy named Stephen gill bo uh from Quebec, and he’s an ex Greenpeace activist. He’s been arrested four times and he’s sitting in one of our highest positions in the government.
Jason Spiess
The
Terry Etam
Prime Minister Trudeau gloats about his success as an activist. He introduced him to joe biden. Hey, you gotta come meet my new climate Minister, He’s been arrested four times, and this guy did an interview with the new york times. It was appalling. He was just very open about it. He says, uh yeah, I, they’re saying, have you sold your beliefs to become part of the government? And he said no, I really, I just view myself as an activist on the inside now as opposed to it, but
Jason Spiess
I I gotta but wouldn’t you rather know what you’re getting though? Because in America we, you know, we have this thing called the inflation reduction act, which is making the price
Terry Etam
of eggs, oh,
Jason Spiess
it’s making everything triple than what it was before. And you know, this started 20 well, it started 20 years ago when they started doing things like save the Environment Act and then they’d go take out a, you know, a forest, they just can put a parking lot in, you know, it was just like the exact opposite of what they said. And you know, honestly, I I think and I’ve been saying this for five years, you can go back five years on this program when a lot of people in the industry started
getting really ticked off at me because I was trying to explain that they’re positioning the oil and gas industry as the next modern day leper, the modern day cigarette smoker, the coal industry, if you will, you know, Well, instead they get mad and they, you know, they’ll say, I’m crazy and all this other stuff and you know, that their world is toxic.
So they gotta make mine, right? I’m just making an observation and pretty soon it’s like I, you know, took a crap on their dog or something. Well the same people now they just quickly change their company to energy and they act like the conversation in the 4 to 5 years of shaming never existed. And it’s just so bizarre to me that when a company goes from being called oil and gas to energy they’re validating this this energy movement.
So in America in my opinion when they start subsidizing the wind energy and the solar energy and they start over regulating oil and gas. They’re doing the same thing that they’re doing up in Canada. Only in Canada. They’re just being insulting about it in America they’re just being passive aggressive and kind of lying about it. Which so pick your poison pal.
Terry Etam
Well I guess so you’re right. It’s maybe just because I was just so flagrant and it’s just like that.
Jason Spiess
But yours is more on steroids though too though. But because they are allowing some yeah they’re allowing some drilling and some common sense in America still. But you
Terry Etam
see the U. S. Has the capacity which is one reason I love your country. You have the ability to self examine and the ability to push back against these things. You see states pushing back against things saying this just isn’t right we’re just not going to allow this and not everybody agrees and that’s fine. Nobody. No you’ll never see everyone agree on everything that’s life and that’s healthy that you get different perspectives and the the U.
- Has that those mechanisms where you’ll get a committee that will pull apart the connection between the FBI and twitter or something. And it’s like we gotta look into this Canada. We just pretend it doesn’t exist. So we uh the bureaucratic machine just keeps on chugging. Is
Jason Spiess
this um is this centered around E. S. G. Environmental social governance? Is a lot of this centered around that up in Canada.
Terry Etam
Yeah a lot of it is it’s it’s like there’s um there’s languages that either side can hear and I think that’s where this this conversation gets so horrible and energy just got caught in the
Jason Spiess
languages
Terry Etam
change. I would say the climate change camp is of the mindset that if we don’t reduce emissions immediately, we’re all going to die 10 or 20 years, the oceans are gonna flood everything that becomes unlivable refugees everywhere. And the cause of that is fossil fuels. We have to stop fossil fuels. And so that’s all they see and that’s all they act in accordance with.
And then the other side, if I can call it that the realist the plumbers I call them versus the academics, they say well you can’t do that. It doesn’t work that way. And and they say it has to work that way because we’re doomed. And so you have these you have these these viewpoints which just are are totally they argue totally different things because their premises are built on two separate things.
It’s like when someone says, we have to do something for the good of everybody, uh that’s and that drives every one of their actions and they don’t listen to the people say, you can’t do it. That just makes them even more determined to say, well, we have to and that’s why you see these accelerations of programs and like, okay, well, we just, we have to double down now on emissions reductions because we’re not going fast enough and then trying to build some more coal plants and India
builds more coal plants because they have to, they’re like the plumbers of the economic world, they’re like, we got, we have billions of miles to feed and we’re going to feed them. So global emissions goes up so that the Western guys say, well, we have to cut emissions even more because global emissions are going up. We have we have the money and the the depth of talent and resources and whatever to make that happen here.
We just keep layering these things onto our industries and then we have the inertia of the industry itself, like you said, they just keep doing what they do and they morph to to uh to keep going, like you say, the programs and the style they’re adopting and whatever and people selling emissions free cargoes of gas, which is, I don’t even know what they’re talking about because the people that hate fossil fuels hate natural gas, They hate cold and they don’t care what you’re going to
call it, but it’s playing the game. So it gets it works. So I don’t know how, I don’t think we’re gonna I think we will muddle through this but I think it’s gonna be pretty brutal. Are
Jason Spiess
you, are you guys doing anything up there? You guys have any activities Edmonton, can they even be called the oilers anymore or do we got to change their name?
Terry Etam
Well that’s what’s so weird about there’s there’s in some ways it’s a bit like the U. S. So there’s the the areas of uh development or production which will just keep chugging. So there’s kind of a couple of big regions. There’s one in Northwestern Alberta which leaks into british Columbia.
The peace river arches called. It has the Montini and Duvernay formations which are similar quality wise to the marcellus in Appalachia or like they’re huge. It’s a big area and just just a ton of resources and reserves in their last for decades. And yeah, mostly gas and oil. And
Jason Spiess
now how far is that from say say you mentioned british Columbia. So you’re on the coast. How far is that from the coast?
Terry Etam
It’s quite a ways from the coast for four or 500 miles to the border.
Jason Spiess
Okay, on the other side of the border then. Okay. Got it.
Terry Etam
Yeah and and that it’s about, …
Jason Spiess
oh jesus, you’re really driving far okay
Terry Etam
because
Jason Spiess
Calgary because I remember my, my education comes from hockey, so Calgary flames is natural gas and Edmonton oilers, oilers, so Okay, all
Terry Etam
right, … come
Jason Spiess
on, are you for
Terry Etam
real? … Canada’s
Jason Spiess
greatest export. Ladies and gentlemen, …
Terry Etam
Oh
Jason Spiess
no, you just got an amplified off that one. That was awesome. Okay, so, and by the way, in Utah Jazz I think was new Orleans originally. So go on. Oh,
Terry Etam
the other
Jason Spiess
big, yeah,
Terry Etam
yeah, the other big area in Alberta that is the oil sands of course, and those are different because they’re like, mine’s almost there, they’re really long life assets, so there’s like a couple $100 billion got sunk into that over the past couple of decades and those will just chug forever. So, so no matter what happens with, no matter how hard the government wants to kill it, there’s a couple of big key core areas where they don’t really need that much more pipe or that much more
infrastructure and they can just keep going. So the industry is in a very weird place now because it’s spitting out all of this cash and the companies won’t reinvest it to grow, so they’re spitting it out to shareholders in the US getting rid of debt and uh and then that causes this weird environment where there’s all sorts of money floating around, but it’s just heading out the side doors, it’s not like it’s not turning it into a booming economy necessarily uh it’s like there’s a
lot going on royalties to the government and companies are paying taxes and shareholders are making a lot of money, but you’re not feeling that vibe in the of where everything’s going crazy, Even the service companies like the drilling rig companies are, they’re flat out, you can’t find the drilling rig, but there’s a lot fewer rigs and there used to be, so it’s not the same um not the same boom mentality.
And then the fact remains to they can’t get employees to come work in the industry, they’ve been chased away. So uh and that’s I think that’s a universal problem. I’d like to understand better what the there’s business activity all over the place that’s being held back because there aren’t enough qualified tradespeople and plumbers and mechanics and uh male rights and that that’s that’s a whole study needs to be done on that because it doesn’t show up in unemployment if you have.
I know some people that own small companies and they have order books uh coming out there or offices and they but they can’t fill them because they can’t find crews to build stuff. So it’s um but that doesn’t show up in a in a statistic anywhere about unemployment renting, but it’s it’s a real problem.
Jason Spiess
Yeah, I don’t believe any of those unemployment numbers to be honest. Um Because when when you look at the amount of layoffs that are going on, there’s no way that they’re adding jobs. Like I was talking to my ex, uh, she’s, she’s got restructured three times with her job since the beginning of the year because they’ve had layoffs and layoffs and layoffs, right? And so she’s kept her job and restructured around all these different things. And like she texted me, she goes, yeah, we
just laid off another round of people yet we’re hiring, how does that work? And I said, well, if you’re part of that C suite America C suite executives, that makes your six or seven figures a year and pretty soon you realize you’ve been resting on your laurels and now you’ve got to go work again. So you go get more government subsidies, you go lay off people, you go hire people for half the amount and then you give yourself a raise after it’s done for working so hard. And she goes,
Terry Etam
she
Jason Spiess
goes, yeah, I see that too. I said, well, yeah, that’s what’s been going on for a long time. What I’m, what I was just gonna look up is Neil, how are you familiar with Neil? How?
Terry Etam
So
Jason Spiess
he’s an author and I thought you might be because he wrote a book called the fourth turning an american prophecy and I interviewed this guy like 20 years ago or something like that and maybe 10 years ago. And it was fascinating because what he did is he tracked humans from the roman empire till today and we have four cycles. We go in every, it’s just, it’s like clockwork, we go, we’re consistent and yeah, and the one generation you go from is the lost generation, which we’re in right
now and then you go to the silent generation because there’s really only one way to do it and blah blah blah and nobody really knows how to do things anymore because people just came out of being lost and that’s kind of what I was gonna bring up to you, is that, you know, when I take a look at what’s happening, it just seems like a lot of these energy companies are really starting to just defined what that foundational money is or that foundational businesses like what cole happened to
cole because there’s still coal companies around their drilling or their their coal mining right in Bc Colombia, right by the coast. So they’re still happening. Um, but what they’re doing is they’re kind of controlling the industry a little bit more. And that’s what I see happening in the oil and gas industry. And now, when I see Tech companies laying off enough people to actually become percentages, 8% of the staff, 15% of the staff nine, that’s a substantial amount of layoffs
happening and these are all thought workers. So these people are not manufacturing, I actually think this is where the next generation of energy workers are gonna come from is they’re going to go get re educated at a trade school and go do this energy transition because they have debt, they got student loans, they got mortgages, they got a car, they got whatever credit cards. So I think that’s kind of what’s happening. Yeah,
Terry Etam
well, the, the energy transition as an employment engine is unbelievable. Like there’s, I can’t even tell you the number of people I know working on energy transition stuff versus looking for oil and gas is like 100 to 1. It’s, it’s not even remotely close. There’s so many new companies being started. There’s, there’s guys, one of the guys that a good friend of mine who’s one of the um, he’s a fiercely capitalist, has no faith in the climate madness, alarmist stuff.
Uh, he went from being an oil field service guy now, he’s started a hydrogen company because that’s the way it’s going. So, um, and there are lots more like that, they’re like, well that’s where the growth is gonna be. So, uh, so there’s a lot of the oil patch is transitioning in a rational way, which is what I would have hoped all along anyways, if this was being handled properly.
This, the energy transition is a natural offshoot of the energy industry, it should be going hand in hand, It should be like uh, wrote an article about this recently too. Like this should be the most exciting time to be an energy ever. Like, it’s, you have this infrastructure based with a lot of money and a lot of, a lot of money these days especially, and and to start developing new things to make it work better to make it different.
Can you blend hydrogen in a natural gas pipeline, can you? All of these things? It’s just like so exciting and interesting. But it’s turned into this fight for survival because you gotta play defense, you gotta, you have to have a suit of armor on to go to work because everybody’s trying to kill you.
And it’s just, it’s absurd and it’s uh, I wish it would stop, but it won’t as long as we have the people we have that are running the show, but it’s where the boots on the ground are actually kind of morphing into a shape that’s gonna be useful. I think so,
Jason Spiess
yeah. Honestly, you know, we’re getting a little bit existential here because I think what we’re going into is a global economy. I think that they’re, you know, trying to make it so most of our prices are going to be very similar, at least by continent, if not by globe. It depends on if you’re ordering from amazon or alibaba, I guess ali baba, depending on how you would like to pronounce it.
And oh no, and I was gonna say what I, I guess what I see coming is a is a four tiered solution, I guess to where and I don’t know how it’s gonna play out, but this is how I see it happening. They’re gonna go and like take an apartment or take a house or whatever it is, right? So you’ll have one crew that will go in and demolish it, and then you’ll have another crew come in and recycle it.
And then you’ll have another crew come in and build these new energy efficient homes that spy on you, because remember they’re all gonna spy on you, they’re gonna control your temperature and they’re gonna spy on you. Maybe not all the time just when they need to and then, and this is the most important one. The cheerleading team is gonna come in with a bunch of people to tell you how great it is to tell you how to think and how you feel and if you decide that you don’t like that, well,
it’s not gonna go well for you. And so it’s just honestly, I think that’s gonna be the, probably the next 50 years across the planet is going to be some form of that four tiered system in the economy. I think so.
Terry Etam
Uh Well, it’s interesting. It’s uh, it’s certainly plausible. I think that a little bit of a different angle, but just maybe get to the same point is that if you look at the global broad strokes over the past 30 40 years, like there’s the the West had wealth and they bought more and more crap, which we outsourced to countries that had cheap labor and resources and, and increasingly over time they weren’t scared of the environmental penalty penalty of processing raw materials and
making raw rare earths and whatever else, which is why china has such horrific environmental issues in Russia and other places like that. And so but that’s changing now, right? Those those countries are no longer the cheap labor pit and they know long are willing to play by the same games and they own all the processing technology for minerals and raw materials or whatever.
They’re still voracious consumers of energy and everything else. They have so many people there. But the West is going to go through something I think like you’re saying, and maybe that becomes more balanced globally to is the I don’t think china and India I think that the the global elites that make the big high level decisions and point us in different directions. I do think there’s some truth to that.
They do not want to see china and India and africa live like we do in the West here, they will grow to some degree of success to that. But I think the West will be brought down from, there’s I think you’re right, I think that we’re gonna be monitored for our carbon footprint and how much we can travel and what kind of food we eat and everything else.
Jason Spiess
How old are your, how old are your kids?
Terry Etam
15 and 17.
Jason Spiess
So okay, same age as mine, mine 17, you’ll be uh well I’ll be 17 in April I guess. And you know, so I’m I’m around a lot of you know, kids, a lot of high school kids and junior high kids and college kids just at his, you know, he’s in wrestling for example, he was in Pokemon for a while. So I listen to a lot of what is going on and it’s hard for the average person to understand that.
But you do because you’re a writer and other writers understand what it means to listen. You’re you’re always listening, even when you’re not because it’s the way your mind is wired. You’re always looking for a good story, you know, you’re always looking for. Yeah, puzzle to solve what’s a fun angle. It’s it’s entertainment, whatever, you
Terry Etam
know,
Jason Spiess
and I’ve been noticing this for a while, especially with the kids to where they’re really connecting with this E. S. G. In this climate change, this environmental movement because they’re all tied together. And how is E. S. G. Accepted in your country with the youth because here, I’m not kidding you, my meeting, I just came from the 77 year old person in that meeting asked me is E.
- G. Replacing religion. And I’ve been trying to explain that for four years that I think this whole climate change movement is replacing religion. They’re doing it through the original sin, The garden of Eden, look at us. We’ve destroyed. We have to, you know, a tone and repent and all this stuff and only they have the answer type of a thing. People think I’m crazy not the 77 year old guy that heard about E.
- G. For the first time. He thought he just he brought it up on his own. And so um what how are you guys viewing it? Do you think it’s kind of as a replacement for religion for the youth? Do you think it’s just an actual way? Like a credit score? Only two. Alright. We’re just gonna judge your finance loans based on this. How are you guys viewing GSG up there?
Terry Etam
Well I think there’s a pathway where the kids, I don’t know what they trust anymore and and they know what they have to do to get good marks. I was helping my my son with social studies, we call it what you call it down there, but just civic events and how society works and whatnot. And it’s full of what you’re talking about and and there there certainly good aspects to it.
Like you have to preserve the environment and you have to whatever without getting too far into the dogma. But that whole E. S. G. And climate thing like you’re saying, I think that they do believe it because it’s just view there’s a view that it’s unacceptable to think any other way and it’s not even really uh handed them at the same time. My daughter did learn something about fossil fuels in school, that they’re the usefulness of them.
But I think maybe that’s just because we’re in oil and gas town, I’m not sure. But I think as kids and people get more urbanized, they get farther away from where things come from. So I think the youth are going to hit this point where they go, wait a minute. This doesn’t work. Like you guys have been saying this forever and maybe it’s just the generational distrust of the adults before them, but they’re being told that wind and solar can take over and that they’re the cheapest form of
energy and that they’re coming and everything else is on the way out. And, and there’s so much science in quotation marks backing that up, that they’re like, well, I guess that’s true. And, and then I think the issue gets to be when they get up into decision making, uh, years, that they realize that this isn’t quite what they sold us, but maybe that’s nothing new.
Maybe every, every generation is kind of like that where they have to realize that the previous generation was operating in a way that, that, um, there was some reasons for it to be that way, that you can’t just throw everything out. And I think the sixties generation is a little bit comparable where there was a rebellion everywhere. And then, um, before my time a little bit, but there was, that was the state of the protests everywhere and whatever else, those people turned into
suburban parents and they’re like, yeah, whatever. I got to get the kids to school. So there’s, um, I think that that will happen with this generation too and you, and everyone is ideal for a lot of people are idealistic when they’re young and you see that in universities, a lot of colleges where it’s very idealistic places, people are doing the roads as an adult for the first time and they want the world to be a better place and it’s, that’s a great thing.
And then at some point there’s a lot of that inertia of reality that catches up with them. So the youth of today are different. Um, I don’t think the people talk about the rate of change and I just don’t see that the talk to somebody who’s 100 years old now that has changed. They’ve had a lifetime that has changed in an unbelievable way. If you talk to somebody who’s 18 changed to them is using an iPhone 14 versus the iPad they grew up with and it’s, there’s new apps and there’s new,
whatever. But it’s this, it’s, I would argue it’s more stagnant than what the previous generations have gone through. Talk to your grandparents and what did they do when they were a kid or they saw automobiles for the first time or whatever, uh, that’s changed. Um, and, and kids now like a five year old kid, even Children that aren’t well off have been on planes and flown around the world and you know what that’s like they know at an airport is like they know all of this stuff and, and
uh, so there’s there’s sort of a steady state and I think that the big arc of change to me is the fact that wait a minute this way that we live is really hard to duplicate for eight billion people. It wasn’t that hard when it was just some countries and we could go wherever we want and need more copper. Let’s go to peru kind of deal with the government.
We got more copper. Oh we’re out of whatever zinc there, we’ll go over here, we need oil and gas will talk to Guyana that that those days are drawing to a close I think. But at the same time the demands of that bigger slice of the world are increasing. The average citizen of India 1.3 billion people and we forget that just how big those countries are china.
2.5 billion people between the two of them africa is 1.2 billion people and they’re all going, we’re not sure we’re gonna listen to you guys. We got our own trajectory here mapped out. Um, and so I think we kind of get lost and what we see as the world because we’re used to defining it culturally and everybody wants to be an american or Canadian poor second choice if you can’t get into the U.
- You come to Canada. Uh, but, but we’ve been kind of the way we view ourselves as the gold standard of where everybody wants to be in the way to live with some justification. We have better health care, we have um, transportation, we have cars, we have dynamic economic engines here. And so that has been the role model for the world, the people that want to develop that way.
So, but as they go up that path and we tell them they can’t. I think that’s a big problem too that this generation is gonna have to to deal with. When they say here’s how the world should live and the rest of the world says, I don’t think so. … Well
Jason Spiess
If your child is so special that they are one in a million, then there’s what, 1300 of you in China, 1200 of you in India.
Terry Etam
Well,
Jason Spiess
I saw that once on a video and I went, boy that that is the best way to tell a parent their child is not special. If your child’s one in a million. Well, there’s 1200 of them and in uh, china and India. So that’s good luck. What do they, what do they say? China has more honor students than America has students. This was back in 2010. Yeah. Oh yeah, there’s a, there was a video circulating around 5 4010 just explaining what happened to England in the 19 hundreds and it just said okay guess
this country world economic power blah blah all these bitch things. And it’s it’s said England in 1900. And then it just talked about the shift that’s coming with china on how America has been resting on its laurels and china has just been working overtime. And then the end of the video it’s called shift happens S. H. I. F. T. Shift happens. Yeah.
And there’s even a revised one. But it just kind of goes through a bunch of stats and explains the different things. If you really want to blow your mind, we have just a couple of minutes left. Um there’s a video called Prometheus I believe it’s called and it just goes in the future of media And it talks about how eventually copyrights are gonna go away and all these different things. And um it’s been pretty accurate now.
It’s been out for about 20 years and it started during the blog revolution. And and I think they’ve updated a couple times just uh you know, put in the iPad instead of the iPod, you know just to update a few of those things that have changed. But for the most part the plot yeah it’s been been going so and you can see where copyrights are now going to go away with this ai software.
Terry Etam
Yeah. And that’s bad for Art as well. I feel bad for artists and writers.
Jason Spiess
Yeah. …
Terry Etam
For
Jason Spiess
schools are going to change, art’s gonna change creativity is gonna change the first time I saw it. I saw immediately how powerful it was. I knew I had to adapt,
Terry Etam
I
Jason Spiess
knew I could not fight it and so I’ve been figuring out a way to incorporate it into my life and it’s just I have it basically just that’s kind of a writing assistant right now. I used to actually ai quite a bit actually um now that I know how to do it. So um anyway, but uh real quick, how can people get in touch with you? I’m taking a look. We only got a couple of minutes left. So how can people give you some business?
Terry Etam
Oh sure. Well I write every week or every couple of weeks at b OE report these days. That’s mostly where I keep busy bot report dot com. And they can find my articles there under uh columns and um my email address at the bottom of every one of them. Uh so they can reach me directly by email or just buy my book if they don’t want to listen to me or write me an email and uh Yeah, here what? Canadian Wind sounds like …
Jason Spiess
Gordon Lightfoot. Canadian wind. Alright, okay
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Former University of Wyoming PhD student Mike Curran, Abnova Ecological Solutions, joined Jason Spiess to discuss innovation in energy reclamation.
Curran examined 28 reclaimed well pads in the two Green River basin gas fields from 2015 to 2017. The first study, focused on the Anticline, found a surge of bug numbers and families where native grasses were planted on reclaimed well pad ground — and even greater gains where Rocky Mountain bee plant was seeded.
A subsequent study, examining infill drilling sites on the more southerly Jonah Field, suggests that native, flowering vegetation planted on rehabilitated ground provided nodes of seasonal habitat for pollinator insects that were well occupied relative to undeveloped sagebrush.
Abnova Ecological Solutions is owned and operated by Ecologist, Dr. Michael Curran. Dr. Curran is a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) and received both the top M.S. and top Ph.D. Student Award in the country by the American Society of Reclamation Sciences upon completing his graduate degrees.
He developed techniques to improve reclamation & restoration monitoring which not only improve data quality, but also reduce field time by 10-40x (depending on if handheld or drone imagery is used). He also pioneered the use of spatially-explicit dashboards to rapidly report reclamation monitoring results, allowing for informed decision making and easy-to-interpret data.
Dr. Curran worked with 26 oil & gas companies in reporting reclamation and restoration data to the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Conservation Efforts Database prior to the 2015 Endangered Species Act listing decision of the Greater sage-grouse and was acknowledged by the USFWS for the importance of his contributions. He has experience transitioning the reclamation monitoring and reporting techniques he developed to conservation bank monitoring.
Dr. Curran has experience developing reclamation plans which go beyond satisfying regulatory criteria towards restoring food webs and creating pollinator and wildlife habitat. Aside from holding a PhD in Ecology, Dr. Curran has a Master’s degree in Rangeland Ecology & Watershed Management and a Graduate Minor in Statistics.
Prior to graduate school, Dr. Curran worked in documentary video with experience covering social and environmental issues. After graduate school, he took a post-doc research position in Mississippi studying how drones can be used to monitor wildlife and then worked at a large plant nursery in New Jersey, growing and selling native plants to restore ecosystem services in suburban landscapes. Dr. Curran has given workshops or been a presenter at over 65 conferences or symposia throughout the United States and Canada.
He is Editor of Reclamation Matters, and Associate Editor for Natural Areas Journal and Reclamation Sciences. Dr. Curran has been an ocean lifeguard since 2002 and is a member of the Southern Monmouth After-Hours Rescue Team (S.M.A.R.T.) for open water emergencies.
Below is the raw, unedited transcript from our artificial intelligence translator.
Jason Spiess
Alright, let’s talk a little bit about ecological solutions in oil and gas and energy. How is it that you know with the crude life will start there with the crude life. How is it that your product your company is involved with oil and gas. But first you know you better at least give an overview of what your company does more. The elevator pitch. We’ll get into some of the uh specifics as the interview goes, but describe your company and how it inter relates with oil and gas.
Michael Curran
Yeah, Abnova Ecological Solutions is a general ecology solution company. I focused mainly on reclamation and restoration and a lot of habitat conservation and things like that. We have a broad background in anything from data management, geographic information science services to real ecological science. I do most of the operations and have a PhD in ecology from the University of Wyoming.
During my time there I worked with 26 oil and gas companies to develop a large database system tracking reclamation and restoration efforts, things like seed mixes, herbicide applications and so on and so forth as well as their outcomes. With that I’ve pioneered several techniques to monitor reclaim sites using cell phones or handheld cameras, or using drones. All interrelated with mapping tools.
And then really one of the other things I specialize in is developing seed mixes and soil amendments and reclamation plans. And then more recently I’ve gotten into just tracking how the ecosystem services respond to these efforts. And with that I think there’s definitely a lot of benefit that these oil and gas companies can have when they’re doing really large reclamation jobs.
Jason Spiess
What are some of the things that you saw positive come out of this?
Michael Curran
Yeah. So one of the recent studies are two of the recent studies that were published in 2022 were related to how insects respond to oil and gas development and subsequent reclamation. We were utilizing seed mixes with an early seral species called Rocky Mountain bee plant. That’s a native annual flower that typically not used because companies haven’t gotten bond release from using annual species, they don’t use them.
What we find with that species specifically is it does a really good job at competing with the invasive and noxious weeds in in Wyoming. So actually companies, by utilizing that species are gonna be saving money in their reclamation plan by reducing herbicide costs and so on and so forth. It really started being used as that.
So there’s that whole major benefit. It competes with noxious and invasive weeds. It grows taller than the native sage brush. It’ll retain moisture in the first year to provide evaporation, transpiration benefits and shade benefits for other later seral species. So allows the perennial stuff and those seed mixes to kind of come in and two or three years after initial seeding while that native plant drops out of the mix.
Yeah well within, you know, maybe 5 to 7 years we’re actually starting to see soil carbon at the same levels or higher than what it was previously or compared to adjacent reference systems. So there’s all those benefits. And then I really wanted to look at what what’s going on with the insect world. And the reason for that is insects are you know, part of the animal kingdom and they are wildlife.
But really insects provide more ecosystem services than any other form of wildlife. They’re the foundation for terrestrial food webs with 96% or more of terrestrial bird species utilizing insects as their primary source of protein, especially at the chick stage. Insects also provide the vast majority of pollinator services on earth.
And that’s definitely one of the most important parts of a restoration or reclamation program is bringing pollinators in that can help with reproduction of the plants that you just seeded so that they can set seed and you can have a self-perpetuating community. And then they do a whole bunch of other things like, you know, obviously a huge source of biodiversity. They do a lot for nutrient cycling, bio control and things of that sort.
So in this instance um and it’s pretty common to actually use insects as indicators of ecosystem functionality in both aquatic and terrestrial systems. But yeah in this instance if we were looking at insect biodiversity insect abundance it looks as though the these reclaimed well pad locations are very much so higher functioning ecosystems then what they were before or what the surrounding vegetation communities are.
Jason Spiess
Now when we’re talking about you know some of the things that they can improve some of the things that you may have uh noticed that you’re gonna be working on or are currently working on when it comes to reclamation. We’re talking about being proactive here. Uh What areas of proactive nous or in a proactive nature are you seen that either your company can bring to the table or you know maybe it’s a different company maybe it’s you know something in you know outside of the seed in
ecological maybe it’s something in the I. T. World that can be brought into the fold. Um What are you seeing in terms of being proactive or the industry could be more proactive because this is an area that it never seems that you can be proactive enough.
Michael Curran
Yeah so a lot of this comes from the planning stages and I think companies are getting a lot more proactive and where they’re siting their disturbances. So where they’re placing their well pads, how their routing their pipelines. You know there’s been a ton of work there a lot of that comes down to just simple G. I. S. Exercises.
My company could definitely help with a lot of it. You know these companies are working with government agencies, with NGOs, where to put their pads and where to put their disturbances. So that’s probably the first step of it. Um The second thing is I think up until you know maybe seven or eight years ago when the greater sage-grouse really became this is in you know the Rocky mountain states where the sage grouse became uh the species of concern for endangered species listing reclamation had typically been to control erosion and to prevent weeds. Now it’s I think moving towards reclaiming and restoring wildlife habitat. So yeah companies definitely when they are siting their locations, minimizing their soil disturbances, handling soil properly, are huge steps. Working with someone to help tailor their seed mixes rather than just you know call a seed company and get the reclamation 101 mix putting a ittle bit of effort in the up-front there can go a long way not only in cost savings but in an output and in providing benefits to wildlife and other ecosystem services. So there’s a lot there. One of the things that I’ve got really into is that monitoring and developed ways to monitor these sites that were with handheld devices typically about 10 times faster than traditional techniques. And providing really good spatial information. In 2020 I started doing stuff with drones actually in 2018 and 2019. I published the first paper to look at how to use drones to monitor reclamation in 2020 where we’re about 40-45 times faster than traditional methods. Why does that become proactive? Because it’s actually giving these companies a fast way to capture information out in the field. And then I’ve pioneered the use of spatially explicit dashboards for all of this stuff. So these companies can get either real time, close to real time, or much more rapid reports and decision making tools and they’ve previously gotten. So yeah, with that for example, one of the companies out in Wyoming is saving on an annual basis, about $135k, a year. Just in making better decisions on where and when to spray herbicide. So that that kind of all leads to a domino effect of saving money reducing your herbicide spray but you’re also making better decisions as to where to spray it, in turn reducing the amount of chemicals you’re putting out, probably having direct benefits to pollinators and other species that are harmed by chemicals, and getting much more better results from the reclamation and restoration.
Jason Spiess
All right talk to me like I’m a ceo talk to me like I’m a decision maker. I’m a legislative body member, politician, nonprofit in charge of helping reclamation. You know, those types. Um, why why is it that you are bringing a solution to the, you know, the table, so to speak? Um, you know, and, and basically if you had an elevator pitch of five floors, six floors, you know, a couple of minutes you had in an elevator with someone, how would you convince a lobbyist or a state legislature that,
you know, you are part of the solution? Because I gotta be honest, man, everybody seems to be coming forward with a new idea to help with the environment that there’s a lot of noise out there, if you know what I mean?
Michael Curran
Sure. Yeah. So we’re in the, what the United Nations is calling the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which is 2021 to 2030 saying we’ve got to do a whole lot on restoring ecosystems in this next decade to reverse things like biodiversity loss, to help with climate change, and so on and so forth. Oil and gas provide very tangible benefits that that we need to use, especially with growing populations.
So as more extraction happens, more surface disturbances are occurring, it doesn’t make sense for oil and gas to not be part of the solution. And in many instances I think we can look at oil and gas is analogous to natural disturbances, maybe like a wildfire or things like that, that really kind of can reset or rejuvenate native ecosystems.
So I think if we look at it that way and put the right resources in, we can have huge benefits. And because of the amount of surface disturbance there is out there associated with oil and gas, it doesn’t make sense not to be part of the solution.
Jason Spiess
So let’s talk a little bit about, you know, what it is that you do for, you know, what’s next. So let’s say somebody engages with your service talk about, you know, the first week. What happens?
Michael Curran
Yeah, so I’ll work with companies on just kind of assessing what their disturbance looks like, where they’re at, where they’ve been, how I can help them make better decisions, what they’ve got kind of coming up the the pipeline, what disturbances are gonna be done in the next year or so, or where they’ve been seeing failures and I’ll work with them specifically how to address that.
And then, from there, we’lllook at things like what wildlife are utilizing these areas, what kind of problems do you have in these areas. How can we work together um Right from the get go to minimize our impact. And yeah a lot of this stuff we can build out a good reclamation plan from the beginning that’s gonna save a ton of time and money over the life cycle of maybe a well pad or a pipeline. If we can get it right from day one, we’re gonna be saving tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on redoing soil work, redoing or having to apply herbicides, and things like that. So oftentimes what I’m looking at is where our companies at and what some of their goals are um what their practices have been and then and working on solving the big problems that they have and then just streamlining the way their whole operations can work.
Jason Spiess
Now you’re in Cheyenne, Wyoming, University of Wyoming is where you got your education um This uh study on the bees and some of that different thing that was out of Wyoming correct. That was where you did your work.
Michael Curran
Yes. One of the studies that was published in April 2022 was in the Pinedale Anticline Gas Field. And then a more recent study came from the Jonah Field. So just south of Pinedale.
Jason Spiess
Okay now I was gonna ask you now do you do business in any other states or is it just primarily Wyoming or are you looking to branch out and uh other areas now that the studies done. Talk to me a little bit about your current business and your aspirations.
Michael Curran
Yeah. So I actually have a few clients in Colorado, now oil and gas wise, I’m also talking to some folks in Texas. and then I, yeah, I do other ecology work working with some pipeline companies out in the Appalachian world, Pennsylvania, Ohio and a lot of this stuff I I can take just general ecology principles and I think transfer them across the board. But yeah, right now I’m focused kind of in the Rocky Mountains.
I’m starting to branch out into Appalachia a little bit. And then, yeah, I also work with different types of disturbances. I do a lot of work with abandoned mines out in Wyoming and yeah, out east more kind of coastal resilience and coastal habitat restoration type of stuff. So I’m pretty broad and right now oil and gas work in the Rocky Mountains is expanding.
Jason Spiess
What’s the takeaway from this interview? What do you want people to take away from this? …
Michael Curran
Yeah, I’d say … if you look at a lot of what’s on the news almost every day, I’ll read something about pollinator decline or extinction or the sixth extinction coming, or climate change. All this stuff. I think that ecological restoration is going to be increasingly important tool to combat or to mitigate a lot of these global environmental threats that we hear about all the time. And yeah, the stuff that I showed in Pinedale and in the Jonah field, I mean we found 22 times more insects and pollinators just by doing a good job getting native plants growing back on these disturbed sites. So yeah, I think if we put some thought into this and do it right that the oil and gas industry can really do a good job helping solve some of these environmental problems. And yeah, I’m looking forward to working with more and more companies as there’s more and more of a push for that to happen.
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The Executive Coach to Real Life Rock Stars and host of The Energy Detox Podcast, Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, helps host Jason Spiess through a series of failures. Sinnott and Spiess discuss how someone can stop the downward spiral that can happen so easily after the start of a New Year.
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Alright, let’s head over to the Zoom line where we have the executive coach for the real life rock stars, Joe Sinnott of course, real life rock stars a lot of times are geologists and Joe Sinnott makes a good portion of his living, being an executive coach to those individuals, petroleum geologists of course across C Suite Usa.
And also even some small businesses from time to time that need a little bit of a rock star treatment. So Joe, how you doing today of winning partners and the energy detox podcast, I’m
Joe Sinnott
doing just fine, Jason. How are you today?
Jason Spiess
Not too bad. I was gonna try to get your intro done and under one sentence, but that’s impossible when you’re as busy as a man like yourself. So how’s things going out on the east coast there? You’re not quite on the East coast, but you’re out on the eastern side of the United States. Pittsburgh pennsylvania area, of course, home of the Marcellus Utica and Appalachian basin, is that right? Sure
Joe Sinnott
you can use those all interchangeably. The moral the story is, yeah, we produce a lot of gas from a lot of different layers of the earth. Again, we’ll tie back to the geologists who can actually explain that in better detail than I can. But yeah, here in Pittsburgh, although I am from the true east coast though, Jason. So I know sometimes, you know, it’s all relative right. People will lump all of pennsylvania and forgetting that it’s, you know, 300 plus miles wide.
But you know, I am from New Jersey. So uh in the shadow of what used to be Giants Stadium. So I know the Giants are coming off of their, their nice big victory this weekend, uh, upset victory over the Vikings. So I won’t ask you how you’re doing after that loss. But I do need to make a nod to my east coast roots if you will.
Jason Spiess
I think a lot of people not to talk football here, but you know, of course I’m, I was born in Minneapolis and um, I’ve been a Washington Redskins commanders fan my entire life since I was four years old because I was, I always liked to play the indians in cowboys and indians, which is now native americans. And my friend Murray Proust who lived down the block at age four would like to play the cap guns, cowboys.
So I preferred the bow and arrow. He preferred the cap guns. One thanksgiving when I was four years old, the cowboys vs Redskins was on tv and I picked the Redskins ever since. It’s been a hard daniel Snyder a couple of decades. Let’s just put it that way. I follow the Redskins now the commanders, but being around Minnesota of course by osmosis, working in the media, I have to follow the Vikings or I’ll get escorted right out of the state and that by the way, the state is a regional area,
not the drunken scan ease over in Wisconsin. No, no, we don’t, The packers. I have their own fans, We have our fans here. And uh, it’s interesting in the bacon in north Dakota. Half of them are Denver bronco fans and then the other half are Minnesota Vikings fans. You got one or two Seattle fans because we’re kind of the gateway to the west. But yeah, both of my predictions san Diego chargers, Minnesota Vikings.
I made impromptu lee. They got ousted in the first round. A couple of uh, upsets I guess because the chargers had that game wrapped up and they found every way to lose that game, which brings me Joe Sinnott to what I want to ask you about today. I’m a failure. I’ve failed already. My New Year’s resolutions. I failed in some businesses that I’ve had to kind of shut down in the last year and reinvent redo and everything else. I’ve even failed in my family in some ways, you know, because I’m
not quite bringing in the income that I once brought in before as the inflation prices are going up. So I gotta be honest, I’m getting a little bit finger pointing at me around the household Joe, how do I get out of this failure spiral that I seem to be a mr rock star. How’s that for a monday morning question for you coming off of a couple of, hey, my gambling picks are gone. I don’t have that money coming in, Joe.
Joe Sinnott
Oh boy, I thought we were gonna talk sports for 20 or 30 minutes. We got we got a little bit deeper there, Jason. But I guess the bigger question, when you know that you’re not the first person to oppose that right is how do I overcome failure, Lost? Whatever it’s, you know, what your ultimate goals, what are you, what are you driving towards? Right.
A lot of people get caught up, especially this time of year, right? You know, we’re on the heels of a new year, still a couple of weeks in and and it’s easy to get down, right? So by now, I would have expected to do X, Y, Z. Or or I’m failing in whatever it is. And I said, well, all right, well, you know, what is your ultimate destination? Right? Let’s not get caught up in the minutia.
And I know some of the Minutia can feel big, right? When people, you know, screw up in a job or have some family issue or. Yeah, but their life savings on the Vikings and you know, who go on to lose whatever the case is. But at the end of the day, it’s sort of a well, so what does that really matter in the grand scheme of things? So, I think that’s the that’s the first answer, Jason, we will dive as deep as we want to on this, this conversation, but that’s that’s really the first response is, do
you you have a sense of what you’re ultimately after, because if you don’t, you fall into the trap that a lot of the folks that work with fall into which is getting caught up on relatively intermediate things, not necessarily unimportant, but things that might not be as important as you think they are in terms of getting
towards your ultimate goal. So when you talk, you talk a little bit about finances, about business, about family, you know, what is your ultimate vision for all of those things?
Jason Spiess
So it’s interesting you bring that up because I don’t know if we’ve talked about this before, but you and I of course we have talked about by cancer survival and a few of my family things. So one thing about this uh podcast or interview or whatever you wanna call it, we tend to get somewhat personal and family oriented because quite honestly if you have a car payment or you have a mortgage or you have insurance or you have a student loan, you are a small business because you need to cash
flow your life now, you might not be, you know, Microsoft or you might not be dixie donuts, but you’re still a small business in this grand scheme of cash flow. And when I took a look at, when I became a single father and I got full custody of the child when the mother was living a couple 1000 miles away and I thought I had cancer, I really had to redo my priorities.
So I actually sat down and wrote down a list Joe number one, my son’s health and well being number two, my relationship with my son number three my health and number four my job is very difficult to live in a world where your job is your fourth priority when most people view you and label you and even base your reputation on your job, Joe. That’s a tough thing to be in nowadays when you want to be a family or you want to try to survive or you want to just try to reinvent your life.
There’s a lot of people trying to reinvent their life right now and it’s hard to stop that rollercoaster. It’s hard to stop that mary ground if you will. So it’s my question to you is that um in a world that bases so much image and and success based on your occupation and job.
How are those people who are gonna try to focus on their family and their health and some of those non career type things? How do you navigate through that? That’s a really hard question. And by the way, there’s really no right answer on this.
Joe Sinnott
Well, well, first of all, you’re right, there is no, certainly there’s no universal answer, but the question well, and and keep this in mind, of course, Jason, you know, I mean the job of asking questions. So I don’t purport to have answers. I’m not coming into companies are working with individuals, you know, as a a true consultant or advisor.
Jason Spiess
My job
Joe Sinnott
is to ask questions, sometimes dumb questions
Jason Spiess
and
Joe Sinnott
that, you know, my response
Jason Spiess
to your
Joe Sinnott
question to me is basically, hey, is that fourth priority? Is your job whatever happens to be? Is it
Jason Spiess
really an
Joe Sinnott
end goal or again, is it
Jason Spiess
intermediate?
Joe Sinnott
So case in point a lot of people I work with when you really get into the weeds, it’s, well, no, I mean at the end of the day, you know, I do see my job as a means to supporting my family or to making the world a better place or to, you know, having enough money or extra money to be able to make a difference in the community or, you know, to support my church or whatever the case is.
And again, when you, when you frame it that way, it can just change how people view that job, view that role. And in some cases, in many cases it helps them actually do better at their job, right? Helps them become more focused and all. You know, again, like you said, we’ll, we’ll dive into the personal here quite often in these conversations and even in my own life, it’s easy to say, hey, you know, how many ways are my kids holding me back, right?
You know, all the time and the energy and everything else, You know, how much more successful would I be if it weren’t for my kids. And then it’s just, you know, you realize how silly the thought is because it’s, you know what, I don’t think I would be as successful as I am if it weren’t for my kids and my wife and having that motivation and having that focus and saying, you know, this is why I’m doing what I’m doing and again, everybody’s different, everybody’s wired differently, but
that’s what you need to get after. That’s, you know, that it’s that end goal is that ultimate purpose. I’ll throw another example out there again, it’s New Year’s. I’ve had multiple conversations with people about New Year’s resolutions and things like that, and a lot of people, right? You know, they want to be healthy, they want to go to the gym, they wanna exercise, they want to eat right?
All of those things, you say, well, why it’s just to be healthy and people might stop there and say, yeah, but ultimately, at least, you know, let’s say this is for me and it’s for other people. Why do you want to be healthy? Well, in your case, Jason, So, you could be there for your son, right? I am sure that a big piece of surviving cancer, pushing through beating the odds was so that you could be there for your son.
Again, I don’t wanna make assumptions, I’ll turn it over to you, but that’s that’s what you gotta get after because then you view those perceived failures in, you know, not eating is healthy or quitting drinking or whatever the case is if you have them in a different light and sometimes it makes it easier anyway, I’ll stop there …
Jason Spiess
because what ends up happening is that you end up having, you know impact and a ripple and you know the DSG of supply chain if you will, you know, type of a thing because when I sat down and wrote down my list um those top three things that I had were so important to me because I I truly am a family first guy that when it came down to my job, like I said, it was like I didn’t even think of that until I was on number four, I went, oh I suppose I should put my job in there because I need to figure out a way
to sustain those top three priorities I have of my son’s mental and and physical well being, my son and my relationship and my my health and so when I looked at that, I thought I got a fund that somehow because I just wasted most of my money fighting the medical industry and all these other things. And so when you have other things going on in your life, like when I went a year without sugar, that was a full time job Joe, I gotta tell you, I went a year without coffee.
And I thought that was hard when I went a year without sugar, I think I could have climbed mount Everest and that would have been easier than going a year without sugar. It is in everything man. I tell you pretty soon all I was eating was salad with a crushed lemon over it because everything’s got sugar in it. So that’s my point is that when you try to reinvent you somehow don’t understand how there’s some unexpected consequences and time sucks and just new experiences.
So whether it’s a job or whether it’s trying to fight cancer or trying to navigate through being a single parent, life changes and when life changes, it’s hard to really budget time. What type of advice would you have for somebody like it’s a job, somebody fighting health reasons, somebody going through a custody battle, whatever their
whatever their challenge in life is. How do you uh kind of guide them through that time because honestly we all have the same amount of time and it all comes down to choices.
Joe Sinnott
Yeah. Well the first step and again this is about as simple as it gets. But it’s necessary is to write out those 168 hours that everybody has in a given week, write it out. Take some of those themes that you just described, right? Those those big buckets, you know, time for your son, you know, time for work, you know, time for yourself, exercise all those things, identify those handful of themes and then
Jason Spiess
schedule
Joe Sinnott
them out and this exercise and again I do this a lot with individuals, I do this a lot with companies, you can call it, uh you know, some people will call it the ideal week, which again there’s, there’s a lot of different self help gurus out there that have some version of it, but the idea is simple, Jason schedule out what your week would look like ideally now we all know as you just said, things are always gonna pop up, you know, it’s almost laughable, especially working in the energy
industry to talk about an ideal week because things are always you know going amiss or wrong or whatever, there’s constantly fires to fight, but do you at least have a starting
Jason Spiess
point, do
Joe Sinnott
you at least have what things would look like if you can control everything, how many hours would you sleep? When would you sleep? When would you
Jason Spiess
eat? When
Joe Sinnott
would you have some time to yourself? When would you exercise if you’re talking from a business standpoint, what days, what times of each day or best to connect with your team to have those, you know, employees sit down, what days are best to do the menial tasks, the accounting type stuff. Again, actually sitting down and saying, well what would this look like first and then going back through and making decisions and adjusting and layering in reality, a lot of people get
overwhelmed Jason because you know, life can be overwhelming, but they don’t even know what the, you know what the ideal would be, how the heck do you ever even intend to approach an ideal situation life whatever, if you don’t even know what that looks like. So that’s the first thing that I do with a lot of people is getting that out there and actually understanding what those buckets are and then trying to layer them in
Jason Spiess
when it comes to the specifically the energy industry, it’s um there’s a lot of uncertainty no matter where you go and even in the in the boardroom because it’s it’s very difficult to go against the grain during these times because a lot of people are concerned about, if they say the wrong thing, they might lose their job or get laid off because you can’t turn on the news without hearing about layoffs these days and increased prices and so there’s kind of this walking on eggshells
type of thing happening right now across, I I would say small business and corporate business, it just seems like it’s there, you can feel the energy, you can listen in and in the words that people are describing, if you listen close enough talk to me a little bit about how to kind of navigate through that because a lot of people are trying to avoid writing down those lists that you and I just talked about, they want to keep their job, they don’t want to reinvent themselves.
So this is kind of a new type of failure, this is failure prevention Joe, this is, this is, I guess this is where that goes. But talk to me a little bit about what’s going on in the, in the boardrooms and in the C suite executives and even some of the small businesses where there’s a little bit of eggshells either from saying the wrong thing, making the wrong move, do we change our name from this to energy? You know, if you notice a lot of oil and gas companies are called energy companies
now. So there are changes happening In some areas, major changes in other areas, they won’t budge. In fact, right now, I just Gotta press release. Wyoming introduces bill to phase out electric vehicles by 2035. So there’s, there’s still some pushback and, and we’re not all on the same page yet. So, uh, talk to me about how to walk through those eggshells a little bit.
Joe Sinnott
Well, when I’m working with individuals and again, it could be at any level of the company, even, you know, the highest rung of a company many times has to report to of course, you know, either shareholders or board of directors or whatever the case is. So at any level of the company, the first step is similar to what we just talked about, Jason is identifying what the
ultimate purposes and then working backwards because a lot of the stuff that people get hung up on or that generate fear and have them again walking on eggshells. A lot of those
Jason Spiess
things don’t
Joe Sinnott
actually matter. You know, they know don’t affect the bottom line, but we live in such an age of distractions, especially with all of the E. S. G. Stuff and the net zero stuff where you know, things get a life of their own, they become seen as an end in and of themselves when the reality is, they’re not where they shouldn’t be.
Jason Spiess
So
Joe Sinnott
if you see that and that’s what’s generating maybe some of the fear that hey, I don’t really want to, you know, call a spade a spade here and say that this doesn’t make any sense. This does not help the company in the long run. If you’re in that position, the first step is determining whether you can ask, hey, how does this connect to the bottom line again? Whatever tactful way you want to do it, you know, how does this help us generate money to be bluntly
Jason Spiess
to
Joe Sinnott
be blunt. So that’s that’s that angle you want to take Jason is to slow down and try to connect whatever it is that you want to speak up about. Can you connect it to the ultimate goal to the bottom line. Can you ask questions that help other people see how disconnected certain actions and investments might be to the bottom line that again, I’m speaking sort of high level here, but that’s that’s the approach is identify where those connections are weak and in some cases if you’re
taking that approach, you might discover that the connections are there. So again, I don’t want to take this, hey, you know, just because you’re, you’re fearful. You don’t wanna speak up and you know, you’re right, Everybody else is wrong by taking that approach and saying, well how does this impact the bottom line? You might discover that it does, you might discover that some silly advertising campaign that you think is a complete waste of money.
You know, somebody has actually thought through it and has made the economic case and you walk away saying, well, cool, I’m glad I asked the questions and I didn’t go into this, you know, with some false sense that either, yeah, I need to light a fire under people and risk getting fired or whatever or keep my mouth shut. You can, you can kind of strike that balance there and start by asking questions. …
Jason Spiess
We talked about kind of that first step, you know, sitting down writing things down and just, you know, basically taking a step back and analyzing your life and and finding out your priorities and etcetera. Let’s talk about the specifics here for a second and let’s use something that is probably in your neck of the woods, a very hot topic right now, which is natural gas and stoves now we can get into the political side of things all day long, which is in the nineties and two
thousand’s, the government forced everybody to go into a natural gas furnace, they forced everybody to go to natural gas stoves, they did through credits and some cities, they flat out forced it. So the the government steered everybody into the natural gas world and now they’re trying to rip it out from them by going through the stoves and a number of different things.
I think there’s a study on asthma or something. It’s a it’s not a double blind study. It’s it’s a special interest study. And so that’s what I’ve seen in the news when you’re talking about marketing, when you’re talking about representing your company, when we talk about the world of social media, we’re getting in a world now where you can’t even buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks or black rifle without being shamed and trolled online.
That type of thing. Talk to me on that individual basis where, you know, your company might want you to represent them, but maybe you don’t want to be involved with the political nous of this type of thing. And so it becomes a very much a sticky wicket because as much as you want to represent your company, maybe it doesn’t really represent you.
And so in the world of social media where you’re expected to do certain things, this has become increasingly an issue because you know what it reminds me of Joe very similar to where if you wanted to get ahead, you have to go on the smoke break with the boss. And if you didn’t go on the smoke break with the boss, it didn’t seem like your ideas ever got hurt. We’re kind of getting into that intangible, You know, where it’s hard to really prove anything, but everybody knows what’s going on.
So I’m not sure if you follow me at all Joe on that. But I think that’s a little bit of a problem on the social media side and trying to advance your career and your personal side too. So we might be getting too far in the weeds here. I don’t know,
Joe Sinnott
I’m not afraid, I’m an engineer, Jason. I’m never afraid to dive into the weeds and overcomplicate things and get lost. That’s all, that’s all part of the, it’s all part of the brand if you will. Um, but in terms of promoting the brand perhaps, or a message that, that you don’t want to, or you’re not comfortable with the first thing. And again, none of these things are foolproof.
It’s all situational, which is why I like working one on one with folks. But the first thing is, you know, if you were asked to again promote something on social media or to go out and give a talk somewhere or whatever to wear some patch on your clothes that you don’t quite agree with, then the first thing is you can say, well, what are all the ways I could support this mission? You know, maybe you’re, you’re half on board.
You just don’t want to do it publicly for some reason. Whatever the case is, without having to get defensive, have that, have that question, right? You know, what are all the ways to do whatever the company wants you to do by going out there publicly and saying something or doing something or wearing something, you know, how else can I support this
Jason Spiess
mission? Which
Joe Sinnott
can do two things. One, you know, provide another avenue to use a smoke break example. You know, what are all the ways to connect with the boss that don’t require me breathing in something that I would argue is probably a little bit more harmful than, uh, you know, cooking eggs in the morning on your, you know, your natural gas stovetop, um, you know what are all the ways to connect with this person?
Well, you know, maybe he actually likes whiskey after work and you can, you know, go go join them for a drink after work. Whatever the heck the cases, right. It’s, that’s the first step again isn’t foolproof. Absolutely not Jason, but it’s a great way to, to ask an open ended question. That’s not gonna cause any harm, right?
You’re not coming out and saying no. That’s where a lot of people, they get clammed up, right? They think it’s a yes, no scenario. I’m asked to do something, I don’t want to do. I, you know the pressure, I gotta say yes. And if I say no, it could be a career limiting move. Who knows what’s gonna happen?
Jason Spiess
You can step
Joe Sinnott
back and say, all right,
Jason Spiess
good. What
Joe Sinnott
are all the different options here? What what are all the ways we can, we can have a win win here And a lot of people, especially in the energy industry, which is go, go, go. A lot of pressure, fast paced, all those things. It could be very difficult to stop breathe and take the time to ask that question. Which is again, why I love what I do because I’m, there is a lifeline.
I’m there to help, you know, people have this scenario, the wrestling with this, Give me a call and again, 30 seconds sometimes I can ask a question like that. And uh, I never thought about that Joe. So anyway, there’s the, there’s, there’s my attempt at answering what I think you were asking. Jason,
Jason Spiess
what’s going on out there in the marcellus utica Appalachian basin when it comes to natural gas and these, um, this kind of this new pr campaign against it. Are you hearing much out there? Is it? Uh, I always find it interesting because okay. Is the Susquehanna County, Is that how you pronounce it? … County is like the number one in the nation for natural gas and they’re like one of the top of the world even type of the thing and says little
county and all this natural gas comes out of there. And is the name of the company now or what are the companies that are primarily involved with the natural gas extraction?
Joe Sinnott
So Susquehanna is mostly Katara. And then when you move down to southwest P. A closer to where I’m located, that’s where you have E. Q. T. Is the biggest, the biggest natural gas producer in United States. So they are primarily focused down here in southwest P. A. Northern west Virginia. Also some in Eastern Ohio.
And then you’ve got the likes of range resources. Uh Cnx, another big one around here. Um, Antero mostly west Virginia. But again, another big player of course. So a lot of different players. But yeah, era is I believe still the biggest producer up there in Susquehanna County.
Jason Spiess
So it’s kind of like this where sometimes when you have a region that is basically powered by a certain industry, sometimes some of these conversations don’t make it in there. And I’ll give an example here in the midwest because we’re farming were farming all the time. And so farming was the number one industry for deaths in the United States for like 100 years.
But you could never report that You could never report the amount of subsidies farmers got around town. In fact the Fergus Falls newspaper tried it once in the 80s and lost 75% of their advertising within the next week. So no other newspaper tried to ever print subsidies to farmers ever again in this area. So, I mean, there’s certain conversations that just don’t make it because, you know, the people, they don’t want to hear it and that’s not a negative.
It’s just kind of the way it is. It’s just, you know, through a lack of different reasons for for better or worse. Is there any conversation going on out there with, um, you know, boots on the ground either at the cafes or at the executive level when it comes to this, this new kind of natural gas within the stoves and this kind of new rhetoric that seems to be making it through the media, Joe
Joe Sinnott
I don’t know what the cafe conversations look like, Jason, you know, certainly all of the big players, all the operators out here have pretty substantial community relations teams that are out there that are there making a difference that are trying to identify what actually matters to the communities, right? Not just coming in and assuming what the communities in which they operate actually need or want, but actually having those conversations so that, you know, they’re
making a direct impact. So that, you know, the the Bennett, if it’s the 2nd 3rd 4th degree benefits of natural gas development really do impact the people that are sitting in those cafes. I’m not part of those conversations necessarily, Jason, but I will say that, you know, one big thing here in Western P. A. That has been a hot topic over the last several years is the shell cracker plant.
So shell, you know, big behemoth shell, uh, they just started up a cracker plant. So making polyethylene, you know, the basically the feedstock for for plastics and lots of different things that can be manufactured with the elements that are produced from, you know, ethane and natural gas. And you know, sparing you all the details.
This is a multi billion dollar investment that shell made in this region that’s now up and running, that had lots of jobs that were involved in the creation of this plant and that there’s lots of jobs now that will continue. So, you know, that’s that’s been a real conversation here because there’s this
Jason Spiess
big
Joe Sinnott
behemoth of a facility here in Western P. A. That’s made an impact. It definitely was helped. Uh, it was spurred upon, if you will by some tax credits and things like that. So, yeah, that’s absolutely a conversation. It’s and it’s out there openly. I’ve seen lots of good balanced conversations about the benefits and the cons of incentivizing companies like Shell to come to this region.
You’re having those conversations now with all the hydrogen, uh, money that’s dangling out there from the federal government. So, you know, those conversations are real because you gotta put those facilities somewhere right? Jason. And the question is, well, what do they do? What’s the purpose of it? All this hydrogen stuff, you know, I think your average person, you know, what do they know about hydrogen, right myself included, Right?
It’s like, all right, well, you know, I know you got the hindenburg, that’s not a good thing, you know, I know that, you know, hydrogen molecular standpoint is in a lot of things, I think water has some hydrogen, but you know, your average person is saying, well, what’s the story with all these, these plan, they’re talking about in this new hydrogen economy?
What does that even mean? And I think, you know, the companies that are being proactive that are actually having these conversations now in those cafes are setting themselves up for success when, you know, some new infrastructure is inevitably put in place. So, again, maybe a long answer for somebody who’s not directly involved in these conversations, Jason, but I do see evidence of companies that are proactively getting out there and making sure that, you
know, once again, the, you know, the story isn’t hijacked from, you know, the those who are against development and progress and innovation and technology and all of those
Jason Spiess
things. So it’s not a shale company, it’s a shell. So its shell, right? Shell, the big behemoth, the top three oil company, not shell, Okay, I wrote that down wrong,
Joe Sinnott
the royal dutch, shell didn’t they do a little bit of uh, …
Jason Spiess
they did to just like, just like british petroleum they rebranded to? Um So and it’s not a cracker plant? So you’re not making crackers out their attacks? Okay, So it’s cracking it up. It’s not like cracking the crab legs. Okay. I just gotta make sure I get that down. So it’s not Triscuit crackers.
All right, so um and that’s actually kind of a big deal out there, that type of thing. How about the pipeline? Is there any advancements on either Dominion pipeline or maybe a new pipeline or just any activity out there when it comes to that? Sorry for the pop quiz here? Oh
Joe Sinnott
that’s fine. Well the answer, the answer when it comes to pipelines is no, no progress. The biggest one, the biggest story is M. V. P. Mountain Valley pipeline which is owned or or I guess its own whatever assets that might not be flowing, but there’s obviously there’s there’s a couple billion dollars of investments that are owned by a trans midstream here and that’s the one that has made the biggest, that’s the one that Senator Joe Manchin has been trying
to uh to save if you will or to push across the finish line. So, but no, you very easy answer to that question, Jason, no meaningful progress on pipelines here in Appalachia.
Jason Spiess
Alright, Joe Sinnott, the host of the energy detox podcast as well as the executive coach for the real life rock stars? One final question, one final question and what’s the best way for people to get in touch with you? Whether they want to ask some advice?
Maybe they want to just follow you on one of your social media sites, Maybe they want to check out your podcast or you know what, maybe they want to hire you for some business. How can somebody get in touch with you in a variety of different ways? Sure,
Joe Sinnott
well, linkedin is always one of the easier methods there. So, always happy to have a conversation on linkedin and you know, I’m fairly active there, so try to share uh some occasional helpful things based on the work that I do that I think might be somewhat universal or relevant to the my audience. Another good way is just heading on over to winning partners dot com, W I T T I N. G Partners. And from there again, you can find more information about what I do, how I do it, you can navigate
from there to the podcast, the energy detox, which you can also find on any of your favorite podcasting platforms or google or anywhere else. So all roads can lead some way shape or form to uh to the world of winning partners and the executive coaching that I do focus again on the energy industry
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Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 488.
Hunter Berg has a fantastic job these days. Finding students who want a “free education” at Williston State College. According to Berg, executive director, Williston State College Foundation, the university has been blessed by the Bakken Boom.
Over the past 50 years, scholarships were created by the generosity of donors through a variety of ways from monetary gifts to mineral rights. Berg said it was the gift of mineral rights that really created the large scholarship pool for the college.
“The program is an amazing result of caring donors who wish to support the students of our area in pursuing a college degree by attending Williston State College,” Berg said.
Residents who graduated high school from one of the 53 counties included are eligible for a free education. In fact, the program has grown so much in size that it now includes Eastern Montana resident too.
“Williston State College and the Williston State College Foundation has available tuition and fees scholarships for those that qualify. The regional scholarship covers students who have graduated from high schools in 53 Counties in Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana,” Berg said, “From Bismarck to Billings really.”
The Williston State College Foundation is a nonprofit agency that manages donations made by community members and alumni to the college and its students. We identify wise investments, and fund student scholarships, quality faculty, and capital improvements to WSC. The WSC Foundation is governed by an independent board of 11 directors that meets monthly.
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Canada’s Greatest Export
Terry Etam, author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil and gas activity north of the border.
Canada’s Greatest Export shares a story about the country of Germany coming over to Canada to accelerate their divestment from fossil fuels and direct their attention towards hydrogen.
Etam, who also works with a Natural Gas Company, said they weathered the regulatory storm the past couple of years, and are back to a comfortable pace for business. He also elaborated on several of the Canadian Regulations that are hindering oil and gas development.
Host Jason Spiess and Etam discuss the current energy transition and image, citing Etam’s latest BOE Report article on Henry Ford’s introduction of automobiles to the marketplace and society.
People, particularly enthusiastic energy transition enthusiasts, like to point to instances in human history where a new technology rapidly wiped out an old one. Two pillars of this line of thought are the switch from horses to automobiles, and the one from land lines to cell phones.
Neither of these are particularly intelligent comparisons to an energy transition; both brought phase-change-equivalent upheavals to the way we lived. A car was able to expand one’s world dramatically compared to a horse, and cell phones brought an unimaginably huge catalogue of potential compared to a land line phone.
An energy transition will bring a modified and possibly less form of pollution and/or habitat destruction, but there will be no revolutionary uplifting of public life (evidence points to the opposite, if German firewood sales are any indication).
The interview talks about the importance of North American energy security and the flow of energy across the borders. Etam explains how this is critical to Canada’s fossil fuel industry.
Here is an excerpt from Etam’s latest column in Public Energy Number One:
Suppose a person starts a new business. Months of tireless effort ensue. It all works out. The business grows like crazy and within five years it employs a thousand people. The owner becomes wealthy.
Philosophical junction point: Did that person create a gift for society in the form of creating a thousand jobs, plus the ancillary spin off jobs created by their spending?
Or did the business owner become rich on the backs of employees, capturing the benefits of their labor for their own outsized benefit, while the employees did not become rich?
You will predominantly be drawn to one option or the other. That is the backbone of our modern free-market system, and the inherent greatness of our capitalist-based economies that are democracies – the push and pull between these two belief systems. We can rail against the other side all we like because it is a huge philosophical divide, but the fact is both types exist and have a voice/vote in a democracy.
The two also discuss inflation and how they both believe it hasn’t even begun. Agriculture issues, pesticide bans, Ukraine War and energy issues are the root causes discussed by Etam and Spiess on why inflation issues are just beginning.
Here is Amazon’s description of Etam’s book The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity:
Everyone knows that fossil fuels won’t last forever. Something needs to change at some point, regardless of whether the issue is climate change or because we need a practical replacement for petroleum as cheap supplies run out.
But while headlines suggest that a green-energy paradise is around the corner, not many are aware of the immense technical challenges that stand in its way. To turn our backs on fossil fuels, a staggering amount of work will be required to refit a global energy sector that has grown systematically for over a century. News of the latest green advancements can make it seem like plug-and-play technology, and simply a matter of switching from one source to another. In reality, the challenge is far greater, and infinitely more complicated.
To make matters worse, environmentalists and fossil-fuel defenders wage continuous but fruitless war, and the growing gap makes it impossible to have any sort of constructive dialogue. Each camp becomes more locked in their position with every exchange, and the most revolutionary ideas never see the light of day. Instead of building, time and money are wasted sparring.
Sparing no sacred cows, Terry Etam cuts through the media rhetoric, government propaganda, and widespread ignorance of the energy sector to get to the heart of what needs to change—and what needs to stay the same—if the challenges of moving away from fossil fuels are to be met, while maintaining the quality of life we have come to expect and rely on.
Click here for full length interview with Terry Etam
In the third part of this series following EVolution Hybrid, a project integrating a traditional semi truck with a combustion engine with a EV battery and electric vehicle technology we discuss towing, torque, temperature and range anxiety. In this exclusive interview with Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovation, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, the two discuss how EVolution Hybrid is ready to take on these traditional challenges, plus a couple anticipated ones too.
One area of challenge is towing.
“If we have a greater amount of weight that we are towing or resistance whether it be a vertical incline or bad roads or a low tire, just things that will impact how much power we are using and increase the amount of amperage by the motor, and that would consume the battery quicker.”
Towing creates conversations about torque as well.
“The electric motors we are using they can build what we call Peak Torque at a really low if not zero RPM,” Perkins said. “This is different from a reciprocating piston where your peak torque could be at a specific RPM usually in the RPM range.”
The interview also discussed tires and how many electric vehicles have specific tires for the vehicle and if someone put new tires on, it impacts how far you can drive. So does temperature.
“An individual going to see his son on Christmas on the east coast was set to drive 200 miles in the below freezing temperature after he hit the SuperCharge Station close to his house,” Perkins said. “When he left his garage the Tesla battery was warm enough to start and drive, only when he got to the charge station and at that point the battery has discharged some but it’s cool enough it will not allow him to charge.”
This transitioned into one of the biggest issues right now for the EV Transition is “Range Anxiety”. Nebeker has had first hand experience and says it is a real thing.
“I experienced range anxiety first hand and absolutely it is real,” Nebeker said. “That question of am I going to get where I need to get is a real worry with range anxiety. With an internal combustion engine with gas motors, you know you have until empty then you have to fill it up. It’s a consistent draw versus unpredictability really.”
In Part Two, the two talked about time and money.
When it comes to life, time is money. In transportation it’s time and weight that equal money. Well in the world of EV Transportation, it’s time, weight and temperature that mean money.
In Part One, the two gave an overview of project EVolution Hybrid, which is integrating an electric battery into a traditional combustion engine while maintaining the classic trucking look. With maybe a hint of flare or contemporary fashions.
“One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the transportation and trucking industry,” Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest said. “We are really trying to find a way to expose our students and the community to the potential that lies within the electric truck, or in this case a hybrid truck. I’ve never been a believer in all-one-way or another.”
Nebeker is referring to an all EV solution or an all fossil fuel solution. Nebeker believes this project will shine a light on how a “marriage” between the two concepts will ultimately become a viable solution to an energy transition.
“One important part of this project is the look,” Nebeker said. “I like that traditional Americana semi truck look and understand that still connects with the public too.”
Click here for Part Two of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
Click here for Part One of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
One of the ways the electric combustion collaboration can occur is weight. According to Perkins, the weight of fuel, the batteries and cargo are factors when determining your bottom line in business.
“Most Class A trucks vary as there are different models from the manufacturers, but there’s a lot that is similar” Perkins said. “The less a truck can weigh, the more freight you can haul and essentially, generate higher revenues because of it.”
For fleets, this could have significant savings. Perkins dives into the details of sleeper cabs, drop steer axles and other accessories when discussing the weight and revenues in trucking. All these additional details matter when discussing electric batteries and transition.
“Most electric trucks are going to be in the 400-600 kilowatt hour range. Tesla just released a 1000 kilowatt hour battery,” Perkins said. “But interestingly enough in the past three years the battery technology has allowed us to have reductions in weight but still, it is over 10,000 pounds in battery weight.”
The interview also discussed the difference between fuel weight and battery weight. Which would save money in the long haul? Host Jason Spiess cited an example of an interview with Keri Frank, CEO, Comply365, and her integration of iPads in aviation.
“Before iPads, the industry had a 50-plus-pound black metal box that contained procedure papers required by law,” Spiess said. “After Keri Frank got the industry to transition those papers to an iPad, not only did they see an immediate impact by not printing new sheets every time a new code was issued. But the real savings they saw was over a year in fuel savings. The weight over time was nickels turning into dollars.”
Both Nebeker and Perkins agreed with the sustainable savings and how trucking companies will see similar results.
Another area of change or transition EVoltion Hybrid will see is jobs. Nebeker is anticipating changes with mechanics, IT and other areas of trucking and transportation, and is in constant contact with the supply chain and supporting cast.
Here are some supporting interviews for EVoltion Hybrid and the community of Williston, ND.
Williston’s Wenko Says Economic Development Getting More Diverse
Williston Mayor Talks About The Bakken’s Continued Community Growth
Bakken Small Businesses Staying Busy
Bakken Boom Created An Astounding Educational Opportunity For Williston State Students
The project is scheduled to take 9-12 months, depending on the supply chain, according to Nebeker.
Kris Moore leads an important discussion on empowering women.The Voice of West Texas Kris Moore leads a discussion about what it is like for women working in the Permian Basin.
In this exclusive interview with The Real Oilfield Women of the South, Heather Ferrill announces she has accepted a new position with Thomas Oilfield Services.
After a quick congratulations and an overview of Thomas’ services, the three dive right into a real lifestyle issue in the oil patch.
Franki starts off the round table discussion on how to balance the work involved in the oilfield and family life. Franki, a single mother of three, talks about her support system for her three children and how the industry has become a surrogate family.
Tiffany grabs that baton and balances the single mother living in multiple cities. She talks about having several places to call home is the right fit for her work home balance.
Heather continues the work home balance conversation and brings it back to the two other girls involved the interview how they are her family too. They joke about picking up each other’s kids and taking them to dinner while the other is wrapping up at work.
After the three describe what life is like for a woman working in the oil patch, they give a quick boots on the ground update from the Haynesville DUG Conference.
Click here for the full length article and feature with Kris Moore and her Real Oilfield Women of the South.
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In the third part of this series following EVolution Hybrid, a project integrating a traditional semi truck with a combustion engine with a EV battery and electric vehicle technology we discuss towing, torque, temperature and range anxiety. In this exclusive interview with Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovation, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, the two discuss how EVolution Hybrid is ready to take on these traditional challenges, plus a couple anticipated ones too.
One area of challenge is towing.
“If we have a greater amount of weight that we are towing or resistance whether it be a vertical incline or bad roads or a low tire, just things that will impact how much power we are using and increase the amount of amperage by the motor, and that would consume the battery quicker.”
Towing creates conversations about torque as well.
“The electric motors we are using they can build what we call Peak Torque at a really low if not zero RPM,” Perkins said. “This is different from a reciprocating piston where your peak torque could be at a specific RPM usually in the RPM range.”
The interview also discussed tires and how many electric vehicles have specific tires for the vehicle and if someone put new tires on, it impacts how far you can drive. So does temperature.
“An individual going to see his son on Christmas on the east coast was set to drive 200 miles in the below freezing temperature after he hit the SuperCharge Station close to his house,” Perkins said. “When he left his garage the Tesla battery was warm enough to start and drive, only when he got to the charge station and at that point the battery has discharged some but it’s cool enough it will not allow him to charge.”
This transitioned into one of the biggest issues right now for the EV Transition is “Range Anxiety”. Nebeker has had first hand experience and says it is a real thing.
“I experienced range anxiety first hand and absolutely it is real,” Nebeker said. “That question of am I going to get where I need to get is a real worry with range anxiety. With an internal combustion engine with gas motors, you know you have until empty then you have to fill it up. It’s a consistent draw versus unpredictability really.”
In Part Two, the two talked about time and money.
When it comes to life, time is money. In transportation it’s time and weight that equal money. Well in the world of EV Transportation, it’s time, weight and temperature that mean money.
In Part One, the two gave an overview of project EVolution Hybrid, which is integrating an electric battery into a traditional combustion engine while maintaining the classic trucking look. With maybe a hint of flare or contemporary fashions.
“One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the transportation and trucking industry,” Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest said. “We are really trying to find a way to expose our students and the community to the potential that lies within the electric truck, or in this case a hybrid truck. I’ve never been a believer in all-one-way or another.”
Nebeker is referring to an all EV solution or an all fossil fuel solution. Nebeker believes this project will shine a light on how a “marriage” between the two concepts will ultimately become a viable solution to an energy transition.
“One important part of this project is the look,” Nebeker said. “I like that traditional Americana semi truck look and understand that still connects with the public too.”
Click here for Part Two of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
Click here for Part One of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
One of the ways the electric combustion collaboration can occur is weight. According to Perkins, the weight of fuel, the batteries and cargo are factors when determining your bottom line in business.
“Most Class A trucks vary as there are different models from the manufacturers, but there’s a lot that is similar” Perkins said. “The less a truck can weigh, the more freight you can haul and essentially, generate higher revenues because of it.”
For fleets, this could have significant savings. Perkins dives into the details of sleeper cabs, drop steer axles and other accessories when discussing the weight and revenues in trucking. All these additional details matter when discussing electric batteries and transition.
“Most electric trucks are going to be in the 400-600 kilowatt hour range. Tesla just released a 1000 kilowatt hour battery,” Perkins said. “But interestingly enough in the past three years the battery technology has allowed us to have reductions in weight but still, it is over 10,000 pounds in battery weight.”
The interview also discussed the difference between fuel weight and battery weight. Which would save money in the long haul? Host Jason Spiess cited an example of an interview with Keri Frank, CEO, Comply365, and her integration of iPads in aviation.
“Before iPads, the industry had a 50-plus-pound black metal box that contained procedure papers required by law,” Spiess said. “After Keri Frank got the industry to transition those papers to an iPad, not only did they see an immediate impact by not printing new sheets every time a new code was issued. But the real savings they saw was over a year in fuel savings. The weight over time was nickels turning into dollars.”
Both Nebeker and Perkins agreed with the sustainable savings and how trucking companies will see similar results.
Another area of change or transition EVoltion Hybrid will see is jobs. Nebeker is anticipating changes with mechanics, IT and other areas of trucking and transportation, and is in constant contact with the supply chain and supporting cast.
Here are some supporting interviews for EVoltion Hybrid and the community of Williston, ND.
Williston’s Wenko Says Economic Development Getting More Diverse
Williston Mayor Talks About The Bakken’s Continued Community Growth
Bakken Small Businesses Staying Busy
Bakken Boom Created An Astounding Educational Opportunity For Williston State Students
The project is scheduled to take 9-12 months, depending on the supply chain, according to Nebeker.
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Jesse H. Ausubel joins Jason Spiess to discuss “Peak Human” and “Peak Humans” and how it will impact our future. Ausubel, who is given credit for coining the term “decarbonization”, explains why new research is showing how humans’ mind and body have reached their limits and we are starting the downward curve.
“For 200-250 years humanity has had an incredible run,” Ausubel said. “When you think of you great grandparents, grandparents, parents and you, generally speaking you are going to be better in these four dimensions than they were.”
Those four dimensions are: the physical (how far and fast can we go?), lifetime (how long can we live and how well?), cognitive (measures of intelligence and learning), and immunity (is our resistance to disease waning?).
Ausubel also uses the Olympics as an example to explain Peak Humans.
“If you think of the Olympics, every four years the Olympics have happened since about 1900, lots of records were broken each time,” Ausubel said. “Maybe because the pool of people grew each time or they had better training or maybe they were taking drugs or even that maybe they had a better pole vaulting pole.”
He continued using golf and other sports as a way to explain how humans have physically evolved due to better tools, training and education, however it seems to have now peaked.
“We sort of had this big run up of improvements, let’s say from 1750 to 1800 into the 2000’s, and we found the same with lifetime performance, like longevity,” Ausubel said. “How long they lived, how tall were they, we looked at soldier’s uniforms from the time of Napoleon and the civil war. Those uniforms were small and the shoes were small. People were smaller.”
Ausubel explained how after so long of evolving with an upward trend, diabetes, declining academics, unhealthy body mass indexes and diminishing human intelligence is now showing a plateau with perhaps even a slight downward trend for humans.
“In the big picture we think it’s plausible that we are pretty near peak human,” Ausubel said.
Jesse H. Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University in New York City. The program aims to elaborate the vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little or nothing harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature. The work spans forests and farms, marine life, human population, energy and materials, and climate as well as life, earth, and engineering sciences. Underlying the work are studies of the mathematics of growth and diffusion.
From 1977-1988 Mr. Ausubel worked for the National Academies complex in Washington DC as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, staff officer of the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and from 1983-1988 Director of Programs for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Mr. Ausubel was a main organizer of the first UN World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979), which substantially elevated the global warming issue on scientific and political agendas.
During 1979-1981 he led the Climate Task of the Resources and Environment Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria, an East-West think-tank created by the U.S. and Soviet academies of sciences. Mr. Ausubel helped formulate the US and world climate research programs.
During 1989-1993 Mr. Ausubel served both at The Rockefeller and as Director of Studies for the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. The Commission, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York, sought ways for the US government at all levels, as well as international organizations, to make better use of scientific and technical expertise.
Mr. Ausubel has authored and edited over 160 articles, reports, and books. He co-authored the 1989 paper “Dematerialization” that opened the study of this subject and in 1991 published the first paper explicitly on the “decarbonization” of the energy system. Mr. Ausubel was guest editor and lead author of the 1996 issue of Daedalus, “The Liberation of the Environment.” Reports for which he was main author include Changing Climate (National Academy, 1983), the first comprehensive review of the greenhouse effect, and Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), the 1983 Research Council report originating the Global Change Program. For the NAE, he developed and oversaw studies on the performance of technology-intensive sectors of U.S. industry and on the diffusion and globalization of technology and helped conceive the field of field of industrial ecology.
Between 1994-2019 Mr. Ausubel served concurrently as a program manager and advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Under Sloan auspices, Mr. Ausubel helped create and complete the decade-long Census of Marine Life, an international program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans.
He also co-founded the movement to develop short genetic identifiers, DNA barcodes, for animals, plants, and fungi, and served as founding chair of the Encyclopedia of Life, to develop a webpage for every species.
In 2009, he helped established the international Deep Carbon Observatory and later the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, which earned endorsements from key ocean science organizations in 2015 . His group’s laboratory work at The Rockefeller University has concentrated since 2014 on surveying marine biodiversity through the loose DNA (eDNA) in sea water.
Mr. Ausubel’s interest in DNA also spans the traces found in works of art, and more generally ways that genomics, molecular biology, and microbiology can help understand and conserve cultural heritage. He helped form and now leads the Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project to obtain and sequence the genome of Leonardo in order to understand better Leonardo’s extraordinary visual acuity and other attributes.
In the late 1990s, Mr. Ausubel managed the creation and production of the first interactive simulation model of the US university, Virtual U. , and spurred development of the Serious Games movement.
Educated at Harvard and Columbia, Mr. Ausubel serves on several editorial boards, including The Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future and an adjunct faculty member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he has conducted studies since 1991.
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Award winning interviewer and broadcast journalist Jason Spiess and Content Correspondents engage with the industry’s best thinkers, writers, politicians, business leaders, scientists, entertainers, community leaders, cafe owners and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and round table discussions.
The Crude Life has been broadcasting on radio stations since 2012 and posts all updates and interviews on The Crude Life Social Media Network.
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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United States Air Force Veteran and international humanitarian Mark J. Lindquist joined Jason Spiess, for media platforms The Crude Life, ESG University and the Bismarck-Mandan KLXX SUPERTALK 1270AM while sleeping in subzero temperatures to raise awareness regarding the energy crisis in the Ukraine.
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“I started this on Dec 16, I’ll take it all the way to January 1, 2023 at noon,” Lindquist said. “This is done in solidarity with my brothers in Donbas and my friends in Bakhmut who are cold and wet and in the trenches for months on end. I wanted to bring an energy awareness to this and that there are many ways to help the Ukrainians especially in the winter.”
Lindquist has been fundraising for those impacted by war in the Ukraine, receiving winter clothing, financial contributions and any other help people can give.
“The need is great. The Donbas is the same latitude as International Falls, Minnesota,” Lindquist said. “There is no power. Men are living in wet trenches. Children are sleeping in underground bunkers in Bakhmut. The world has enough supplies, it is simply sitting in the wrong spot on earth.”
Lindquist continued saying that our western volunteers and local Ukrainians have run out of donations and money because Ukraine is “old news”.
“We collect mini-grants of $5,000 and send a pallet over directly to our local and trusted contacts in Ukraine,” Lindquist said. “You can follow our social media and telegram channels to see the confirmation of donation delivery in Ukraine. Our partner NGOs have already sent over 400 pallets of humanitarian aid into the country and our team has been responsible for moving another $2 million worth of aid in country.”
After giving the details of the fundraiser, Lindquist gives an update from the past several months he spent in the Ukraine.
“Jason, our here in the Ukraine, we call this the first Instagram War,” Lindquist said. “This war is being fought on social media.”
Lindquist continues sharing several examples of why they are calling this the Instagram War, including soldiers wearing GoPros and body cams. The two discuss how the citizens are getting involved in social media too.
“The people of the Ukraine are so much more technologically accepting than the United States,” Lindquist said.
Click on here for the previous interview with Linquist when we was in the Ukraine for a boots-on-the-ground update and interview
Always a servant, as his mother and father taught him, Mark continued his service in the United States Air Force and served honorably at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. There, he had the incredible opportunity to sing the National Anthem for the US Military as well as for a world touring entertainment unit called Tops in Blue, which is similar to a USO or Bob Hope show. During his time on the Island of Oahu, Mark earned a few roles on ABC’s LOST, CBS’ Hawaii Five-O and in the Universal Studios Hollywood movie “Battleship“.
Since launching his motivational speaking firm (Mark J Lindquist Motivational Speaking and Entertainment) and his consulting firm (Lindquist and Associates), he has had the opportunity to speak for the largest companies in America (McDonald’s, Walmart, Starbucks, IBM), sing for the largest crowds in America (National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball, NCAA), and perform for the President of the United States of America. He is widely known in the professional speaking industry as the fastest growing motivational speaker in America, having been invited to deliver guest lectures to over 1500 aspiring and professional speakers, including many Hall of Fame Speakers.
Mark is a United States Air Force and Afghanistan War Veteran.
Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Dr. Loren Scott of Loren Scott & Associates.
Dr. Loren Scott just finished his annual Economic Forecast for the State of Louisiana and the news is the economy is going to get better, but first it’s going to get worse. The interview explains why from OPEC to European gas to natural disasters to Biden’s policy’s.
“People should be prepared for a national recession. It’ll start probably in the first quarter of next year and the last three quarters,” said Dr. Scott.
Dr. Scott said Louisiana is a different economy than other states due to their importing exporting ports, fossil fuel ecosystem and natural disasters. Over the past year and a half Louisiana has experiences five natural disasters and the rebuild will happen during the national recession. Dr. Scott believes as a whole, the state will add more than 14,000 jobs in 2023 and more than 30,000 jobs in 2024.
“Three major hurricanes, Winter Storm Uri, and floods have seriously arrested the state’s growth,” Dr. Scott said.
The interview also dives into Europe’s decisions to go “all-in” on the Green Movement and outlaw fossil fuels. Dr. Scott believes Europe is going to have a rough, expensive winter, pointing the blame at their full commitment to doing away with fossil fuels.
Dr. Scott also explains why taking barrels out of the Strategic Oil Reserves is putting America at risk and why the current direction of natural gas is putting places like Chicago and New York at risk this winter.
Dr. Scott also gives an update on Lake Charles and the $3B dollars of activity happening in that region.
Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., is a 35-year old firm that provides economic consulting and public speaking services for a wide range of clients. Consulting activities include impact studies, forecasting services, analysis of policy proposals, and general economic analyses. Consulting clients include BP, ExxonMobil, Entergy Corporation, J. P. Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial, Nucor, Sasol, and a diversity of others. Our objective is to put together the very best team of associates to attack our client’s problems. Dr. Scott makes 50-70 presentations a year on the state of—and the outlook for—the economy and the energy sector in particular.
He is one of the 32-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of state, national, and international interest. This group has experts who cover international trade, Washington economic policy, retail trade, trucking, steel, chemicals, etc. Dr. Scott is an energy specialist on the NBEIC. He has been appointed to the Economic Advisory Board of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness—a group made up of the CEOs of the Fortune 100, top university presidents, and presidents of three major unions.
He has been interviewed on MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and several local TV stations and his work has been cited in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Moscow Times, to name a few.
Dr. Loren C. Scott is President and founder of the firm. He was on the Economics Department faculty at Louisiana State University from 1969 to 1998, where he rose through the ranks from Assistant Professor to the holder of the Freeport-McMoran endowed Chair of Economics. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Economics at LSU.
Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, Dr. Scott was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department’s ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 38th. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.
Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each fall. He was a co-investigator on over $1 million in grant research at LSU and is the author of over 75 articles and technical reports in addition to reports written for consulting clients.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Singer Songwriter Alma Cook and energy compliance officer.
Alma Cook joined Jason Spiess on the Zoom Line to talk about her new music video “5000 Candles” and the final stretch of completing her music album. Spiess contends that while many in the oil and gas industry are still searching for ways to connect with tomorrow’s leaders today, Alma is singing her way into their hearts and minds.
The two discuss the music video from the production elements to the industry workers in the video to the Bakken communities and the video footage included in the video. Cook who works for Cook Compliance Solutions during the day, found time on nights, weekends and in dreams to write and produce a song about flaring in the energy industry.
Last summer, Alma performed “5000 Candles” at the Bakken BBQ with children on stage to raise awareness about not only the issue with emission management, but also the solutions.
“5000 Candles” is the story of unexpected love for people, place, and industry. A tribute to the North Dakota oilfields, it humanizes a part of American life that’s typically kept behind a curtain.
In a culture that encourages us to airbrush our lives with Instagram filters and clever status updates, the emerging voice of pop/soul artist Alma is challenging this generation to pause and self-reflect. With a strong emphasis on message over medium, she sees art as a transformative tool and has made it her mission to teach listeners the value of honesty and vulnerability.
“Using songwriting to vent about breakups or whatever—there’s definitely a place for that,” Alma says. “But if you’re gonna make music your personal therapist, I hope you’re getting your money’s worth. You don’t go to therapy so that you can revel in your problems, you go because you want to understand and conquer them.”
For her, understanding and conquering problems begins with asking “why?” and ultimately “what next?” Alma aims to kickstart this dialogue through her songwriting, most often by being upfront about her own shortcomings.
“I basically just put all my dirt out there,” Alma laughs. “We all have this vague idea that ‘nobody’s perfect,’ but until you actually put a name to your imperfection—jealousy, anger, whatever—you won’t look it in the eye long enough to fight it. Honesty is power.”
Alma’s strong beliefs by no means come at the expense of musical creativity or spot-on delivery. Though she spent most of her teenage life as a self-described “closet singer,” the now 25-year-old Wisconsin native is equipped with unusually good instincts for performing, arranging and bandleading. While honing her musicianship at Columbia College Chicago, the soulful stylings of artists like Amel Larrieux and Lauryn Hill captured her attention, and at that point, “I was done,” Alma says. “I’d previously had this indie-pop thing going on—really quirky, bright—but once I found neosoul it was like I was finally enjoying music.”
In 2012, Alma released an EP titled Pass It On which showcases some of those earlier stylistic leanings. Her 2014 release, Tactics, more fully realizes the singer’s love for backbeats and basslines while also more clearly demonstrating her passion for meaningful messages.
LYRICS:
There’s a lot people running their mouth
That don’t stay the night, never come through town.
And some other people running about
That don’t take the time to suss you out.
Still some of us, every night,
We make a toast to you, like “Isn’t it nice
That somebody had the presence of mind
To speak over you, ‘Let there be light’?”
I know it doesn’t make me one of a kind
That I came to you at an opportune time,
And it doesn’t mean I’m one of the guys,
But I’m grateful you came & opened my eyes.
Still, none of us, up in the play,
We don’t think enough of the beauty we make.
It’s all work here, every day,
But when the lights go out, it’s then that I say:
CHORUS
Sight to behold—
Nothing you could do would make me go!
We’ll let the world judge what they don’t know.
Giving me a heartbeat,
Making me never wanna leave.
We’ll let the world judge, ‘cause they don’t see…
5000 candles,
5000 candles burning bright,
All the light you could handle,
5000 candles here at night.
They keep telling me it’s only a phase
And that soon enough, I’ll see that I’m craz-
-y for loving you the way that I do,
Because who could love somebody like you?
They say you’re too, too, too damn small,
And I won’t pretend it don’t matter at all,
But no matter what the trouble ahead,
I still won’t regret this time that I spent.
CHORUS
I wanna know who did that;
Show me the match that lit that sky.
Look at all those candles,
Ode to the light that caught my eye.
Never could forget that—
Stealing my breath & I don’t mind—
5000 candles,
5000 candles here at night.
Contact Alma by Media: press@hearalma.com
Bookings & other: info@hearalma.com
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources.
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviews Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources, after he spoke at Wildcatters Wednesday at The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma.
Hamm talks about the importance of synergy and collaboration in energy, education and empathy. Understanding each energy’s strengths rather than politicizing the science.
“Energy plays a tremendous role in all our lives, we know that,” Hamm said. “Finding carbon solutions is paramount for us right now.”
Lavin asks Hamm what he feels the industry should “get behind” as we enter 2022. Hamm reminds Lavin that our national security is at risk, our American independence has slid backwards and political policies are creating uncertainty.
Hamm transitions into what Continental Resources is planning for 2022 and has a message for all the “hard working men and women working in the oilfield”.
“This is an industry that you have to have some forward faith in,” Hamm said. “Our company has establish into putting our best foot forward for the industry and our people. I know other company have done the same thing. It’s a new day in industry.”
The main reason for the fellowship on this day was The Harold Hamm Foundation and Continental Resources donated a combined $50 million gift creating the Hamm Institute for American Energy at Oklahoma State University.
The Hamm Institute’s mission is to educate the next generation of energy leaders — in Oklahoma, the United States and from around the world — cementing Oklahoma’s legacy as a global energy leader.
The Hamm Institute will be located in what was formerly known as OSU Discovery, 300 NE 9th St. in the Oklahoma City Innovation District, and will become the primary and permanent occupant of the building.
The Hamm Institute will become the center of all things American energy. It will host symposiums, authors, speakers, energy summits and global energy leadership conversations. The building will eventually house the Oklahoma Hall of Energy Legends Interactive Museum, a public exhibit highlighting the history and storied legacy of Oklahoma’s great energy leaders.
Hamm, a native Oklahoman and founder and chairman of Continental Resources, began his career in oil and gas over five decades ago, starting out with a single oil service truck and a dream. His incredible journey, entrepreneurial spirit and will to change the world for the better have inspired countless others, and his latest philanthropic push aims to elevate the state to both new and familiar heights.
Hamm spoke about the importance of the donation and also thanks Baker Hughes, General Electric for their commitment to the energy industry with their support at OSU.
Wildcatters Wednesday is a luncheon hosted by The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma.
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is Oscar Awarding Winning Gray Frederickson.
The Crude Life had the privileged to be invited on to the production studio and set of Sherwood Forest, a docufilm about a historic time in American Oil and Gas’s impact on global independence and empowerment.
By the summer of 1942, the future of Great Britain and the outcome of World War II depended on petroleum supplies. At the end of that year, demand for 100-octane fuel would grow to more than 150,000 barrels of oil every day and German U-boats ruled the Atlantic.
In August 1942, British Secretary of Petroleum, Geoffrey Lloyd called an emergency meeting of the Oil Control Board to assess the “impending crisis in oil.”
Thus began the story of the “little-known, or at least seldom recognized, all-important role oil and oilmen played in the prosecution of the war,” according to two historians who extensively researched archives in Great Britain and the United States. Short story is they drilled in Sherwood Forest.
The longer story is being told by Oscar Winner Gray Frederickson.
Gray Frederickson is spearheading the docufilm on Sherwood Forest and how Lloyd Noble along with 44 roughnecks played a critical role during World War II.
Frederickson is best known for being a long-time producer for Francis Ford Coppola and winning an Oscar as one of the co-producers of The Godfather Part II at the 47th Academy Awards. In addition he was also nominated for Apocalypse Now.
“All of activities you see in the newsreels and media about D-day is from fuel that came from these group of Oklahoma oil guys drilling 100 wells in Sherwood Forest to power that invasion of D-Day.”
During that time, German submarines were sinking all of the American oil tankers being sent to England and they lacked proper drilling equipment to drill themselves.
The OK crew ended up sending over two million barrels of oil to British refineries, which powered D-Day and the end of World War II.
“It’s just important for the world to see history like this,” said Frederickson.
Sherwood Forest is scheduled for release in the Spring of 2022.
Energy expert and DocuFilm partner Mark Stansberry (right) and Gray Frederickson (left)From Variety:
Gray Frederickson, who was part of the Oscar-winning production team for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather Part II,” died Nov. 20 of prostate cancer in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was 85.
Frederickson had been called as “the Godfather of Oklahoma film” for his efforts to boost filmmaking in his home state.
“Gray is one of the most accomplished people to have ever come from our city,” Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt told The Oklahoman.
Frederickson left Oklahoma to attend the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, then started his career in Rome as producer of “Natika” in 1963. He joined Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” as production manager, where he met Clint Eastwood, who would become a longtime friend.
He met producer Albert S. Ruddy on the Robert Redford film “Little Fauss and Big Halsy,” which led to him coming aboard “The Godfather” as associate producer.
Among the films he produced were Coppola’s “The Godfather Part III,” “One From the Heart” and “The Outsiders,” which shot in Oklahoma, Weird Al Yankovic’s “UHF,” “South of Heaven, West of Hell” and “Dream No Little Dream: The Life and Legacy of Robert S. Kerr.”
He moved back to Oklahoma in the 1990s, and later helped launch the digital cinema production program at Oklahoma City Community College. Gray also played a key role in getting Oklahoma’s film production incentive passed.
Most recently, Frederickson was working on “Sherwood Forest,” a documentary about Oklahoma and Texas roughnecks who shipped to England in 1943.
Coppola traveled to Oklahoma to induct his friend in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2018.
“Oscar is an award for Best Picture. Oklahoma Hall of Fame is an award for me, so that’s why this is the best,” Frederickson told the Oklahoman at the time. “It’s special because of Oklahoma. I’m Oklahoma. I mean, it’s like another appendage for me. It’s part of me; it’s who I am. And to be accepted by Oklahoma is really the pinnacle of everything for me.”
He is survived by his wife, Karen, and two children.
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Is North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum creating his own Green New Deal?Dustin Gawrylow, founder and chairman of the North Dakota Watchdog Network joined Jason Spiess of ESG University to discuss whether North Dakota’s Clean Sustainable Energy Authority is a way for North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to create his own Green New Deal.
Gawrylow believes there is disagreement over the direction of the Clean Sustainable Energy Fund, and whether the funds should go toward new green energy or maintaining existing energy.
“When you look at the members of the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority there aren’t very many from solar or wind,” Gawrylow said.
In real time during the interview, Spiess logged onto the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority’s website and their committee members.
“This is the same list of people who sit on every other committee that oversees the allocation of tax dollars and access to government money. A lot of these people recieve tax money from these appointed committees.” Spiess said. “I have no idea how these people can do their day-to-day jobs because it seems all they do is go to meetings at some restaurant, bar or event center that is catered with linen tablecloths and multiple course meals. Or at least that’s what I see on social media from a lot of appointed government leaders.”
Gawyrlow agreed with Spiess’ observation and took it a step further.
“One of the biggest boondoggles of the last few years in North Dakota has been what was created in the 2021 Legislative Session called the ‘Clean and Sustainable Energy Fund,” Gawrylow said. “This was part of the $500 million coal industry bailout bill that we strongly opposed at the time.”
Governor Burgum’s proposals is to invest a $500 million revolving loan fund from the Legacy Fund into the Clean and Sustainable Energy Authority.
North Dakota’s Clean Sustainable Energy Authority was established in 2021 under the control of the Industrial Commission to enhance the production of clean sustainable energy in North Dakota.
To make it clear – taxpayers are now going to be asked to not only prop up coal, but also pay for the transition into energy sources that will make coal obsolete,” Gawrylow said. “Apparently, Governor Doug Burgum has his own Green New Deal.”
During that time, Governor Burgum proposed going carbon neutral by 2030 and a clean hydrogen plant near Beulah.
Gawrylow was also interviewed by KXNews in Bismarck regarding the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority
… a commission established by the Governor that consists of lobbyists from coal country, known as Empower ND Commission, has been circulating bill drafts explicitly stating that the money should not go toward new green energy but rather propping up existing coal energy in western North Dakota.
“If we go by the intent of the Governor’s plan, this money will essentially go to green energy and new energy sources. And, that’s going to be a fight that will bring in multiple factions of the Republican party, that don’t want to see the state going down the road of propping up green energy because they view that as diminishing existing energy, the coal, and oil,” explained North Dakota Watchdog Network founder Dustin Gawrylow.
KX News has obtained one of the bill drafts which states that the money should go toward supporting energy derived from Agriculture, Lignite Coal, and oil and gas.
It will be used for research and development of technological advancements that will reduce the emissions and environmental impacts of these traditional energies.
Spiess asked Gawrlow if Senator Hoeven and Governor Burgum were using the notoriously corrupt template by the Democrats where they use the “Rock The Vote” non profit as their day-to-day public relations, social media, youth engagement and administrative duties within the state of North Dakota.
“There is definately a model that uses government and non profits to push an agenda and quite frankly I think Governor Burgum is doing it because he is now realizing there isn’t much money in North Dakota and not a lot of outside money that wants to come in,” Gawrylow said.
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Heins is also a vocal advocate of the Internet of Everything, free trade, and global issues affecting the third of our planet that still lives in abject poverty.
Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 486.
Jack Ekstrom, Policy Works America, former Mayor of Bismarck and talk show host Steve Bakken and The Crude Life‘s Jason Spiess take over SuperTalk 1270AM’s Talk of the Town to discuss energy leadership and the new direction America seems to be going down.
Jack Ekstrom, former principal for PolicyWorks America, as well as a veteran executive in the oil and gas industry, joined Steve Bakken and Jason Spiess on KLXX-AM SuperTalk 1270‘s for a live interview on the radio and podcast recording for The Crude Life.
The three discussed the recent election and how policy is dictating our lives in more ways than people can imagine.
Cybersecurity and energy independence was discussed in detail as one area of industry most people do not understand. The three talk about the disconnect with the current leadership on both sides of the isle. How the 10% extremes are ruling the 80% public with reactive politics and policies.
Nuclear energy was cited as an example of an energy that receives little media attention. The three discuss the environmental impacts on nuclear as well as the major innovations.
Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners and host of The Energy Detox Podcast discusses Moral Victories in business and whether they are real or an excuse for not achieving the goal.
“I think I mean, for one, I tend to be skeptical of the term moral victory because it seems somewhat defeatist. Right? It’s like you’re you’re searching for something. And you know, same thing, you’re looking for a silver lining, again, whether from a political standpoint, from a sports standpoint, it could sound a little bit like well, gee, you know, if you if you’re my leader, I don’t I don’t want you talking in those terms. Again, like we said before, I want to know what’s next. You know, I want to know what the path forward is how we can build upon things. I will say, however, Jason, that I am a fan of accentuating the positives, though. And I know that it’s a it sounds the same, perhaps. But I think there is a distinction there first, there’s an acknowledgement that yeah, there are positives, and it’s okay to emphasize them, instead of just searching for a moral victory and trying to kid and kid yourself into thinking that you What did you say, you know, what am I losing or whatever. So, I guess from a sports standpoint, from a leadership standpoint, a successful loss can happen.” – said Joe Sinnott during The Crude Life Week In Review.
The Crude Life presents Kids and Capitalism with an interview with North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaegar on how kids can set up a business and Chris Olson of Treasure Island discuss precious metals, Pokemon Cards and the simple economics.
The Crude Life Content Correspondent and 8-year-old MultiMedia Kidtrepreneur Otis sat down with Sec. Jaeger to ask if kids under 18 can open a business and why they need to register with the state.
Later, Otis toured Treasure Island, a precious metals, rare coins and commodities investment center, and discussed how gold and silver work in today’s marketplace. Otis asked if they sold Pokemon cards, “because Pokemon cards are worth a lot of money”, which Chris explained how they used to, but had to make an inventory choice with some trendier investments like Pokemon, comic books and sports cards or focus more on the traditional gold, silver, stamps and coins.
Chris Olson, owner of Treasure Island, talks with MultiMedia Kidtrepreneur and The Crude Life Kid Correspondent Otis about precious metals, Pokemon cards and entrepreneurism. Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, give an update on the EVolution Hybrid project. Perkins explains how weight becomes a major hurdle in trucking, fuel logistics and EV batteries.
In Part One, the two gave an overview of project EVolution Hybrid, which is integrating an electric battery into a traditional combustion engine while maintaining the classic trucking look. With maybe a hint of flare or contemporary fashions.
“One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the transportation and trucking industry,” Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest said. “We are really trying to find a way to expose our students and the community to the potential that lies within the electric truck, or in this case a hybrid truck. I’ve never been a believer in all-one-way or another.”
Nebeker is referring to an all EV solution or an all fossil fuel solution. Nebeker believes this project will shine a light on how a “marriage” between the two concepts will ultimately become a viable solution to an energy transition.
“One important part of this project is the look,” Nebeker said. “I like that traditional Americana semi truck look and understand that still connects with the public too.”
Click here for Part One of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
One of the ways the electric combustion collaboration can occur is weight. According to Perkins, the weight of fuel, the batteries and cargo are factors when determining your bottom line in business.
“Most Class A trucks vary as there are different models from the manufacturers, but there’s a lot that is similar” Perkins said. “The less a truck can weigh, the more freight you can haul and essentially, generate higher revenues because of it.”
For fleets, this could have significant savings. Perkins dives into the details of sleeper cabs, drop steer axles and other accessories when discussing the weight and revenues in trucking. All these additional details matter when discussing electric batteries and transition.
“Most electric trucks are going to be in the 400-600 kilowatt hour range. Tesla just released a 1000 kilowatt hour battery,” Perkins said. “But interestingly enough in the past three years the battery technology has allowed us to have reductions in weight but still, it is over 10,000 pounds in battery weight.”
The interview also discussed the difference between fuel weight and battery weight. Which would save money in the long haul? Host Jason Spiess cited an example of an interview with Keri Frank, CEO, Comply365, and her integration of iPads in aviation.
“Before iPads, the industry had a 50-plus-pound black metal box that contained procedure papers required by law,” Spiess said. “After Keri Frank got the industry to transition those papers to an iPad, not only did they see an immediate impact by not printing new sheets every time a new code was issued. But the real savings they saw was over a year in fuel savings. The weight over time was nickels turning into dollars.”
Both Nebeker and Perkins agreed with the sustainable savings and how trucking companies will see similar results.
Another area of change or transition EVoltion Hybrid will see is jobs. Nebeker is anticipating changes with mechanics, IT and other areas of trucking and transportation, and is in constant contact with the supply chain and supporting cast.
Here are some supporting interviews for EVoltion Hybrid and the community of Williston, ND.
Williston’s Wenko Says Economic Development Getting More Diverse
Williston Mayor Talks About The Bakken’s Continued Community Growth
Bakken Small Businesses Staying Busy
Bakken Boom Created An Astounding Educational Opportunity For Williston State Students
The project is scheduled to take 9-12 months, depending on the supply chain, according to Nebeker.
Alma Cook performs her hit song “5000 Candles” live at the 9th Annual Bakken BBQMusic heard on The Crude Life Week in Review is written and performed by Alma Cook of Cook Compliance Solutions. Support her music career at www.hearalma.com
Interviews are sponsored in part by TrainND Northwest – It’s a competitive world. Train for it.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Wade Boeshans of Summit Carbon Solutions.
The relationship with agriculture and oil and gas is one that goes back to the foundation of the petroleum industry. Since day one, the two industries have had to co-exist, which is one of the main reasons oil producers call their departments that work with the surface owners “Land Departments”. Like a mission statement in a company, oil’s intention was identified with an evidence marker to remind them of the connection and co-existence.
In fact, The Crude Life’s Jason Spiess asked Continental Resources’ Chairman Harold Hamm in 2013 about his view of the relationship between Agriculture and Energy with new innovations and technology being introduced.
“First of all, those two are the premiere industries of the state and are very important here and we recognize that, especially when working with landowners,” Hamm said to Spiess in 2013. “The ecopad development has been tremendous and the lateral development minimizes surface usage and has worked very well.”
Flash forward almost a decade and we are seeing the same Hamm continuing his environmental innovations in the Bakken oil fields. Only this investment is about transporting carbon by pipeline, not oil.
“It was a significant announcement and investment for us to have Continental Resources invest $250M into the company,” said Wade Boeshans of Summit Carbon Solutions. “It signals the convergence of energy and agriculture around carbon management.”
Boeshans quickly points out the 25-years of experience Continental Resources has with the geology and underground Bakken atmosphere.
“Continental Resources and their deep understanding of the Williston Basin and the geology which is a key component of our project of proposing to capture CO2 from ethanol plants across five states aggregate that CO2 into a pipeline system and deliver it to Western North Dakota for injection and permanent geological storage.”
Continental’s professional history and track record in the Bakken is a value-added asset to Summit Carbon Solutions and the project according to Boeshans.
“This project is purely a capture and sequestration project, it does not involve oil production,” Boeshans said. “Continental, as an oil and gas producing company, recognizes the market opportunity and market demands for lower carbon while ethanol producers and oil and gas producers working towards a common goal of reducing CO2 emissions.”
https://youtu.be/f7uyd9xDelYSeveral weeks before the $250M announcement The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviewed Hamm regarding his recent donations to the Oklahoma State University and University of Mary Bismarck. During that interview, for the first time publicly, Hamm commented that oil companies need to commit to carbon solutions in energy development.
The investment into Summit Carbon Solutions symbolizes how energy companies are becoming all of the above with all the above energy, including the energies in agriculture.
“When you look at Continental and their history as a company, they’ve been leaders in innovation,” Boeshans said. “Starting with horizontal drilling and that technology and what it has meant for developing the resources in the Bakken and North Dakota. From there, multipad wells and continuing to drive increased efficiencies.”
As more and more oil and gas companies look to diversify their portfolios in blue algae, hydrogen, wind and other non-fossil fuel sourced energies, the once carbon storage niche industry is growing into a full on industry.
Although there any many methodologies in the carbon market, Boeshans explains the difference between the two main phrases of the carbon market.
“There are two different acronyms thrown around, first being CCS, which is Carbon Capture and Storage,” Boeshans said. “And then there is CCUS, which is Carbon Capture Utilization Storage. What we are doing in this project is Carbon Capture and Storage.”
Essentially the company will be capturing the CO2 from the fermenters in the ethanol plant, dehydrate it to a liquid, transport it by pipeline and inject it into the geological formations for storage.
“What we have in the Williston Basin that makes it suitable for carbon storage, is thick layers of sand and sandstone one-to-two-miles below the surface with rocks that are high permeability and ferocity with lots of capacity of fluid to be stored within them,” Boeshans said.
After the CO2 is stored a couple miles below the surface, Summit Carbon Solutions monitors the levels to ensure safe protocols are taken and leak prevention.
“There’s several techniques for monitoring CO2, one is through the use of installing subsurface gages for the detection of CO2, monitoring the formations themself,” Boeshans said. “Secondly, is through the use of 3D seismic or other kinds of surface methods where you can actually verify and monitor, and finally you’ll have to continue to monitoring on the injection well bores up and down as well as monitoring the ground water continuously for detection of any CO2 that might show up in there.”
For more information on Summit Carbon Solutions click here
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Kenley Nebeker, executive director of TrainND Northwest and president of the TrainND Foundation, was voted to be the Chairman of the North Dakota Unmanned Aerial Systems this past week. Nebeker joins The Crude Life’s Jason Spiess on KLXX 1270AM SuperTalk’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken to talk about the new non profit that legislators and UAS leaders to “promote autonomous efforts in the state”.
The North Dakota Unmanned Autonomous Systems Council was created for the “purpose of promoting use cases for the UAS industry, as well as to provide outreach to communities”.
“As cheesy as this might sound, it’s a quality of life issue and making lives better,” Nebeker said. “Whether that is with the Ag sector or the energy sector or the package delivery sector, if it can be done faster and safer we want to look at that market.”
State representatives Mike Nathe (R-Bismarck) and Todd Porter (R-Mandan) pushed to create the council, according to KFYR News. The state reps say the industry needs an organization similar to other groups like the Petroleum Council or Lignite Energy Council.
Vice President of Membership Stacey Mesteth says North Dakota’s government and geography should make autonomous systems enticing to companies.
Nebeker described what the Vantis Network, dumbing it down to a simple highway system for drones.
“The statewide Vantis network is enabling UAS flights beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), if you want to think of it as the highway in the sky that will allow drones to go from border to border in North Dakota and other states as they come on,” Nebeker said. “Right now North Dakota is set up and poised to become the nation’s epicenter of commercial UAS activity. It’s an exciting time right now.”
The Vantis is the first such program of its scale in the United States.
In 2013, the FAA announced drone testing sites in six states: Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas and Virginia. Shortly after, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta signed a certificate of authorization making Grand Forks the first unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site in the nation.
“Ultimately what is contained within this network is the ability to communicate with a UAS beyond the visual line of sight,” Nebeker said. “So the communication, command and control of that unmanned vehicle and also what is going on in the airspace around that unmanned vehicle.”
Going to the next level in UAS will be a leap and springboard according to Nebeker.
“The airspace in the United States is heavily governed by the FAA, and in order to move forward using that airspace, we need to have some sort of system in place,” Nebeker said. “Vantis is North Dakota’s effort to try and solve that problem and begin moving beyond visual line of sight.”
The interview also discussed how consumers will benefit from the system, whether it be a pizza delivery, bird seed or driving an automated car. Entry level ideas and resources for entrepreneurs who want to get into the UAS industry where also discussed in the interview.
To contact Kenley Nebeker, email kenley.nebeker@willistonstate.edu
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature with History Channel “Forged In Fire” winner Cody Adolphson.
Growing up in North Dakota, Cody Adolphson had always been around knives. He is a hunter and his father is a welder, so hot sharp metal was part of Adolphson’s upbringing.
“I’ve always wanted to get into making knives. I always carry a knife. I always use a knife,” Adolphson said. “I’m a welder by trade, so been around metal my whole life.”
One day Adolphson saw the show “Forged In Fire” on the History Channel and the creative metal smithing itch began to grow.
“I saw the show come on and I started getting into it more and more, then I finally made the decision in January 2020 to pursuit it and actually learn how to make knives,” Adolphson said.
He contacted a bladesmith via social media and was able to communicate his passion and path to the point to where today the two are “good friends”. Adolphson took a bladesmithing class with his mentor and friend in Wisconsin where he made his first damascus knife.
“I was hooked,” Adolpson said.
After the class in the Badger state, Adolphson began to learn more from his friend and mentor Tyler Hackbarth. In fact it’s this relationship that came out on the air during Adolphson’s Forged In Fire appearance.
“He’s actually a two-time Forged In Fire Champion,” Adolphson said.
His abilities caught the eyes of the producers at The History Channel too. Adolphson recently had an opportunity to compete on The History Channel’s “Forged In Fire“, a competition set to bladesmithing and blacksmithing weapons from specific time periods and cultures.
According to IMDB, “Forged in Fire” tests some of the best bladesmiths in the industry as they attempt to re-create some of history’s most iconic edged weapons. Former Army Ranger Wil Willis hosts the competition series that sees four master bladesmiths challenged in each episode to forge the swords, which are then tested by a panel of judges consisting of J. Neilson, who has been making knives for more than 20 years, hand-to-hand combat specialist Doug Marcaida, and David Baker, an authority on replicating period-accurate weaponry.
The contestant who survives the elimination rounds and wins the episode’s contest earns $10,000 and the title of Forged in Fire champion.
Adolphson was that bladesmith who survived, won and took home the $10,000 prize.
“I made a Cinquedea Sword,” Adolphson said. “It is an Italian Renaissance era sword that a nobleman carried and it’s a very wide blade at the base. Cinquedea actually means five-finger-blade, the base of the blade is the width of your five fingers.”
The championship sword took 32 hours to complete over 4 days. The show also allows the finalists to return to their “home forge” to forge the final entry.
“I can not reveal where we were for the show, but for the finale they were right here in my shop,” Adolphson said. “In the finale round the smith goes back to their home forge and makes a weapon from history. Then they bring you back and test it.”
Adolphson survived two preliminary rounds of knife forging before winning the finals, demonstrating his wide array of blacksmithing talents, concentration and artistic creativity.
“The show obviously helped jumpstart my knife-making business and look forward to forging a new chapter in life,” Adolphson said.
Adolphson started Living The Crude Life right after high school when he started welding for WesCon at the Marathon Refinery in Mandan, North Dakota.
“I started this when I was 18, jumped in a welding truck and went to work,” Adolphson said. “I started with WesCon, local company, and traveled around with them for a while. Built the refinery in Dickinson, worked up in Watford here and there and then ended up coming back to the refinery.”
Second generation welder, Adolphson has been welding since he was 10-year-old and, despite entering into knife making, sees it always in his future for the rest of his life.
“I’ve done welding for the past 11-years and knife making kinda caught my eye, one day I’d life to go full time,” Adolphson said. “That’s the goal, but I’ll always do some kind of welding in my shop here.”
Understanding the foundational opportunities welding can present for an entrepreneur, Adolphson found himself being drawn to the outdoors for the next chapter in life.
“Growing up in North Dakota, I’ve always been around hunting and always carried a knife,” Adolphson said. “I’ve always wanted to get into making knives and I am a welder by trade, and also have been around metal my whole life.”
Dipping a toe into the knife-making waters, Adolphson began taking an order here and there while working full time as a pipe welder. It was this part-time forging that opened his eyes to a whole new world of possibilities in the world of bladesmithing.
“I’ve made handles with meteorites and mammoth tusk,” Adolphson. “These knives are forever knives and meant to be handed down for generations.”
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview Ward Polzin, CEO, Camino Natural Resources, LLC.
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin scores an exclusive interview with Ward Polzin, CEO, Camino Natural Resources, LLC, less than a day after he returned from Antarctica.
“My wife and I just got back from 30 days in Antarctica. It was a trip of a lifetime.” Polzin said. “There’s some consistencies that we all have in this industry. We are outdoors people, we like animals, we like geology, and that’s what Antarctica brought… we went 8000 miles on a ship… lots of things stood out, penguins galore, icebergs. At one point we were in a colony of 200,000 penguins.”
The two continued to discuss Antarctica and some of the unique attributes that part of the world brings.
“There’s now predators on land for a penguin, so they are not scared of you,” Polzin said. “It’s great to get up that close to see wildlife, geology and nature.”
The interview also covered specific oil and gas topics too. Like what Camino Natural Resources is currently do in the oilfield. According to Polzin, they are currently operating three rigs in Oklahoma
“We just added the third, kinda approximately in the middle of this last year so we are going to see production growth this year in 2022 of about 20-percent over 2021,” Polzin said. “And then even if we keep those three rigs and keep those flat over a give-or-take-five year period, we’ll have about a 10-15% growth rate. So we as you can see we are not trying to grow massively, but we are definitely trying to grow.”
Polzin talks about all the different issues in oil and gas right now – ESG, Ukraine, high oil prices – and advises to be cautious with moves, commitments and financing.
“We need to be really careful right, that those higher oil prices do not bring some unintended consequences to our industry,” Polzin said. “So we just need to keep doing what we do, extremely well, and add a little production where we can.”
Camino Natural Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company operating in the core of the SCOOP and Merge plays of Central Oklahoma. With over 100,000 net acres, Camino is pursuing its growth strategy by applying strong technical analysis and operational integration, resulting in industry leading well results and attractive investment returns.
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The Executive Coach to Real Life Rock Stars Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners and host of The Energy Detox Podcast joined Jason Spiess for an update on the Appalachian Marcellus Utica Basin as well as comment on the recent release of CNX’s Appalachia First Vision.
Sinnott and Spiess also take a stroll into Toxicity and how it is impacting the workplace. Spiess put on his “holistic helmet” in order to become the Shale Play Prophet and predict that 2023 will be the Year of Toxicity. People will be personally and professionally cleansing their environments, according to Spiess. Sinnott agreed with the toxicity prediction, but looked at the solutions and road out a little different than Spiess.
Today CNX Resources Corp. (NYSE: CNX) launched “Appalachia First,” its vision for the future which draws on the company’s regional leadership, core operational strengths, and innovative business model.
As the region’s premier low carbon intensive natural gas development, technology, and applications company, CNX is uniquely positioned to help revolutionize Appalachia, one of the world’s most energy abundant regions, into an energy, manufacturing, and technology hub of the future.
CNX President and CEO Nick DeIuliis said, “The nation and world are waking up to stark energy realities: energy scarcity, deterioration of our power grid, and energy inflation stoking wider inflation. Policy often relies too heavily on applications such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles that can present large life cycle carbon footprints, require supply chains stretching thousands of miles, are costly, and face serious challenges when scaling in regions like Appalachia. If we don’t get energy and climate policies right, our economic competitiveness will be stifled, the environment will be worse off, and we will end up enabling our adversaries to wage war and forcing leaders to negotiate energy supplies from dictators and despots.”
Mr. DeIuliis continued, “There is a better, simpler, and more logical way. Appalachia can be the launchpad to a more efficient and sustainable future catalyzed by lower carbon intensity natural gas. This proud region and its people should be the solution to deliver reliable and affordable energy – our region’s abundant energy resources can and must be used more effectively to prioritize the improvement of the human condition, the environment, the nation, and the world. In other words, put our local communities first and watch what happens. We believe the strategic approaches integrated throughout this vision represent a clear roadmap to transform key sectors of our economy and workforce while also changing the world for the better.”
Specifically, Appalachia First is rooted in three key objectives:
- Leverage CNX’s and Appalachia’s natural gas opportunity by bolstering all sectors of the economy through lower-cost, lower-carbon, and locally produced natural gas.
- As one of the largest, most efficient, and environmentally sustainable sources of natural gas in the world, Appalachia (consisting of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia) are equipped with the tools to lead the sustainable revolution touching all sectors of the economy – including energy, manufacturing, technology, and transportation.
- Develop and deploy a new wave of innovative technologies and enhance local communities by using natural gas product derivatives for vertical market growth.
- Combined with new technology and derivative products, natural gas catalyzes a more sustainable future. CNX and Appalachia can fuel new industrial and manufacturing growth through local natural gas derivatives by:
- Using proprietary technology to change manufacturing processes for the extraction and delivery of natural gas.
- Capturing and converting GHG into sustainable products and applications.
- Jumpstarting the local hydrogen economy.
- Transform the sectors of aviation, plastics, rail, cargo, mass transit, trucking, and fleet and passenger vehicles by displacing higher carbon fuels with locally produced natural gas.
- The U.S. is the world’s largest producer and a net exporter of petroleum and natural gas products, but we still import a lot of foreign oil that can be supplanted with CNG and LNG to transform the region’s hard-to-abate sectors.
“From our founding more than 150 years ago, CNX has a rich history of innovating and bringing new technologies to market to meet the evolving energy needs of Appalachia and the world,” said CNX President of New Technologies Ravi Srivastava. “This strategy – focused on sustainably creating new local jobs and economic activity – embodies our mission of delivering benefits that are Tangible, Impactful, and Local.”
The full Appalachia first plan is available at: https://www.positiveenergyhub.com/appalachia-first
Headquartered just outside of Pittsburgh, the company is a leading Marcellus and Utica Shale producer with operations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. As part of the company’s sustainable business model and commitment to ESG excellence as well as shareholder value creation, CNX has made strategic investments in alternative fuel ventures as well as workforce development training, sustainable manufacturing, advanced methane abatement practices, and expanded its flagship partnership with the Pittsburgh International Airport. Learn more at cnx.com/news.
About CNX Resources
CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) is unique. We are a premier, low carbon intensive natural gas development, production, midstream, and technology company centered in Appalachia, one of the most energy abundant regions in the world. With the benefit of a 158-year regional legacy, substantial asset base, leading core operational competencies, technology development and innovation, and astute capital allocation methodologies, we responsibly develop our resources and deploy free cash flow to create long-term per share value for our shareholders, employees, and the communities where we operate. As of December 31, 2021, CNX had 9.63 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves. The company is a member of the Standard & Poor’s Midcap 400 Index. Additional information is available at www.cnx.com.
Transcript from the Podcast
Jason Spiess 00:11
Let’s go to the audio line where we’ve got Mr. Joe Sinnott on the line. He of course, is with Witting Partners. He also does The Energy Detox. And that’s what we’re going to be talking about today, because in his most recent episode, he’s talking about something that’s known as TIL: Tangible, Impactful, Local. But in order to get to that, we got to start with what’s going on in the Marcellus that prompted him to do that episode of The Energy Detox. And it sounds like there’s a big local push happening out in the Marcellus Shale play. So, we need to talk to Joe Sinnott about our Marcellus update. This is like a three-for-one entry level question. Let’s make it four for one how’re you doing today?
Joe Sinnott 00:59
Doing all right, Jason got about one dozen days until Christmas getting in the in the holiday spirit and always happy to have a conversation with you.
Jason Spiess 01:08
Well, I was gonna say, you know, in the world of the media, it’s nice when you can like really check three boxes, often one news story. And that’s what this does, we get to promote your new episode, which I like to do, because you stay on top of current trends. I also want to make sure I know what’s going on out in the Marcellus and Appalachian. And you’re a great correspondent for that a trusted voice and we’ll get into some of the work you’re doing with some of the local organizations, but you know, CNX that popped up. So this story actually involves CNX getting into the local, I don’t know, it’s hard to say politics when you’re talking about supporting local businesses. That’s just you know, community pride, I guess I’m not sure but what’s going on out there in the Marcellus.
Joe Sinnott 01:56
So overall, the Marcellus, you know, continues to click along and produce plenty of gas, although the big story continues to be that it’s not able to produce as much gas as it could because it’s constrained by pipelines. So, you know, one of the big themes out there is, hey, how do you get, you know, the regulatory bodies sort of out of the way, or at least on board with continuing to develop this resource in a way that allows it to potentially exit the basin and, and help others either, you know, just outside our region, whether it’s in New England, or in some cases, you know, beyond our borders overseas. And with the announcement that you’re sort of alluding to this week, from CNX Resources, they came out and shared their vision and said, Hey, we can obviously support the world with natural gas that’s produced here in the Marcellus. But before we hone in and focus specifically on supporting the rest of the world, let’s make sure that we’re leveraging this resource right here in Appalachia and taking full advantage of it. So that’s sort of the buzz this week with CNX’s recent announcement, they’re “Appalachia First” announcement, as they’re calling it; and it again, speaks to maybe a differentiated focus on this natural resource that has the potential to transform the world, but obviously can transform sort of our local region, first and foremost. And that’s their message. And, again, it’s a message that I stole, actually, before this announcement; you know, they’ve been talking about this “local” message that’s also “tangible” and “impactful.” But this local message has been a theme of theirs for over a year. And it ties in very nicely to some leadership trends that I’m seeing and some leadership warnings that I offer to others. And so that actually happened to be the episode theme for the last episode of The Energy Detox as you lead the show off with and it just coincidentally happened to be tied into CNX’s updated announcement or updated defining of their mission this week. So maybe a long way to weave in all three of those boxes that you’re hoping to check. Hopefully, I did a good enough job of doing that, Jason, but happy to happy to continue the conversation with that theme, if you’re so inclined.
Jason Spiess 04:01
It was a five bagger because you know, we got the whole “How you doing?” in there too, but also, I’m going through the CNX, kind of their press release here. And they mentioned ESG excellence right in the final paragraph there before they get into the about CNX resources. So what is going on with some of the ESG either the vibe or the talk or with the companies out there, because I gotta be honest, in the Bakken, and in some of the other regions, I’m seeing a lot of mixed messages where a lot of the industry is against ESG. But also they’re still putting out the ESG reports. So I’m not really quite sure what to make about that, Joe.
Joe Sinnott 04:47
Yeah, I mean, in general, obviously, every public company on the planet seems to be embracing ESG initiatives, I will say here in the Marcellus and in Appalachia as a whole clearly there’s a lot of focus on what they are doing specifically for the communities in which they operate. So, you know, there’s different companies out there: Diversified Energy is a good example, over the last week or so, I think there’s been three or four clear, specific big initiatives that they’ve been touting, as Turkeys and Toys for Tots and 10,000 trees they donated; things like that, that, hey, emphasize, we’re not just going to talk generically about ESG. But we’re going to really hone in on impacting the local environment, impacting the local society, if you will, and checking the social box, if you will. So I think a lot of companies again–this is not unique, necessarily–but they really want to tout Hey, this is what we’re doing for the specific community. CNX, again, last week, this was the genesis for The Energy Detox podcast episode, they announced that they were donating $1 million to support the expansion of broadband in a county here in southwest PA that is fairly rural. So giving them access to the internet, and all of the things that that then leads to that that catalyzes, if you will. So again, I think you’re you know, you’re seeing something that’s common around the holidays, too, right? You know, hey, “shop local,” that’s, you know, you open that up at the beginning, right, hey, shop local, this is what we’re doing for the community, not just some generic sounding stuff. And I’ll add that, too, Jason that CNX and their CEO, Nick Deiuliis, they’ve really gone above and beyond and tried to differentiate their ESG message. In fact, their corporate responsibility report is named that…a “Corporate Responsibility Report,” they haven’t gone down the corporate “sustainability” report or “ESG” report for whatever that’s worth. But it really speaks to, hey, you know, we take our responsibility very seriously. And, you know, we’re not just going to talk in generic “sustainability” terms, because what does that word even mean?
Jason Spiess 06:50
That’s the thing that caught my attention was they’re doing a lot like what The Crude Life has decided and gone to do where we’ve never released an ESG report, we just highlight those ESG things that we do on a regular basis. And so when I’m looking at this, the little wordplay, trickery, man, we do the same thing. It’s kinda like, yeah, we’ll play your game, but we’re not going to play you know, Calvinball [a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes where players make up their own rules as they go along)–I heard that last night on Fox News. And when I was out, and about one of the anchors use the word Calvinball, and I thought that is a great way to describe ESG; they just kind of changed the rules to satisfy them. And, unfortunately, we’re in that position right now. So I anyway, so I applaud them for saying, you know, what, yeah, we get the good principles that you’re trying to do. And we’re already doing that. So we’re, you know–I like how they’re not even calling it a corporate sustainability report. They’re not even going down that far. That’s fantastic. But, so, but you know, what I mean, I think there’s value there with that–someone who’s saying, Hey, we’re willing to, you know, play along, but only to a certain point. And I respect that personally.
Joe Sinnott 08:10
Well, to add on to one thing you said, Jason, it’s them and other companies taking credit for what they’ve ALREADY been doing. That’s the funny thing, right? This vision that they laid out, it’s not really any different from what they’ve been saying for the last year, or two or two and a half since their CEO, Nick Deiuliis, has really gotten out there and has really been advocating and you know, getting up on stage–figuratively or literally–and saying all of these things. It’s a bit of a rebrand, if you will, but it further hones that message. Now, they already had that “tangible, impactful, local” message for I think about the last year or so. And this gets even more specific: “What is local?” “What does ‘local’ even mean?” Well, hey, we’re talking about Appalachia, you know, these four states that they highlight, you know, CNX is not just in the Marcellus, they also have significant operations down in Virginia, where a lot of their innovation is occurring; and a lot of their real ESG efforts, in fact, are brewing. And so they’re, you know, continuing to hone in on and redefine and get specific about the things they’re already doing, and in turn, get credit for the things that they’re already doing, instead of going the other direction, and becoming more broad and more vague and more tiresome, which quite frankly, Jason–you know, you cover enough companies, right? How often do these messages start to sound the same and start to become nauseous and soporific and, you know, ready to put you to sleep, right? Whereas a company like CNX is going the other direction, which is what we all should be doing as human beings, right? Getting specific about our message and not falling into the trap of just parroting the same stale talking points that every other company is doing.
Jason Spiess 09:48
You hit the nail on the head right there where people are tired of just the empty rhetoric. They they want to see actions. They want to see examples. They want to know what is going on; and the people who are doing it. Unfortunately, they need to kind of play a little bit of, hey, we’re gonna call it “this” instead of “that,” because they have to stand out from all that ridiculous noise. So I don’t know if you’re a paid spokesman for CNX–I know I’m not–but just Who are they? Are they natural gas? Do they do any oil? There’s been so much changes that’s happened out in the different shale plays, you know, especially with Coterra–that was the big merger out there. So who is CNX Resources? Are they primarily natural gas?
Joe Sinnott 10:53
So CNX Resources is primarily natural gas; their origins, though, Jason, go back about 160 years. So they go back to the age of coal. So there was a time not that long ago that it was Consolidated Coal Company; and then you go back a couple of decades, and they realized that, hey, you know, there’s methane in the coal mines; and methane was the enemy of the coal miner. And so you want to release that methane before you would go ahead and mine and at some point they said, “Hey, wait a second…this natural gas, this methane, has value; so then you begin to capture it and intentionally extract it. And that got them into the natural gas game, if you will. And then fast-forward to the early 2000s, when the Marcellus is just starting to rear its head and it made sense, then–you already have this asset base, you already have some of this land–to then transition that natural gas development focus into extracting gas from the Marcellus. So you know, they got into the horizontal shale development. And since then, they’ve separated the coal company from the natural gas company. So CNX resources, as it is today, is a natural gas company, although they still do have assets down in Virginia, which are not Marcellus assets, but they still have CBM–coal bed methane–assets down there. And they are still doing a lot of work in terms of capturing methane from mines. And again, capturing that methane–which is obviously good for the environment, from a from an ESG standpoint, from a global warming standpoint–and they are partnering with other companies (and this is all public information) to take that methane and actually turn it into goods and products that we all use, whether it’s new forms of plastic, if you will, that are biodegradable, and that, again, check all of these ESG boxes in a very real way, in a very tangible way that actually boosts the profile of and the contributions to the world that Appalachia has the ability to do.
Jason Spiess 12:54
“TIL: Tangible, Impactful, Local…the mantra of the CNX Foundation is clearly reflected in the $1 million commitment that CNX is making to broadband expansion in Greene County.” [reading from show notes for recent episode of ‘The Energy Detox’] That’s a great way to put it because, for me, I’m in the communication business. And when we started The Crude Life, you know, we had other aspirations of, you know, the crude life coffee, the crude life clothing, all kinds of different things. But because of my education, because of my background, because of my American upbringing, the communication business is the way to start. You need to get your message out there. And so, investing in broadband, investing in communication abilities is such a fantastic way to go. In fact, in warfare, what they say is one of the first things that you do is you take out their communication towers; that way that people can communicate with each other. So you can see how on both sides of the coin it can become extremely important with what you do. Now, when I take a look at, you know, they’re tangible, impactful, and local. There’s also a political side of this, which is, they raised a good point, Joe, which is why are we investing so much money in the global energy…”grid,” I guess, when we have our own energy grid that really needs to be taken care of here? So what is their message or your interpretation of what they’re trying to get across to either the industry or the local people or the professionals out there?
Joe Sinnott 14:38
Well, I think, my interpretation–and again, this is just my interpretation…I’m certainly not speaking on behalf of CNX in any way, shape, or form–but my interpretation is, who cares about the impact, you know, beyond our borders when we have enough challenges here and when we have these opportunities here? That doesn’t mean you ignore the rest of the world, of course. And in fact, if you go through CNX’s materials from the recent release, they talk about that we can absolutely have a positive impact on the rest of the world. But why wouldn’t we start here first? And I think my–again, interpretation–of why this matters, is because when you’re talking about talent, and you’re talking about getting people on board–and you just mentioned the word politics, right?–we’re talking about getting politicians on board, shouldn’t we be focused on giving them a message that DIRECTLY ties to their constituents to get them to pay attention? I mean, it’s one thing to talk about saving the planet from the dangers of global warming…and we’re gonna do all of these things that may or may not have an impact 50 years from now. Yeah, okay, you could talk about those things. I’m not saying they’re not real. But what about doing something that’s actually going to have a tangible impact within the next, say, five years on the people that actually live here? And a great example of that, Jason, coming back to the Marcellus region is the Shell cracker plant; This was years in the making, billions of dollars of investment, the Shell cracker plant finally went online here a couple of weeks ago. And it’s a huge, huge boon for the local economy; that is a tangible, impactful, local impact that clearly, politicians cannot ignore. And when you have their attention, then you can say, hey, here’s what else you need to do if you want to keep these things rolling. So again, it’s not to shy away from the rest of the world. It’s not to, you know, close our eyes and become protectionist or whatever. But it’s simply saying, Hey, before we help the rest of the world, or the rest of the country, why don’t we help ourselves and take advantage of the resources we have; take advantage of the history of innovation that we’ve had here in Appalachia for the last 150+ years? And do it in a way that actually transforms all of these industries: whether it’s aviation, plastics, transportation, whatever it is; why don’t we do all that transformation here? Because it’s simpler–right, Jason?–instead of trying to transform, you know, the other side of the world? Why don’t we start by transforming the people and the industries and the makeup of our communities that are, you know, 10s, or maybe hundreds of miles away, not 1000s of miles away. So, you know, that’s my interpretation, if you will–or summary–of what I’m reading and I’m seeing out of CNX. And I think, again, looking at this through the lens of a leadership coach, it’s the type of approach and vision that successful leaders have; where they focus on the here and now and what’s in front of them instead of [giving in to] the urge to broaden their message to look beyond and to, you know, unwittingly come across as ignoring what’s right in front of them–which in many cases, Jason, is their people, their teams. So in this case, again, CNX is clearly saying, Hey, we’re focused on our people, and Appalachia, our teams that are driving this forward; and our commitment is to you first…and then we’re all together going to help transform the rest of the world.
Jason Spiess 17:51
A, quote Lee Tillman, CEO of Marathon on this very program here, it takes a lot of resources to ship a molecule across continents. So being local with your energy is the cheapest way to go. So understand the need for exporting but at the same time, turning your back on your own citizens and country and everything like that does make it political. It really does. You know, as long as we’re doing a little bit of political, I gotta have some red meat. What’s going on with that Fetterman guy? I saw the he wears hoodies and stuff, huh? He just kind of dresses. Like, like my son on the weekend.
Joe Sinnott 18:43
Oh, I don’t know, Jason after he was elected, he was spotted wearing a suit. I think when they had their orientation or whatever, down in Washington, but he has totally disappeared from headlines here.
Jason Spiess 18:55
I think first big acting role he has I saw he’s an actor now, too.
Joe Sinnott 18:59
Oh, he’s a jack of all trades. There’s really no title, Jason, that can accurately define Senator-elect John Fetterman from here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jason Spiess 19:13
Well, he’s gonna be in a movie in a movie with Christian Bale. I did see that. That, you know, that was kind of a good deal for him. But is he at all reaching out to the energy industry at all out there? Or is he just busy, you know, kind of just still soaking in the limelight and the fame stuff?
Joe Sinnott 19:30
I can’t say what he’s been up to. I can’t speak to how much outreach he’s had since being elected, although I don’t get the sense that he was doing a heck of a lot of outreach before being elected. But I will say one thing, it’s interesting you bring up John Fetterman, because some would argue that one of the reasons that he was elected is that he arguably took this this hyper “local” focus, right? I mean, whether it was you know, warranted or not, he came across as the Everyman, right? In the local community.
Jason Spiess 20:02
Yeah, that’s what I’m bringing it up!
Joe Sinnott 20:03
Oh, well, while we’re on the same page…look at that, Jason. I expect nothing else! But yeah, I mean, you got Dr. Oz…Nobody cared about the politics…it wasn’t as important as the image.
Jason Spiess 20:14
…Drinking tea at a beer kegger. Absolutely, man. So he came off as the wrong way. Absolutely. Yeah. But I find it interesting because that’s what Fetterman won on was the local image. And so when you bring this up, it again just seems like there’s more contradiction amongst the leadership. So, Joe, this is what you do for a living man, you put leaders on the right path, give yourself a plug quick.
Joe Sinnott 20:44
Well, hey, look, my role is behind the scenes, kind of like John Fetterman. I’m, you know, hanging out in my basement and, trying to make a difference–Maybe making a pitch for myself and drawing parallels between John Fetterman is not the way to go…But you said “put people on the right path.” I don’t put people on the right path, Jason; I’m working with individuals within the energy industry who are already on a good path or they’ve been on a good path. My job is to help keep them on the right path or to help make decisions easier and more confidently that are in front of them as far as which way to go next; which fork in the road to take–to quote Yogi Berra. So, you know, the way I do that, Jason is by asking questions, getting to the heart of what their ultimate purpose is, helping them understand when they are getting too broad or too vague, when their people are looking at them and feeling like maybe they’re being abandoned, helping them understand when those occasions are happening, and then pulling them back on that path that they’re likely already on; and, more importantly, helping to get other people on that same path moving in the same direction. So again, the way I do that is by being embedded in the energy industry, understanding the technical challenges, the political challenges, the corporate challenges, the business challenges, having been a part of that industry, having been in that technical role and those leadership roles; taking those experiences to ask better questions of individuals so that when they drift off that path–or they’re feeling like they’re going to drift off the path–bringing them back and saying, “so what, why does this matter? Why does this initiative matter? Why is this this sexy, new leadership messaging that you’re delivering to your team…why do you actually think it’s going to make a difference?” And [then] having them hone in on the things that actually will make a difference, the things they can say, the things they can ask, and more importantly, the things they can do. So, that’s what I do. That’s what I enjoy. Jason; it’s fun, still being part of the energy industry, not falling into the trap of being one of the millions of other generic coaches out there that can help people generate results–I’m not trying to bash other coaches. But you know, being embedded in this industry, particularly here in Appalachia, it’s a heck of a lot of fun, helping, quite frankly, companies do the types of things that CNX is trying to execute upon, which is innovate, take advantage of their local resources, not reinvent the wheel. And I think you used the word “easier” earlier, Jason–help make being a leader easier. Because it doesn’t have to be complicated. It shouldn’t be complicated. But one of the biggest hurdles that leaders face is overcomplicating leadership, and missing out on the simple things they can do, which is focusing on their people, focusing on existing resources, and, quite frankly, doing those “local,” small, but visible things that people actually care about.
Jason Spiess 23:36
Time now for the shale play profit–the prognostication segment as we wind down the year 2022 and we look ahead to 2023; and the shale play profit–if I’m putting on my hard helmet, the holistic helmet that allows me to see into the future. I see a lot of toxicity in the next year, Joe. And that’s mostly because of social media, in my opinion, to where companies, until they get a handle on their social media policies on what their employees are doing during the day. It’s like a smoke break where you can just pick on people or promote certain people or it’s really the Wild West. So I personally, I think social media, and just kind of the wild west of it right now is creating a lot of toxicity in workplaces. Maybe it’s because now that people are bringing back the workplace and people like working at home, maybe that’s part of the toxicity reasons. Everybody might have their own little, you know, slice of the pie, if you will. But at the end of the day, I think the pie being presented in 2023 is going to be toxicity in the workplace through a variety of different ways. I know that your business actually can help with that. So I’m not trying to plug your business in that way, but at the same time, hey, serendipitous or not, let’s talk about it. Do you have any prognostications for next year? And let’s talk a little bit about the toxicity and workplace view in mind.
Joe Sinnott 25:14
As far as prognostications, I agree with the toxicity prediction, if you will, Jason, but I don’t think it’s going to come from, you know, people hating each other necessarily; I think it’s that the toxicity–or sort of the nausea-inducing social media that’s out there…we talked about it earlier, right?–these generic messages from companies; I think, at some point, it’s going to come to a head, and individuals, whether they’re current employees or prospective employees, they’re going to be looking for companies with a differentiated message that sounds a little bit fresher, that isn’t just overly polished and, you know, comes across as sort of nothing or sounding the same as everybody else. So my prediction–and I see some of this now, I see rumblings within companies where it’s, “Hey, how can we differentiate our message? How can we get our employees out on social media more in a way that is actually more natural and positive,” but doesn’t come across as forced, doesn’t come across as them just copying and pasting scripts that the company gives to them? I think that’s the holy grail for a lot of companies. Jason, and again, it’s sort of a–not a direct toxicity, necessarily. It’s not an overt toxicity. But it’s that toxicity that comes when it sounds like people are just talking generically. I mean, I hate that. And again, I’m not saying I haven’t been on my soapbox talking in some vague terms today. But you know, when I’m working with leaders, that’s the number one thing I’m on the lookout for; are you just saying these generic, trite, cliche leadership things–you read four leadership books, and now you think you’re an expert? And you know, your employees aren’t stupid; they want you to talk to them in real terms. And I think companies have an opportunity to do that, to attract talent and to retain talent. So I think companies are going to do that, like I said, because some companies are starting to do that. So there’s my there’s my 2023 prediction: I think you’re gonna see some pretty clear attempts at unleashing the real people working within these organizations.
Jason Spiess 27:16
Yeah, I think what is happening, I guess, just kind of existentially–if we’re going to do a little existential energy–The woke culture is happening in so many different areas that people are just awakening. And what they’re awakening to is an authenticity of themselves. And so they are questioning a lot more things. And, you know, it can be you know, everything from the supply chain, did the Titanic really sink? I have no idea. I mean, what people are doing. So I just know that a lot of people are educating themselves in a variety different ways. And people are, you know, waking up and woke culturing in their own way. And at the end of the day, what they’re looking for is truth and authenticity. So those companies that are able to do that are the ones that in my opinion, are going to navigate through this toxic sea that we seem to be going into. I don’t know if you want to comment on that at all.
Joe Sinnott 28:19
Yeah, I’ll add one thing, because “authenticity” is another one of those buzzwords; it’s real, and it’s important, and leaders absolutely need to embrace authenticity. But then the question is, “how?” Right, Jason? How do you demonstrate authenticity? And one of the best and most effective ways to do this–to generate actual results is to connect what your stated vision is, what your stated mission is, what your corporate talking points are…connect that back to the work that the individuals are doing. So it’s, “why does any of this stuff matter?” And again, it comes back to what we talked about at the outset…and throughout this conversation, it’s that “local” idea, right? Not local from a, you know, community standpoint (hey, we donated X dollars to the local, whatever, 4H club or whatever it is–it’s to you as an individual employee; how is what the company’s doing make a difference in your world, and how is what you’re doing make a difference in what the company’s bottom line is? So often, Jason, companies fail to make that connection. There’s, you know, silos…talk about silos, again, another generic term that millions of coaches are going to talk about: “we’re gonna knock down silos!” But it’s not just the silos between operational groups. It’s the silos between, you know, the people in the in the C-suite or the marketing department that are putting this stuff out…and obviously, the workers who have their boots on the ground, that are in the field, that are on location that are doing things; those are the connections that you need to make internally. It takes time, it takes energy, but when you build those authentic connections that are strong and clear and quantifiable, that’s the key for these companies, Jason; and, again, there’s some real ways to do that. It’s not complicated, it…can cost a heck of a lot less money than then some slick marketing campaign. So, that’s it–you hit the nail on the head with “authenticity,” but it’s how do you demonstrate it?
Jason Spiess 30:19
Well, I think a lot of these companies like CNX, that we were talking about earlier, is they’re just showing and illustrating and citing examples of the body of work–what’s already been done. And when you can do that, versus “we’re gonna be gonna be gonna be,” I always called that the bartender–that the bartender is always going to be doing something, I mean, all you got to do is listen to them, and they’re so charming, because they’re just constantly dreaming, they’re gonna be gonna be gonna be, well, at some point, you got to put it into reality. And I think that is coming home to roost in a lot of people; and what I mean by that is–and Joe, are you ready for your next interview right here on The Crude Life, because this is a topic that we should do a cross-promotional podcast and figure out how to do that, because it’s so good. It needs to have two different sources to distribute the sucker through because we’re working on a column right now for our ESG University. And we’re flat out asking the question, you know, did you hire Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice, or Queen? Because Milli Vanilli, they didn’t even write the music or sing the music. So they just copied and pasted everything. Okay, Vanilla Ice, he changed one note, he changed one note, and he was a one hit wonder. So Queen, who seemed to not be the cool band during all that time, they were the ones that were putting together their legacy. So did you hire, you know, Freddie Mercury and Queen? Who’s actually the person who’s producing the content and the real talent and putting it out? Getting the job done? Whatever it might be? Or did you get Vanilla Ice? Who changed one note claimed it as their own? And now they don’t have anything? Or was it Milli Vanilli–who, by the way, Milli Vanilli might work the best, especially with the overseas Asian outsourcing that you can do for five bucks, you could have your own personal assistant, you could do a whole bunch of things in the Milli Vanilli world nowadays. So we’re gonna, you know, that’s how we’re gonna approach it. We’re not we’re gonna look at all the pros and cons. So just kind of, you know, your thought on that a little bit when it when it comes to employees and trying to determine, you know, what did I hire here? I mean, there’s a workforce shortage everywhere. So people are getting desperate. They’re just grabbing people. And it’s tough to get by that initial, you know, sizzle, if you know what I mean.
Joe Sinnott 33:02
Yeah, and again, it’s–I do love that it’s tied into your ESG university classes or whatever, because it’s “sustainability,” right? It’s all of those three employees or employee groups…who’s the most “sustainable?” Because the first two, yeah, they can generate results. And that’s where, again, a lot of leaders get misled, right? Oh, we’re all about “results” here. Look at the bottom line results. Well, you know, hey, look at the record sales for those…for Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli and all this stuff. You could say, hey, look skyrocketing and look at this growth, whatever. But the results can be misleading. It’s one of the huge themes in the work that I do is that results don’t always speak for themselves. And again, that’s where a lot of leaders become unconscious. You know, they’re, unaware, they’re unwittingly latching on to results, because it seems easy. It seems safe. It’s what everybody else is doing. And it points to the fact that Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice…”oh, no, no, those are the ones you want on board.” Meanwhile, yeah, Queens chugging along, actually doing great work. And people aren’t asking the right questions. And now you got a whole team of Milli Vanilli’s and Vanilla Ice’s and, again, it’s not sustainable. So, you hit the nail on the head. The other thing you said, Jason, was maybe going back to taking advantage of the stuff you’ve already done–your body of work, that foundation…you take a company like CNX, and it’s actually kind of funny, because a year or so ago, they started calling themselves, “net zero or carbon negative” and I think at least maybe scope one and scope two emissions, because they have that methane capture program–that coal mine methane capture program. So they’re saying, hey, you know what, we’re already at zero, right? Or we’re carbon negative already. “What next?” Which again, is just a funny way to say, hey, look, we’re already generating results. We’re doing these things already. We’re not just going to lean on promises of what’s going to happen 50 years from now; we don’t have “a plan to come up with a plan” to be net-zero in 30 years “maybe if the stars align” and ever thing else. No, they said, hey, look, this is what we’re doing right now. And so when you combine current real results with that foundation that an entity like Queen has, you put those together and you’re on a sustainable path. And that’s what you want to be as a leader; you want to take advantage of existing resources. Yes, you need to generate some short term results. But you need to make sure that you’re always taking full advantage of that foundation, strengthening that foundation, and being on guard against the things that can chip away at that foundation. You need to protect the things that actually matter. And again, that’s where, a lot of the coaching that I do comes into play…making sure that people aren’t unwittingly opening themselves up for that foundation to crumble or for people to start casting stones unfairly at you, which could lead to your your message getting lost and your your ultimate demise as a leader and then, in turn, as an organization.
Jason Spiess 35:54
Milli Vanilli, of course, won the Best New Artist Grammy. How many Grammys did Queen win?
Joe Sinnott 36:04
I don’t have an answer for you today, Jason.
Joe Sinnott 36:06
Well, the best is the people that stumble upon thinking it’s some sort of cleanse, you know? They had a late night of drinking and they’re looking for some sort of detox and they stumbled across it; but either, way we welcome people however they came across it; we welcome everybody.
Jason Spiess 36:06
And that is the correct answer: zero. So there you go, folks, Queen did not win any Grammys, did not get recognized as one of the best bands in their particular industry. But Milli Vanilli who did not even sing or write the song got the Best New Artist Award. So that is a whole ‘nother topic for another day. We could talk about organizations and awards and all kinds of things. But again, let’s just kind of circle back here and kind of do a little bit of a wrap up here. So great talk today on a number of things. Of course, you’ve got your podcast, The Energy Detox, that’s just gaining more popularity because people in the industry love it and, of course, people outside the industry, they liked the name so they check it out and they find out “oh, this is just useful stuff for every day…Doesn’t matter if I’m in the industry or not. This was great.”
Jason Spiess 37:16
That’s why you were doing yoga the other morning…I was wondering why that podcast had yoga, but now I get it…your energy detoxing, appeasing that audience…look at you trying to…I’m joking people out there. Okay. All right. So what was the other thing I was gonna ask you? Let’s see. Oh, are you still doing the kind of the moderating role for, is it, the Society of Petroleum Engineers that you are doing that for?
Joe Sinnott 37:43
Yeah, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE, they have Tech Talks, it’s a live show. They have it about two times a week, I’m hosting maybe three or four times a month. So still doing that, still moderating; fun way for me to, again, stay abreast of latest technological developments in the world of oil and gas. Which, again, for those listeners of The Energy Detox, you know that we like to weave in current technology in oil and gas along with current headlines and political themes and leadership themes and kind of bring them all together in a way to help you think more clearly and make better decisions. So, yes, still happy to be a part of that. And welcome folks to check that out as well…go ahead and follow Society of Petroleum Engineers on LinkedIn is probably the easiest way to see as episodes pop up there; and you can watch them live and interact live. And you can go to their streaming.spe.org site as well and check them out there.
Jason Spiess 38:40
Well, there, you got your homework; we are going to have our next podcast as a cross-promotional podcast in some way where we’re going to talk about the Milli Vanilli, the Vanilla Ice, and the Queen employee. Maybe we’ll add some more bands. All I know is the hits are just going to keep coming, Joe. That’s all I know.
Joe Sinnott 39:01
All right. Well, there are a few conversations I can think that I would be more excited to have, Jason, so I look forward to the next rendition of The Crude Life with you.
Jason Spiess 39:10
Outstanding man, well, how can people get a hold of your content? What’s the website?
Joe Sinnott 39:17
Always happy to connect with folks on LinkedIn, of course, but you can also navigate on over to WittingPartners.com; or if you’re interested in checking out The Energy Detox, you can go ahead and find that on whatever your favorite podcasting platform happens to be, as well as YouTube and a couple other places if you use the ol’ Google.
Jason Spiess 39:42
Well, make sure to Ask Jeeves it and Alta Vista my way to the energy detox podcast. There you go, folks. There’s some mid-90s humor for you. And yeah, awesome, man. Well, we’ll talk down the line, sir.
Joe Sinnott 39:57
All right. Well, thank you, as always, Jason. Hope you have a great day…and remember, as we head closer to Christmas here, you want to “shop local,” you want to “think local,” and, of course, you want to “lead local.”
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature with then-North Dakota Commerce Commissioner James Leiman.
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin sits down with then-North Dakota Commerce Commissioner James Leiman, about how the state of North Dakota and the Bakken oil field can assist the energy issues with the Ukraine as well as other European countries. (Leiman resigned from his position in June 2022)
“The state can help by putting more oil and gas online into supply chains,” Leiman said. “So when you think about the pressures the Russians are currently manifesting in Western Europe and the constant back and forth of whether we are going to shut off your oil and gas.”
Other states like Wyoming and Texas have also stepped up to the global podium in anticipation of sending resources overseas to America’s allies during this global crisis. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon recently spoke with Jason Spiess about how their state can assist overseas and the logistical infrastructure in West Texas (Odessa Mayor Javier Joven and Midland Mayor Patrick Payton) is being built to produce next level energy.
“North Dakota, West Texas, Oklahoma, all those places, Wyoming too, all those can put more energy capacity online right now,” Leiman said.
He continued saying that if the Department of Energy was more accessible and receptive to American Energy Independence, the Bakken and other states could “inspire” new development and innovation.
“Why that is important is it creates slack in other markets, and in the global marketplace we all compete for the same energy resources,” Leiman said. “The more we can put online the better negotiating position Europeans are in as well as Americans.”
Carbon storage and the infrastructure being built to continue the evolution of how oil and gas companies are becoming a true “all of the above” energy company.
“North Dakota, a third of it, is geological capiable of storing every carbon molecule produced in the United States for 50 years,” Leiman said. “So here’s the deal, because of that we have seen a massive expansion of the types of projects we’ve been able to attract.”
One of those carbon capture projects involved Continental Resources, Carbon Summit Solutions and the Tharaldson Ethanol Plant. Continental Resources Inc. will commit $250 million over the next two years to help fund the development and construction of Summit’s $4.5 billion carbon capture and sequestration project.
Continental Resources Chairman Harold Hamm and CEO Bill Berry along with Summit Agricultural Group CEO Bruce Rastetter attended a press conference hosted by North Dakota entrepreneur Gary Tharaldson at the Tharaldson Ethanol Plant in Casselton, which is participating in the carbon capturing project.
“Continental Resources has called North Dakota home over 25 years. As the state’s largest leaseholder and producer, no company knows the geology better than we do,” said Harold Hamm, Continental Resources Founder and Chairman. “I want to thank the tremendous leadership of Senator Hoeven who, as governor, had the foresight to lay the groundwork for a project like this. North Dakota’s regulatory environment is second to none as the state will continue to lead in finding innovative ways to help reduce carbon emissions around the world.”
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts also attended the press conference which highlighted the importance of carbon capture and storage to U.S. energy security.
ND Commerce Commissioner Leiman said more investments like the Continental Resources one is happening across the state. He points to “the big gas-to-liquids facility” that announced near Trenton, which is attracting customers who are searching for Net Zero supply chain producers.
“So they are able to take gas, convert it to a sustainable aviation fuel, and then bury the carbon,” Leiman said. “Someone pays a premium, you’ve got billions of dollars invested here, you’ve got a home for significant quantities of gas and you are able to increase oil production as a result.”
North Dakota Department of Commerce worked with the North Dakota Development Fund to approved the initial support for Cerilon Inc. to develop a major gas-to-liquids (GTL) complex in North Dakota, with the initial phase estimated at $2.8 billion.
The Development Fund Board approved $3 million in initial developmental capital to Cerilon GTL Inc., a subsidiary of Calgary, Albert-based Cerilon Inc., for the GTL complex, with further financial support anticipated.
With this support, Cerilon GTL will proceed with the remaining development in anticipation of construction of the $2.8 billion Phase 1 GTL facility in Williams County. The GTL project supports state leadership’s strategy to diversify the energy industry and support clean, environmentally responsible energy development.
Lavin and Leiman then direct the conversation to yet another investment opportunity in the Bakken involving enhanced oil recovery.
“So you got what was once considered a liability in and around our region, we are able to monetize six or seven times over,” Leiman said. “From capturing their carbon and moving it to our geology, some people like 45Q, I personally would like to see more incentives for enhances oil recovery.”
Leiman continues with his opinion on why incentives and investments into EOR technologies would be beneficial to America’s industry, the planet’s environment and our global economy.
“I think if you were to reverse maybe the storage in the enhanced oil recovery number we would see those projects go a little more west for EOR,” Leiman said. “This way we can produce the cleanest meanest barrel of oil in the country and people will pay a premium for that.”
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Drew Allen of The Drew Allen Show.
Drew Allen is a Texas-bred, California-based millennial author, columnist, and political analyst. Fluent in Italian, Drew has lived and worked in Italy in the fashion industry and in New York City and Los Angeles as an actor, screenwriter, and independent film producer. He is a fresh, young, bold voice for the conservative movement.
On this episode of The Crude Life, host Jason Spiess and Allen discuss the Trucker’s Strike in Canada and how it relates to our global freedoms. Allen explains why he sees this strike as a simple Truckers vs. Tyrants.
“So many people in government making decision for the many hard working men and women out there have no real experience in the real world. They are life long politicians,” Allen said. “Look at the way they talk about these truckers and others, flyover country for example, they just think these people are idiots, stupid people who are not the elite, not politicians, just a bunch of dumb rednecks. But these are the people who actual work and have families to feed, they are the ones effected by their regulations. Often times these politicians make themselves exempt from the regulations they impose on others.”
Allen believes Climate Change is is a hoax and gives his reasons and opinions why.
The two discuss Joe Rogen’s recent news and what is behind the controversy.
Socialism, accountability and the true meaning of being conservative are also pontificated in this progressive podcast.
The Drew Allen Show and work can be read and seen and heard at drewthomasallen.com.
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Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Warren Martin, executive director, Kansas Strong, joins Jason Spiess on The Crude Life Content Network with an update on the historic oil spill in Washington County, Kansas.
According to Martin, there is no release or information on what caused the spill, but the site has been maintained and no drinking water wells have been impacted.
“The site has been contained, emergency response and company officials are all working together to ensure the spill handled,” Martin said. “No drinking water wells have been impacted, an earthen dam has been constructed so the oil can be contained and the water can continue to flow without contamination.”
According to Martin, The Keystone Pipeline spilled into a creek running through rural pastureland in Washington County, Kansas, about 150-160 miles north of Wichita.
“TC Energy has mobilized additional resources, such as vacuum trucks and oil skimmers, to support oil recovery from Mill Creek,” Martin said.
Martin said the price of oil and impact on inflation seem to be the number one issue to the locals.
“Jason I can tell you the number one concern locally here is will this impact the price of oil, because that will impact inflation,” Martin said. “When will the pipeline get back online is another concern here locally.”
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report last year said there had been 22 previous spills along the Keystone system since it began operating in 2010, most of them on TC Energy property and fewer than 20 barrels.
The total from those 22 events was a little less than 12,000 barrels, which is 2,000 less than last Friday’s spill.
Environmentalists, the media and politicians have been using this accident to attempt and advance a political narrative.
“As an industry we have always used barrels when discussing oil,” Martin said. “You see headlines now that use gallons in the story or headline. So instead of 14,000 barrels of oil, it’s something just shy of 600,000 gallons.”
Congressman Donald Payne tweeted his “watchful eye” from New Jersey.
As Congress looks to begin work on reauthorizing pipeline safety, I'm watching this situation closely to learn more about this latest oil leak and inform ways to prevent future releases and protect public safety and the environment.https://t.co/v0sKz0Dq1l
— Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (@RepDonaldPayne) December 9, 2022
TC Energy said it had set up environmental monitoring at the site, including around-the-clock air quality monitoring.
“Our primary focus right now is the health and safety of onsite staff and personnel, the surrounding community, and mitigating risk to the environment,” a company statement said.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the Keystone pipeline moves about 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to Cushing, Oklahoma, where it can connect to another pipeline to the Gulf Coast.
The interview also discussed the “energy ecumenical” work Martin has been doing with the schools and local communities in Kansas.
“I spent 4-and-a-half-hours teaching kids all about the oil and gas industry,” Martin said. “Generally when I go into a classroom, I take core samples, take rocks and talk about geology, a lot of drawing on the board to kind of map things out as we go along and try to get as many hands on activities we can to show the kids how many things are made from petroleum products.”
The Kansas Oil & Gas Resources Fund, better known as Kansas Strong, is a nonprofit organization voluntarily funded by oil and natural gas producers in Kansas. Kansas Strong works to educate and inform people about the important role our industry plays in their lives. The Kansas oil and natural gas industry provides the energy and security our nation needs.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is an interview with Thomas Ratliff, co-owner and geophysicist at DDD Exploration.
Thomas Ratliff, co-owner and geophysicist at DDD Exploration, (pronounced 3-D Exploration) joins The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin at NAPE 2022. Ratliff and Lavin begin the interview talking about conventional methods in oil and gas.
“We built our company around 3D seismic, and we’ve always liked to use 3D seismic for our prospects and to find our prospects,” Ratliff said. “We’re still all conventional. We still drill conventional wells. And we still use conventional methods to find our oil and gas.:”
Ratliff transitions into their 2022 plans and how they plan to tackle the projects on the books, while examining the market to layer some more projects into the fold.
They two also talk about the growth and how 3D Exploration has some good things in the pipeline.
“We got some good production coming in, and the high prices really helps out,” Ratliff said. “We have a pretty good drilling program going.”
DDD Exploration was created in 1991 to explore for oil and gas using 3-D seismic data. Their services include acquisition, processing and interpretation of 3-D seismic data. DDD Exploration explores for and develops oil and gas reserves in the Hardeman and Dalhart Basins. DDD Exploration shot the first 3-D seismic surveys in Hardeman County, TX (1991), Jackson County, OK (1992) and Chaves County, NM (1992).
Thomas and Franklin Ratliff cofounded DDD Exploration in 1991. Thomas was working as a production geophysicist for Mobil E&P and Franklin was working as an attorney for a law firm in Lubbock, TX before quitting their jobs to form the company.
DDD Exploration was initially based in Midland, TX before moving the company to Lubbock, TX in 1992 and finally to Amarillo, TX in 1995 where it is presently headquartered.
DDD Exploration has shot hundreds of square miles of 3-D seismic and has discovered millions of barrels of oil. DDD Exploration discovered and drilled the largest well ever found in Jackson County, OK (the Ratliff operated Hankins #1 has flowed over 945 MBO to date). DDD Exploration is presently the largest oil producer in Hartley County TX, the 2’nd largest oil producer in the Dalhart Basin and the 30th largest oil producer in the Texas Panhandle.
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Geoff Gordon-Creed of the Well Done Foundation joined Jason Spiess on The Crude Life and KLXX 1270AM’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken to discuss orphan wells, his recent presentation at COP27 and what’s next for for the non profit in 2023.
Gordon-Creed starts off the interview by discussing what the Well Done Foundation is and what orphan wells are.
The Well Done Foundations, founded in 2019, builds partnerships between regulators, owners and adoptive parties to plug “orphan” oil & gas wells. The non-profit is based in Montana but is also building capacity in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and several other states.
“Orphaned” wells are those for which no former owner or operator can be located, while the term “abandoned well” typically refers to an unproductive well with a known owner/operator. In either case, the wells remain uncapped.
Gordon-Creed also shared a story about an orphan well last year that the industry in Ohio located next to a senior living home.
Working with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Cleveland Fire Department, management of Franciscan Village and Moore Well Services the collective group of people and organizations banded together to plug the orphan well.
There may have been more than an orphan well discovered too. Gordon-Creed explains how state records show the well had been drilled more than a century ago to extract natural gas, but was plugged in the 1950s with a substance called fire clay.
“This was the industry standard at the time,” Gordon-Creed said. “However what they found was that what was commonly used by the industry at the time, had cracked and shrunk over time.”
Gordon-Creed explained how many orphan wells from the early 1900’s were capped with rocks, landfill and wood casings.
“Wood was the industry standard then,” Gordon-Creed said. “You would be shocked at the things we have found used to cap wells from centuries ago.”
Bakken shared a story about how he heard stories of plywood used to “cap” a well hole with a rock put on top to hold down the board, then in the spring when it was time to “pick rocks” the kids just piled the rocks on top of the board and rock.
“You see those rock piles next to a field that are 100-years old. How many rock piles out there have a well underneath?” Bakken asked.
Spiess pontificated if there was an E.T. Atari cartridges or Honda 3-Wheelers used to cap well because landfills are littered with them.
Gordon-Creed said the Well Done Foundation is going to continue more of the same with more energy education and carbon awareness.
Earlier this year, the Well Done Foundation entered into a partnership with Newlight, which is a biotechnology company producing advanced sustainable materials.
Over 10 years of research and development, Newlight developed a biotechnological process to harness microorganisms found in the ocean to convert greenhouse gas into a meltable energy material found in all living things: a naturally-occurring, biocompatible material that can be used to make fibers and solid parts, and help reduce the flow of carbon and synthetic plastic into the environment.
Following commercialization in 2013, AirCarbon was named “Biomaterial of the Year” by the Nova Institute in 2013, “one of the 100 most technologically significant innovations of the year” by R&D Magazine in 2013, and “Innovation of the Year” by Popular Science in 2014, and received the prestigious EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award in 2016. Today, Newlight is focused on growth through both internal and licensed production to help fulfill the company’s mission: to protect and improve life by accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable, regenerative materials.
This partnership continues the momentum of corporate sponsors helping plug orphan wells across America. Texas-based distillery Tito’s Handmade Vodka and the Felty Family Challenge recently funded the non-profit’s first well-plugging project of 2022. The well, known as Fenner #2, was installed near Caddo Lake on the Louisiana/Texas border in 1985, and abandoned in 2017.
According to the Well Done Foundation website, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are 2.5 million unplugged abandoned wells in the United States. That includes 31 states, emitting 7.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. They say that is equal to 798 million gallons of gasoline used, 1.54 million passenger vehicles for a year, or 7.85 billion pounds of coal burned.
For more information, or to contribute or sponsor a well plugging project, visit welldonefoundation.org.
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Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature with Tara Norris Rasmuson sat down with host Jason Spiess to discuss her journey from petroleum to publishing. Tara was a landman (aka landwoman …. aka land negotiator) while working in oil and gas. Now she is the publisher of the Greeley Lifestyle Magazine.
“I started out at the bottom answering phones in the oil and gas industry,” Tara said. “I really just worked my way up. I studied Petroleum Land Management at Oklahoma City University. I then got an internship with a little group called Tekton Energy in Highlands Ranch and they had a project here in Windsor Colorado.”
Windsor is just a “stones throw” away from Greeley, which is the home rule municipality city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Weld County. Weld County hosts approximately 20,000 well pads or active well sites and producing roughly 85-90% of Colorado’s oil development.
Before Tara’s internship and work answering phones, she absorbed a respect for the industry through her geography and father’s profession.
“I actually grew up in the industry, my dad’s a geologist, so I watched my entire life the ups and the downs of the industry,” Tara said. “I saw a lot of people leave and I felt really sad when they had to leave oil and gas. But now I feel so much gratitude having now transiting out of the oil and gas industry, now I can look at it from a different lens.”
Tara’s work in oil and gas continued after her start up and in Colorado, and she found herself with numerous opportunities to dive into the real culture of industry. From the travel to the colorful personalities to the corporate structures to being on the front line of town hall meetings discussing oil and gas projects and community collaborations.
Furthermore, Tara believes there are “so many good stories in oil and gas” because she has seen them first hand.
“There’s a lot going on here. So many stories from industry that can be told… need to be told,” Tara said. “People think it’s (Greeley) always think agriculture, farming and cattle. There’s a lot more to Greeley. The oil and gas industry is so big here, but they are quiet about it.”
Tara continues citing humility as the main reason for the lack of positive oil and gas stories being shared in the local communities. However, those times are slowly changing and publications like the Greeley Lifestyle Magazines are sharing those stories.
One thing is clear for Tara’s next chapter in life. She is more interested in personal growth and sharing the experiences than the pursuit of private jets and record-profits.
“As we wound down Bear Lake Resources and realized we weren’t going to get the funding to drill that we wanted and our big plans were not going to come to fruition, I started to be open to other opportunities,” Tara said. “I loved starting at the bottom of the oil and gas industry and working my way to the top. I found so much joy in that journey. So I looked at other industries that I could have a similar experience of just the joy of the journey.”
That industry is publishing. Tara started the Greeley Lifestyle Magazine, which is a community-focused magazine that aims to connect the residents to the people, places, businesses and cultures that make Greeley a special city to live and work.
When asked if she looks at herself as an Ambassador of sorts for the industry as many are finding themselves at a crossroads, she sees how one could make that leap and connection as her transition out of industry is a transition, not exit.
Right now Tara sees how publications like the Greeley Lifestyle Magazine can assist industry immediately.
“We are actually working with a large operator right now to do some stories,” Tara said. “What I think we need to do is put the faces of the oil and gas employees in the magazine and we need to tell their stories. We need to say these are families with children that live and work and play, they give back, are great people and do the right thing.”
Tara continued.
“Number two is sharing what the industry businesses and companies are doing to give back to the community,” Tara said.
After a bit more discussion about Tara’s journey from petroleum to publishing, she offers some advice for those experiencing the uncertainty that exists in industry today.
“When I was looking at transitioning out, I sat down with myself. Myself. And I asked myself what do I love the most about the industry and the everyday life in the industry and what am I really good at,” Tara said. “The answers to those questions really help frame what I was looking for in the next stage of my life.”
Kunal Patel is a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas joins Jason Spiess for an update on the oil and gas activity in the 11th District, including the Permian Basin in Texas.
Activity in the oil and gas sector expanded at a strong pace in the third quarter, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms—remained elevated at 46.0 but below the 57.7 record-breaking reading last quarter. This suggests the pace of the expansion decelerated slightly but remains solid.
Oil and natural gas production increased at a similar pace compared with the prior quarter, according to executives at exploration and production (E&P) firms. The oil production index held fairly steady at 31.7 in the third quarter. The natural gas production index was essentially unchanged at 35.6.
Costs increased for a seventh straight quarter, with the indexes near historical highs. Among oilfield services firms, the index for input costs remained elevated but slipped from its series high to 83.9. None of the 58 responding oilfield services firms reported lower input costs. Among E&P firms, the index for finding and development costs was 64.7, down slightly from its high last quarter of 70.6. Additionally, the index for lease operating expenses was 70.2, easing slightly from the high last quarter of 74.1.
It is taking longer for firms to receive materials and equipment. The supplier delivery time index remained elevated at 28.4 in the third quarter, down slightly from a series high of 31.9 in the second quarter. Among oilfield service firms, the measure of lag time in delivery of services declined from 36.0 to 21.1 but remained well above average.
Oilfield services firms reported broad-based improvement, with key indicators remaining in solidly positive territory. The equipment utilization index remained elevated but fell from 66.7 in the second quarter to 55.2 in the third. The operating margin index remained positive but declined from 32.7 to 25.4. The index of prices received for services inched higher, from 62.7 to 64.9—a record high.
All labor market indexes in the third quarter remained elevated, pointing to strong growth in employment, hours and wages. The aggregate employment index posted a seventh consecutive positive reading, increasing from 22.6 in the second quarter to a record 30.0. The aggregate employee hours index was 33.3, close to its historical high. The aggregate wages and benefits index remained elevated and was largely unchanged at 47.3.
Optimism waned somewhat this quarter as the company outlook index posted a ninth consecutive positive reading but fell 33 points to 33.1. The overall outlook uncertainty index jumped from 12.4 to 35.7, suggesting uncertainty became much more pronounced this quarter, especially among E&P firms. The uncertainty index was 17.8 for services firms versus 45.2 for E&P firms, with 53 percent of E&P firms reporting an increase in uncertainty.
On average, respondents expect a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of $89 per barrel by year-end 2022; responses ranged from $65 to $122 per barrel. Survey participants expect Henry Hub natural gas prices of $7.97 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at year-end. For reference, WTI spot prices averaged $85.49 per barrel during the survey collection period, and Henry Hub spot prices averaged $8.16 per MMBtu.
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Historically, Heins has been a writer on subjects ranging from broadband and the US electricity grid, to environmental, energy and regulatory topics.
Heins is also a vocal advocate of the Internet of Everything, free trade, and global issues affecting the third of our planet that still lives in abject poverty.
Heins is troubled by the Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits, because he questions their efficacy in solving the climate problem, are too gamable by rent seekers, and are fraught with unreliable accounting.
Heins worries that climate and other environmental reporting in the US and Europe has become too politicized, ignores the essential role carbon-based energy continues to play in the lives of billions, demonizes the promise and practicality of Nuclear Energy and cheerleads for renewable energy sources that cannot solve the real world problems of scarcity and poverty.
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Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 485.
Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations, and Kenley Nebeker, TrainND Northwest, give an update on the EVolution Hybrid project. Perkins explains how weight becomes a major hurdle in trucking, fuel logistics and EV batteries.
In Part One, the two gave an overview of project EVolution Hybrid, which is integrating an electric battery into a traditional combustion engine while maintaining the classic trucking look. With maybe a hint of flare or contemporary fashions.
“One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the transportation and trucking industry,” Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest said. “We are really trying to find a way to expose our students and the community to the potential that lies within the electric truck, or in this case a hybrid truck. I’ve never been a believer in all-one-way or another.”
Nebeker is referring to an all EV solution or an all fossil fuel solution. Nebeker believes this project will shine a light on how a “marriage” between the two concepts will ultimately become a viable solution to an energy transition.
“One important part of this project is the look,” Nebeker said. “I like that traditional Americana semi truck look and understand that still connects with the public too.”
Click here for Part One of The Crude Life’s series on EVoltion Hybrid: Transporting Innovation Into A Sustainable Society
One of the ways the electric combustion collaboration can occur is weight. According to Perkins, the weight of fuel, the batteries and cargo are factors when determining your bottom line in business.
“Most Class A trucks vary as there are different models from the manufacturers, but there’s a lot that is similar” Perkins said. “The less a truck can weigh, the more freight you can haul and essentially, generate higher revenues because of it.”
For fleets, this could have significant savings. Perkins dives into the details of sleeper cabs, drop steer axles and other accessories when discussing the weight and revenues in trucking. All these additional details matter when discussing electric batteries and transition.
“Most electric trucks are going to be in the 400-600 kilowatt hour range. Tesla just released a 1000 kilowatt hour battery,” Perkins said. “But interestingly enough in the past three years the battery technology has allowed us to have reductions in weight but still, it is over 10,000 pounds in battery weight.”
The interview also discussed the difference between fuel weight and battery weight. Which would save money in the long haul? Host Jason Spiess cited an example of an interview with Keri Frank, CEO, Comply365, and her integration of iPads in aviation.
“Before iPads, the industry had a 50-plus-pound black metal box that contained procedure papers required by law,” Spiess said. “After Keri Frank got the industry to transition those papers to an iPad, not only did they see an immediate impact by not printing new sheets every time a new code was issued. But the real savings they saw was over a year in fuel savings. The weight over time was nickels turning into dollars.”
Both Nebeker and Perkins agreed with the sustainable savings and how trucking companies will see similar results.
Another area of change or transition EVoltion Hybrid will see is jobs. Nebeker is anticipating changes with mechanics, IT and other areas of trucking and transportation, and is in constant contact with the supply chain and supporting cast.
Here are some supporting interviews for EVoltion Hybrid and the community of Williston, ND.
Williston’s Wenko Says Economic Development Getting More Diverse
Williston Mayor Talks About The Bakken’s Continued Community Growth
Bakken Small Businesses Staying Busy
Bakken Boom Created An Astounding Educational Opportunity For Williston State Students
The project is scheduled to take 9-12 months, depending on the supply chain, according to Nebeker.
Canada’s Greatest Export Terry Etam gives an update from North of the Border on their energy policies, trade flow with the US and Germany trying to buy coal from Canada. Terry Etam is the author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air; columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One
Canada’s Greatest Export shares a story about the country of Germany coming over to Canada to accelerate their divestment from fossil fuels and direct their attention towards hydrogen.
Etam, who also works with a Natural Gas Company, said they weathered the regulatory storm the past couple of years, and are back to a comfortable pace for business. He also elaborated on several of the Canadian Regulations that are hindering oil and gas development.
Yale Preston (left), Jason Spiess (middle) and Shawn Forbes (right) at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, ND.Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Yale Preston, NESET and iaintjack productions
Yale talks about working for NESET and what a few of his side hustles are. iaintjack productions is the first other business bantered about. From the Science of Awe to the humanity of oil and gas, the three discuss a variety of ways industry enhances our outdoors lifestyles.
The three dive deeper into the humanity of oil and gas into the world of water. The Crude Life’s June Theme is Oil and Water Do Mix and Preston cites numerous examples of how petroleum products allowed him to experience the singing of humpback whales underwater in Hawaii.
Another side business Preston and his wife are involved with is hydroponics and growing mushrooms. Jason chimes in with his Hippie Capitalist ways and shares information on his vertical garden that grows 36 plants.
Odessa (TX) Javier Joven joins Jason Spiess to talk about Odessa’s investment into their water, roads and infrastructure. The Mayor also presents Jason Spiess with a “Jason Spiess Bobble Head” in appreciation for all his positive work for the energy industry.
The mayor attended at special ceremony for DistributionNOW, who had a Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Celebration at their new facility in Odessa, Texas. The event was well attended with local community members, professional colleagues and special guest dignitaries like Mayor Hoven and also the neighboring city Midland (TX) Mayor Patrick Payton.
“You see the creativity of how you have to survive,” Mayor Joven said. “This regional DistributionNOW warehouse will be the nerve center for the entire Permian basin into New Mexico to resupply the satellite service companies from valves to fittings and other equipment from the oilfield.”
DistributionNOW operates primarily under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands. Through its network of approximately 195 locations and 2,600 employees worldwide, NOW Inc. offers a comprehensive line of products and solutions for the upstream, midstream and downstream energy and industrial sectors. Its locations provide products and solutions to exploration and production companies, energy transportation companies, refineries, chemical companies, utilities, manufacturers and engineering and construction companies.
Mayor Hoven was very excited about the commitment from DNOW, as well as their innovative remodeling capabilities.
“Basically DNOW has retooled the Halliburton facilities back into a regional distribution center,” Joven said. “You know the old industry is retooling itself since we’ve had the downtown and the nature of issues like inflation.”
Not only are investments coming to the Permian Basin domestically, but according to Mayor Joven, there are international interests and investments as well.
“We’ve been contacted by a couple groups based in Mexico who represent a dozen companies each, so 24 or more companies are looking at Odessa right now for international expansion,” Mayor Joven said. “So we do have professional businesses who want to come in and build multi-family apartments downtown. We also have another group interested too. We will be having more announcements coming over the next two weeks.”
Mayor Joven expanded his international context a bit by layering in the current administration’s recent actions and desires towards American Independence and Domestic Energy.
DNOW’s Harlow Tripp (far left), David Cherechinsky (second far left), Mayor Javier Joven (left center), Midland Mayor Patrick Payton (right center), Dan Pratt (second far right) and Josiah Black (far right)“If we could get this administration to stop battling with what we are dealing with. The thing is we have a 4M-a-barrel-a-day gap for the reasons that are happening in the Ukraine and Russia,” Joven said. “Now we are going down to Venezuela, this administration is now trying to deal with Iran, OPEC won’t deal with them. It’s just insanity.”
Host Jason Spiess brings up an interview with Dickinson (ND) Mayor Dennis Johnson back in 2014 when their city was growing at a rate beyond double their highest growth year in history.
“I will never forget Dickinson Mayor Dennis Johnson coming on The Crude Life and just shattering everyone’s $100 oil dreams by stating not one more shovel will enter the ground until a new water treatment plant is constructed,” Spiess recalled. “Mayor Johnson hammered home the maximum usage of basic city services like water, sewer and roads.”
Mayor Joven understood those challenges more than most can appreciate living in the literal desert.
“Right now we’ve already put in financing for two major water and sewer projects running north and south on the east side of Odessa” Mayor Joven said. “One we were able to bring in $15M under budget. So there’s money in place and infrastructure investments without putting increasing the burden on the tax payers.”
Mayor Joven continued with other investments and innovations happening in the epicenter of the Permian Basin.
“We’ve even found environmentally friendly ways to clean the water (in the Permian),” Mayor Joven said. “Right now, we are even finding new ways to recycle water into drinking water. This is the creativity we have out here in West Texas.”
Plus there are more diverse investments into communications and industry coming too.
“We are now in the discussion phase of finalizing over a $100M capital investment into the city of Odessa where we will run fiber throughout the entire city limit,” Mayor Joven said. “The thing is that is will not cost us, they are actually paying us one-dollar a connection on a monthly basis, so the potential there are in the thousands monthly and billions over the life of it.”
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Jack Ekstrom, former principal for PolicyWorks America, as well as a veteran executive in the oil and gas industry, joined Steve Bakken and Jason Spiess on KLXX-AM SuperTalk 1270‘s for a live interview on the radio and podcast recording for The Crude Life. The three discussed the recent election and [...]
In this installment of a Decade of Discussion is from 2017, the featured guest is professional wrestler and plant-based speaker Austin Aries. Recognized for his in-ring and his verbal skills on the mic, Austin Aries’ impressive resume includes multiple championship titles, most notably in Ring of Honor Wrestling (First 2x [...]
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Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 481. Dr. Loren Scott just finished his annual Economic Forecast for the State of Louisiana and the news is the economy is going to get better, but first it’s going to get worse. [...]
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United States Air Force Veteran Mark J. Lindquist joined Jason Spiess live from the Ukraine with a boots on the ground report for media platforms The Crude Life and the Bismarck-Mandan KLXX SUPERTALK 1270AM. “Jason, our here in the Ukraine, we call this the first Instagram War,” Lindquist said. “This war is [...]
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Golf goes with about anything in the professional world. Corporate America, industry, trade shows, white collar and even blue collar folk seem to do business on the golf course. Chief Intention Officer of The Crude Life Jason Spiess sat down with PGA Member Professional Matt Nadeau at Hawk Tree Golf [...]
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Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 452: Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions talks about how Alma, a female environmentally minded professional gravitated to industry. She explains how her brother in Thailand was the catalyst for her journey in oil and gas. Texas [...]
Executive Coach Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners shares his insight on how organizations respond to turnover and culture changes. Host Jason Spiess and Sinnott use the recent transpirings at St. Peter’s University, who experienced a historic NCAA March Madness run only to have their coach leave and several players enter [...]
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In [...]
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Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
Everyone is talking about ESG these days. From Wall Street to Madison Avenue to the podcaster-of-the-week. It’s everywhere these days and everyone is trying to figure out how to figure it out. Well one individual is on the right path when it comes to having a complete understanding of the [...]
Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
The City of Odessa, Texas, Mayor Javier Joven is feeling good these days despite all the economic and energy issues happening across globe. The reason Joven is feeling optimistic is he knows the Permian can become a solution to the global energy problem. The mayor attended at special ceremony for [...]
Kunal Patel, senior business economist, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas joined Jason Spiess to discuss the new Energy Survey release March 21, 2022. As a member of the Research Department’s energy group, Patel analyzes and investigates developments and topics in the oil and gas sector. He is also [...]
Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
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Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
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Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
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Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. Presidents have designated March as Women’s History Month. This year, The Crude Life celebrates and honors their accomplishments and contributions in history with interviews and stories that center around women’s experiences in industry. The Crude Life believes woman are vital in energy. Today [...]
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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss his trip to Ukraine last week, Ukraine-Russia tensions, and Democrats’ failed Build Back Broke plan. Excerpts and the full video are below. On Joe Biden’s Leadership: “What we should have [...]
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Colorado State Senator Ray Scott gives an update on the 2022 Colorado Legislative Session. According to Scott, the Department of Natural Resources spoke right before the interview with Jason Spiess and Scott said they reported that in 2018 the state of Colorado approved 447 Form 2A’s, which are required for [...]
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Texas Senate Candidate Kevin Sparks spoke about foster care and the issue of sex trafficking at the social action event Flock Sock & Barrel at Frisky’s in Odessa, TX. Sparks joined Jason Spiess and The Podcast PreShow Party with special co-host Ashley Smith of Truckers Against Trafficking to discuss several [...]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 441. Bakken BBQ co-founders Tiffany Steiner and Jackie Jenkin give a recap of the 9th Annual Bakken BBQ and preview of the 10th Annual Bakken BBQ. The 9th Annual Bakken BBQ raised $87K with donations of [...]
Tara Norris Rasmuson sat down with host Jason Spiess to discuss her journey from petroleum to publishing. Tara was a landman (aka landwoman …. aka land negotiator) while working in oil and gas. Now she is the publisher of the Greeley Lifestyle Magazine. “I started out at the bottom answering [...]
Kunal Patel, senior business economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, joins Jason Spiess to dissect their 4th Quarter Survey of 134 energy firms, 90 were exploration and production firms and 44 were oilfield services firms. The oil and gas sector continued growing in fourth quarter 2021, according to oil and [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviews Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources, after he spoke at Wildcatters Wednesday at The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. Hamm talks about the importance of synergy and collaboration in energy, education and empathy. Understanding each energy’s strengths rather [...]
Watford City High School alumni Hailey Carns and Lily Olson talk about growing up in the oil patch and what college is like now. The Crude Life Content News Correspondents Matthew Hill interviews Camelia Knapp, head of Boone Pickens School of Geology and Thomas Cronin, CEO of K. Stewart Exploration [...]
Sarah Stogner feels her past has lead her to be exactly where she is today. Basic overview is Sarah is an attorney with an oil and gas background who happens to be living on a ranch with regular blow outs in the Permian Basin. On one hand her passion for [...]
Weld County Councilman At Large Elijah Hatch joins host Jason Spiess to discuss his recent announcement that he is running for an Weld County At-Large seat in Colorado. Hatch explains how his background in technology, energy and agriculture have led him down a path towards humane and logical policies for [...]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week in Review. Clark Williams-Derry, Energy Finance Analyst for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) shares his views and insight on a recent report “Has the Bakken Peaked? Exhaustion of High-quality Drilling Sites Could Point to Falling [...]
Growing up in an oil town can create a number of unique opportunities. Watford City may be the center of it all too with their remarkable community facilities and school amenities. Watford City High School alumni Hailey Carns and Lily Olson talk about growing up in the oil patch and [...]
Tom Slocum joins Jason Spiess regarding his recent announcement running for Railroad Commission of Texas in 2022. Slocum explains why he is running for office and how he would approach the position in a modern way. Slocum talks about introducing Bitcoin to well sites, repealing the Flared Gas Tax, making [...]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week in Review. Texas Senate Candidate Kevin Sparks joined Jason Spiess and The Podcast PreShow Party with special co-host Ashley Smith of Truckers Against Trafficking to discuss several social issues, like homelessness, sex trafficking and foster care, in the Permian [...]
Don Blakeman, National Earthquake Information Center and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), gives an overview of the 4.5 earthquake registered just north of Stanton, Texas. Midland (TX), which is considered the epicenter of oil and gas activity in the United States, is located about 15 miles southwest of where the quake [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Ryan Nostrud with Targeted GeoVision, LLC at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Mid-Continent Convention. GeoVision provides its clients a dedicated outsourced service for the geological steering of horizontal wells across the globe. #FossilFuelFridays is an industry weekly episodic webisode [...]
The city of Odessa (TX) Mayor Javier Joven talks about why the city of Odessa is primed for growth in the oil and gas industry during the Permian Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show. The Mayor also presents podcast host Jason Spiess [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Patrick Jordan, MS with Raptor Consulting Inc. at American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Mid-Continent Convention. Jordan talks about their company’s well site geology, onsite and remote geosteering, gas detection, and geologic well evaluations. #FossilFuelFridays is an industry weekly episodic webisode [...]
Bakken BBQ co-founders Tiffany Steiner and Jackie Jenkin give a recap of the 9th Annual Bakken BBQ and preview of the 10th Annual Bakken BBQ. The 9th Annual Bakken BBQ raised $87K with donations of $70K to Make A Wish North Dakota and $17K to local Bakken charities. The event [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer joins Jason Spiess with The Crude Life for a Year End update and Energy Outlook for 2022. The senator expresses his concern for the future of the oil and gas industry if President Biden’s policies continue down the path they are heading. Spiess sits down with [...]
Chad Frizzell, CDX Energy, talks about how the chemical industry has evolved over the years. From their new ESG approach to the oil and gas industry to their new revenues in the world of agriculture, chemicals are seeing changes happen in many ways. Frizzell explains to host Jason Spiess how [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Barbara Hill and Oniel Wint with Schlumberger Oilfield Services at AAPG – American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Founded in 1917, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ original purpose of AAPG, to foster scientific research, to advance the science of geology, to [...]
Byron Bolles, president, and Bette Bassford, director of marketing, of Seal Tite, which manufactures PVC & CPVC lined pipe for the Energy Industry. The interview dives into supply chain issues and how Seal Tite has been managing effectively. Emission management and recycled water are also topics of discussion. Upcoming regulations [...]
Jason Spiess interviews Ken Mertz and Jesse Swindell of Mertz Manufacturing in Ponca City, OK. The three discuss new innovations in industry and how Mertz’s has kept up with the times and technology. For years, Mertz has designed and manufactured quality built equipment for industries around the world. Mertz is [...]
Clark Williams-Derry, Energy Finance Analyst for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) shares his views and insight on a recent report “Has the Bakken Peaked? Exhaustion of High-quality Drilling Sites Could Point to Falling Oil Output”, which he was co-author of. Host Jason Spiess challenges the data [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) delivered remarks on the Senate floor on the 12 Biden Blunders of Christmas, highlighting twelve of the Biden Administration’s blunders in 2021. “As we approach the Christmas break and advent of the New Year, I believe it’s instructive to take an inventory of the year [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Lee Krystinik of Equus Energy, LLC Partners at American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Krystinik talks about his journey into oil and gas and how it has evolved. Equus Energy Partners, LLC is a team of oil finders, covering a spectrum [...]
Bill Shanahan, Energy Rogue, explains how oil and gas data is impacting more than the fossil fuel industry. Trucking companies making bulk fuel purchases, feed stock buyers and other industries use EnergyRogue.com to understand how the market is moving. Host Jason Spiess and Shanahan compare much the recent data mining [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Tara Benda, the executive chair of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Convention (AAPG). Founded in 1917, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ original purpose of AAPG, to foster scientific research, to advance the science of geology, to promote technology, [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Genna Blair Lee of Drill2Frac Corporation at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Convention (AAPG). Drill2Frac is the first to assemble an integrated platform of solutions to accurately characterize rock heterogeneity from drilling data, to optimize horizontal well completions. A [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondents Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin Interview Mark McGill, US Ceramics at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. The three talk about the difference between sand and ceramics in fracking and why [...]
The Crude Life had the privileged to be invited on to the production studio and set of Sherwood Forest, a docufilm about a historic time in American Oil and Gas’s impact on global independence and empowerment. By the summer of 1942, the future of Great Britain and the outcome of [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Crude Life for a Year End update and Energy Outlook for 2022. The senator expresses his concern for the future of the oil and gas industry if President Biden’s policies continue down the path they are heading. He explains what issues specifically are impacting [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 436 special guests are: Jason Spiess and co-host Ken Lavin interview Danielle Robertson, senior director, and Kaitlin Paonessa, marketing director, of the Good Will West Texas at the Permian Basin Hiring Event in Odessa, Texas. Spiess and special guest co-host Ashley Smith of Truckers [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Sarah Phillips joins host Jason Spiess for an update from the Marcellus/Utica/Appalachian Basin and some innovations in the next generation of performance materials and chemical technologies. She explains how micro-hold technology is finding some traction in shale plays. Before that, Sarah shares her journey in oil [...]
Jordan Sadler joins Jason Spiess to talk about the genesis of Drag Up Coffee. Sadler, a former oilfield worker, shares his processing and experience of leaving the oilfield to become a CEO and business owner. The opportunities that exist in the new marketplace are discussed as well as how his [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondents Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin interview Adrienne Mains with Silver Fox Energy at SOER | OERB | Oklahoma Energy Resources Board | The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma Oil & Gas Expo At the time she was with The Austin-Montana Project and is often the [...]
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon talks with Jason Spiess during the 2nd Annual Podcast Party at the Energy Exposition and Symposium in Gillette. Governor Gordon gives an update on the oil and gas activity in the Powder River Basin as well as other parts of Wyoming. Gov Gordon also explains how [...]
Jason Spiess and co-host Ken Lavin interview Danielle Robertson, senior director, and Kaitlin Paonessa, marketing director, of the Good Will West Texas at the Permian Basin Hiring Events in Odessa, Texas. The interview circles around jobs in west Texas and how the recent oil activity has impacted the marketplace. Goodwill-West [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Richard Ball, Detring Energy Advisors about the monetization of business through market-leading research, cutting-edge analytics, and seamless, well-documented sell-side processes. Hill conducted interviews at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) MIDCON. Founded in 1917, the original purpose of AAPG was [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 435 special guests are: Zach Bowman, CEO, Innoverse, talks with Jason Spiess about ESG at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Spiess also interviews Kaes de Jong, Sage Oil Services [...]
Dr. Jon Spiers, candidate for Texas Land Commissioner stops by for an interview with Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. Dr. Spiers gives a run down of what his platform is and why is a qualified candidate for [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondents Matthew Hill interviews Camelia Knapp, head of Boone Pickens School of Geology and Thomas Cronin, CEO of K. Stewart Exploration representing Oklahoma Geological Foundation at American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Mid-Continent Convention. From the very beginning, the Oklahoma Geological Foundation has been focused [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondents Matthew Hill & Ken Lavin interview Codie McDaniel with Canary Wellhead Services for an episode of #FossilFuelFridays at the OERB | Oklahoma Energy Resources Board Board SOER Oklahoma Oil & Gas Convention. #FossilFuelFridays is an industry weekly episodic webisode and podcast hosted by Matt [...]
Scott Theriot, Danos, (and i2ms) joined podcast party host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. The interview talks about their push into the off shore market, past renewable projects and what their Permian activities have been. Founded in [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Jack Hamlin of Energy Strong and Sargent & Lundy about about his mission and passion to promote and advocate for reliable, abundant, and affordable oil and gas giving a platform for energy literacy and equip other industry leaders with educational efforts. [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 435 special guests are: Zach Bowman, CEO, Innoverse, talks with Jason Spiess about ESG at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Spiess also interviews Kaes de Jong, [...]
Podcast party host Jason Spiess interviews Jeremy Parker, Integrity Services at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. Headquartered in the heart of the Permian Basin, Integrity Services provides a wide array of oilfield solutions and services. [...]
Kaes de Jong, president, Sage Oil Services is interviewed by Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group, at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. The two discuss the latest activities in the Permian Basin as well as how 2022 looks for Sage [...]
Troy Habben, Gavin Schmitz and Philip Hinojosa, Wellhead Systems Inc, talks with Jason Spiess about ESG (Environmental Social Governance) in oil and gas with Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Ron Guskek, president, Liberty [...]
Juan Torres, general manager, Danos, joined podcast party host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. The interview talks about their push into the off shore market, past renewable projects and what their Permian [...]
Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, joins The Crude Life for a podcast series within a podcast titled “Sustainable Leadership Series: Tommy Boy’s Velvet Glove”. Host Jason Spiess and Sinnott discuss the traditional and new age definitions of a “Velvet Glove” leader. Traditional definition is an outwardly gentle or friendly manner used [...]
Matt Young of Flowco Production Solutions talks with Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Flowco Production Solutions is artificial lift. Flowco specializes in the design, installation and optimization of gas lift and plunger lift [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondents and podcast party hosts Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin interview Bobby Adkins with iTankData during the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. With 25 years in oilfield services, iTankData services include [...]
Texas Senate Candidate Kevin Sparks spoke about foster care and the issue of sex trafficking at the social action event Flock Sock & Barrel at Frisky’s in Odessa, TX. Sparks joined Jason Spiess and The Podcast PreShow Party with special co-host Ashley Smith of Truckers Against Trafficking to discuss several [...]
Flock Sock & Barrel was more than an awareness event for homelessness. It was more than continuing the conversation of the realities of Sex Trafficking across Shale Play USA. It was more than a night of live music, live podcast recordings and fellowship. It was a night for social causes [...]
Podcast party hosts Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin interview Jarred Barbour of Snider Technology Services LLC during the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas Founded in 2006, Snider Technology started with a mission to help small and [...]
Podcast party hosts Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin interview Kent Brown with The Wireline Group at the PBIOS Podcast Party, which is sponsored by The Wireline Group, at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS), in Odessa, Texas. The Wireline Group’s mission is to build long-term relationships through understanding our [...]
Podcast party hosts Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin interview Michael Gallagher with Integrity Services at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS), in Odessa, Texas. Headquartered in the heart of the Permian Basin, Integrity Services provides a wide array of [...]
Podcast party host Jason Spiess interviews Troy Habben, Gavin Schmitz and Philip Hinojosa, Wellhead Systems Inc, about their entry into the ESG (Environmental Social Governance) industry in oil and gas at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent and #FossilFuelFridays host Matthew Hill Interviews Maira Vargas of Amigo Pipe & Equipment and Tiffany Wilson of Long Industries at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Amigo Pipe & Equipment specializes [...]
Oklahoma Secretary of State Brian Bingman gives a year in review update on the oil and gas industry with Jason Spiess at the 24th Annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo in Oklahoma City, OK. Bingman talks about how innovation will be the driver for energy in 2022. He also talks [...]
In Episode 433 of The Crude Life Week in Review, our special guests are: Oklahoma Secretary of State Brian Bingman gives a year in review update on the oil and gas industry with Jason Spiess at the 24th Annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo in Oklahoma City, OK. Grey Frederickson [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, hosted a press conference to discuss the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which has now passed both chambers of Congress. Senator Cramer was joined at the press conference by North [...]
Energy Expert and Consultant Mark Stansberry joins Jason Spiess at the 24th Annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo in Oklahoma City, OK. Stansberry recapped the themes behind a recent speech he gave at the National Association of Royalty Owners including natural gas, the digital transformation and others. He also talks [...]
Jaime Long and Marcus Turner of Long Industries stopped by the PBIOS Podcast Party to talk with podcast party host Jason Spiess of The Crude Life. The interview starts off talking about Long’s family history with oil and gas through entrepreneurship. Trades are discussed in detail from welding to pipe [...]
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright surprised the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) by popping by the podcast party. Wright and podcast party host Jason Spiess also talk about renewable energy and aviation in energy. He also recommends to “follow [...]
Braden Gilbert, Micro-Bac International is interviewed by podcast party host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. For over 40 years, Micro-Bac International has been researching and developing ways to grow numerous bacterial strains. Gilbert [...]
Jason Arceneaux, President & Board Member at Arc Energy, is interviewed by podcast host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. Jaime Long and Marcus Turner of Long Industries orate through the thought exercise of [...]
It’s the debut episode of Oilfield Edition Family Fracas, an original program produced by The Crude Life. The show debuted at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) sponsored by The Wireline Group in Odessa, TX. In this episode it’s Family Leader Ken Lavin of the family #FossilFuelFridays, along with [...]
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright and Kirk Edwards, past president for the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and current president of Latigo Petroleum are interviewed by Matthew Hill at the Permian Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show. Hill is the host of Talking [...]
Luigi Saputelli with Frontender Corporation join Matthew Hill and Ken Lavin for an episode of #FossilFuelFridays during the Permian Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show. Frontender is a consulting and engineering services firm providing the upstream energy sector in the areas of [...]
Jason Arceneaux, President & Board Member at Arc Energy, is interviewed by podcast host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, Texas. The interview talks about the current state of energy and how the supply chain [...]
This week on The Crude Life Week In Review, our special guests include: Mark John Cavitt, CEO, RigER: Oilfield Operations Management Software is interviewed by podcast host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. [...]
Mark John Cavitt, CEO, RigER: Oilfield Operations Management Software is interviewed by podcast host Jason Spiess at the PBIOS Podcast Party at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) in Odessa, Texas. Cavitt explains how the oilfield has become digital in nearly every aspect of the wellsite and office. From [...]
Texas Senate District 31 Candidate Kevin Sparks pops by the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the Permian Basin International Oil Show in Odessa, TX. Click here for Kevin Sparks website Sparks talks about his energy policy and how the oil and gas industry is vital to [...]
Uptown Joie Brown of the Permian Basin Hiring Events is interviewed by Jason Spiess at the Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) during the PBIOS Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group. Brown talks about some of the different areas of the Permian where hiring is picking up. She had [...]
This week on The Crude Life Week In Review, our special guests include: The city of Odessa (TX) Mayor Javier Joven talks about why the city of Odessa is primed for growth in the oil and gas industry during the Permian Podcast Party sponsored by The Wireline Group at the [...]
Natalie Simpson PhD, Associate Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy, University at Buffalo School of Management, talks with The Crude Life host Jason Spiess about the recent spill off the coast of California in Huntington Beach. Simpson, who specializes in Operations Management, describes why the systems currently in [...]
This week on The Crude Life Week In Review, our special guests include: The Crude Life Content Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Milycia Rodriguez about their company assists and serves the oil and gas industry at NAPE Expo LP in Houston, TX. The Crude Life Content Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Megan [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, the first greenfield refinery to be built in the United States in nearly 50 years. The refinery is located in Belfield, North Dakota, near Highway 85, which is a major transportation artery in the Bakken oil fields. [...]
Railroad Commission of Texas Commissioner Wayne Christian was unanimously elected Chairman for a second time in a recent vote. The Chairman gives a brief overview and history of the Railroad Commission of Texas, including what areas of oversight they have. The prominence and strength of the Texas Railroad Commission is [...]
Richard Welch is running for the U.S. House of Representative in the 38th District in Texas. The district is new this year after redistricting was complete. Welch talks about his reasons for running for office in the interview. “I am a Constitutional Conservative who is dedicated to running on Energy [...]
Lee Fuller, Independent Petroleum Association of America, talks about the Biden administration’s upcoming release of a major crackdown on oil and gas methane emissions. Fuller discusses some of the concerns and issues regarding how the rule could affect small operators and how the nation’s leading oil and gas producing states [...]
The Crude Life Content New Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Patrick Comly of Brigade Energy Services about their work across Shale Play USA at the Social Octane’s Oilfield Golf Games – Rocky Mountain Region event during the preEXPO kick off to the Energy Exposition & Symposium in Gillette, Wy. Brigade is [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Keith Bradford, Freemyer Industrial Pressure about innovation and industrialized pressure. The two talk about E-Fracs, pressurized innovations, cutting costs, safety and solutions. Freemyer Industrial Pressure delivers fit-for-purpose solutions for hydraulic fracturing, well stimulation and cementing equipment, serving 27 countries. The Crude [...]
The Crude Life Content New Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Keith Bradford, Freemyer Industrial Pressure about innovation and industrialized pressure at NAPE. The two talk about E-Fracs, pressurized innovations, cutting costs, safety and solutions. Freemyer Industrial Pressure delivers fit-for-purpose solutions for hydraulic fracturing, well stimulation and cementing equipment, serving 27 countries. [...]
The Crude Life Content Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Nadya James of PSI at at the Social Octane’s Oilfield Golf Games -Rocky Mountain Region event during the preEXPO kick off to the Energy Exposition & Symposium in Gillette, Wy. PSI has provided rapid and effective engineering solutions since 1994. Industries served [...]
The Crude Life honors and celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. Here’s one of our past interviews with southern BBQ celebrity and National Pitmaster Champion Junior Urias of Up In Smoke BBQ This interview is from June 14, 2017. The National Pitmaster BBQ Champion tells the story of how he won the [...]
The Crude Life Content Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Shawn Forbes, OG Directory, and Ashleigh Ellis, PetroSight, at the Social Octane’s Oilfield Golf Games -Rocky Mountain Region event during the preEXPO kick off to the Energy Exposition & Symposium in Gillette, Wy. OG Directory is an Oil & Gas Directory for [...]
The Crude Life Content Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews John Hopkins, founding partner, and Billy Jackson for Global Drilling Partners (GDP) Drilling. GDP drills and complete wells efficiently while helping other operators reach their goals. GDP sets themselves apart from other drillers, by having experts in directional drilling, MWD, mud engineering, [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Devin Blitzer · (dBlitz), CEO, BYO Energy about generating electricity for data centers. Natural Gas is discussed as a power generator for user clients, like for Bitcoin, AI and other methods of repurposing energies. Matt is host of Talking Energy Show [...]
Former Tight End and Offensive Tackle Sam Grant shares stories of playing football for the University of Oklahoma Sooners. Grant talks about the mentoring from Coach Bob Stoops, catching a touchdown pass from quarterback Baker Mayfield and what it was like playing with current NFL players Joe Mixon (RB-Cincinnati) and [...]
ESG Expert and Sustainable Forest Builder Jason Spiess presents ESG University: An Overview Of Where We Are Right Now at the Energy Exposition & Symposium in Gillette, Wy. The educational session lasted approximately 75 minutes with questions from the crowd after the presentation. A basic overview of ESG is: Environmental [...]
Energy Expert Mark Stansberry, gives an overview of topics oil and gas executives will be talking about in their Year End Reports and Annual Meetings. Stansberry explains why cybersecurity and robotics should be near the top this year. He cites several companies who have integrated new security measures as well [...]
Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, is at one of the hot spots for global LNG activity. Willis talks about the recent activity in the Marcellus with Cabot Oil and Gas and how it impacts the globe. The recent spike in natural gas prices are also discussed. Willis and host Jason [...]
Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, joins The Crude Life for a podcast series within a podcast titled “Sustainable Leadership Series: Why Narcissists Get Promoted Before You”. The interview references an article published by the BBC titled “How narcissists climb the career ladder quickly” as a way to navigate and insert into [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow, who is headquartered near the New York Pennsylvania border, gives an update from the Marcellus Shale Play. Shepstone shares some insight on Cabot Oil and Gas and their global activity. He also cites regulation as more of a potential disruptor in 2022. Natural gas prices and the [...]
Curtis Shuck understands oil and gas development. His background from working first hand with commodities, supply chain and an actual Port of imports exports literally has given him a fast track to capping abandoned wells. Shuck is the Chairman of the Board for the Well Done Foundation. Orphaned” wells are [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Texas A&M student William Villalobos at NAPE about ESG an upcoming event with the Railroad Commission of Texas. Villalobos explains what ESG is from his background and whether the oil and gas industry should evolve towards this movement. Matt works for [...]
Dr. Loren Scott gives an economic and energy update from Louisiana after being hit by Hurricane Ida. Dr. Scott discusses how the hurricane impacted the refineries and supply chain for several days with several refineries still off line as of the interview. He also gives an update on Lake Charles [...]
Nikolai Korniyuk, RigER: Operations Management Software, talks about how their oilfield service and rentals simplify oilfield management. He talks in detail about their service solutions from the first client call to the final invoice, including quote and rental agreement, job scheduling, rental fleet management, oilfield calendar monitoring, field tickets, delivery [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Julie Richardson, Aries Buildings Systems, at NAPE. The two talk about housing in the oil industry and other industries the housing services bleeds into. Matt works for Knight Energy Services, LLC and runs Oklahoma Oilfield Tailgate. Matt also is host of [...]
Future welders Jake Gibson and Shane O’Hara join Jason Spiess at the Energy Exposition and Symposium in Gillette, Wy. Both Jake and Shane just arrived in Gillette days earlier and are fresh off their first day of class at Western Welding Academy. Jake is from Oregon and talks about his [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Spindletop Charities Executive Director Lia Vallone, Richard Mercer (representing), Nelson Spear (oil and gas). The three talk about the work Spindletop Charities is doing and how the oil and gas industry is supporting and engaging with their social causes. Spindletop Charities is [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Collin McLelland co-founder and CEO of Digital Wildcatters about their NAPE After Party and why they get alike minded folks together for a good time. Digital Wildcatters is a media company that has cultivated a community around energy tech startups. We [...]
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon gives an update on the federal lease kerfuffle that is crating major issues in the Western Energy areas of oil and gas development. The Governor also talks about the recent news of President Joe Biden’s revisiting the federal lease executive order. The interview dives into the [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D. | Director/Fellow, Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute, Rice University about Energy Transitions and COVID-19: Framing the Challenges Ahead. Energy transitions have merged with political transitions, and the implications are enormous. The Biden Administration is aiming [...]
Kunal Patel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas talks in detail about their most recent Dallas Fed Energy Survey which involved about 200 oil and gas firms. According to Patel, Activity in the oil and gas sector continued growing strongly in second quarter 2021, according to oil and gas [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews Milycia Rodriguez, Sounders Safety Services, LLC, about their company assists and serves the oil and gas industry at NAPE in Houston, TX. Souders Safety Services is a minority woman owned business established in 2005 and is a full-service safety company. Matt [...]
The Crude Life Content News Matthew Hill Correspondent Interviews John Simmons, EPIC Workflow, about changes in the industry and how their company is assisting the industry. With more than 4,000 attendees, 340 exhibiting companies and over 260 prospects, NAPE is bringing energy decision-makers together — in person and online — [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Scott St. John, Vice President at Regan Smith. Regan Smith’s mission is to be the leader in natural and cultural resource protection and development by providing superior customer service, intuitive project planning and streamlined regulatory compliance. Matt works for Knight Energy [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews “Buddy” Clark Jr at NAPE . During the first session, “Private Equity and Producers in a Post-COVID World,” moderator Bernard “Buddy” F. Clark Jr., co-chair of the Energy Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP LLP, was joined by panelists Gregory M. [...]
The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Matthew Hill interviews entrepreneur Petra Reyes, Emerging Markets Manager, Power Infrastructure Partners about her work in the oil and gas industry. Reyes talks about the trend towards electrification and how ESG is playing into her day-to-day life. The two also talk about the importance [...]
The Crude Life Content New Correspondent Matthew Hill Interviews Joi Lecznar, EVP of Public Relations and Government Affairs at Tellurian Inc., about their domestic LNG projects and how the future looks for their company at NAPE. The two talk about LNG and how it can ensure energy equity across the [...]
Karolin Jappe, McKenzie County Emergency Manager joins the Saturday Morning Storytellers recording in at the Little Missouri Inn and Suites Watford City. The interview covers a wide array of topics from salt water spills to the number of donations oil and gas companies have given to emergency services. Volunteer fire [...]
Emma Mogen has graduated Watford City High School and is on her way to Minot State for college. Her little sister Jessica is just starting her sophomore year in High School. The two discuss living in Watford City through the past decade of boom and bust. Emma talks about her [...]
John Nagel and Patrick Bertagnolli, SHRM-SCP from the Little Missouri Inn & Suites Watford City. John is with Cybernet Security, BEK Communications and the Bismarck Bucks. Patrick is with the Rough Rider Center and was instrumental in bringing the professional indoor football team to Watford City for a game and [...]
Growing up in an oil town can create a number of unique opportunities. Watford City may be the center of it all too with their remarkable community facilities and school amenities. Ally Cross, Macee Franz and Kanyon Tschetter are three young leaders who have risen to the challenge of improving [...]
Jim Green and Dr. Noelle Green share their stories during a Saturday Morning Storytellers recording session this week at the Little Missouri Inn & Suites Watford City in the heart of the Bakken, the City of Watford City. Jim is the Watford City High School principal and his wife Dr. Noelle Green is the principal [...]
Joe Steele, Elite, and Kelly Kester, E Services, share their stories during a Saturday Morning Storytellers recording session this week at the Little Missouri Inn & Suites Watford City in the heart of the Bakken, the City of Watford City. Joe Steele is a hot oil driver of Elite, a company based in Sidney (MT). [...]
Kevin and Jessella Snyders share their stories during a Saturday Morning Storytellers recording session this week at the Little Missouri Inn & Suites Watford City in the heart of the Bakken, the City of Watford City. The Snyder’s were displaced in the cruise industry due to COVID. They are originally from Florida. Kevin currently is [...]
Jenna Norman and Mike Lee of Nuverra Environmental Solutions share their stories during a Saturday Morning Storytellers recording session this week at the Little Missouri Inn & Suites Watford City in the heart of the Bakken, the City of Watford City. Jenna talk about her journey from Rome, GA, to [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, President, Western Energy Alliance, recapped the past week to week and a half of increasingly weird behavior from the White House regarding the oil and gas industry. Sgamma referred to the weird behavior as another example of the Biden Administration wanting to shut down the American oil and [...]
Derrick Clark and Mike Fisher talk about the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Team Roping event September 25 and 26 at the Midland County Horseshoe Arena in Midland, Texas. Fisher, who has an extensive background in roping, describes what it is and how team roping works. He continues explaining different [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 128 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk Reverse Engineering Economy, Vanilla Ice Xerox, Modern Day Bootstrapping, Line 3, R. Kelly, Big Oil Big Profits, California’s Green Economy and Saturday Morning Science. Hour Two Work Hard: U.S. Senator [...]
Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, discusses leadership styles for many experiencing a transition in industry. The interview centers around “Crab Bucket” cultures and ” Narcissists” leaders. Sinnott gives several examples of how to identify, navigate and deal with toxic workplaces. Diving further into the topic, Sinnott explains how communication flows are [...]
Charles “Choc” Harris, Protector and Associates Security Service talks about the evolving Permian Basin. “Choc”, a former Sheriff, brings a different perspective to the conversation. Community, law enforcement issues and the importance of positive human energy are also discussed in detail. The interview was conducted in the Permian Basin Association [...]
David Munson, Get Real Alliance, talks about the realities in climate change and industry. Munson has concerns that venture beyond industry too. Munson believes there are other concerns more pressing right now than climate change and discusses several. The Get Real Alliance supports rock dust remineralization of soil and wetlands, [...]
Jessie Veeder and her family have been generational staples in the Bakken Oil Fields. In addition to her lifestyle column and music, Jessie’s father worked in economic development and her husbands worked in oil and gas, Veeder’s family understand what it takes to live The Crude Life. Jessie has long [...]
John Mark Cavitt, CEO, RigER, details his background to set the table for the service and digitization work currently being deployed in the oil industry. A former teacher, youth pastor and chemist, Cavitt brings a diverse background and perspective to the oil and gas industry. The integration of technology is [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 127 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling wonder if Water Pipeline Sniffing Dogs Exist, New Resume Titles, Bakken’s Boondoggle, Permian’s Power, Colorado’s Conundrum, ESG, EPA, USA, NFL and WTF Hour Two Work Hard: North Dakota Agriculture Director Doug [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 126 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the Carbon Footprint of Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride, Government Transitioning Oil, Douche Coin, Industry’s Energy Apathy, International Energy, AramcoBrats, New Tinder Date Term, Climate Change, The New Tetris [...]
The popular BBQ lifestyle program Mad Dog & Merrill will be making their way to the Best of the West RibFest Watford City. Internationally recognized and self-proclaimed “Grillologists,” Mad Dog & Merrill®, entertain and educate thousands of backyard enthusiasts every year with the finer points of grilling on America’s Favorite [...]
ND Agriculture Commissioner and Industrial Commission member Doug Goehring just landed this week from a successful mission in Qatar and Turkey. The mission was intended to build relationships with Qatar and Turkey that started during the pandemic to create a lasting footprint for the future. “North Dakota is experiencing growing [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, president of Western Energy Alliance, which represents 200 companies engaged in all aspects of environmentally responsible exploration and production of oil and natural gas in the West. It’s time for President Joe Biden’s Interior Department to start giving some answers to the American people about its policies governing [...]
Drew Galang, BDM & PM, All American Servicestalks about the transition into two sectors of the marketplace after 2020 and the COVID Shutdowns. He explains what services they do in the oil and gas industry as well as construction. The interview transitions into the ESG and emission management portion of oil and gas. [...]
Brett Chell, President and CEO, Cold Bore Technology gives an overview of what Cold Bore Technology is and does. The two discuss how all the moving parts on a well pad is very similar to a small city. Chell explains how his technology allows the different parts of the well site to communicate in real time creating [...]
Lauren Guerra and Brad Westwood talk about the genesis behind American Energy Outfitters and the Energy Spike Volleyball Tournament. The Energy Spike Volleyball Tournament 2021 is a new oil & gas networking event that encourages energy professionals of all ages and both genders to participate in a fun day in [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 125 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Swearing in the Workplace, Coal’s Place in this World, EMO, Robots, Emoji Ownership, Renewable Energy, Hybrid Batteries and AramcoBrat Story about School Bombing Drills. Hour Two Work Hard: Brett [...]
Ron Gusek, President, Liberty Oilfield Services, talks about the recent Fox News report on the North Face Hypocrisy and the push behind Liberty Oilfield Services awareness campaign. The two also talk about the Electric Frac the team at Liberty is integrating into their operations. Economics, natural gas and the ESG [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 124 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the transitional economy which is a sequel economy, The Industrial Forest, Little Debbie Sirens Song, Richard Sherman’s 911 Call, World Oil Supply Gap, Line 3 Not Fonda Jane, [...]
Mark Stansberry addresses many critical issues in energy today. Here are a few topics of discussion: Current State of Industry Carbon Tax and API’s Role and Influence ESG Concerns and Examples Pipelines as Critical Infrastructure The Digital Transitions The Big Crew Shift Industry will not go away but some of [...]
Kent Kirkhammer, CEO, NewKota Services and Rentals and Mark Zeigler From the Shale Energy Resources Conference and Trade Show at the Horse Shoe Arena and Pavilion in Midland, Texas. Kirkhammer shares the genesis of the Gorilla Jack and an update on number three. The interview also dives into ESG and [...]
Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show powered by The Crude Life Episode 123 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Native American Energy Empowerment, Kids Sports Parents Fighting, Secret Saudi Stills with Blueprints, Aramco and Olympic Sized Entitlement Hour Two Work Hard: Curtis Shuck, Chairman of the Board, [...]
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright gives an update from the state regulator’s offices. RCC Wright cites several pieces of legistlation that could impact the oil and gas industry. Renewables, ESG and Climate Taxes are also discussed in the exclusive interview. RCC Wright concludes the interview with a very passionate tip [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow and Shepstone Management Company joins Work Hard portion of the Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show to discuss the recent merger between Cabot Oil and Gas and Cimarex Energy. Host Jason Spiess and Shepstone discuss whether the merger is a takeover or an actual merger. Shepstone, who is geographically located in the Marcellus, gives [...]
Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions dives into the interview right away about how the industry still has silos and what they look like from an outside perspective. The Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show also talks about how Alma, a female environmentally minded professional gravitated to industry. She explains how her [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 122 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling, 4th of July, Recycled Water, EV Vehicles, Bakken BBQ, Oklahoma vs. Nebraska on Fox, ND Suing Biden Administration, The Industrial Forest, Leaders Picking Their Winners and Why Building A Better Mousetrap No [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 121 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Traveling Donn as he is making his way to Georgia, Energy Transfer Suing Biden Administration, ESG Examples, API’s Climate Tax Template Begins, Leadership Issues and The Buffet-Biden Pollution Profit [...]
Benjamin Holliday , Holliday Energy Law Group was in Bismarck for a speaking gig at a Landman’s Convention and happen to stop by the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference. This impromptu interview turned into an organic discussion on ESG. The two talk about how industry was already going ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and how there [...]
Kyle Barnoff, Trigger Energy, starts off the interview with describing the positive vibe at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference and how it feels good to be back in the Bakken. He shares a story about cutting his teeth in the Bakken and listening to The Crude Life on the local [...]
Ron Gusek, President, Liberty Oilfield Services, talks about the recent Fox News report on the North Face Hypocrisy and the push behind Liberty Oilfield Services awareness campaign. He also talks about the Electric Frac the team at Liberty is integrating into their operations. Economics, natural gas and the ESG benefits [...]
Monte Besler, FRACN8R, talks how nice it was to see faces and shake hands again with humans, while it totally has an “old home week” feel at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference. He also talks about the documentary being filmed on the Bakken oil fields and he was asked to [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 120 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about McDonald’s Shaping Lives, Government Managed Marketplace, ESG, Bobby Bonilla Day, Bankruptcies, Climate Activists Gaining Momentum and Michael Scott Leaders Exist Hour Two Work Hard: Dwayne Farris, Black Creek K-9 Pipeline [...]
Krista Escamilla, host of Basin Life, The Permian Perspectives Podcast, co-owner of Rig ID Workwear and Permian FR Clothing Company Krista Escamilla joins Jason in the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners impromptu mobile studios at the Shale Energy Resources Conference and Trade Show held at the Midland County Horseshoe Pavilion, [...]
Dustin Gawrylow, President, North Dakota Watchdog Network talks about the local politics and how the state is shaped politically. Controlled by Republicans, Gawrylow explains about how there are factions, i.e. RINOs, within the ND GOP, and how the in-party fighting is creating more problems than solutions in the oil and gas industry. Gawrylow explains how taxpayers are [...]
Jason Spiess sits down with a graduating Mystician Editor-in-Chief Robert Mechaley III. Robert met Jason in front of the Bismarck Civic Center at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference for an interview on how the oil and gas industry is connecting with the youth. Robert gives an overview of the media [...]
Blu Hulsey of Continental Resources talks about the vibe at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference and how nice it is for industry to get back shaking hands and even hugging. Hulsey comments on Climate Tax, energy education, industrial awareness, ESG and why right now might be the most important time [...]
Michael Maltsev, President, RigER: Oilfield Operations Management Suite Maltsev gives a brief history of the company and how they gravitated towards digital solutions in the oil and gas industry. The two discuss some of the obstacles in technology including education and awareness of integration. Another growing pain has been too [...]
Summary and interview by Genneca Houser Did you know that there are people whose job it is to design well pad sites? We talked with two well educated and industry experienced ladies who work together for KLJ to do exactly that. Because a person can’t just place well pads and [...]
Power Sentry’s CEO Eric Calderon, and VP Sales, Arran Davidson join the Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show to discusses a number of topics. The buzz word of the conference is ESG and whether it is real or not. The interview dives into grid issues and how technology is the answer [...]
Kevin Black, CEO, Creedence Energy Services, Eric P., Marty Shumway, Locus Bio Energy Black gives thanks to the North Dakota Petroleum Council for the opportunity on stage and also for bringing the industry together when everyone needed the human element in business right now. Black talks about the results of [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 119 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling catch up after he returns from Kansas City, Johnny Green returns, Aramco Hydrogen, European Petroleum Institute, The Industrial Forest Studios, Fireworks and Abandoned Wells in New Mexico Hour Two Work Hard: Nikolai [...]
The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser interviews John Morrison, UAV Operations Manager, Insight Environmental The two discuss Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)s and how they are impacting the oil and gas industry. Safety and data collection are themes in the interview. The interview was conducted at the Williston Basin Petroleum [...]
The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser interviews Ryan Rauschenberger North Dakota Knows How To Get Things Done The Crude Life had the opportunity to speak with North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger for a few minutes a day after his very popular keynote presentation at the Williston Basin Petroleum [...]
Doug Wiles, Bismarck City Forester recaps Bismarck, ND, Arbor Day celebration and how they spent the day with some kids from Liberty Elementary. Doug explains what “Urban Forestry” and what is means to a city and community. Jason asks Doug his opinion or comments on the survival rate in an [...]
Jason and Sterling are joined by John Lilse, S&B Helical, talks about why he is moving down to Houston to work the Gulf and Permian due to market demands. The phone interview starts out with the three discussing how it took several months to make this interview happen. It was [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 118 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess hands the mic over to The Voice of West Texas Kris Moore who leads a panel discussion with Tiffany Wilson, Franki Osburn and Heather Ferrill representing The Real Oilfield Women of the South Hour [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 117 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is joined by Joe Sinnott, Witting Partners, Crew Shift Over, Unsustainable Leadership Styles, Energy Empowerment and Let’s Make A Deal Hour Two Work Hard: Ashley McNamee, Alverez & Marsal The Crude Life Daily Update [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 116 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is joined by Clean Energy Exploitations authors Ron Stein and Todd Royal, Steve and Pamela with LUINA! Hour Two Work Hard: Benjamin Holliday , Holliday Energy Law Group The Crude Life Daily Update For [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 115 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling recap and round up the recent event, Shale Energy Trade Show, Bakken BBQ, OKC, Big Crew Shift, Climate Coup in ExxonMobil and ESG vs. Abusers of Power Hour Two Work Hard: Texas [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 114 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess talks BBQ with several past Bakken BBQ Cookers and Competitors and past Make A Wish recipient Daviney talks about the night her Gift was granted. Hour Two Work Hard: The Crude Life Content Correspondent [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 113 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling get ready for the Bakken BBQ and talk music, pipelines, API, Carbon Tax, North Face and Potatoes of Inclusion Hour Two Work Hard: Charles “Choc” Harris, Protector and Associates Security Service The [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 112 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling go behind the Emcee, Bakken BBQ Week, National Anthem difficulties, Alma Cook, The Exxon Coup, Green Female Movement, ESG, Gov Abbott and The Price Is Wrong Chuck Norris Hour Two Work Hard: [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 111 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk Dhahran Saudi Arabia, Double Taxed Potatoes, Social Media Moments, Bakken BBQ Week, North Face Hypocrisy’s next steps, Steriod Burrito with Belmont Beef or Kentucky Kabayo Hour Two Work Hard: Kent Kirkhammer, [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 110 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess, RCC Jim Wright, Ron Gusek, Liberty Oilfield Service, Electric Fracs, ESG Reports, BBQ Tips, Shale Energy Resources Conference, North Face Hypocrisy, the Planet of Platitudes and the Realm of Reality Hour Two Work Hard: [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 109 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess, Maira Vargas, Midland Mayor Patrick Payton, Sex Trafficking, Ashley Smith, Truckers Against Trafficking, Energizing Mayors, Minority-Owned Businesses, Vegas Shutdown, COVID and ESG Influences in Political Energy Hour Two Work Hard: Michael Maltsev, President, RigER: [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 108 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is leaving OKC for the Shale Energy Resources Conference and Trade Show. Hour Two Work Hard: Charlie Gorescki, CEO of the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) a and Lynn Helms, Director of the [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 107 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is leaving OKC and making his way to the Shale Energy Resources Trade Show, Israel Aguirre, TRC Construction and Dee Meharg, Alpha Industrial Construction, Pipeliners, Welders and Electricians Hour Two Work Hard: Mike Rentfrow, [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 106 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess in his hotel room in OKC before the Cross Promotional Podcast with Ken Lavin and Matt Hill, The Permian Basin Association Of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff, Maira Vargas and Erin Wiersma Hour Two Work Hard: [...]
Kris Moore from The Morning Drive interviewed The Crude Life host Jason Spiess about his recent Live and Local Recording Session in Bismarck, ND at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Listening Session with Administrator Michael Regan. Spiess, who slept in his vehicle outside Valentine, NE and the Fort Niobrara National [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 105 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is driving solo after the EPA Listening Session with Admin Michael Regan, Sleeping in the Vehicle Again, WOTUS, ND AG Wayne Stenehjem, Sage Grouse, Lignite Energy’s Jason Bohrer and a Carbon Capturing Jackpot Hour [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 104 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess talks with Power Sentry’s CEO Eric Calderon, VP Sales Arran Davidson and Genneca visits with KLJ’s Corie Ereth and Daphne Senn Hour Two Work Hard: The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser interviews North [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 103 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about oil news in Alaska, Bakken BBQ, Shale Energy Resources Trade Show, EPA Administrator Michael Regan, Real Oilfield Women and how government programs can use kids to compete with the private [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 102 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is joined by the graduating Mystician Editor-in-Chief Robert Mechaley III to talk media ethics, oil wages, Standing Rock, horror movies and his complicated relationship with oil and gas. National BBQ Pitmaster Champion Junior Urias [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 101 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Memorial Day Saudi Arabia AramcoBrat Style, Oil and Water Do Mix, Urban Forestry, Bakken BBQ Recipes, Doug Wiles, Shawn Bradley and Shale Play USA Hour Two Work Hard: Kathleen Sgamma, [...]
Tiffany Wilson, Gulf South Energy Services, Heather Ferrill, Thomas Oilfield Services and Franki Osburn, Knighthawk Completion Services In this exclusive interview with The Real Oilfield Women of the South, Heather Ferrill announces she has accepted a new position with Thomas Oilfield Services. After a quick congratulations and an overview of [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 100 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is joined by Alma Cook, Cook Compliance Solutions, to talk about how the industry has silos, how a female environmentally minded professional gravitated to industry, Climate Tax, oil’s image, safety and compliance and ESG [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 98 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the Exxon’s latest climate activists shareholder issues, Earth Fist It, Shawn Forbes, Marshall Anderson, Mule Deer Foundation, Stepford Politician and is Rex Tillerson the greatest Secretary of State of modern [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 97 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the recent judge decision on DAPL, US Senator Kevin Cramer Comments, The Great Tesla Hornswoggle, Shale Play Prophet Returns, Why Line 5, future MouseRat Concert, Shawn Forbes and Casey Short [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 96 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and guest co-host Shawn Forbes, OG Directory, interview Shane Stolp, WesCom; Jeff Archer, Critical Fluid Solutions and Power Sentry’s CEO Eric Calderon and VP Sales Arran Davidson Hour Two Work Hard: The Crude Life Content [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 95 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and guest co-host Shawn Forbes, OG Directory, interview Sonja Ikeler, Panther Pressure Testers; Talon Grabow, Insight Environmental; Mark Ziegler, NewKota and Gorilla Jack with Live and Local Recording Sessions at the Williston Basin Petroleum [...]
Ron Ness, President, North Dakota Petroleum Council interviewed by The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser Ron Ness is the President of the North Dakota Petroleum Council and as such he has a unique vantage point for a view of the oil and gas industry and the issues facing it. [...]
Lynn Helms, Director, North Dakota Mineral Resources interviewed by The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser After some brief chit chat about the large shoes that Lynn Helms, the Director of the North Dakota Mineral Resources, fills in North Dakota Oil and Gas, we dove right in to some good [...]
Patrick Bertagnolli, SHRM-SCP, Rough Rider Center & Community Enhancement Director at City of Watford City is interviewed by guest co-host Shawn Forbes, OG Directory, and The Crude Life host Jason Spiess at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference. Bertagnoli gives a history and rundown of the RoughRider Center in Watford City. [...]
Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Ashley Smith, Truckers Against Trafficking, who was exhibiting at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, ND. Ashley gives an overview of what Truckers Against Trafficking is and why she is at the oil and gas conference. The three also dive into [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 94 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk Ghost in the Machine, The Great EV Chase Race, The Oil Bowl, Veteran Run Businesses, Bakken BBQ, Grand Junction, Trumps Texts, ESG and John Lisle of S&B Helical. Hour Two Work [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 93 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the day Sterling’s Oil Compound School got BMW buses, Climate Tax, Shale Play Prophet moments, Carpetbaggers, No Mask Mandates and more Line 5 Intention Questions Hour Two Work Hard: Kevin Black, [...]
Charles Gorecki, CEO, Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) “You Don’t Have To Choose” interview and summary by Genneca Houser, The Crude Life Content Correspondent Charles Gorecki, CEO of the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), took some time to talk with The Crude Life about his presentation regarding the direction [...]
Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Ken Hall, Chairman of the Board, Missouri River Resources at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, ND. Ken discusses the importance of the oil and gas industry to the MHA Nation and the Three Affiliated Tribes. Missouri River Resources has a [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 92 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling run down a few more Williston Basin Petroleum Conference interviews, the COVID Choir Conundrum, more PPP Podcasts, Hoover Dam’s Teamwork, National Voting Day and Why Line 5? Hour Two Work Hard : Kyle [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 91 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling catch up and run down some of the interviews from the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, Permian’s percolating, more EV talk and the new Kevin Smith He-Man. Hour Two Work Hard : Blu Hulsey, [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 90 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Ashley Smith, Truckers Against Trafficking Hour Two Work Hard : Marlette Dumas, PMP, Sr. Project Risk Management Engineer, BP The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 89 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Yale Preston, NESET and iaintjack productions Hour Two Work Hard : Former Secretary of State and U.S. Secretary of State and Publicly Rumored Presidential Candidate Mike Pompeo The Crude [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 88 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Monte Besler, Owner, FracN8R Consulting Hour Two Work Hard : Alicia Heiskell, GPS International The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Jay Coussens, Owner, Rolfson [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 87 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes are joined by Chairman of the Board of Missouri River Resources Ken Hall to talk about Native American Oil and Gas, Energy Empowerment, Hour Two Work Hard : Stephen Heins, The Energy [...]
Dustin Gawrylow, North Dakota Watchdog Network Gawrylow gives an update from the North Dakota Legislative Session. He talks about the coal industry, ESG and how a couple oil and gas bills did. The two discuss how former Governor Ed Schafer addressed the way the legislature has decided to spend the [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 86 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk Cyber Attacks on the Grid, Language Wars, Leadership Series, Corn Palace Pillow Rally, The People’s Lobbyist, Government Chili’s Money, Texas’ War on Oil, Marathon’s Wind Turbines, Yes Men No Men, Cyber [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 85 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling start their dress rehearsal with The Industrial Forest Studios, Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, As The Telsa Turns, Bakken BBQ Cooked OUT, New Mexico’s Newest Climate Activists, NFL Draft and Consumer Reports for [...]
Rick Henders, American Welltest Incinerators Henders discusses the flowback incineration industry and how they have a cost effective Enclosed Incineration Systems that maximizes efficiency while eliminating visible flames, smoke and odor. Henders says their goal is to provide affordable solutions to solve waste gas emission problems and to reduce the [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 84 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about how the children’s book Harry The Dirty Dog changed the world, Midland’s Mayor Going To Washington, Lumber Prices, Line 5 Clash, Tiffany Wilson’s Big Decision and Corporation Are People To [...]
Jason Modglin, President, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Modglin gives an update on the 2021 Texas Legislative Session and what bills their organization has been keeping an eye on. He also gives an update from the Permian and why energy minded professional should be acting now. For sponsorship information on The Crude [...]
Jay Coussens and Kristyn McLean of Rolfson Oil McLean gives an overview of the locations and services of Rolfson Oil, which started in Watford City, ND. Today the operations have expanded to Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Coussens describes how their company responded to COVID in a positive way. [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 83 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Joe Sinnot, Witting Partners to talk about Sustainable Leaders and how the intangible marketplace is becoming more accepted in the oil and gas industry. The three discuss toxic leaders, [...]
Dr. Loren Scott, Loren Scott & Associates Dr. Scott discusses the supply chain issues in the oil and gas industry and why it is creating issues. Lumber and steel are also layered in as part of the economy and supply chain. Dr. Scott also gives an outlook for commodities from [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 82 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling discuss the modern day etiquettes in texting, Playing ESG Ball with the Big Ballers, Shale Play Prophet Returns, Lumber Prices, LNG, Lake Charles and More Upset With Today’s Leadership. Hour Two Work [...]
Jason Spiess and Tom Masiero, Great American Mining Co., talk about how Bitcoin Mining within the oil and gas industry is picking up north of the Mason Dixon line in Shale Play USA. Tom opines on why Bitcoin has doubled in the past several months and why it will continue [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 81 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk Wrecklunds at the Cajun Creole Event in Denver, more Saudi Arabia stories, Life Cycle of a Band, Essential Workers, Communism 2.0., EV Cars, Four Seconds of Renewable Energy and Who’s The [...]
The Denver Petroleum Club is throwing a Cajun Creole Park Party! Bring the whole family and join industry professionals for an afternoon of crawfish, drinks, and music overlooking Ferril Lake at City Park Pavilion. The music and entertainment for the evening is the musical and linguistical stylings of Wrecklunds, a [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 80 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling figure out that ESG stands for “Everyone’s Saul Goodman”, Reaction News Networks, Shaking Potatoes and Handing Out Babies, Big Data equals an Energized Paradigm Shift and the return of the Shale Play [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 79 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling preview potato power, Allen Wrench conspiracy, why oil workers are getting close to replacing cigarette smokers are the modern day lepers, The Industrial Forest update, did the Vatican take over the media [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 78 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling preview a few tidbits from the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, the Bakken BBQ, ESG Potatoes, DAPL Smoker, EV Travel Math and why Water and Oil Do Mix. Hour Two Work Hard : Dan [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 77 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by “Professor” Stephen Heins to discuss ESG, AOL/Time Warner’s merger comparisons, Velvet Glove Leadership and Energy’s New Climate Champs John Kerry and Gina McCarthy Hour Two Work Hard : Former NBA [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 76 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling discover a self-induced Mandella Effect, Spiritual Sponsors, Fanny Packs, Horse Trading in Mexico, Shale Age, Oil Era, The Industrial Forest Update and International Smuggling Confessions Hour Two Work Hard : Kate Hornbrook of [...]
Jackie Jenkin and Tiffany Steiner, Co-Founder of the Bakken BBQ The Bakken BBQ is fastly approaching and some Bakken residents will get Oinked in May. As a part of an awareness campaign, the Bakken BBQ will be placing Pink Pigs in the front lawns of home owners and businesses. “You can oink a friend, family member, co-worker, neighbor or [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 75 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by a friend of the program who’s name sounds like a motorcycle. The three discuss growing up as a 10-year-old entrepreneur slash business owner. Hour Two Work Hard : Kate Hornbrook [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 74 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling discuss media manipulation tricks, verbal interrupters, pipeline chatter, Native American Energy Empowerment, BNSF infrastructure investments, a digital derriere and are we living in Magic Box times? Hour Two Work Hard : The Crude [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 73 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling banter about how Steamed Hams has enabled lying, Green New Deal, Digital Wildcatters Block Party, Rooted Marketing, The Industrial Forests Studios, Erin BrockaThunberg, Corn Hole Donkey Punching Games, Carbon Horse out of [...]
Alicia Heiskell, GPS International Alicia Heiskell, GPS International gives some “white hot” news regarding their recent field test in Pecos, TX. GPS International completed their Phase 2 field trial on their patent pending method to reduce Methane emissions from natural gas during flaring or venting operations. Test Results: In their [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 72 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the definition of freedom, ESG Potatoes, 10-year-old entrepreneurs, Bakken BBQ, Zombie Wells, Robotic Farming and The Bakken Bridge Hour Two Work Hard : Newspaper Reporter and Journalist Michael (Caleb) Amick The [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 71 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the Digital Wildcatters Block Party, Child Entrepreneurs, Government Sponsored Entrepreneurs, Colorado’s Blue Print, Everyday Energy For Everyday People and is Greta a now just a mascot? Hour Two Work Hard : [...]
US Senator Kevin Cramer US Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) discusses the recent court ruling rumblings involving the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). According the Senator Cramer the pipeline is in a “funny place” due to legal loopholes and appeal potential. The senator believes the courts will order a shutdown this week, [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 70 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling pontificate why Geraldine Ferraro hasn’t received more notoriety as a leader, The Industrial Forest Studios, Movie Plot recaps so bad they are good, ESG Potatoes, Reindeer Bullies and The Bakken Bridge at [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 69 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talks ComicCon, Cosplay, Gas Station Chicken, Old School Arcades and Live Crowds Hour Two Work Hard : Alicia Heiskell, co-owner, GPS International The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 68 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling rank the cool factor with Winger, Zombie Wells, more bankruptcies coming, ESG, Brave New World in marketing and Alexa is always listening. Hour Two Work Hard : Katherine Hill, president, Patronus Petroleum The [...]
Nicholas Melosi, COO, American Patriot Oil and Gas Nicholas Melosi, COO, American Patriot Oil and Gas talks about how their company has grown and why they are putting it up for sale. Melosi also talks about the importance of oil and gas and how it is a commodity with a [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 67 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Potatoes of Inclusion, the value of your character, how a Libra mind works, eating eggs like A pelican, idiocracy and the Bakken BBQ. Hour Two Work Hard : Danny Skiff, Specialized [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 66 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling Media Mad Libs, 150 Years of Decarbonizing, Parental Controls, Smoking and Non Smoking Sections and You Can’t Power Your Home With Marlboro’s. Hour Two Work Hard : Ron Gusek, president, Liberty Oilfield [...]
Michael (Caleb) Amick Amick is a reporter for The Dickinson Press, however, in this interview he is representing himself. The interview surrounding his recent article on Salt Water Spills in North Dakota and attorney Fintan Dooley’s presentation at Dickinson State University. In a presentation to Professor Toby Stroh’s reclamation class at [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 65 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the WalMart/ALDI juxtaposition, the COVID itch, broken bones, three-wheeler scars, Genneca’s Big Announcement and the Bakken BBQ. Hour Two Work Hard : Kat Galloway, Bright Sky Environmental The Crude Life Daily [...]
Shawn Forbes, owner, OG Directory (and guest co-host on The Crude Life Morning Show) interviews Stephanie Davis, Sales & Marketing Pro, with Digital Wildcatters to talk about their upcoming Digital Wildcatters Block Party Event on 4/24/21 in Richmond, TX. This is must attend event. ALL YOU CAN EAT CRAWFISH and [...]
Katherine Hill, president, Patronus Petroleum Interview and summary by Genneca Houser From modeling to clay shooting, and almost every aspect of the oil field, Kathrine Hill has 30+ years of work and knowledge that has helped make her successful today. Unlike most of our guests, Kathrine found her industry niche [...]
Ron Gusek, president, Liberty Oilfield Services Gusek gives an overview of the environmental image movement and ESG reporting. He said they will be releasing their first ESG report in May, which is a first for their company. The energy industry in transition is discussed in detail from a variety of [...]
Shawn Forbes, owner, OG Directory (and guest co-host on The Crude Life Morning Show) interviews Barry Woodlock, Corporate Sales, with Butch’s Companies. Butch’s company logo has a Rat embedded in it since they started out as a Rat Hole/Conductor company and have evolved into supplying a variety of high quality, [...]
Rocky Johnson, 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating, joins Shawn Forbes and Jason Spiess at the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff Johnson talks about his oilfield journey which started in agriculture. After entering into the oilfield, Rocky was laid off in the 2015 downturn and went back to ranching. That [...]
Danny Skiff, Specialized Desanders USA Skiff gives an overview of a recent study involving their desanders and how it greatly reduces “fugitive emissions”. Skiff said they can determine how much sand is needed in regards to managing emissions along with methane and carbon reductions. The shapes of sand are discussed [...]
Mike Rentfrow, president, Blue Boat Subsea Rentfrow shares his story of how he is transitioning into wind energy after working in the oil and gas industry for 29 years. He spent the majority of his time underwater installing pipelines and parts of off shore wells. Rentfrow explains how his path [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 64 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Tom Brady Stadium sponsored by Raymond James, Cheap Trick on Colbert, Jane the Virgin, Zoom Meeting Culture from Half Dressed to Fraggle sit ins and TV is now officially just [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 63 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about how the media reports on the future to save us from our present, Amazon’s Little City Distribution Centers, hitting 40, Cool-To-Creepy, The Simpson’s Predictions and Philosophy, Second Chance Entrepreneurs and [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 62 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling discuss how “sports shouting” has taken over the media and become a leadership style. People who own birds and a SPUD-Tacular announcement coming from the Bakken BBQ. Hour Two Work Hard : Nicholas [...]
Curtis Shuck, Chairman of The Board at Well Done Foundation Curtis Shuck reacts to the President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure which includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines. Shuck gives an overview of a recent capping and [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 61 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling wonder if there was a carbon pricing memo sent to industry, ESG talk, March Madness, Women’s Voice increasing more everyday in energy and weeding out the assholes in oil and gas. Hour [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 60 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about how someone born Jew celebrates Easter in Saudi Arabia while going to a Quaker boarding school. Tiffany Wilson gives an update on the Permian Basin. Hour Two Work Hard : Curtis [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 59 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling Colorado’s new set backs, April Fools origins, Pranks Gone Wrong, ESG and Keep America Beautiful and Women in Industry now directing the conversation. Hour Two Work Hard : Ashley McNamee, Director, ESG Services [...]
Ashley McNamee, Director, ESG Services at Alvarez & Marsal, gives an overview of what ESG is and why oil and gas companies are starting to integrate into their business plans, share holder reports and general practices. McNamee, who is a former television news anchor and oil and gas executive, brings [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 58 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the first female mayor, Bakken BBQ, ESG, Zip to Zap, Skin-In-The-Game-Business, Carbon Pricing, Government Managed Marketplace and Entrepreneurship is a now a major in college Hour Two Work Hard : Mary [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 57 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Shawn Forbes talk Industry Events, API, Carbon Pricing, Volunteer Firefighters, First Responders and how the Supply Chain works. Hour Two Work Hard : US Senator Kevin Cramer The Crude Life Daily Update For the [...]
Amy Anderyszak, President & CEO, The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Interview and summary by Genneca Houser Amy Andryszak is President and CEO of INGAA, a trade organization that advocates for the natural gas pipeline industry. Amy talks about INGAA and what role they play in policy making [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 56 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about API’s Carbon Pricing endorsement, Suez Canal impacts, Greta Tweeting about male genitalia, Snarky Money Fund, Tiffany Wilson and the heart-breaking and heart-warming story from Ronnie Scrogum of New Freedom. Hour [...]
Dustin Gawrylow, North Dakota Watch Dog Dustin Gawrlow gives an update and overview of several energy related bills making their way through the North Dakota legislature. HB 1452, HB 1412, HB 1380, SB 2291, HB 1458 are the bills discussed in the interview. The two also pontificate if, and even [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 55 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about API endorsing climate change, rank prejudice, FracleBerry Hound attacked by the neighbor’s dog, March Madness picks and North Dakota State Power Plant Hour Two Work Hard : Dustin Gawrylow, North Dakota [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 54 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about transitioning from Arizona to Saudi Arabia, The Boys, CSPAN Podcasts, Vaccine Cards, Negative Oil, Born Jewish and Catholic Guilt. Hour Two Work Hard : US Senator Kevin Cramer The Crude Life [...]
Chrysta Castaneda, Castaneda Law Firm Interview and summary by Genneca Houser Chrysta Castaneda is a well-educated woman and business owner with a unique background that couples engineering and law. What’s more is that she has extensive experience to pair with her education. Chrysta has both a degree in engineering and [...]
Kenda Martinez, Transitioning Into and Out of Oil and Gas after 20 Years Kenda Martinez talks about how opportunities in oil and gas have shrunk, disappeared or are transitioning away from old school core values in industry. Martinez talks about the evolution of Women in Oil and Gas. She began as a Hot [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 53 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow Hour Two Work Hard : Kenda Martinez talks about how opportunities in oil and gas have shrunk, disappeared or are transitioning away from old school core values in industry. The Crude Life [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 52 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Tom Masiero from Great American Mining Company Hour Two Work Hard : Chrysta Castaneda, Casteneda Law Firm The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Maira Vargas, Amigo Pipe & Equipment Rig [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 51 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk March Madness, Fake Entrepreneurs, API, DEPA and Emails into the Studio. Hour Two Work Hard : News, Rumors and Newspeak is our Work Hard portion today The Crude Life Daily Update For the [...]
Jason Spiess is joined by Shawn Forbes, OG Directory and Team Forbes, live from the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff in Odessa, Texas. The two interview Erin Wiersma. Erin Wiersma has had a year to forget. Vodka in your Trulia kind of a year. Around a year ago, Erin [...]
North Dakota Lt. Governor Brent Sanford Interview and summary by Genneca Houser Lt. Governor Brent Sanford has a long family history in North Dakota and his own extensive life experiences that have certainly shaped the way he is able to understand the working of industry and commerce throughout the state, [...]
Marlette Dumas, PMP, Sr. Project Risk Management Engineer, BP Interview and summary by Genneca Houser Marlette Dumas is a beautiful mind within the oil and gas industry and we had the opportunity to have a great conversation about how she got started, the journey, and her views on the direction [...]
Trisha Curtis, CEO, PetroNerds Interview and summary by Genneca Houser Trisha Curtis is the President and CEO of Denver based oil and gas advisory firm, PetroNerds. Trisha took some time to talk about her experience and knowledge in the industry and the amount of information she shares is vast. We [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 50 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Attorney Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm and host of Bison Illustrated Podcast, Herd it Hear with Swany Radio Show and columnist for Bison Illustrated. Hour Two Work Hard : North Dakota Lt. Governor Brent Sanford [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 49 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia and how his hometown of Dhahran was impacted. Hour Two Work Hard : U.S. Senator John Hoeven on CCUS and U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer on Fox [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 48 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess flying solo on this Hump Day, St. Patrick’s Day and World Shale Energy Day. Hour Two Work Hard : Mike Rentfrow, president, Blue Boat Subsea The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 47 Hour One Play Hard: Shawn Forbes and Jason Spiess are live from the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff. Derrick Clark, Epic Site Solutions, LLC and Dee Meharg, Alpha Industrial Construction Hour Two Work Hard : Caleb Amick, representing himself not The [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 46 Hour One Play Hard: Shawn Forbes and Jason Spiess are live from the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff. Maira Vargas , Amigo Pipe & Equipment, LLC and Israel Aguirre, TRC Construction Hour Two Work Hard : Trisha Curtis, CEO, PetroNerds [...]
Stephen Forrester, Gyrodata Stephen Forrester gives an overview of the history of Gyrodata and how it is used in the oil and gas industry. Host Jason Spiess brings up the Bakken’s core sample library and how that data has created an environment that reduced old school wildcatting for precision horizontal [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 45 Hour One Play Hard: Shawn Forbes and Jason Spiess are live from the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff. Wes Johnson and Rocky Johnson are guest interviews. Hour Two Work Hard : Marlette Dumas, PMP, Sr. Project Risk Management Engineer, BP [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 44 Hour One Play Hard: Shawn Forbes and Jason Spiess are live from the Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Annual Cookoff Hour Two Work Hard : Stephen Forrester, GyroData The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Jackie [...]
Jerry R. Simmons is currently the President and CEO of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA) headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma Simmons gives a history of DEPA, specifically why the group was created for the energy industry. The interview quickly dives into the Wall Street Journal article citing the American Petroleum [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 43 Hour One Play Hard: Ken Lavin and Jason Spiess talk about how family values can cost you money in some circles of industry, leadership building silos and how oil and gas needs to reinvest how they connect with people. [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 42 Hour One Play Hard: Shawn Forbes, Tiffany Wilson and Jason Spiess celebrate Tiffany’s Thirty-Sexy Birthday before her birthday Hour Two Work Hard : US Senator Kevin Cramer The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Kathleen Sgamma, [...]
Lauren Guerra, Vice President at The Austin-Montana Project, Digital Content Administrator for San Antonio Pipeliners Association, Immediate Past-President of WEN South Texas, gives an overview of The Austin-Montana Project. Lauren also talks about the San Antonio Pipeliners Association and their recent scholarship offerings. She also describes why she is so [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 41 Hour One Play Hard: Carbon pricing, DEPA, API, social media shamers, wind still blows, solar has potential, pipeliners BBQ and heading down to the Permian basin. Hour Two Work Hard : Keri St John, Bynum School The Crude Life [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 40 Hour One Play Hard: Tommy Boy Business Wisdom, Lying About Your Age, Permian’s Saturated Market, BBQ Wood, Texas Grid Issues, Asian COVID Testing Hour Two Work Hard : Jackie Jenkin and Tiffany Steiner, Co-Founders, Bakken BBQ The Crude Life Daily Update For [...]
Michaela Hager, K9 Pipe Inspections and Chewy Pawz Michaela Hager is back from the Permian where her dogs were working hard in the desert. Hager explains how her dogs are more accurate than many of the automated sensors and robotics. What the training is like and what kinds of dogs [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 39 Hour One Play Hard: San Antonio Pipeliners, Women Energy Network, Gary F’n Vaynerchuk, Austin-Montana Project, Broseff Biz, March Madness, Climate Envoy John Kerry, No More Snow Please Hour Two Work Hard : Michaela Hager, K9 Pipe Inspections and Chewy Pawz The Crude [...]
Bernadette Collins and Alicia Heiskell of GPS International discuss the importance of Women Owned Businesses in industry. The two are members of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) . WBENC provides the most widely recognized certification for women-owned businesses in the U.S. Every March since 1987, Congress and U.S. [...]
Derrick Clark, president, Epic Site Solutions and Membership Chair, Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Clark gives an update from the Permian Basin as well as an overview of the vibe in Midland Odessa. The Permian Basin Cook Off was moved from Saturday to Thursday March 11 and Clark lists the [...]
Interview and summary by Genneca Houser It was a very enjoyable and enlightening conversation with Senator John Cooke of Weld County, Colorado. Recently, this area has been getting national attention for a growing desire to secede from Colorado and join what we all know as the state of Wyoming. Will [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 37 Hour One Play Hard: New Dakota, Biden’s Chinese Grid, Oilfield Connections International Oilfield Social, Thought Workers, Texas Grid Issues, Leaders Becoming Less Accessible, Forgotten Candy Bars and Wyoming’s Wang Hour Two Work Hard : Colorado State Senator John Cooke The Crude Life [...]
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge came flying hot right out of the gate sharing thoughts that so many across the nation have had since January 20th. After President Biden went on a signing spree of Executive Orders, there are many brows raised and breaths baited waiting to see where this country [...]
Tiffany Wilson, US Director of Sales, Aries Buildings, shares the story of how Aries Buildings, Target Hospitality and Permian Lodging all worked together. Wilson explains how working with Brad Archer, president, Target Hospitality really brought it all together in order to help over 1500 people impacted by the winter storm. [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 36 Hour One Play Hard: Looking for Musk Money, Climate Activists, PPP Double Dipping, Industry Events, Team Forbes, Invasive Species, Pipelines as Critical Infrastructure, State-Sponsored Bigfoot CosPlay and Texas Storm Aftermath Hour Two Work Hard : Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge The Crude [...]
Texas State Representative Brooks Landgraf, Vickey Leech and Raymond Hagen with HYDRA USA The three join Jason Spiess and Sterling during the Play Hard Work Hard Morning Show to give an update from Texas. Landgraf recaps the past week and explains where the grid failed and how areas of leadership [...]
Mike Marcil, Orange Property Management Mike Marcil shares information from his research and insight company involving the Bakken and surrounding areas. Marcil opines about several different areas in energy. From the state’s use of public money for energy, coal controlling the narrative, weak leadership in energy and Xcel Energy’s newest [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow Shepstone gives an overview of how natural gas played a major role in the Texas storm and power grid issues. The two run down the percentage numbers of grid production in Texas and ask why natural gas is being demonized or vilified by the media when it should be [...]
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Summary written by content correspondent Genneca Houser We jumped right into some great conversation about the Energy Industry in North Dakota since the Biden Administration has taken over. Many changes have taken place just since January 20th including President Biden signing Executive Orders that would otherwise cripple the [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 35 Hour One Play Hard: Social Media Shamers and Shapers, Top Oil Movies, Who Pays Texas Heat Bills and OnlyFans Saves Marriage, Expels Kids Hour Two Work Hard : Mike Marcil, Orange Property Management The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 34 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess and Sterling are back in studio The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess is back in studio with Sterling, only [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 33 Hour One Play Hard: Jason Spiess is interviewed by Caleb Amick from The Dickinson Press. Hour Two Work Hard : Jason Spiess, The Crude Life and The Industrial Forest speaks at the API Dickinson event in the Bakken. The Crude [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 32 Hour One Play Hard: New Social Media rules coming in the workplace, FracleBerry Hound, Freedom Juicing, Climate Activists, Speaking at an API Event, Jason Spiess vs. Bill Gates, Consensus Science and Herschel Walker doesn’t want reparations. Hour Two Work [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 31 Hour One Play Hard: Boa constrictor bans in Florida, Industrial Forest talk, rolling blackouts in Minnesota, Texas grid issues and investigations and why does the media check-in with Bill Gates on Texas? Hour Two Work Hard: Texas State Representative Brooks [...]
Summary written by Content Correspondent Genneca Houser We have the wonderful opportunity to talk to Stephanie Canales with Cougar Drilling Solutions. She discussed a little bit about Cougar Drilling and her role as well as the difficulties of starting her position during one of the most tumultuous times in recent [...]
Colorado State Senator Ray Scott gives an overview of the reasons, realities and rationales behind Weld County wanting to succeed from Colorado and join Wyoming. Scott also talks about the issues in Texas and how it is a teachable moment for industry. Scott also explains why renewables are not the correct terminology, whereas, communities [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 30 Hour One Play Hard: WTF is ERGOT, The Rock vs. Musk in 2024, CBD Coffee, Houston RamCoBrats without water and power, Idol Worshiping Dolly Style and recalling The Day Country Music Died Hour Two Work Hard: Stephanie Canales with [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 29Hour One Play Hard: Bill Gates “likely” Tricks the News, Elon Musk Becoming Republican, Ken Lavin and Survival in the City. Hour Two Work Hard: Colorado State Senator Ray Scott gives an update on Weld Counties interest in joining Wyoming [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 28 Shortened version today with the weather and travels. JP Warren, Capital Petroleum Consultants and Round The Rotary Podcast joins The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard with an update from his Texas home without running water. Warren [...]
Adam Perkins, president, Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners gives an update on the winter storm in Texas and the south. He explains why pipelines are critical and yesterday’s storm should be viewed as a teachable moment on why pipelines are critical. For guest, band or show topic requests, email studio@thecrudelife.com Spread the word. Support [...]
Jason Modglin, president, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, gives an overview of how the grid was impacted from each energy source. Modglin lists types and percentages of use. The viral photo of a helicpoter deicing a wind turbine is discussed too. Spiess believes it is one of the best public relation [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 27Hour One Play Hard: Employment talk from being laid off to resume frenzy, rural living, innovative service companies and women powering industry.Hour Two Work Hard: Updates from Texas – Adam Perkins, president, Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners; Jason Modglin, president, Texas Alliance [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 26Hour One Play Hard: Lonely Valentine’s, Fishing Stories, Women’s Energy Network, Industry Events and Why Networking is ChangingHour Two Work Hard: Derrick Clark, Epic Solutions, president, Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess is joined [...]
Interview and summary by The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon spoke on the recent upheaval over the presidential executive order that placed a moratorium on the use of federal lands and resources in the oil and gas industry. We discuss the different methods of “pushing [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 25Hour One Play Hard: Distance Learning , The Industrial Forest, Wyoming Energy, Weld County Succeeding from Colorado and how the Social Media Shamers are influencing the country’s leaders and policy makers.Hour Two Work Hard: Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon Daily Rig Count [...]
George Stark and William desRosiers, Cabot Oil and Gas, give an update on the natural gas side of their business as well as their shifting of business intentions in 2021. Cabot Oil and Gas is the fourth largest natural gas company in the United States, with the bulk of their gas [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 24Hour One Play Hard: Gorilla Glue Hair Spray, Accidental Inventions and News, Rumors and NewspeakHour Two Work Hard: George Stark and William desRosiers, Cabot Oil and Gas Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling give an update on The Industrial Forest after Jason met with [...]
TThe Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 23 Hour One Play Hard: Traveling with Pets, Famous Tightwads and News, Rumors and Newspeak Hour Two Work Hard: Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess shares with Sterling the origin of FracleBerry [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 22 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling start the show off with a run down of The Crude Life’s upcoming travel schedule and trip to Bismarck, ND, to meet with Mayor Steve Bakken and members of the [...]
Summary written by The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser The Association of Oil Pipelines is an influential and important part of the United States gas liquids industry. Andy Black is the President of the Association, and he took some time to talk with The Crude Life about the AOPL, [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 21 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling run down the guests for the week as well as India burning Greta Thunberg mural in effigy. Greta’s Toolkit Tweet brought the issue of yelling “Fire” in a crowded theatre [...]
Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Carroll Angelle,Premier Off Shore Catering to talk about Super Bowl food and fare. Carroll was on his way through San Antonio en route to Midland for Thursday’s Oilfield Connections International Mardis Gras Luncheon. Carroll gives the details for the Mardis Gras menu and shares stories about helicopter landings, [...]
Loren Scott, president, Loren Scott & Associates and Professor Emeritus of Economics at LSU, recaps several of the executive orders signed by President Joe Biden and how it will impact the oil and gas industry. “Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland is a very scary person. She has called repeatedly for an all out fracking ban. She’s [...]
Dustin Gawrylow, North Dakota WatchDog Network runs through a list of proposed bills and legislation that impact the energy industry in North Dakota and the Bakken. House Bill 1452 was heard in late January in the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. (watch the committee hearing video by clicking here) House Bill [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer discusses the difference and similarities with President Joe Biden’s executive orders regarding pipelines, specifically the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline. He explains the relationship and oversight with the US Army Corps of Engineers with the pipelines and US Waterways. Taking control of the narrative in the Paris Agreement [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 20 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling run down the rules and prizes one more time for the Super Bowl Numbers Board. Super Bowl parties, food and facts are shared in the first segment as well. Sterling [...]
Bismarck Mayor Steve Bakken gives an update from the state capital as well as his view on President Joe Biden’s executive orders, including his decision to halt the Keystone XL Pipeline. Mayor Bakken explain that pipeline are considered “critical infrastructure” and should be treated as such by the government rather [...]
Derrick Clark, Epic Site Solutions and Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners gives a boots-on-the-ground update from the Permian Basin. The interview also discusses the importance of a crane. The crane indicates major economic activity. Whether it is a skyscraper or well site, generally when a crane is around, there are [...]
Dwayne Farris, Black Creek K9 Pipeline Leak Detection,served in the United States Marine Corps as a Military Police Officer receiving assignment as a Military Working Dog handler. This experience brought him to the oil and gas industry detecting leaks in pipes with dogs. The types of dogs used in pipeline leak detection is discussed from bloodhounds to [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 19 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling try to fit 20 pounds of potatoes in a five pound sack with the plethora of news, executive orders, Super Bowl talk and Back Seat Biden. FracleBerrry Hound got into [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 18 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Carroll Angelle, Premier Off Shore Catering to talk about Super Bowl food and fare. Carroll was on his way through San Antonio en route to Midland for Thursday’s Oilfield Connections International Mardis Gras [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 17 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Marty Bent, Great American Mining Co., to explain what the heck happened with the GameStop kerfuffle. Marty explains what a “short squeeze” is, who Robin Hood is [...]
Kunal Patel, Federal Reserve of Dallas gives an update from their recent Energy Survey in the Dallas Fed District. Activity in the oil and gas sector jumped in fourth quarter 2020, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 16 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are doing their best this morning as Jason ate Indian food over the weekend and the air is so pungent at times, Fracleberry Hound left the room. President Biden’s public [...]
Art Berman, Labyrinth Consulting shares his views on the recent executive orders signed by President Joe Biden, specifically the suspension on Federal Lands and the Paris Agreement. He also shares his views on natural gas and responds to whether it is a foundation fuel or a wildcard or both. ESG and pressures from climate [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 15 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: If finally Friday! Jason Spiess and Sterling talk a little sports business in the first hour as the Super Bowl nears. Sterling lead a conversation from an article on the psychology on losing big [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 14 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by Tiffany Wilson, Aries Buildings, on the Swan Energy Phone Lines for an update from the Permian Basin. Wilson also gives the details for the Oilfield Connections International [...]
Kathleen Sgamma , president, Western Energy Alliance comments on the executive orders ordering a ban on oil and natural gas development on public lands. A ban on oil and natural gas development on public lands by President-elect Joe Biden would severely harm the economies of eight western states, according to [...]
Interview and recap of Commissioner Christi Craddick is by The Crude Life Content Correspondent Genneca Houser. Craddick is one of three commissioners at the Texas Railroad Commission, and she is also the longest serving of the three to this elected position. We were lucky enough to get some time with [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 13 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined in the first hour by JP Warren, Capital Petroleum Consultants and Round the Rotary Podcast. The first segment with the trio dives into what “Round the Rotary” podcast [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 12 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about The Crude Life SuperBowl Numbers Board and how companies can participate. They also give their thoughts SuperBowl LV and how the quarterback will impact the game and [...]
Lance Medlin, Meridian Energy Group discusses their ESG Certification and the lengthy process their company went through. Meridian Energy Group is spearheading the Davis Refinery in the Bakken as well as the Walton Refinery in Winker County, Texas. Medlin added there are plans in the works for a third refinery to [...]
Byron Tuck, Simon Energy Associates and Kimberly Smith, TalkTexasOil discuss Like Kind Exchanges and trading real property. 1031 exchanges offer a two year window of opportunity where individuals and corporations can trade their oil and gas properties for producing income such as a beach house, a commercial real estate property, and receive revenue. Tuck [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 11 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Sterling is out on assignment today so Jason Spiess is joined by Thomas Pyle, president, American Energy Alliance, Thomas explains why the recent executive orders not only are detrimental to the environment, [...]
When President Joe Biden signed a flurry of executive orders his first day in office it sent a clear message to America that his War On The Environment has begun. Biden’s decision to rescind the permit for the Keystone pipeline, reenter the U.S. into the Paris Agreement, and order his [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 10 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Sterling is back from his one day walkabout! On today’s morning show, Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about the news story about the Oregon woman who left her 4-year-old child in the car [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 9 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Sterling is off today on assignment, so Jason Spiess is joined by Mike Marcil of Orange Property Management. Mike and Jason begin the conversation about the “public trust of the fourth estate” known [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 8 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling breakdown what ESG is. Environmental. Social. Governance. Jason explains what each letter segment entails and why he believes an “ESG Rating” or “ESG Score” will be a regular part of [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 7 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling discuss the MegaMillions and PowerBall Jackpots and how they would spend the money. Jason cites a list of lottery facts and stories from tax rates to illegals ticket purchases to [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 6 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling talk about Dr. Martin Luther King and the progression of states and education for the symbolism of the day and person. Sterling recalls his lack of MLK upbringing being born [...]
Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by the Permian Basin’s Kate Hornbrook. Kate talks about her new role as the president of Oilfield Connections International – Midland Chapter and the upcoming events. Kate also talks about her role as a technical manager with Ace Completions, which involves petroleum engineering and [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 5 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling are joined by the Permian Basin’s Kate Hornbrook. Kate talks about her new role as the president of Oilfield Connections International – Midland Chapter and the upcoming events. Click [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 4 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess, Sterling talk more how to create a shell company with the sole intention of making a 6-7 figure salary, not doing and work and buying a private island. Several strategies are [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 3 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess, Sterling talks how to create a shell company with the sole intention of making a 6-7 figure salary, not doing and work and buying a private island. Several strategies are discussed. [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 2 Daily Rig Count source: tradingeconomics.com HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess, Sterling talks about the Washington DC Insurrection and Trump Rally. The two also talk about Mandela Effects in society and answer the question of whether a Joe Biden presidency will shut [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 1 Daily Rig Count HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess, Sterling and Tiffany Wilson, Aries Buildings Tiffany Wilson joins the first hour to promote her and “The Crude Life Sisters” upcoming interview on The Black Gold Podcast and her new “side hustle” [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining Co, talks about the recent spike in Bitcoin and how it is impacting the global economy. Masiero explain how Bitcoin works, how the average person can participate in the cryptocurrency and how the value is protected. The interview also folds in several recent news stories [...]
Mike Marcil, Orange Property Management, joins The Crude Life for some candid COVID conversations. Major themes throughout the entire interview is the lack of media oversight, minimal government transparency and diminished power of the people. Marcil breaks down North Dakota’s federal COVID money, including the federal minimum monetary requirements. “North [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 388 Colorado State Senator John Cooke, District 13, gives an update on Colorado’s new oil and gas rules that go into effect Jan. 15, 2021. Cooke said these new rules will affect almost every stage of the oil and gas extraction process in [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard is a daily (Mon-Fri) lifestyle program to start your day. Play Hard Work Hard will air every weekday morning at 7am CT. Each daily program will air for 90-120 minutes, with the first hour playing hard before working hard in hour number two. This pilot [...]
Colorado State Senator John Cooke, District 13, gives an update on Colorado’s new oil and gas rules that go into effect Jan. 15, 2021. Cooke said these new rules will affect almost every stage of the oil and gas extraction process in Colorado. The decision to enact the laws also [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard is a daily (Mon-Fri) lifestyle program to start your day. Play Hard Work Hard will air every weekday morning at 7am CT. Each daily program will air for 90-120 minutes, with the first hour playing hard before working hard in hour number two. This pilot [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 387 On our weekly Mining Money segment, Imran Khan of Swan Energy explains why oil and gas investing is primed for the next decade. Ron Gusek, president, Liberty Oilfield Services, comments on the recent words and actions from The North Face and the [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm, talks about the December 24, 2020, deadline for North Dakota to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to mineral owners. The core of the issue is, about a decade ago, the state of North Dakota decided they owned the minerals under Lake Sakakwea, even [...]
Tiffany Wilson, US Director of Sales, Aries Housing, gives an update on the workforce housing activity in the Bakken, Texas and Oklahoma. Wilson talks about community development and oilfield giving during the holidays and this past year. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube Follow [...]
Ron Gusek, president, Liberty Oilfield Services, comments on the recent words and actions from The North Face and the oil and gas industry. Bulwark FR is also included as part of this interview thread. Gusek discusses the hypocrisy of situation and education opportunities for all ages. The disconnection of the [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard is a daily (Mon-Fri) lifestyle program to start your day. Play Hard Work Hard will air every weekday morning at 7am CT. Each daily program will air for 90-120 minutes, with the first hour playing hard before working hard in hour number two. This pilot [...]
Vickey Leech, oil and gas professional, talks about her work with the Oilfield Angels movement during the Holidays. Leech said they raised more than $20K and were able to help 17 families in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and North Dakota. Leech also talks about her 2020, which involved a layoff and [...]
Jason Modglin, president, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, talked about their recent survey of more than 160 oil and gas professionals. The interview also discusses industry’s disconnect with government leaders, business executives and regulators, with publicly-traded company The North Face’s recent action of rejecting business due to the buyer’s professional [...]
The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 386 On our weekly Mining Money segment, Imran Khan of Swan Energy explains why oil and gas investing is primed for the next decade. Examples from electric car transitions to the world’s aging population’s reliance on medical facilities and the power grid are [...]
Interview and notes by Content Correspondent Genneca Houser Recently, we got to have a conversation with Mark Watson, the Supervisor for the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. We discuss some projects from this past year including a look into the Orphan Well Program and the Energy Rebound Project. We [...]
Interview by Content Correspondent Genneca Houser. If you’ve been wondering how trade of natural gas globally is faring, this would be a good conversation to listen to. Charlie Riedl, the Executive Director for the Center for Liquid Natural Gas, took some time to talk a bit about some struggles over [...]
The Crude Life Morning Show Play Hard Work Hard is a daily (Mon-Fri) lifestyle program to start your day. Play Hard Work Hard will air every weekday morning at 7am CT. Each daily program will air for 90-120 minutes, with the first hour playing hard before working hard in hour number [...]
Jeff Roach, president, Houston International Equipment, USA Operations joins The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard, during their pilot recording. Host Jason Spiess and Co-Host Sterling interview Roach about his decision to go public on LinkedIn about his frustration with The North Face and Bulwark FR’s. The interview [...]
Shawn Forbes, president, OilfieldSourcing.com, talks about some upcoming events in the oil and gas industry. Forbes gives a history of her experience in oil and gas, from state to state and company to company. Oilfield Sourcing is an oil and gas online directory for suppliers, service providers and organizations. Forbes [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer gives an outlook for energy companies as they prepare for 2021. Cramer discusses in detail one of the main issue upfront is federal leases. Cramer explains how the western states will be hit hard by a federal ban with North Dakota getting hit hard. He says [...]
On our weekly Mining Money segment, Imran Khan of Swan Energy discusses a recent report indicating small to mid-sized oil and gas companies will have ample opportunities over the next couple of years. Dan Haley, CEO and President of COGA (Colorado Oil and Gas Association) discusses some of the big [...]
This week on Mining Money, Imran Khan of Swan Energy explains why oil and gas investing is primed for the next decade. Examples from electric car transitions to the world’s aging population’s reliance on medical facilities and the power grid are discussed in detail. Kahn also explains how there are risk management tools put [...]
Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, recaps the past year and explains how they’ve had to work extra hard in new areas and diversify their services. Unexpected labor costs, competition from unemployment and government projects getting put on hold created some shifts in the market and Jordan discusses how they navigated those [...]
Jake Milne, president, W.I.C., describes his company’s ties to the energy sector – specifically oil and gas. Milne explains how small business is critical in oil and gas and why he has high hopes for 2021. Milne, who operates W.I.C. out of Casper, WY, gives an update on the region’s [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, president, Western Energy Alliance, gives a recap of 2020, including election thoughts, building new relationships, COVID shutdown impacts, including the demonstration of how critical the oil and gas industry is for operating the health care industry and being the jump start for economic recovery. The increase of climate [...]
Dan Haley, CEO and President of COGA (Colorado Oil and Gas Association) discusses some of the big efforts from the past year, including the fight against regulations and the push to educate people about the many changes innovations toward a more environmentally clean and friendly oil and gas industry. Interview [...]
Josiah Black, Distribution NOW, gives an update from the Permian region and talks about the oilfield opportunity happening right now. The interview transitioned into the digital transition happening in oil and gas. From the well site to pumps to offices, the digital transition is happening and Black sees that as [...]
John Vindas, Bayou Energy and Repair Services, gives the details for their Energy Pop Up Social Mixer on Thursday December 3, 2020, in Marrero, LA. Vindas shares his experience in oil and gas and how the bulk of their business deals with barges and vessels down in and on the [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining, gives his reasons why he believes Bitcoin is back in the news due to spiking in value near an all-time high. Masiero reminds that there are only around 3 million Bitcoin left to mine, therefore the value could increase considerably in 2021. This is one [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org, gives an update from the East Coast shale plays, including the Marcellus. Shepstone, geographically located near the border of New York, describes the increasing issues with East Coast energy, from Pennsylvania gas to pipeline purchases to New York’s outright bans. The interviews dives into natural gas and [...]
Danny Skiff, Specialized Desanders USA, gives an update on the frac sand industry as well as the filtration, screen and separation market. Skiff explains how there are different shapes of sand used in different shale plays which can create long term issues like equipment failure. Geography has influenced the frac [...]
Colorado State Larry Crowder, District 35, recently penned this Op/Ed piece. The interview also gives a history of the recent issues in Colorado with oil and gas industry, the government and special interest groups. There are always two sides of any issue affecting Colorado, and this is an opinion against [...]
This week on Mining Money, Imran Khan of Swan Energy discusses a recent report indicating small to mid-sized oil and gas companies will have ample opportunities over the next couple of years. Khan explains why the quick and nimble investors and companies are able to navigate much easier through uncharted times and territories. He also [...]
Kate Hornbrook, Ace Completions, gives an update on their activity in the Permian Basin. Hornbrook also serves in a leadership position with Oilfield Connections International Permian Basin chapter and gives an update on their postponed holiday party due to the rising COVID issues. Hornbrook describes her journey from studying dentistry [...]
Katherine Burk started her own consulting firm this past June after being laid off twice in six months to start 2020. Her drive for hard work and passion for industry led her to steel fabrication and the oil and gas industry. Currently the bulk of her work has been devoted [...]
Tiffany Steiner and Jackie Jenkin, Co-Founders of the Bakken BBQ, announce the amount of money raised from this year’s community fundraiser. In the midst of a year where COVID Shutdowns, Smart Starts, and Mask Wars were dominating the country’s discourse, the 8th Annual Bakken BBQ raised $75,000 for Make A [...]
Terry Etam, author of “The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity“, writer at the BOE Report and blogger for his blog Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil sands in Canada. Etam also reacts to the recent election and how he feels it impacts the international oil [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss the “new frontier” in oil and gas. Even before the recent presidential election, changes in oil and gas were happening. Both Davis and Khan comment and react to several of the large corporation’s CEO’s comments of what a Joe Biden presidency means for the [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss what may come to energy and the economy with a Joe Biden presidency. Whether Biden’s policy’s combined with the direction of the country will result in major inflation, an increase in interest rates and energy cost increases to the consumer. The interview also [...]
Ken Lavin, Winter Mud Co., gives a brief history of the drilling fluid company, which started in the SW Kansas and the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle. They operated in that territory for decades and has expanded operations throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Winter Mud Company was started during a tremendous slow down in [...]
Rebekah Wheeler, Revolution Resources, talks about the benefit for Teen Recovery Solutions at the Quail Creek Golf and Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Wheeler also discusses Revolutions Resources activity in the Mid-Continent Region. She also shares some of their recent business moves involving growth and expanded services. In addition [...]
Robert “Bobby” Mason, CEO, SPOC Automation, discusses their automation technology for both the upstream and midstream segments of the oil & gas industry. The interview takes deep dive on the oil and gas’ transition to automation from topics like artificial lifts to pipelines to salt water disposal the world of [...]
Rusty Daily, Crescent Consulting, talks about the changes in consulting over the past 20 years. Daily describes some changes in well site supervision and project management with drilling, completion and work-over projects. He continues explaining they compile a complex well plan, then execute it by providing experienced consultants to supervise [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy pontificate what investments will be like after a Donald Trump reelection or a Joe Biden election. The risk involving BLM leases, natural gas futures and foreign investments are several topics discussed in detail. Voice Artist: Time now for Mining Money. Brandon Davis: Brandon Davis, [...]
This week on Mining Money, Jeremy Pate and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss the calm before the storm in regards to investments. Dan Hedrington, SEH, gives an update on the Davis Refinery and the Supreme Court decision allowing the refinery to begin construction. The Davis Refinery is the first [...]
Bernadette Collins and Dustin Matthews give the run down on the Permian /Delaware Basin Oilfield Social, happening November 4, 2020 at Rolling 7’s Ranch Event center, Midland Tx. Matthews describes the organic nature of a social networking gathering that grew into a fundraising event with bands, VIP tables, a raffle, [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy comment on Joe Biden’s comments about transitioning off fossil fuels. Davis lists reasons how our daily lifestyle is dependent on the oil and gas industry as well as the advantages of American Energy Independence. He also opines about traditional media, social media and whether either [...]
On episode 378 of The Crude Life Week in Review, we hear from investment experts at Swan Energy and Paul Meyers, owner of Legacy Wealth Management discusses the Bakken in detail. Brandon Davis, CEO, Tim Travis, and Imran Khan, of Swan Energy talk about how the November national election will [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, Tim Travis and Imran Khan of Swan Energy talk about how the November national election will impact the energy industry. From prices to shale play USA, different angles and perspectives are shared. Jason Spiess: Thank you gentlemen, for joining us today. We’re going to go right to the mailbag today in [...]
Jason Jennaro, Breakwater Energy Partners gives an update on the largest produced water recycling facility in the Permian Basin. Their 80-acre facility, known as the Big Spring Recycling System (BSRS), has a throughput capacity of over 250,000 barrels per day of recycled produced water. Located between Howard and Martin counties, [...]
Mike Griffith, Knighten Industries, talks about how COVID impacted their business in 2020. Knighten Industries is a full service pump distributor servicing the Oil & Gas, Industrial, and Municipal markets. Griffith says they have seen an increase in their service side of the business, which was a blessing since the [...]
Tiffany Wilson, Aries Buildings, gives an update from the Permian Basin, Eagleford and SCOOP/Stack shale plays. Wilson travels and talks with many individuals and companies within the oil and gas sector. Wilson will “be making her way” to the Bakken next week as Aries Buildings has seen an increase in [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss ways to make sure one has as many bases covered in the world of investing. Safety in numbers, proven past investments, past failures to learn from and pooling cash together are topics of discussion this week on Mining Money. There was even [...]
This week’s Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate of Swan Energy are live on location at Cowboys and Indians restaurant in Houston, Texas. Taking the wild ride of deals is discussed as Davis explains how they ended up investing in the Permian. Jason Jennaro, Breakwater Energy [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate of Swan Energy are live on location at Cowboys and Indians restaurant in Houston, Texas. Taking the wild ride of deals is discussed as Davis explains how they ended up investing in the Permian. Curtis Shuck, Well [...]
Curtis Shuck, Well Done Foundation, talks about the emerging issue of orphan wells in America. Shuck explains the difference between orphan, abandoned and shut in wells. There are many layers to the issue of orphan wells in America. Generally speaking, the landowner or surface owner is responsible for the problematic [...]
Alicia Heiskell and Ron Thames discuss the technology and science behind FireBULL, a fluorine free foam. Heiskell explains how science and environmental concerns have spotlighted fluorine as harmful, especially occupations like front line firefighters. Thames talks about the history of FireBULL and the science behind it. The interview dives into [...]
Keri St John, Bynum School talks about how the oil and gas industry has impacted the community and her school. The interview took place shortly before their annual fundraising event, Chukkers for Children, at the Midland Polo Club. St. John explains how the school is assisting the local community and [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate of Swan Energy are live on location at Cowboys and Indians restaurant in Houston, Texas. Jason Spiess: Welcome, folks. This is an episode of Mining the Money Meets Living the Crude Life in Houston, Texas, right outside [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Economic Development and Job Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken oil field. Watford City and McKenzie County are considered the “hot zone” for the Bakken and have been seeing an increase in births at their local hospitals as well as opening a [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, of Swan Energy gives some advice for those stuck in a world of uncertainty. Davis gives some advice on ways to overcome the “analysis to paralysis”, which is prevalent in today’s market. Dan Hedrington, SEH, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, [...]
Dan Hedrington, SEH, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, the first greenfield refinery to be built in the United State in over 40 years. The Davis Refinery has received several Supreme Court rulings over the summer, including an air quality permit and a siting permit. These are significant milestones [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, of Swan Energy gives some advice for those stuck in a world of uncertainty. Davis gives some advice on ways to overcome the “analysis to paralysis”, which is prevalent in today’s market. Brandon Davis, Swan Energy. Jason Spiess: Thank you very much for joining us here today, folks. [...]
This week on Mining Money, Jeremy Pate and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss the calm before the storm in regards to investments. Dan Hedrington, SEH, gives an update on the Davis Refinery and the Supreme Court decision allowing the refinery to begin construction. The Davis Refinery is the first [...]
Kunal Patel, Dallas Federal Reserve, discusses the results of the their quarterly survey involving the oil and gas industry. The four-year-old survey measures the health of the region’s oil and gas industry. In March, the survey’s business activity index dropped to what was at the time its lowest reading ever. [...]
Matt Hill, Knight Energy, talks about the changes made to the Oilfield Tailgate events due to COVID. This year, rather than all the Oklahoma Sooner football games, they will be having one event November 21 for the Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State game. Hill expressed gratitude that Oilfield Tailgate was able [...]
Jeff Kennedy, Shale Energy Resources, runs down the information on the Bustin’ Clays For Kids. The event will feature three events in one. A chili cookoff, a clay shoot and live music. Proceeds from the concert go to the Bynum Schools. The interview also talks about the current state of [...]
Tracee Bentley, Permian Strategic Partnership, discusses their recent report “The Permian Basin: Unlocking The Full Potential“. She explains how the Permian Basin contains more than 92 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and enough natural gas to meet U.S. household energy needs for the next 60 years. In addition Bentley [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining Company gives an overview of how Bitcoin and Blockchain work as many companies have started their 2021 planning. Masiero explains how the cryptocurrency and cloud-based platform is being integrated into oil and gas right now. He also gives an update on his Bitcoin mining projects [...]
Paul Meyers, Legacy Wealth Management, gives an outlook on the oil industry’s 2021 as well as the recent production numbers from Texas and the Bakken. Meyers also opines that oil and politics should be separate, citing North Dakota Department of Mineral Resource director Lynn Helms’ implied political endorsement during his [...]
Jeremy Pate and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. The two talk discuss the calm before the storm in regards to investments. Paul Meyers, Legacy Wealth Management and host of Investment Talk, talks about the recent production numbers in the Bakken [...]
This week on Mining Money, Jeremy Pate and Imran Khan of Swan Energy discuss the calm before the storm in regards to investments. Jason Spiess: Thank you, gentlemen, for joining us this week on Mining Money, a weekly segment gaining popularity all over the interweb, especially overseas, I’m noticing. So [...]
Kurt Mire, Mire Petroleum Consultants, gives an update on the deepest, highest pressure gas well in America. According to Mire, the well took about two years to drill, which was twice as long as projected. The well is located in the Tuscaloosa Sandstone, Louisiana, and the depth is 30,000 feet. [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. The two talk about how risk management is critical in times of uncertainty. One way to manage risk is to invest in yourself. They also discuss how “investing in yourself” can [...]
Stephen Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, discusses some of the podcasters, bloggers and content creators in energy. This interview focuses primarily on the work of Robert Bryce. Bryce is a Texas-based author, journalist, film producer, and public speaker. Over the past three decades, his articles have appeared in numerous publications including [...]
Entrepreneur Brock Pierce is running for president as an Independent in 2020. Pierce, who is also known for being a number of things like a former child actor and a Bitcoin Billionaire, discussed his energy platform and how innovation is impacting the oil and gas industry. Pierce believes technology is [...]
Justin Kringstad. North Dakota Pipeline Authority, gives an update from the Bakken’s pipeline sector. Kringstad talks about the current state of production and what type of indicators midstream companies may want to pay attention to. Kringstad recaps the summer issues and production flows with the Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL Pipeline [...]
Zach Ellis, Stockyard Equipment, gives an update from the Permian regarding used industrial equipment. Ellis gives a couple examples of which type of equipment he is seeing sell, what people are asking for and what they are looking in the future for. He also discusses the increasing third-party financing options [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis and Imran Khan of Swan Energy talk about the value of a Landman in oil and gas. From court house deep dives to geology to knowing the right people at the right time are discussed. Find out what leaders in industry are doing [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. The two talk about the value of teamwork and resources during times of uncertainty. “Right now the opportunities are in acquisitions of existing wells. Right now that’s where the the money’s [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm, talks about the recent victory in court for his clients, who fought the state of North Dakota over mineral rights for over eight years. Swanson explains how the Wilkinson family owned the minerals prior to the Garrison Dam, which was built in the mid-20th century. [...]
Terry Etam, author of The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity; writer for the BOE Report and blogger for Public Energy Number One, gives an update from Canada on the current oil and gas activity as well as the political vibe. Etam explains how more regulations have increase issues in [...]
This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis and Imran Khan of Swan Energy talk about the value of teamwork and resources during times of uncertainty. Full transcript coming soon. Jason Spiess: Gentlemen thank you for joining us this week on mining money a place where we like to find pockets [...]
Living The Crude Life Live Recording Session at the Bakken BBQ asks the question “How Oil and Gas Builds Culture and Community“. Special guests include Jackie Jenkin and Tiffany Steiner, Co-Founders of the Bakken BBQ; Steve Bakken, Mayor of Bismarck; and Patrick Bertagnolli, Watford City Community Enhancement Director. The Live [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. The two talk about how risk management is critical in times of uncertainty. One way to manage risk is to invest in yourself. They also discuss how “investing in yourself” can [...]
Warren Martin, Kansas Strong, gives an update from the state of Kansas and how their oil and gas activity is. Martin says it used to be more prolific, however, still has enough activity to give independents a chance to operate. Martin explains why the educational component of energy development is [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. This week it’s all about investing in oil wells. Opportunities are plentiful right now in oil and gas and Davis and Khan explain why and how. “There are so many ways [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy talk about how risk management is critical in times of uncertainty. One way to manage risk is to invest in yourself. Jason Spiess: I wanted to bring the two of you on to talk about investing in yourself, because so many [...]
Joseph “JB” Bendik, Navitas Organization, responds to his recent social media activity regarding oil field companies “rehiring workers”, only to be at a reduced salary. Bendik said his post has gone somewhat viral for a LinkedIn post. He added that this social media post has opened the doors for others [...]
Luke Daniels, Core Well Commercial Capital, gives some insight on the upcoming election and how it will impact the oil and gas industry. Specifically, Daniels talks about the federal land leases and how that will become a wildcard in the next election. The interview transitions into how industry is currently [...]
Adam Dickinson, W.I.C., gives an update from Wyoming and the surrounding area. Dickinson shares which area of industry they are seeing an uptick of interest and business. Wyoming’s Rig Count Zero is also discussed, Dickinson reports there was a social media post earlier in the day that one company was [...]
Bill Jerke, FUEL and former Colorado state legislator, Dennis Pungitore, EVP & Chief Revenue Officer, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. and Tonya Van Beber, candidate for Colorado House District 48, participate in a Living The Crude Life Live Recording Session in Weld County, Greeley, Colorado. The event is moderated and hosted [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. This week it’s all about investing in oil wells. Opportunities are plentiful right now in oil and gas and Davis and Khan explain why and how. “There are so many ways [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca on The Country Twins radio network to talk about life, liberty and lubricants. Spiess begins the segment giving an update on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalizing rules to update the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the oil and natural gas [...]
Bill Jerke, FUEL and former Colorado state legislator, Dennis Pungitore, EVP & Chief Revenue Officer, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. and Tonya Van Beber, candidate for Colorado House District 48, participate in a Living The Crude Life Live Recording Session in Weld County, Greeley, Colorado. The event is moderated and hosted [...]
Tiffany Steiner and Jackie Jenkin, co-founders of the Bakken BBQ, talk about the changes COVID has created with the 8th Annual Bakken BBQ. Steiner said they have lost a few cookers in the past couple of weeks due to market conditions and COVID concerns, but donations are up and some [...]
Stephen Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, discusses some recent activity in the ESG movement in oil and gas investments. Wikipedia defines ESG as: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of an investment in a company or business. These [...]
Brandon Davis, CEO, and Imran Khan of Swan Energy, join The Crude Life for the weekly segment Mining Money. The U.S. Department of Labor recently released their unemployment numbers indicating there was 1.8 jobs added in July. Many take issue with this archaic method and reporting for jobs and the [...]
North Dakota Land Commissioner Jodi Smith comments on the recent news stories involving oil and gas companies across the state who, according to the Department of Trust Lands, have fallen behind on payments to the state public schools trust fund. Smith gives an update on the situation from operators discussing [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca with The Country Twins radio network for their weekly conversation about life, liberty and lubricants. The interview began with a discussion about Wyoming’s recent Rig Zero news. Spiess pointed out that this is beyond devastating to the Wyoming local economies. From property [...]
Bill Jerke, FUEL and former Colorado state legislator, Dennis Pungitore, EVP & Chief Revenue Officer, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. and Tonya Van Beber, candidate for Colorado House District 48, participate in a Living The Crude Life Live Recording Session in Weld County, Greeley, Colorado. The event is moderated and hosted [...]
Zachary Ellis, Stock Yard Equipment, gives an update from the Permian Basin with his boots on the ground perspective. Ellis comments on the recent announcement of Endeavor Energy‘s Permian activity and how he is working with those within their supply chain eagerly ready to work. He continues explaining how his [...]
Justin Dodd, NRG Realty Group, gives an update from the energy real estate sector. Dodd explains where he is seeing spikes in West Texas as well as some activity in other pockets throughout Shale Play USA. Dodd, shares his family history in oil and gas and how his family advised [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca with The Country Twin radio network for their weekly conversation about life, liberty and lubricants. Spiess opines on the $600/week Federal Unemployment expiring and how many people within the oil and gas industry will be impacted. The interview shifted into the government [...]
Imran Khan, Swan Energy, talks about the recent trip to the Permian Basin by President Donald Trump. Khan said while many are focusing on the negatives in oil and gas, the president’s trip highlights positivity in industry. “It’s nice to see the positivity from President Trump around our energy dominance [...]
Bill Jerke, FUEL and former Colorado state legislator, Dennis Pungitore, EVP & Chief Revenue Officer, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. and Tonya Van Beber, candidate for Colorado House District 48, participate in a Living The Crude Life Live Recording Session in Weld County, Greeley, Colorado. The event is moderated and hosted [...]
Luke Daniels, Core Well Commercial Capital, discusses some of the recent international oil and gas moves and how that will impact Shale Play USA. Daniels cites examples of the Chinese market, private equity firms taking control, the downturn and how companies are reinventing their business models. “Traditionally you could follow [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining Company, explains why a group of billionaires and wealthy business owners are starting to preserve and stash Bitcoin away in secure underground bunkers. He explains how Bitcoin is evolving both contractual obligations as well as speed of payments. Masiero also gives an update on their [...]
Luke Daniels, Core Well Commercial Capital, discusses some of the recent international oil and gas moves and how that will impact Shale Play USA. Daniels cites examples of the Chinese market, private equity firms taking control, the downturn and how companies are reinventing their business models. Imran Khan and Jeremy [...]
Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate, Swan Energy, react to the recent news of Chevron purchasing Nobel Energy and how that will impact the oil and gas industry. Jason Spiess: Excellent, thank you for joining us today here. And I’ll tell you guys, I’m on the road here, coming back from, [...]
Luke Daniels, Core Well Commercial Capital, discusses some of the recent international oil and gas moves and how that will impact Shale Play USA. Daniels cites examples of the Chinese market, private equity firms taking control, the downturn and how companies are reinventing their business models. “Traditionally you could follow [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Finance Professional talks about the trucking industry in relation to the oil and gas industry. Ellis also opines about the current state of industry and its supply chain economics. The Crude Life Podcast can be heard every Monday through Thursday with a Week in Review on Friday. [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Finance Professional talks about the trucking industry in relation to the oil and gas industry. Ellis also opines about the current state of industry and its supply chain economics. Mike Vickers, Oilfield NOW, shares his recent success story about curating original oil and gas stories. Vickers said [...]
Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate, Swan Energy, discuss some of the recent natural gas investment activity from Warren Buffet buying pipelines to Mexico’s desire for our gas to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Natural gas as an investment and energy source is discussed in detail. Khan compares the natural gas energy monetary [...]
Mike Vickers, Oilfield NOW, shares his recent success story about curating original oil and gas stories. Vickers said their mission has been to focus on authentic stories about success and redemption in industry. The interview dives into whether the past decade of public relation in industry has resulting in a [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. comments on the North Dakota Supreme Court decision of the North Dakota District Court refusing to overturn the issuance of the air quality Permit to Construct (“PTC”) for the Davis Refinery by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”). This Decision marks [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joined Investment Talk with Paul Meyers and Steve Poitras from Legacy Wealth Management to discuss several news items and issues in the oil and gas industry. The Dakota Access Pipeline, Keystone XL Pipeline and Atlantic Pipeline and their recent news was discussed and how [...]
Brandon Davis and Imran Khan, Swan Energy, share some insight and information on where rigs are operating. “I see good opportunities as far as cash flow working, right now there are some in the Permian and Delaware,” Davis said. “And all of the DJ Basin right now and the Wattenberg [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. This week Spiess discusses the recent announcement of pipeline shutdowns and how that will impact Shale Play USA. Spiess explains how the climate activists and environmental extremists have changed the landscape [...]
Paul Wiseman, Fit To Print, discusses the blow to the pipeline industry in the United States. From workers to economy to regulational power to everyday energy. Wiseman explains how safety and environmental issues will increase with the decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL Pipeline. The [...]
Tom Slocum, Untitled: Orphan Well Project, gives a history of how he became so passionate about this issue. Slocum explains how loopholes in the system allowed many wells to go unnoticed for decades. The interview discusses who is responsible for the wells. Slocum says in many cases, the legal obligation [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, Inc. comments on the North Dakota Supreme Court decision of the North Dakota District Court refusing to overturn the issuance of the air quality Permit to Construct (“PTC”) for the Davis Refinery by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”). This Decision marks [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance gives an overview of three different states and their orphan well programs. From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, how each state handled their industry aftermarket. “”There have been a lot of shut ins, which are not abandoned or orphaned, that’s just shut in of [...]
Brandon Davis , Jeremy Pate and Imran Khan, Swan Energy, discuss the recent spike in bankruptcies and how that will impact the rest of the oil and gas industry. Despite the bankruptcies, lay offs and disruption in industry, Davis sees the marketplace shifting and creating new opportunities. “Forget all that. [...]
Steve Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, Inc. and host Jason Spiess had a lively conversation today regarding oil and gas, capitalism and the managed marketplace. This turned out to be a point/counterpoint discussion with a big dash of humor and bluntness. First, they discussed the current spate of bankruptcy in the [...]
Jackie Jenkin and Tiffany Steiner, co-founder of the Bakken BBQ, give the details for the 8th Annual Bakken BBQ rescheduled to August 21, 2020, at the West River Ice Center parking lot in Dickinson, ND. This year will bring some changes, as the coronavirus safety precautions will be administers, there [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Economic Development/Job Development, gives an update from Watford City, including a discussion on their 349% population growth from 2010 to 2019. Brandon Davis and Imran Khan, Swan Energy, react to a recent article in the Houston Chronicle reporting the “Energy Apocalypse” in oil and gas. Sensationalism [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. This week Spiess asks the rhetorical question if there is a Political Industrial Complex. In 1961, president Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech has come to be a touchstone for those with concerns [...]
Brandon Davis and Imran Khan, Swan Energy, comment on the recent bankruptcies and how that will impact the oil and gas market in the second half of the year. The trend of CEOs taking multi-million dollar bonuses, example Whiting, Chesapeake and Hertz given, and while laying off employees and service [...]
Kunal Patel, Dallas Federal Reserve, recaps their recent study which explains that activity in the energy sector deteriorated further in second quarter 2020, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Economic Development and Job Development Authority comments on the unbelievable population growth in the heart of the Bakken oil field, Watford City, North Dakota. Watford City’s population has increased 349% since 2010 according to the recently released 2019 US Census Bureau estimates. Since 2010, Watford City’s [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining, gives an update from his Bitcoin mining endeavors across Shale Play USA. Masiero explains how the Bakken’s marketplace has been created due to regulations whereas in Texas capitalism still exists, for now. Masiero reacts and responds to the recent discussions by the Texas Railroad Commission [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, reacts to the recent report on oil and gas from the Dallas Federal Reserve, which was not optimistic for the current state of energy. Ellis talks about how the independent finance market it starting to heat up as the Payroll Protection Program funds deadlines and [...]
Terry Etam, End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, BOE Report and Public Energy Number One, dives into the abandoned well issue in America and Canada. Etam explains how Canada approaches the issue of “orphan” and “abandoned” wells and cites a recent Reuters article for the American juxtaposition. Etam cites “socialist [...]
Jake Milne and Bailey Midkiff, W.I.C., discuss how new opportunities have added Adam Dickinson to the W.I.C. team. All three give an update from their respective professional areas in business and how the COVID Shutdown has impacted it. Examples of the the changing marketplace and new normal in the workplace [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, discusses diversification in industry. Ellis gives some reports from the road in the Permian basin. Ellis reacts to the recent shut ins and how some companies are responding to the ripple. The interview dives into the supply chain of the oil and gas industry and [...]
Brandon Davis and Imran Khan, Swan Energy, react to a recent article in the Houston Chronicle reporting the “Energy Apocalypse” in oil and gas. Sensationalism and speculation from the media is discussed in the interview. Host Jason Spiess asks if the shift from reporting to speculating in the media has [...]
Craig Ray, Keystone Oil Fabrication, gives a history his company’s diversification in industry. From Sand Kings to Cranes to Silos, Ray discusses past pitfalls and successes in a volatile market. Ray explains the difference between “silo” and “box” in the frac sand market and what his professional opinion is. The [...]
Barb Kirkmeyer, Weld County Commissioner, Colorado, describes the current energy scene in Colorado. She comments on new Governor Jared Polis and SB 181, as well as upcoming political notes of interests. Kirkmeyer is currently running for Colorado Senate District 23 with a platform promoting economic freedom, liberty and limited government. [...]
Terry Etam, End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, BOE Report and Public Energy Number One, dives into the abandoned well issue in America and Canada. Etam explains how Canada approaches the issue of “orphan” and “abandoned” wells and cites a recent Reuters article for the American juxtaposition. Etam cites “socialist [...]
Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, shares an update from Wyoming’s energy scene. Jordan explains how they have had to diversify themselves during the COVID-19 Shutdown. The interview dives into the balancing act of adding new services while losing employees and how to make two dollars work like five. Behaviors and [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, gives an update from the Houston area in the world of oil and gas. Clark responds to a recent article about ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Ryan Lance expressing surprise at the quick rebound in U.S. oil prices that slipped into the negative territory in April. [...]
Jeremy Pate, Swan Energy, explains why their company has been buying up natural gas leases and are looking for more. Pate talks about the diversity in industry Swan Energy has created, giving them a unique opportunity in the current market. Pate says their is opportunity right now in the oilfield [...]
Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, shares an update from Wyoming’s energy scene. Jordan explains how they have had to diversify themselves during the COVID-19 Shutdown. The interview dives into the balancing act of adding new services while losing employees and how to make two dollars work like five. Behaviors and [...]
Mark Fox, chairman, The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, is demanding the Department of Interior uphold its duty as the tribe’s trustee and restore justice regarding the tribe’s Missouri River property rights. The MHA Nation contends that the Department of the Interior violated treaties going back to 1825, by issuing [...]
Art Berman, Labyrinth Consulting Services, talks about the current state of oil and gas and how the COVID-19 Shutdown has impacted the market. Host Jason Spiess asks Berman if the oil and gas market was impacted last year when the coronavirus started impacting China. Berman explains how the economy doesn’t [...]
Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, responds to several news stories about banks seizing assets from small businesses connected to the oil and gas industry. Ellis continues saying in some areas of Shale Play USA he is hearing the words “fire sale” and “closing shop” as more companies are getting left [...]
Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, responds to several news stories about banks seizing assets from small businesses connected to the oil and gas industry. Ellis continues saying in some areas of Shale Play USA he is hearing the words “fire sale” and “closing shop” as more companies are getting left [...]
Thomas Ciarlone, Kane Russell Coleman Logan, discusses some of his COVID Shutdown and coronavirus concerns in regards to lease terminations, shut in wells and several other topics involving contractual themes. Ciarlone comments on how the idea of government controlled oil supply would impact mineral owners and lease holders. The Force [...]
Curtis Shuck, Well Done Foundation, gives some history of the abandon and orphan wells in the United States. Shuck believes his 30 years of oil and gas experience has created an opportunity to create positive endeavors for industry and communities. Many of the wells are on farms or ranches or [...]
Curtis Shuck, Well Done Foundation, gives some history of the abandon and orphan wells in the United States. Shuck believes his 30 years of oil and gas experience has created an opportunity to create positive endeavors for industry and communities. Many of the wells are on farms or ranches or [...]
Terry Etam author of End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, writer at the BOE Report, and blogger at Public Energy Number One gives an update from Canada on the current state of oil and gas. Etam comments on the recent momentum of governments stepping in and controlling oil and gas [...]
It’s a BBQ Special on The Crude Life. Jesse Johnson explains how to BBQ a whole pig, how to cut it and how to prepare it. Daviney talks about her trip to Scotland to visit castles and how the Bakken BBQ fundraiser for Make A Wish made her Wish happen. [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. Spiess talks about North Dakota as the latest state to discuss whether the state should get involved with controlling production. Industry’s ideological crossroads of whether to allow government intervention or not [...]
Mesa County (CO) commissioner Rose Pugliese doesn’t believe one size fits all when it comes to government intervention and local control. Pugliese recently began the public conversation regarding Mesa County being part of the Western and Rural Local Governments Coalition (WRLG), a group of 23 county and municipal governments in [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, gives an update from the state Texas as he travels across the southern shale plays. Ellis will be traveling to Oklahoma next week with another trip back into Texas. Ellis consults and finances businesses in the oil and gas industry who need alternative financing or [...]
Jason Spiess, host of The Crude Life, discusses the history of agriculture and energy. He discusses some of the opportunities in the water industry. Spiess also talks about areas of economic opportunity that currently exists in today’s marketplace. Spiess outlines the flow of the stimulus and PPP money and where [...]
North Dakota Lt. Governor Brent Sanford gives an update from the Bakken oil fields. Sanford describes the Bakken Restart Task Force and how it is helping companies in the Bakken. Sanford was mayor of Watford City during the $100-oil days and their unprecedented growth. Click here for May’s Bakken Director’s [...]
Marty Bent, Great American Mining Company, explains how new technologies like Bitcoin are being integrated into the oil and gas industry. The recent push against investing in oil and gas has created more demand for alternative investments and currencies in energy economics. New innovations like mining Bitcoin on site is [...]
Brandon Davis, Swan Energy, explains why their energy company is going heavy natural gas in the future and are looking to buy up fields right now. Davis says they have already looked at about 100 leases and are continuing their search for natural gas opportunities. He estimated they will add [...]
Brandon Davis, Swan Energy, explains why their energy company is going heavy natural gas in the future and are looking to buy up fields right now. Davis says they have already looked at about 100 leases and are continuing their search for natural gas opportunities. He estimated they will add [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, gives an update from the Permian Basin in Texas. Ellis describes the scene after stopping by over 25 businesses. Josh Trujillo and Robert Grant of Green Earth explain how their decontamination research and development project with the Department of Defense essentially got fast tracked to [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. Spiess shares some “off the record” phone calls from companies in the oil and gas industry who have seen unprecedented impacts in business. One example was about a business who had [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, gives an update from the Permian Basin in Texas. Ellis describes the scene after stopping by over 25 businesses. The interview dives into the CARES Act bail out packages and how that becomes government competition for those hustling trying to sell alternative financing. Factoring is [...]
Josh Trujillo and Robert Grant of Green Earth explain how their decontamination research and development project with the Department of Defense essentially got fast tracked to the market in order to help with the coronavirus fight. Trujillo explains the chemistry behind their organic sanitizer, why it is eco-safe and bio-friendly. [...]
Chrysta Castañeda gives her thoughts from the Texas Railroad Commission regarding their recent decision to not intervene with the oil and gas production in Texas. Castañeda cites flaring and supply capacity a couple examples of areas she would have liked to see more discussion, exploration or different direction from the [...]
Matt Kruse, AE Parters, gives an update on the job market in the oil and gas industry. Kruse said there are not many places hiring right now, but conversations are still being had about the types of jobs that are being created and changed. Kruse comments on the recent stories [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm, talks about the recent examples of “force majeure” popping up in the oil and gas industry. From Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s letter to President Donald Trump to Continental Resources, force majeure is being seen more and more in industry. Swanson discusses the potential issue of [...]
Brandon Davis, Swan Energy, explains why their energy company is going heavy natural gas in the future and are looking to buy up fields right now. Davis says they have already looked at about 100 leases and are continuing their search for natural gas opportunities. He estimated they will add [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. Spiess talks about Swan Energy‘s recent announcement of acquiring natural gas leases. He mentions a couple examples of positive energy activity out in a world dominated by doom and gloom stories. [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining, discusses Bitcoin Mining in the Bakken and how blockchain could be entering into oil and gas sooner than later. Masiero explains how the Chinese integration of blockchain into oil and gas will be relevant in the United States very soon. Many in China believe it [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm, talks about the recent examples of “force majeure” popping up in the oil and gas industry. From Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s letter to President Donald Trump to Continental Resources, force majeure is being seen more and more in industry. Swanson discusses the potential issue of [...]
Brandon Davis, Swan Energy, Discusses the impact of COVID-19 around the workplace and industry. Davis shares what his company is doing and what the short terms plans are in case of an accelerated quarantine. Davis reiterates the need to remain calm and process before reacting. How small business will respond [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org, gives an update on the recent COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus impact on the oil and gas industry in the Marcellus Region. Shepstone also goes a bit deeper in his update on the conversations about people living with a taste of socialism. Shepstone responds to the question of [...]
Chris Cottrell, Winston and Strawn Law Offices, returns to The Crude Life to discuss the recent developments in the “Force Majeure” clause in oil and gas contracts. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to declare the coronavirus a “pandemic” or “epidemic” in order [...]
Lynn Helms, Director, Department of Mineral Resources, recalls what life was like during the last bust when rig counts reached zero in the Bakken. Helms was a week into his job when this historic feat occurred. Helms explains some of the logistics behind going from several rigs to zero rigs [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. Spiess talks about the recent Payment Protection Program and how it allowed banks to become the administrators of close to a trillion dollars worth of government assistance. As of this interview, [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining, comments on how Bitcoin could assist in the negative oil price issue. Masiero explains how the digital pipeline is built and producers can utilize and even profit on their flared or stranded natural gas. Masiero comments on how this technology could effectively become a subsidy [...]
Energy and economic expert Dr. Loren Scott talks about how the one day of negative oil prices impacted the market and industry. From the futures markets to contractual nuances, the negative oil prices left scars. Dr. Scott also comments on the long term impacts of Saudi Arabia and Russia’s recent [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 55 April 22, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting comments on the low oil prices as well as the negative price impact. Clark relays some information from his phone calls, emails and news research regarding the direction of some of the major players as [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting comments on the low oil prices as well as the negative price impact. Clark relays some information from his phone calls, emails and news research regarding the direction of some of the major players as well as the direction of the industry. The Crude Life [...]
Zach Ellis, Commercial Finance Professional, comments on a rash of recent stories in the media regarding banks going after oil and gas companies’ equipment. Here are a couple articles for reference. Big Banks Set To Seize Shale Oil Assets Exclusive: U.S. banks prepare to seize energy assets as shale boom [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 54 April 21, 2020 Guests/Topics: The podcast begins with The Crude Life owner and host Jason Spiess issuing an apology to U.S. Senator John Hoeven and his staff for being unprofessional and “dropping a F-Bomb or two” on them. Spiess also makes a confession about [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining, comments on how Bitcoin could assist in the negative oil price issue. Masiero explains how the digital pipeline is built and producers can utilize and even profit on their flared or stranded natural gas. Masiero comments on how this technology could effectively become a subsidy [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 53 April 20, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, gives his thoughts and comments after the Texas Railroad Commission meeting on April 14, 2020. In Texas, an economic powerhouse, the outbreak and oil shock have created huge risks for the states’ historically strong energy [...]
Tom Masiero, Great American Mining Company, explains how cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are creating a digital pipeline to assist in emission management. Masiero continues into how the digital world has integrated into oil and gas in areas beyond emission management. The interview also dives into how the future of cash and [...]
Thomas Funderburk, Lone Star GeoServices, explains how the highly touted Economic Injury Disaster Loans and Loan Advance is not exactly what the political leaders are disclosing it to be. James Coleman, Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, gives an update from the Texas Railroad Commission meeting [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. This week Spiess recaps a week of interviews and discussions with staff from US Senators, Federal Reserve, small businesses and banks. One theme from the PPP and EIDL loans known as [...]
Dave Chaput, sales and Aaron Jordan, president, Black Water Environmental give an update on how their company is adapting to the COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus pandemic. Jordan says despite the news in the media, their company is busier than ever. Jordan walks through some recent tough business decisions like hiring [...]
Thomas Funderburk, Lone Star GeoServices, explains how the highly touted Economic Injury Disaster Loans and Loan Advance is not exactly what the political leaders are disclosing it to be. Funderburk, a sole proprietor, with a wife and three kids, chose a path of small business to be a family man [...]
Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group Inc., discusses the CARES Acts loan programs. The EIDL purpose is to meet financial obligations and operating expenses that could have been met had the disaster not occurred (amount of any EIDL advance is forgiven). Terms Up to $2 million 3.75% for businesses 2.75% for [...]
Brad Hollier, MSL Oilfield Services, give an update on how their company is adjusting to the COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus pandemic. Hollier gives an update on their European energy activity as well as the United States. Hollier also describes Houston’s current commerce scene. The interview dives into innovation and environmental [...]
Bruce Bullock, Maguire Energy Institute at SMU Cox School of Business comments on the historic Texas Railroad Commission meeting regarding the reduction of oil production. Observations from the meeting ranged from environmental angles to OPEC to more value to mineral owners. Texas bravado and their power is also discussed in [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, gives his thoughts and comments after the Texas Railroad Commission meeting on April 14, 2020. In Texas, an economic powerhouse, the outbreak and oil shock have created huge risks for the states’ historically strong energy economy, but nothing the state hasn’t managed before. “Established by [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 52 April 15, 2020 Guests/Topics: James Coleman, Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, gives an update from the Texas Railroad Commission meeting April 14, 2020. Coleman explains some of the bigger picture items they are talking about from OPEC to production [...]
James Coleman, Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, gives an update from the Texas Railroad Commission meeting April 14, 2020. Coleman explains some of the bigger picture items they are talking about from OPEC to production cuts to emission management to what the silver lining is [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 51 April 14, 2020 Guests/Topics: Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group Inc goes over some loan programs being offered during COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus pandemic. Dave Chaput, sales and Aaron Jordan, president, Black Water Environmental give an update on how their company is adapting to the [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 50 April 13, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting – OPEC+ agreed to an outline of an unprecedented agreement for production cuts of 23% or 11MBPD at an “emergency virtual meeting” ahead but many analysts are suggesting it could fall through if other OPEC [...]
Lance Medlin, Chief Operating Officer, Meridian Energy Group, talks about their agreement with Pinkerton. Meridian Energy Group, Inc., the leading innovator in the petroleum refining industry, announced that the company has entered into a long-term agreement with Pinkerton, leaders in comprehensive risk management, providing risk advisory, security management and protective [...]
Jake Milne and Bailey Midkiff, W.I.C., talk about some of adaptions their company has had to make with the COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus pandemic. Midkiff says his outside sales meetings have picked up since the COVID-19 Shutdown, but how the meetings happen are a different story. The interview transitioned into [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. This week Spiess comments on the latest news of OPEC, OPEC+ and OPEC++.Spiess talks about how the oil and gas industry is healing and helping in the COVID-19 Shutdown and coronavirus [...]
Interview: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting OPEC+ agreed to an outline of an unprecedented agreement for production cuts of 23% or 11MBPD at an “emergency virtual meeting” ahead but many analysts are suggesting it could fall through if other OECD nations don’t agree to cuts as well. Ultimately we need [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 49 April 8, 2020 Guests/Topics: Tiffany Wilson, Aries Building gives details about an Easter basket charity project in South Texas. The drive will run through Easter Weekend and already have over 50 kids in need. To donate to the Easter Basket Charity Drive, click here [...]
Dustin Gawrylow, Founder/President of Policy Matters and the North Dakota Watchdog Network, talks about the recent Whiting Petroleum bankruptcy and how that may impact the state of North Dakota. From 2008-2018, oil and gas extraction and production taxes have raised almost $18 billion for the state, which accounts for almost [...]
Tiffany Wilson, Aries Buildings, gives details about an Easter basket charity project in South Texas. The drive will run through Easter Weekend and already have over 50 kids in need. To donate to the Easter Basket Charity Drive, click here for the PayPal Link To contact Tiffany Wilson, click here [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 48 April 7, 2020 Guests/Topics: Lance Medlin, Meridian Energy Group, Chief Operating Officer, Meridian Energy Group, talks about their agreement with Pinkerton. Meridian Energy Group, Inc., the leading innovator in the petroleum refining industry, announced that the company has entered into a long-term agreement with [...]
John Mensah, Hanks Oil and Gas, gives an update on the COVID-19 Shutdown in Ghana. Mensah describes what their quarantine looks like and how Hanks Oil and Gas is adapting. Mensah currently has business on the books and is looking to expand into network into the United States. Mensah mentions [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 47 April 6, 2020 Guests/Topics: Christopher Cottrell, Winston & Strawn, gives an update on how their legal offices are handling the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 Shutdown. Cottrell discusses some of the recent M&A activity in the oil and gas industry as well as the recent [...]
Lance Medlin, Chief Operating Officer, Meridian Energy Group, talks about their agreement with Pinkerton. Meridian Energy Group, Inc., the leading innovator in the petroleum refining industry, announced that the company has entered into a long-term agreement with Pinkerton, leaders in comprehensive risk management, providing risk advisory, security management and protective [...]
US Senator Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven and ND Gov Doug Burgum respond to questions about COVID-19, Small Business and the Energy Industry. Devin Becker, Becker Safety & Supply, gives an update from Weld County, Colorado. Becker explains how they are still operating close to normal, being an essential business and [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, discusses the recent spike in employment and how the trickle down economic ecosystem traditionally operates. As coronavirus hits the U.S. economy, a record 6.6 million workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, according to the Department of Labor, nearly five times the previous record high. [...]
Devin Becker, Becker Safety & Supply, gives an update from Weld County, Colorado. Becker explains how they are still operating close to normal, being an essential business and connecting to many other essential industries. Becker describes how the safety market has changed over the past year in terms of products [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law, comments on “force majeure” and how it applies to the COVID-19 Shutdown and the oil and gas industry. Swanson, who wrote a law review paper at University of North Dakota on the topic “force majeure” title “The Hand of God”, explains how the portion of a [...]
Stephen Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, comments on Whiting Petroleum’s executives receiving millions of dollars in bonuses before filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Heins recalls a few stories from his days in the telecommunications industry while working on Wall Street. The interview also dives into the latest COVID-19 Shutdown and how that [...]
Bailey Midkiff and Jake Milne, W.I.C., give an update from Wyoming on the oil and gas activity and how much of the oil field work is moving forward. Midkiff explains how outside sales calls are a bit more challenging than pre-COVID-19, while Mile explains what the offices have done to [...]
Christopher Cottrell, Winston & Strawn, gives an update on how their legal offices are handling the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 Shutdown. Cottrell discusses some of the recent M&A activity in the oil and gas industry as well as the recent news of Whiting Petroleum filing for bankruptcy. Although not a [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 46 April 1, 2020 Guests/Topics: Stephen Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, comments on Whiting Petroleum’s executives receiving millions of dollars in bonuses before filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Devin Becker, Becker Safety & Supply, gives an update from Weld County, Colorado. Becker explains how they are still [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 45 March 31, 2020 Guests/Topics: Zachary Ellis talks about the coronavirus which has had a detrimental impact on all businesses worldwide, but the blow is felt just a little harder with small and mid-size businesses. While most of us are all working from home as [...]
Zachary Ellis talks about the coronavirus which has had a detrimental impact on all businesses worldwide, but the blow is felt just a little harder with small and mid-size businesses. While most of us are all working from home as shelter-in-place orders have been put in place, we often find [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 44 March 30, 2020 Guests/Topics: US Senators Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven give an overview of the CARES Act. Dr. Robert Neilsen, a semi-retired counselor, talks about why he chooses to only have a handful of clients, while focusing more on the non-work related parts [...]
Matthew Hill, Knight Energy, talks about working from home and how their business is transitioning during the 1-2 Shock Punch from the supply and demand side. Hill says Knight Energy has business in the books and things are still looking positive, however, change is in the air and Knight Energy [...]
Terry Etam, End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, gives an update from Canada on how the oil and gas industry is dealing with the COVID-19 Shutdown. From the local governments to small businesses to Eastern and Western Canadian perspectives. Activists groups and the media using word play, tricks and framing [...]
Stephen Heins, The Energy Pragmatist, protests the rules and challenges the criteria for The Crude Life 2020 March Madness Tournament. Heins was bounced in the first round by Knighten Industries. After a discussion about March Madness, the conversation transitions into the COVID-19 shutdowns and the impact with energy and small [...]
Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, comments on the 1-2 punch of the supply shock and demand shock on the marketplace. From the coronavirus to Russia to Saudi Arabia to OPEC. The interview discusses whether pipelines are considered essential or not with states shutting down work sites and offices. Willis cites [...]
Bailey Midkiff and Jake Milne, W.I.C., give an update from Wyoming on the oil and gas activity and how much of the oil field work is moving forward. The two also comment on Colorado’s Governor Jared Polis and his citing oil and gas workers as “critical” to the healing and [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 43 March 26, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, discusses the recent spike in employment and how the trickle down economic ecosystem traditionally operates Matthew Hill, Knight Energy, talks about working from home and how their business is transitioning during the 1-2 Shock Punch [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 42 March 25, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, comments on the 1-2 punch of the supply shock and demand shock on the marketplace. From the coronavirus to Russia to Saudi Arabia to OPEC. The interview discusses whether pipelines are considered essential or not [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 41 March 24, 2020 Guests/Topics: Terry Etam, End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity, gives an update from Canada on how the oil and gas industry is dealing with the COVID-19 Shutdown. From the local governments to small businesses to Eastern and Western Canadian perspectives. Activists [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org, discusses the recent attempt by politicians to profit off of the COVID-19 Shutdown. The interview dives into the purpose of capitalism in society and how the oil and gas industry is the last bastion for a free market. Shepstone talks about similarities with the 2009 recession and [...]
Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, comments on how the coronavirus has impacted the energy economy. Dancy also reacts to the “truther” movement behind the coronavirus The interview dives into small business ownership in today’s economy and how the coronavirus could decimate it. Conversations about market reinvention and product innovation [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 40 March 23, 2020 Guests/Topics: US Senator Kevin Cramer gives a passionate speech on the floors of Congress regarding politicians using COVID-19 to politically posture. Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org, discusses the recent attempt by politicians to profit off of the COVID-19 Shutdown. The interview dives into [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 39 March 19, 2020 Guests/Topics: Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group discusses Navigating the Outbreak. In tough times we are often faced with business decisions that can alter our businesses, whether positive or negative. Rent, equipment, payroll, and other expenses are still expected on a monthly [...]
Zach Ellis, finance professional discusses Navigating the Outbreak. In tough times we are often faced with business decisions that can alter our businesses, whether positive or negative. Rent, equipment, payroll, and other expenses are still expected on a monthly basis with the state of the economy completely disregarded. Money is [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer comments on how the coronavirus is impacting the economy and energy activity. Cramer opines how Russia and Saudi Arabia are playing shenanigans with the marketplace, so much Continental Resources chairman Harold Hamm is asking for an anti-dumping investigation. Senator Cramer discusses the rise of environmentalism and [...]
Brandon Davis, Swan Energy – Discusses the impact of COVID-19 around the workplace and industry. Davis shares what his company is doing and what the short terms plans are in case of an accelerated quarantine. Davis reiterates the need to remain calm and process before reacting. How small business will [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 38 March 18, 2020 Guests/Topics: Brandon Davis, Swan Energy – Discusses the impact of COVID-19 around the workplace and industry. Davis shares what his company is doing and what the short terms plans are in case of an accelerated quarantine. Davis reiterates the need to [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 36 March 17, 2020 Guests/Topics: Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, comments on how the coronavirus has impacted the energy economy. Dancy also reacts to the “truther” movement behind the coronavirus The interview dives into small business ownership in today’s economy and how the coronavirus [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 36 March 16, 2020 Guests/Topics: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer comments on how the coronavirus is impacting the economy and energy activity. Cramer opines how Russia and Saudi Arabia are playing shenanigans with the marketplace, so much Continental Resources chairman Harold Hamm is asking for an [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law, gives an update on the Wilkinson vs. Board of University and School Lands involving mineral rights and payments in the Bakken and Lake Sakakawea. Swanson reiterates how the mineral owners have won court cases in the past, yet the state continues to appeal and argue. Swanson [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. Spiess discusses how the coronavirus is impacting the economy. Stories about toilet paper, bat wing soup, nurses, travel, eating out and working from home are several of the topics discussed under [...]
Tiffany Steiner, API Dickinson, gives an overview of the Bakken BBQ history and preview of 2020’s theme. The bulk of the interview is devoted to the 23rd Annual API Gumbo Cookoff. Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken – Watford City [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer comments on how the coronavirus is impacting the economy and energy activity. Cramer opines how Russia and Saudi Arabia are playing shenanigans with the marketplace, so much Continental Resources chairman Harold Hamm is asking for an anti-dumping investigation. Senator Cramer discusses the rise of environmentalism and [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 35 March 12, 2020 Guests/Topics: Josh Swanson, Vogel Law, gives an update on the Wilkinson vs. Board of University and School Lands involving mineral rights and payments in the Bakken and Lake Sakakawea. Swanson reiterates how the mineral owners have won court cases in the [...]
Zachary Ellis, Commercial Credit Group, talks about alternative financing in today’s industry and volatile market. Ellis explains how there are many options out there for small-to-mid-size companies. When asked to define that phrase further, Ellis said all situations are different, but an initial qualification would be companies ranging from $50K [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting gives and update on the Oil Price War and Politics. Oil futures plummeted over the weekend after Saudi Arabia slashed prices and ramped up production in response to Russian reluctance to scale back output. Makes logical sense, right? “It starts with the virus,” said Yergin, [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 34 March 11, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting gives and update on the Oil Price War and Politics. Oil futures plummeted over the weekend after Saudi Arabia slashed prices and ramped up production in response to Russian reluctance to scale back output. Makes [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 33 March 10, 2020 Guests/Topics: Dr. Loren C. Scott, president, Loren Scott & Associates, gives his insight on what caused the OPEC fueled price drop over the past week. Dr. Scott also gives his opinion on why the reaction is what is it. The Chinese [...]
Dr. Loren C. Scott, president, Loren Scott & Associates, gives his insight on what caused the OPEC fueled price drop over the past week. Dr. Scott also gives his opinion on why the reaction is what is it. The Chinese market and coronavirus are discussed in detail in regards to [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 32 March 9, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jodi Smith, North Dakota Land Commissioner, gives an update on the natural gas royalty payments in that companies will have to make a “good faith effort” to contact and begin working with the department on repayment within the 90 days. [...]
Jodi Smith, North Dakota Land Commissioner, gives an update on the natural gas royalty payments in that companies will have to make a “good faith effort” to contact and begin working with the department on repayment within the 90 days. The deadline for the companies to pay back the money [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken – Watford City and McKenzie County. Stenberg shares information on several grant and loan programs the city, county and state are offering for building opportunities and quality of life developments. Stenberg shares examples of [...]
Ryan Alder, AE Partners, gives a brief history of his recruitment company and how many shale plays they are currently doing business in. Alder gives an update on the Bakken and cites Colorado as a play that is slowing down. Robert Depalma, paleontologist, describes the meteor impact 66 million years [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 31 March 5, 2020 Guests/Topics: Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken – Watford City and McKenzie County. Stenberg shares information on several grant and loan programs the city, county and state are offering for building [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 30 March 4, 2020 Guests/Topics: Beth Demke, Bismarck Gateway Science Center, discusses a $250K donation from Hess Corporation. Demke details how $200K will help develop and sponsor an oil and gas exhibit in the “Transforming Energy” section of the new science center gallery in the [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 29 March 3, 2020 Guests/Topics: Robert Depalma, paleontologist, describes the meteor impact 66 million years ago that generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction event. The [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 28 March 2, 2020 Guests/Topics: Arthur White, EV Downhole Video, explains why the underground camera business is taking off. White discusses the educational process and learning curve involved with new technologies and innovation. White believes the industry is becoming more proactive with technologies creating opportunity [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting shares insight from his latest OG Brief. This episode’s OG BRIEF is titled “Fracking Faster and Safer than Ever”. Joe Dancy, Energy Educator and Expert, joins The Crude Life Podcast for “Headlines” and comments about the recent layoffs and future of the oil and gas [...]
Joe Dancy, Energy Educator and Expert, joins The Crude Life Podcast for “Headlines” and comments about the recent layoffs and future of the oil and gas industry. Dancy is a Law Senior Lecturer of Law & Economics at Texas A&M University and regular speaker at energy conferences across the United [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 27 February 27, 2020 Guests/Topics: Terry Vaughn,Acid Tank Leasing, talks about the issues with frac-style acid tanks, which are known for leaking, failing at the manifold, floor, and walls. Frac supervisors at the well site hate dealing with the constant leaks. Spills are not required [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 26 February 26, 2020 Guests/Topics: Mike Vickers, Oilfieldjobshop.com gives a history of the company and what their services are The interview dives into the technology behind the oil and gas industry and how it is driving the shale boom. How veterans and seasoned employees are [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 25 February 25, 2020 Guests/Topics: Ryan Alder, AE Partners, gives a brief history of his recruitment company and how many shale plays they are currently doing business in. Alder gives an update on the Bakken and cites Colorado as a play that is slowing down. [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting shares insight from his latest OG Brief. This episode’s OG BRIEF is titled “Fracking Faster and Safer than Ever”. Clark says there’s an old adage that in industrial processes operations can be done safe, cheap, or quick but not all three. Well that’s changing in [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 24 February 24, 2020 Guests/Topics: Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, grew up in Watford City, North Dakota, and describes some of the changes that have happened since his childhood. Brown recalls sweeping floors and working other duties around his grandfather’s oilfield service shop as a child. Brown [...]
Tiffany Wilson, Aries Buildings, gives an overview of their services and building options. From temporary housing to mobile offices to class rooms, Wilson says they sell space. Wilson also gives an update on their growth in Texas, having to relocate some units from the Bakken to the Permian and Delaware [...]
Bailey Midkiff, WIC, gives an update from DUG Bakken and Rockies Conference & Exhibition and comments on the upcoming election year. Midkiff said there was two main themes that came from this year’s conference. One is that some are concern about oil prices with another victory for President Trump. The [...]
Bailey Midkiff, WIC, gives an update from DUG Bakken and Rockies Conference & Exhibition and comments on the upcoming election year. Midkiff said there was two main themes that came from this year’s conference. One is that some are concern about oil prices with another victory for President Trump. The [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 23 February 20, 2020 Guests/Topics: Troy Schrenk, CCO, Target Hospitality, talks the planned expansion of 100 rooms at its El Capitan community located in Orla, Texas within the Permian’s Delaware Basin. This is the second expansion for this community that is directly tied to continued [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 22 February 19, 2020 Guests/Topics: William Prentice, Meridian Energy Group, comments on their newest certification Environmental and Social Management Plan (“ESMP”). The ESMP is intended to reaffirm Meridian’s commitment to the environmentally and socially responsible development and operation of its facilities and the company’s alignment [...]
William Prentice, Meridian Energy Group, comments on their newest certification Environmental and Social Management Plan (“ESMP”). The ESMP is intended to reaffirm Meridian’s commitment to the environmentally and socially responsible development and operation of its facilities and the company’s alignment with the environmental and social risk management framework set forth [...]
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, grew up in Watford City, North Dakota, and describes some of the changes that have happened since his childhood. Brown recalls sweeping floors and working other duties around his grandfather’s oilfield service shop as a child. Brown talks about an evaluation study MineralTracker has been commissioned by [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 21 February 18, 2020 Guests/Topics: Mike McMahon, EcoVapor Recovery Systems, comments on EcoVapor Recovery Systems celebrating ten years of business in emission management. McMahon discusses some of the issues in flaring, Colorado’s regulatory climate and what is actually captured to avoid the flare. Host Jason [...]
North Dakota Land Commissioner Jodi Smith answers several questions regarding a letter that was sent by the state agency who is looking to collect millions of dollars in unpaid natural gas royalties from companies operating in the oil patch following a North Dakota Supreme Court ruling last summer. Smith also [...]
Mike McMahon comments on EcoVapor Recovery Systems celebrating ten years of business in emission management. McMahon discusses some of the issues in flaring, Colorado’s regulatory climate and what is actually captured to avoid the flare. Host Jason Spiess pontificates about shifting some of wind energy’s subsidies to natural gas in [...]
The Crude Life Episode 20 February 17, 2020 Guests/Topics: North Dakota Land Commissioner Jodi Smith answers several questions regarding a letter that was sent by the state agency who is looking to collect millions of dollars in unpaid natural gas royalties from companies operating in the oil patch following a [...]
Joseph “JB” Bendik, The Navitas Organization, joins the podcast for Headlines as well as the featured interview. Bendik gives his thoughts on some of the themes coming off NAPE 2020, like the disconnection with the youth, the Shale New Deal and the frac debate. Bendik discusses his views on the [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting gives an update on lateral drills and how many miles they are these days. In addition, Clark talks about the drills themselves, from heel to toe. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVimPyUygnwakoQ9swHXNA Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thecrudelife/ Follow on [...]
The Crude Life host Jason Spiess joins Genneca for a weekly energy report on The Country Twins morning show. This week Spiess talks about the recent news coming out of the Bakken and North Dakota. Spiess said he has been receiving a number of “off-the-record” phone calls and emails expressing [...]
Troy Schrenk, CCO, Target Hospitality, talks the planned expansion of 100 rooms at its El Capitan community located in Orla, Texas within the Permian’s Delaware Basin. This is the second expansion for this community that is directly tied to continued customer demand in the Delaware Basin, a growing hub of [...]
Joseph JB Bendik, The Navitas Organization gives his thoughts on some of the themes coming off NAPE 2020, like the disconnection with the youth, the Shale New Deal and the frac debate. Ray Scott, Colorado Senate District 7 opines on the environmental issues in the state as well as the [...]
February 13, 2020 Guests/Topics: Ray Scott, Senate District 7 Mesa County, responds to an article that appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on the status of the industry. Scott explains how schools and other social programs are very reliant on oil and gas tax revenue. Scott added that the [...]
Ryan Alder, AE Partners, gives a brief history of his recruitment company and how many shale plays they are currently doing business in. Alder gives an update on the Bakken and cites Colorado as a play that is slowing down. Retirement and The Big Crew Shift is discussed in detail. [...]
Ray Scott, Senate District 7 Mesa County, responds to an article that appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on the status of the industry. Scott explains how schools and other social programs are very reliant on oil and gas tax revenue. Scott added that the state has population disparity [...]
The Crude Life Podcast Episode 18 February 12, 2020 Guests/Topics: Joseph “JB” Bendik, The Navitas Organization, joins the podcast for Headlines as well as the featured interview. Bendik gives his thoughts on some of the themes coming off NAPE 2020, like the disconnection with the youth, the Shale New Deal [...]
February 11, 2020 Guests/Topics: Colorado State Senator John Cooke; Dan Haley, Colorado Oil and Gas Association; John Robitaille, Petroleum Association of Wyoming and Jason Spiess, The Crude Life discuss “What Happened with Colorado’s Energy Industry” at the Energy Exposition 2019 in Gillette, Wy. The panel discussion was moderated by Harriet [...]
February 10, 2020 Guests/Topics: Watford City High School Student Ambassadors Emma, Taylor, Ellie and Lydia discuss the ambassador program on what their experiences are with industry. Watford City has experienced historic growth over the past decade due to oil and gas activity. The four student talk about living in an [...]
Tiffany Steiner gives an overview of the Bakken BBQ history and preview of 2020’s theme. The bulk of the interview is devoted to the 23rd Annual API Gumbo Cookoff. Kirsten Jesperson, Mile High Employment Solutions, discusses the energy hiring environment for Colorado and North Dakota. Jesperson explains how the two [...]
February 6, 2020 Guests/Topics: Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, responds to John Hess’ comments that shale oil has peaked and global warming is real. Willis describes how Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has been good to industry in some areas like pipelines and permits, but needs to be watched in areas [...]
Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, responds to John Hess’ comments that shale oil has peaked and global warming is real. Willis describes how Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has been good to industry in some areas like pipelines and permits, but needs to be watched in areas of impact fees and [...]
February 5, 2020 Guests/Topics: Tiffany Steiner gives an overview of the Bakken BBQ history and preview of 2020’s theme. The bulk of the interview is devoted to the 23rd Annual API Gumbo Cookoff. This year the Gumbo competition will be in a new location offering more space for cookers [...]
Kirsten Jesperson, Mile High Employment Solutions, discusses the energy hiring environment for Colorado and North Dakota. Jesperson explains how the two states differ and why some issues are they way they are. She also lists some jobs that are currently available. Jesperson also dives into North Dakota’s hiring boom, which [...]
Tiffany Steiner gives an overview of the Bakken BBQ history and preview of 2020’s theme. The bulk of the interview is devoted to the 23rd Annual API Gumbo Cookoff. This year the Gumbo competition will be in a new location offering more space for cookers and attendees. Steiner said there [...]
February 4, 2020 Guests/Topics: Terry Etam, author of “The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity“, writer at the BOE Report and blogger for his blog Public Energy Number One, discusses the rise of environmentalism in energy and economy. Etam, who lives and works in Canada, explains the difference between [...]
Terry Etam, author of “The End of the Fossil Fuel Insanity“, writer at the BOE Report and blogger for his blog Public Energy Number One, discusses the rise of environmentalism in energy and economy. Etam, who lives and works in Canada, explains the difference between US energy production and Canadian [...]
February 3, 2020 Guests/Topics: Ben Holliday, Holliday Energy Law Group, talks about the Energyship Summit, Feb. 27-29, Scottsdale, AZ. Holliday says the event combines leadership and energy. He says the Energyship Summit is designed to talk about topics that may not be discussed at other conferences. The interview discusses [...]
Host of The Crude Life Jason Spiess comments on the rise of environmentalism in oil and gas and how it has reached new heights. Spiess cites a recent protect in Sacramento, California where 12-year-old children and teenagers drenched themselves in oil as a protest for the California Teacher’s pension fund [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, president, Western Energy Alliance, discusses the 2020 presidential election in regards to the energy sector. Sgamma also comments on mineral owners, public health, decarbonization, political science, Colorado’s war on oil and gas and the neighboring states of Wyoming and New Mexico. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share [...]
Matt Kruse, Huskerland Oilfield Services , gives a history of his company and how his background in baseball helped shape his core. Kruse shares a personal story about his baseball career from a national championship to being a scout for the Baltimore Orioles. Watford City High School Students Emma, Taylor, [...]
Mike Vickers, Oilfieldjobshop.com, gives a history of the company and what their services are. The interview dives into the technology behind the oil and gas industry and how it is driving the shale boom. How veterans and seasoned employees are adapting to technology is also discussed. Vickers also gives an [...]
January 29, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Matt Kruse, Huskerland Oilfield Services, gives a history of his company and how his background in baseball helped shape his core. Kruse shares a personal story about his baseball career from a national championship to being a scout for the Baltimore Orioles. The interview also [...]
Matt Kruse, Huskerland Oilfield Services, gives a history of his company and how his background in baseball helped shape his core. Kruse shares a personal story about his baseball career from a national championship to being a scout for the Baltimore Orioles. The interview also dives into crew camp living, [...]
January 29, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Bailey Midkiff and Jake Milne, William Insulation Company, comment on the Rolling Stone article on radioactive wastewater pointing the finger towards oil and gas. The ripple effect of this story is discussed how the media is now using that story to interview local leaders and [...]
Bailey Midkiff and Jake Milne, William Insulation Company, comment on the Rolling Stone article on radioactive wastewater pointing the finger towards oil and gas. The ripple effect of this story is discussed how the media is now using that story to interview local leaders and oil and gas executives pressing [...]
January 28, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Kathleen Sgamma, president, Western Energy Alliance, discusses the 2020 presidential election in regards to the energy sector. Sgamma also comments on mineral owners, public health, decarbonization, political science, Colorado’s war on oil and gas and the neighboring states of Wyoming and New Mexico. Taylor, Emma, [...]
January 27, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting and the #OGBRIEF covers The “Big Three” Oilfield Service Companies as they reported 2019 Earnings, the shift towards international and offshore, Libya’s production outage, oil price, rig count, and what to watch for next week. Watford City High School Student Ambassadors [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting and the #OGBRIEF covers The “Big Three” Oilfield Service Companies as they reported 2019 Earnings, the shift towards international and offshore, Libya’s production outage, oil price, rig count, and what to watch for next week. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow [...]
Watford City High School Student Ambassadors Emma, Taylor, Ellie and Lydia discuss the ambassador program on what their experiences are with industry. Watford City has experienced historic growth over the past decade due to oil and gas activity. The four student talk about living in an oil and gas community [...]
January 23, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org and Shepstone Management Company, comments on President Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum and what kind of impact it will have on the energy sector. Shepstone gives an oil and gas update from Pennsylvania commenting on pipelines, natural gas and [...]
Tom Shepstone, NaturalGasNow.org and Shepstone Management Company, comments on President Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum and what kind of impact it will have on the energy sector. Shepstone gives an oil and gas update from Pennsylvania commenting on pipelines, natural gas and the shift in energy’s perception. [...]
Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator,SMU Spindletop Fund Advisor & Professor – Southern Methodist University, talks solar energy, flaring, the industry’s image and using social media to broadcast professional issues with clients and collecting money from customers, sometimes referred to as “slow pay”. Alaska’s newest ballot initiative to raise taxes [...]
January 22, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, talks solar energy, flaring, Colorado’s war on oil and gas, industry’s image and using social media to broadcast professional issues with clients and collecting money from customers, sometimes referred to as “slow pay”. Dancy also responds to the thesis [...]
Aaron Jordan, president, Black Water Environmental, explains why the word “environmental” is used in their name. Jordan also gives an update from the Powder River Basin. Jordan has seen growth in Wyoming, North Dakota, Kansas and Colorado, and currently their company is hiring. Today’s Headlines: What the China Trade Deal [...]
January 20, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Dr. Loren Scott, energy expert and economist gives an update on Lakes Charles and Louisiana’s oil and gas industry. Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University, discusses the Reclamation Workshop happening February 25-26, 2020 at the Ramada Grand Dakota Hotel & Conference Center in [...]
Patrick Hartford, owner, R.P. Oilfield Services discusses anchors in Wyoming and the evolution of safety as a business. Hartford also gives an update on the Powder River Basin. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVimPyUygnwakoQ9swHXNA Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thecrudelife/ Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-crude-life Follow [...]
Jon Clark, Clark Energy Consulting, joins The Crude Life Podcast for a weekly update on oil and gas. Clark, who hosts The OG Brief, gives his analysis on the weekly oil and gas activities. Pipelines, LNG, Russia’s deal with China, Mexico’s desire for US gas and the 2020 election are [...]
Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University, discusses the Reclamation Workshop happening February 25-26, 2020 at the Ramada Grand Dakota Hotel & Conference Center in Dickinson, North Dakota. Meehan shares information on reclamation speakers, topics and sponsors. The interview also discusses the energy agriculture relationship. Spread the word. Support the industry. [...]
MultiMedia Journalist Jason Spiess recaps the week’s interviews on The Crude Life. Spiess talks about a number of topics including the launch of a new daily podcast, environmentalism and politics is professional wrestling. The issue in Colorado is discussed in more detail relaying information from an interview with Dan Haley, [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer explains how the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani will impact the energy economy. Senator Cramer cites the importance of energy infrastructure when discussing geopolitical events. The interview transitions to the recent increase in oil prices and oil icon Harold Hamm’s (Continental [...]
Sally Hallingstad, Oilfield Helping Hands talks about Oilfield Helping Hands and why she is attracted to the way industry is a leader in community building. The Ag/Energy relationship and perception is also discussed. Hallingstad grew up in an agricultural and oil-less part of the country. She explains how her energy [...]
Watford City High School Student Ambassadors Emma, Taylor, Ellie and Lydia discuss the ambassador program on what their experiences are with industry. Watford City has experienced historic growth over the past decade due to oil and gas activity. The four student talk about living in an oil and gas community [...]
January 16, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Jon Clark, founder, Clark Energy Consulting gives a weekly Oil and Gas Brief. Patrick Hartford, owner, R.P. Oilfield Services discusses anchors in Wyoming and the evolution of safety as a business. Today’s Headlines: Oil and gas company speaks out about drilling concerns Air pollution from [...]
Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, explains why the word “environmental” is used in their name. Jordan also gives an update from the Powder River Basin. Jordan has seen growth in Wyoming, North Dakota, Kansas and Colorado, and currently their company is hiring. The topic of how everyday ordinary people are [...]
Sally Hallingstad, Oilfield Helping Hands talks about Oilfield Helping Hands and why she is attracted to the way industry is a leader in community building. The Ag/Energy relationship and perception is also discussed. Hallingstad grew up in an agricultural and oil-less part of the country. She explains how her energy [...]
Dan Haley, Colorado Oil and Gas Association, gives a history of Prop 112, a measure that impacts oil and gas development and how Governor Jared Polis started a war on oil and gas. Haley discusses the new measures Colorado Rising is attempting to get on the 2020 ballot and how [...]
January 15, 2020 Today’s Guests/Topics: Sally Hallingstad, Oilfield Helping Hands talks about Oilfield Helping Hands and why she is attracted to the way industry is a leader in community building. The Ag/Energy relationship and perception is also discussed. Hallingstad grew up in an agricultural and oil-less part of the country. [...]
January 14, 2020 Today’s Guests: US Senator Kevin Cramer, energy expert and economist Dr. Loren C. Scott and Dan Haley, president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. Today’s Headlines: Oil tycoon Harold Hamm predicts 19% jump in U.S. oil prices within six months, ‘regardless of what happens’ in [...]
Ben Holliday, Holliday Energy Law Group, talks about the Energyship Summit, Feb. 27-29, Scottsdale, AZ. Holliday says the event combines leadership and energy. He says the Energyship Summit is designed to talk about topics that may not be discussed at other conferences. The interview discusses Holliday’s history with oil and [...]
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer explains how the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani will impact the energy economy. Senator Cramer cites the importance of energy infrastructure when discussing geopolitical events. The interview transitions to the recent increase in oil prices and oil icon Harold Hamm’s (Continental [...]
Colorado State Senator John Cooke gives a summary of what happened in Colorado with their recent War on Oil and Gas. Cooke, who also served as a Sheriff of Weld County, talks about the relationship between Colorado and energy development. Terry Vaughn, Acid Tank Leasing, discusses spill prevention and innovation [...]
Jake Milne, William Insulation Co., gives an update on the Rocky Mountain region in oil and gas. Milne works with many industries and gives examples of how different industries are viewing the energy industry in 2020. Milne opines about politics in energy and how difficult it is to have a [...]
Terry Vaughn, Acid Tank Leasing, talks about the issues with frac-style acid tanks, which are known for leaking, failing at the manifold, floor, and walls. Frac supervisors at the well site hate dealing with the constant leaks. Spills are not required to be reported at the Federal level unless they [...]
Arthur Weidner, Doodlebug Beverages, talks about the family history behind his great grandfather’s “sweet crude” liqueur. Weidner now distributes ND Sweet Crude across two states with more states on the horizon. He also talks about the family history behind his great grandfather’s “sweet crude” liqueur. Weidner now distributes ND Sweet [...]
Terry Etam, Energy Writer & Author, talks about the rise of environmentalism in the oil and gas industry. Kevin Black, Creedence Energy Services, also describes their expansion from the Bakken into the Permian Basin and their new acidizing service. Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist, talks about solar, [...]
Keith Baudin, Oil & Gas Drilling Consultant, gives an update on the Haynesville and Austin Chalk shale plays. Baudin also updates the energy infrastructure and construction in the Lake Charles area as well as the new refineries. Baudin also opined on how politics are causing issues with energy development. The [...]
Whit Theobald, Safety Professional, shares his views on some of the changes in industry safety and what is coming next in the world of safety. Theobald also comments on innovation, Year in Review and what to expect in 2020. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie Co. Job Development Authority, discusses a loan program designed to encourage more housing development. Increasing school enrollment, births and the job market are discussed as well. McKenzie County’s oil production is projected to rise from its current production around 16 million barrels a month to between 18-20 [...]
Jake Milne, William Insulation Co., gives an update on the Rocky Mountain region in oil and gas. Milne works with many industries and gives examples of how different industries are viewing the energy industry in 2020. Milne opines about politics in energy and how difficult it is to have a [...]
Colorado State Senator John Cooke gives a summary of what happened in Colorado with their recent War on Oil and Gas. Cooke, who also served as a Sheriff of Weld County, talks about the relationship between Colorado and energy development. Cooke explains the next steps in the energy regulatory process [...]
Beth Demke, Bismarck Gateway Science Center, discusses a recent $250K donation from Hess Corporation. Demke details how $200K will help develop and sponsor an oil and gas exhibit in the “Transforming Energy” section of the new science center gallery in the new building Gateway to Science under construction. The remainder [...]
Joe Dancy, Associate Director, Southern Methodist University Maguire Energy Institute, gives a recap of his tour of the Bakken oil fields and the conference in Medora. Trends and economic indicators are discussed in detail, from innovation shelf life to price of oil to recent layoffs. There is a reminder regarding [...]
Bart Hannaman, JH Petroleum Engineering Consulting, discuses the current state of energy and how much the market has changed over the past year. Hannaman describes how there was a shift from a time when it seemed like money was no option to money is everything. Companies are shaving costs and [...]
Beth Demke, Bismarck Gateway Science Center, discusses a recent $250K donation from Hess Corporation. Demke details how $200K will help develop and sponsor an oil and gas exhibit in the “Transforming Energy” section of the new science center gallery in the new building Gateway to Science under construction. The remainder [...]
Matthew Chisam, Probus Energy Services, talks about the relationship between agriculture, energy and the land. How information has changed in the marketplace. Chisam, who served in the U.S. Air Force, compares many aspects of the military and the oil and gas industry, specifically in the technology sector. Chisam gives a [...]
Jordan Dyer, LFS Chemistry, talks about what the market is like for a start up in the highly competitive chemical industry. Jordan explains how the industry became flooded with snake oil salesmen over the past decade and companies are becoming more aware. Climate change, Colorado, New York, natural gas and [...]
A special Year in Review special focusing on The War on Oil and Gas in Colorado. Heath Holloway, Titan Solutions, based in Greeley, gives an update on the oil and gas industry in Colorado. He also describes the evolution of the “war on oil and gas” in Colorado. Click here [...]
Wyatt Boutwell, HBW Resources LLC, gives his views on the current political vibe in energy today, specifically fossil fuels and renewable energy. Boutwell opines on the polarization in energy and the political pragmatism in today’s conversation and how that impacts industry. The Big Crew Shift, generational gaps in energy, Patagonia’s [...]
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken oil field, Watford City. Brown also discusses how to manage mineral rights from monetary disbursements to personalized interests. Brown explains why the Bakken has been a steady producer over the past five years and with rig counts down [...]
Jeremy Pate, P3 Petroleum, talks about Enhanced Oil Recovery in today’s marketplace. From the days of carbon injection to natural gas foam to cutting edge innovations are discussed. Pate describes some of the solutions EOR are solving in industry today as well as what some of the current obstacles are. [...]
Patrick Bertagnolli shares his thesis from his Keynote presentation at the API Williston Awards Ceremony. Bertagnolli explains how the skills initiative program in the Bakken is engaging with high school students to expose them to tech and skills careers in oil and gas communities. He also shares his views on [...]
Patrick Bertagnolli shares his thesis from his Keynote presentation at the API Williston Awards Ceremony. Bertagnolli explains how the skills initiative program in the Bakken is engaging with high school students to expose them to tech and skills careers in oil and gas communities. He also shares his views on [...]
Steve Burnett, Crude Oil Calendars, gives a history of his Crude Oil Calendars and cartoons. Burnett, who has worked in the oil and gas industry since age 14, explains how his background helped shape his calendars and cartoons. The paradigm shift in oil and gas is talked about along with [...]
Anthony Watt, Heartland Institute, comments on climate change skeptics, how the California wild fires are impacting the residents and the businesses. Watt believes many environmentalists are ill-informed and are “chasing the environmental Holy Grail”. A comparison to local communities and states implementing a “public health smoking ban” and how it [...]
Professional musician Shannon Curfman talks about being scouted at age 12 by the music industry and how she was signed by Clive Davis at age 13. Curfman, once labeled as a “blues” singer songwriter, shares her views of the ever-changing music industry – from venues to social media to royalty [...]
John Lisle, S&B Drilling, discusses core values in business and how that principle has allowed his business to grow organically. Lisle, who also serves a leadership role with the Williston Chamber of Commerce, gives an update on the new airport and energy activity. S&B Drilling, located in Williston, has other [...]
Jason Marmon, US Energy, talks about the pros and cons of innovation in energy. He also gives an update on Energy Fest 2020. The Bakken Template is also discussed and whether its test market results are being spotted on other shale plays like the Permian. Marmon opines on one issue [...]
John Lisle, S&B Drilling, discusses core values in business and how that principle has allowed his business to grow organically. Lisle, who also serves a leadership role with the Williston Chamber of Commerce, gives an update on the new airport and energy activity. S&B Drilling, located in Williston, has other [...]
Dayton Marze tells the story about how his order for bulk Patagonia backpacks was rejected due to his company’s affiliation with the oil and gas industry. Click here to listen to the full-length interview David Glatt, Director of the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), gives an update on [...]
Welcome to the MultiMedia Cafe! A place where you never know who you are going to run into or what they are going to say. On this week’s MultiMedia Cafe lineup: Mark J. Lindquist understands the power of timing and networking in North Dakota. Lindquist shares his experience on how [...]
David Glatt, Director of the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), gives an update on the Keystone Pipeline Spill in eastern North Dakota. The spill was reported on Oct. 29 and is now estimated by state regulators to have affected about 209,100 square feet (19,426 square meters) of land [...]
Roe Patterson, author of Crude Blessings, share the story of his father’s (Glenn Patterson) rise in the energy industry. Glenn Patterson is considered by many, if not most, one of the titans in energy. He is one of the founders of Patterson-UTI Energy and his one rig-to-riches story is often [...]
Joseph “JB” Bendik, The Navitas Organization, comments on some of Energy’s Top Stories, Trends and Issues of 2019. The future of fossil fuels, perception and engagement are discusses in detail. Everything from herd mentality to indoctrination to speaking up to public relations’ paradigm shift. Innovation, mineral rights, pipelines, natural gas, [...]
MultiMedia Journalist Jason Spiess recaps the week’s interviews on The Crude Life. This week Spiess talks about some of 2019’s top stories, trends and issues, including discussions on water, climate change, magnetic poles and the environment. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVimPyUygnwakoQ9swHXNA Follow [...]
Dayton Marze tells the story about how his order for bulk Patagonia backpacks was rejected due to his company’s affiliation with the oil and gas industry. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVimPyUygnwakoQ9swHXNA Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thecrudelife/ Follow on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-crude-life Follow on Twitter [...]
Peter Cook, Oilfield Water Connect & Petroleum Connection gives his opinion on what he believes in the top Story, Trend and Issue of 2019. Cook explains why he sees a push by Wall Street to operate more efficiently in 2020. The interview also dives into water disposal, reuse, reinvention and [...]
Joe Dancy, Associate Director, Southern Methodist University Maguire Energy Institute, gives his thoughts on Energy’s Top Stories, Trends and Issues of 2019. Topics and stories discussed are the renewable push, reclamation advancements, coal, flaring, natural gas, remote drilling, drones and artificial intelligence. Dancy explains why he votes for the California [...]
Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, shares what his thoughts are on Energy’s Stories, Trends and Issues of 2019. From snake oil salesmen to Greta Thunberg to California’s Wildfires to Industry Being It’s Own Worst Enemy, topics are discussed in detail. Bullock votes for Rig Counts Down 23% as 2019’s top story, [...]
Tiffany Steiner and Jackie Jenkin, Bakken BBQ, share some behind the scenes planning info as they prepare for the 8th Annual Bakken BBQ. Steiner gave details on how people can participate as cookers for the BBQ. She believes the BBQ will be able to add a few more this year [...]
Mark Bullock, Texas Adventure and Survival School, talks about survival techniques and methods in today’s modern world. Bullock shares a story about the genesis of his survival school involving the British military. Spread the word. Support the industry. Share the energy. Follow on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVimPyUygnwakoQ9swHXNA Follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thecrudelife/ Follow [...]
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions, talks about how he has been helping groups fight wind energy projects. He explains myths, facts and histories of wind energy. Droz talks about the energy economics, reclamation in wind energy, crony capitalism, noise pollution and energy politics in states like New York, [...]
Jason Marmon, US Energy, gives his background on working in the oil and gas industry, including time with Baker Hughes. Marmon explains how that path lead him to his current non profit US Energy. Marmon describes several projects US Energy is working on or has produced in the past with [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority and Economic Development, talks about the historic growth of Watford City and their new quality of life additions to the community. Stenberg explains the need for single family housing and what special loan programs and incentives are in place for builders and families. [...]
Amber Voithofer and Joseph Chrasta, Trunkline.com, describe Trunkline.com is and how the oil and gas industry are using it. Voithofer gives a step-by-step process overview of how a vendors and end users would experience using Trunkline.com Chrasta shares his background in oil and gas and how it evolved into Trunkline.com. [...]
Kimberly Wurtz, Ball Morse Lowe, talks about her recent appointment to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission committee. Wurtz discusses some water issues in oil and gas like water rights and boundaries. The interview also touches on flaring and natural gas subsidies. Wurtz previews a couple upcoming speaker presentations [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute senior fellow on environmental policy, recaps his recent interview with Colorado state senator John Cooke on the Colorado’s governor’s war on oil and gas. Governor Jared Polis, SB 181, Prop 112, local control and democrats voting nationally are topics Burnett and Cooke covered. [...]
Kunal Patel, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, shares information from their survey with over 200 oil and gas companies. Patel talks about their key conclusions, wages, rising costs, equipment utilization and uncertainty that persists in the marketplace. Patel also comments on the Permian activity and what producers in the survey [...]
Wesley Cate, Eco-Energy talks about pipelines as critical infrastructure. Cate explains how pipelines are aging and natural gas has become very important in powering our lives. In addition the ripple natural gas has throughout people’s lives, Cate argues that pipelines should be in the same conversation as roads and bridges. [...]
Jeff Ward, D.I.R.T.T., gives an overview of remote drilling including a brief history and evolution. Ward believes the trend of remote drilling has grown to where many companies will be including them in next year’s bidding process. New labor opportunities, white collar and blue collar jobs are discussed as well [...]
Andrew Bruce, CEO, Data Gumbo, discusses their new oil and gas industry service and contract that involves Blockchain and the Bakken oil fields. The Bakken program is a pilot program contracted from a consortium of major energy companies involving water use in shale plays. Bruce discusses the pros, cons, issues [...]
Josh Swanson, Vogel Law, gives an update on the Wilkinson vs. Board of University and School Lands involving mineral rights and payments in the Bakken and Lake Sakakawea. Swanson also gives a brief history of the case, comments on the hundreds of millions of dollars in mineral royalties in holding [...]
Jim Willis, Marcellus Drilling News, gives an update from the Marcellus shale play. Willis says there are three main stories he is working on right now – pipelines, permits and the EQT takeover. The rise and evolution of environmentalism is discussed as well. The anthropological view of the social cause [...]
Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance, recaps her testimony before the legislative hearing mistitled Fossil Fuel Development: Protecting Taxpayers and Eliminating Industry Giveaways before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on the Energy and Mineral Resources regarding natural gas. Sgamma testifies “Now Congress is considering legislation designed to decrease American production, not [...]
Tiffany Steiner, Bakken BBQ, gives the hot off the press details for the 8th Annual Bakken BBQ. This year the Bakken BBQ will be Friday June 19, 2020 from 4-10pm. Steiner said there is not a theme name yet, but do have a finalized theme – a day at the [...]
Dallas Scott, owner, GS Logs, discusses some of the energy impacts from the ripple stemming from the Saudi Arabia refinery drone strikes. Scott also explains how their software allows remote drilling, anti-collision, logging and is drawing international interest. The interview compares the concept of remote drilling to precision agriculture only, [...]
Karolin Jappe, McKenzie County Emergency Management, gives details on several recent donations from energy companies for emergency services. Crestwood’s donation was used for a mobile air compressor trailer which gives an instant upgrade to their community. Jappe said this air compressor unit will be used by adjacent counties too. Jappe [...]
Bailey Midkiff, William Insulation Company, talk about being a part of the oil and gas supply chain and the evolution of becoming active and involved in the industry. The perception of energy is discussed as well as ways to support the industry.
Arthur White, EV Downhole Video, explains why the underground camera business is taking off. White discusses the educational process and learning curve involved with new technologies and innovation. White believes the industry is becoming more proactive with technologies creating opportunity in the marketplace.
Brad Appel, Wish For Wheels, talks about their program and how energy companies are assisting their mission. Occidental Petroleum and Wish for Wheels, gave a total of 165 Huffy bikes with helmets to students at both De Zavala Elementary in Midland and Ireland Elementary in Odessa. A study from Scientific [...]
Devin Becker, Becker Safety and Supply, gives details for the Safety EXPO in Greeley, CO, September 20, 2019. The interview also discusses the evolution of safety in industry today. From innovation in intuition, changes were made from bandanas and shorts to FR Clothing and Gas Monitors. Becker gives shares his [...]
James Dugger, Vitalant West Texas, talks about how the recent shootings in Odessa, Texas have impacted their need for blood. He also explains how the hurricane season is already putting strain on their supply. The power of the energy community and the Permian Basin was also discussed in the interview. [...]
Jeff Zarling, DAWA Solutions Group, celebrates 20 years in business after servicing a variety of clients and expanding into diverse markets. Zarling gives an update on his coffee company, RoughNeck Coffee, Williston’s energy activity and the Bakken Oil Products Service Show. He also shares his observations from 2002-to-today from the [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
William Prentice, Meridan Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery coming to the Bakken oil fields just outside of Belfield, ND. Prentice talks about the amount of time and resources that have gone into communicating with environmental groups and antagonists despite winning every court battle. Prentice also talks [...]
Tom Poteet, Mesa Natural Gas Solutions, talks about the successes and obstacles with the natural gas portable generators, gas capturing and flaring. The idea of natural gas subsidies are discusses along with where economic gaps are in the supply and cash flow chain. Poteet also gives an overview of Mesa [...]
Jeff Zarling, DAWA Solutions Group, celebrates 20 years in business after servicing a variety of clients and expanding into diverse markets. Zarling gives an update on his coffee company, RoughNeck Coffee, Williston’s energy activity and the Bakken Oil Products Service Show. He also shares his observations from 2002-to-today from the [...]
Jesse Johnson explains how to BBQ a whole pig, how to cut it and how to prepare it. Nathan Burgess gives tips and recipes on BBQ pulled pork and pulled chicken. Bram Laster opines about the only way to BBQ correctly. Rusty Padgett shares several BBQ tips and even one [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Mark Fox, Chairman, MHA Nation, Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, ND, shares his thoughts on Crestwood’s building donation and dedication, energy empowerment, community spirit and how Native American and oil and gas co-exist in today’s world. Logan Edmonson, Tulsa Tube Bending, gives an overview of Tulsa Tube [...]
Terry Etam, Author of “The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity” and writer at BOE Report and Public Energy Number One, shares his views on Michael Moore’s new documentary “Planet of the Humans”. Etam also pontificates how the anti-fossil fuel movement will react to Moore’s latest piece, which he considers a [...]
Marvin Nash and Seth Frentheway, Encore Green Environmental, discuss the transition from agriculture innovation to the oil and gas industry. Nash explains how understanding the land, soil and water translates very well to the energy industry from agriculture. Produced water, reused water and reimagining water were discussed in detail throughout [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Kent Lassman, CEO & President, Competitive Enterprise Institute, gives an overview of their study on the Green New Deal. CEI’s study concludes that the first year cost of the Green New Deal would cost Americans on an average, $70K the first year. From the logistics to transmitters or PVC pipes, [...]
Joe Maher, Bedrock Petroleum Consultants, talks about an upcoming public family friendly Cook Off in Golden, CO, called The 2019 AADE Denver Fin Feather Fur Food Festival happening September 21st at Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Golden is next to Denver and less than an hour from Boulder. Maher explained how this [...]
Josh Hickman, American Energy Partners, gives an overview of American Energy Partners as well as his professional background. The paradigm shift in energy is discussed from the well site to the office to financing. Hickman gives an update from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, as well as his thoughts [...]
Terry Etam, Author of “The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity” and writer at BOE Report and Public Energy Number One, shares his views on Michael Moore’s new documentary “Planet of the Humans”. Etam also pontificates how the anti-fossil fuel movement will react to Moore’s latest piece, which he considers a [...]
William Prentice, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery coming to the Bakken oil fields just outside of Belfield, ND. Prentice talks about the amount of time and resources that have gone into communicating with environmental groups and antagonists despite winning every court battle. Prentice also talks [...]
Keegan Blake, Adelant Energy, explains how their pipeline silencer works and creates a safer environment for the workers. In addition to the safety slice of pipelines, the issue of noise pollution is discussed in detail. Blake gives an update from Colorado’s energy industry, from perception to myth busting to uncertainty. [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Mike Lynch, Strategic Energy and Economic Research, gives an overview of their organization’s work and research. Natural gas is discussed multiple times throughout the interview as it is weaved into other topics. Subsidies are discusses and whether wind energy and solar power have reached their potential or not. Coal, Chinese [...]
Andy Smith, CEO, Ashcor, explains their innovation process and clean energy space. Smith also discusses low emission flares and enclosed combustors. The interview dives into problems with waste gas and what can be done. Challenges in flaring, state regulation, EPA and natural gas subsidies are discussed as well. Smith also [...]
Pete Obermueller, Petroleum Association of Wyoming, gives an overview of the 2019 Annual Meeting being held August 19-20 in Cheyenne, Wy. Obermueller also shares his thoughts on the recent Colorado issues with oil and gas. He also gives an update on Wyoming’s different energy plays like the Powder River Basin. [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Joe Maher, Bedrock Petroleum Consultants, talks about an upcoming public family friendly Cook Off in Golden, CO, called The 2019 AADE Denver Fin Feather Fur Food Festival happening September 21st at Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Golden is next to Denver and less than an hour from Boulder. Maher explained how this [...]
Nicholas Morelli, Superior Rig Innovation, gives an overview of the company and its history. Morelli also shares some observations from Canada and their energy industry’s activity. Morelli explains how the slow business in Canada opened up the United States market for them and now they are doing business in the [...]
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, explains how their mineral tracking App allows users to see trends, maps, wells, surface locations and other relevant information. Brown shares some data they’ve collected over the past year, like the average person receiving a mineral rights check is a 65 year old woman making less than [...]
Tom Poteet, Mesa Natural Gas Solutions, talks about the successes and obstacles with the natural gas portable generators, gas capturing and flaring. The idea of natural gas subsidies are discusses along with where economic gaps are in the supply and cash flow chain. Poteet also gives an overview of Mesa [...]
Terry Etam, Author of “The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity” and writer at BOE Report and Public Energy Number One, shares his views on Michael Moore’s new documentary “Planet of the Humans”. Etam also pontificates how the anti-fossil fuel movement will react to Moore’s latest piece, which he considers a [...]
Josh Hickman, American Energy Partners, gives an overview of American Energy Partners as well as his professional background. The paradigm shift in energy is discussed from the well site to the office to financing. Hickman gives an update from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, as well as his thoughts [...]
Damita Engel, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, explains how archaeology is used in energy development, specifically oil and gas. Engel also talks about the advent of the digital age in archaeology, from drones to automation. Other topics include rules, regulations and tribal law. Emotional and sacred sites are also discussed in the [...]
Patrick Bertagnolli, MBI Energy Services, talks about the skills initiative program in the Bakken and how they are engaging with high school students to expose them to tech and skills careers. He explains how the student council leaders will be assisting the state of North Dakota attracting workers to the [...]
Kevin Short, Short Powerline Services, gives the history and evolution of Short Powerline Services from construction to electricians to drones. Short talks about the impact of Big Data in the industry and how we are only scratching the surface of what will come. Short also comments on the challenges in [...]
Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, talks about the history of Worcester Sauce and how he knows that particular history of Beer to Sauce. Bullock shares some stories from recent clean up jobs and what his customers are seeing in the oil field. The interview dives into the “long term pain and [...]
Heath Holloway, Titan Solutions, gives an overview on their services and company history. The environment and community is discussed as part of Titan Solutions mission. Holloway, based in Greeley, gives an update on the oil and gas industry in Colorado. He also describes the evolution of the “war on oil [...]
Mike Lynch, Strategic Energy and Economic Research, gives an overview of their organization’s work and research. Natural gas is discussed multiple times throughout the interview as it is weaved into other topics. Subsidies are discusses and whether wind energy and solar power have reached their potential or not. Reilly Sasse, [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Mark Fox, Chairman, MHA Nation, Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, ND, shares [...]
Pete Obermueller, Petroleum Association of Wyoming, gives an overview of the 2019 Annual Meeting being held August 19-20 in Cheyenne, Wy. Obermueller also shares his thoughts on the recent Colorado issues with oil and gas. He also gives an update on Wyoming’s different energy plays like the Powder River Basin. [...]
Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, discusses the pros and cons of In-Situ and Ex-Situ conservation and clean up. Bullock gives an update on how energy activity is in Texas. He also shares a few stories from the oil patch.
Kent Lassman, CEO & President, Competitive Enterprise Institute, gives an overview of their study on the Green New Deal. CEI’s study concludes that the first year cost of the Green New Deal would cost Americans on an average, $70K the first year. From the logistics to transmitters or PVC pipes, [...]
Mike Lynch, Strategic Energy and Economic Research, gives an overview of their organization’s work and research. Natural gas is discussed multiple times throughout the interview as it is weaved into other topics. Subsidies are discusses and whether wind energy and solar power have reached their potential or not. Coal, Chinese [...]
Britt Dohse, B.A.D. Drones, is joined by Eric Olson and Brad Nicholes, Viper Drones to discuss the growing UAS industry. In addition to oil and gas application, the interview discusses other methods and application drones can provide. Big Data and layering in data allows drones to see hydrocarbons and other [...]
Kevin Short, Short Powerline Services, gives the history and evolution of Short Powerline Services from construction to electricians to drones. Short talks about the impact of Big Data in the industry and how we are only scratching the surface of what will come. Heath Holloway, Titan Solutions, gives an overview [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Reilly Sasse, Red River Company, discusses how being disciplined to his [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Dr. Loren C. Scott, Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to a renewable economy and [...]
Tye Juarez, ThePetroDex.com, tells the story of his history working rigs and wells in the oil and gas industry until the downturn came. During the downturn Juarez reinvented his skills and returned to the oil and gas industry as a service company. Juarez also comments on the retiring of the [...]
Dr. Robert Nielsen, Nielsen Counseling Services, talks about why he chooses to only have a handful of clients, while focusing more on the non-work related parts of life. He also discusses what it is like to be working in retirement. Although technically retired, Nielsen still works a couple of jobs [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Ann Hafner, Killdeer Area Ambulance Services, talks about the recent $15K donation from Marathon Oil. [...]
Jack Hamlin, Summit Engineering & Energy Strong Colorado, talks about Colorado’s recent shift in oil and gas perception, and how it has been catching on in other states. Prop 112 and SB 181 are discussed in detail, from the history to the current state of energy in Colorado. The idea [...]
Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, talks about the history of Worcester Sauce and how he knows that particular history of Beer to Sauce. Bullock shares some stories from recent clean up jobs and what his customers are seeing in the oil field. The interview dives into the “long term pain and [...]
Reilly Sasse, Red River Company, discusses how being disciplined to his business philosophy and company mission has allowed manageable growth in the oil and gas industry. Sasse also discusses the challenges in today’s work place with retaining business. He also explains why he believes a positive, honest working culture is [...]
Heath Holloway, Titan Solutions, gives an overview on their services and company history. The environment and community is discussed as part of Titan Solutions mission. Holloway, based in Greeley, gives an update on the oil and gas industry in Colorado. He also describes the evolution of the “war on oil [...]
Colorado State Senator John Cooke; Dan Haley, Colorado Oil and Gas Association; John Robitaille, Petroleum Association of Wyoming and Jason Spiess, The Crude Life discuss “What Happened with Colorado’s Energy Industry” at the Energy Exposition 2019 in Gillette, Wy. The panel discussion was moderated by Harriet Hageman, Hageman Law PC. [...]
Pat Young, Patloc Safety Systems, starts the interview with a story about his mother meeting WWE’s Booker T and Evan Holyfield at his press conference at the Fighter Nation Boxing Gym in Houston, Texas. Young gives a recap from his Houston trip as well as an update from Watford City, [...]
Kevin Short, Short Powerline Services, gives the history and evolution of Short Powerline Services from construction to electricians to drones. Short talks about the impact of Big Data in the industry and how we are only scratching the surface of what will come. Short also comments on the challenges in [...]
Andy Smith, CEO, Ashcor, explains their innovation process and clean energy space. Smith also discusses low emission flares and enclosed combustors. The interview dives into problems with waste gas and what can be done. Challenges in flaring, state regulation, EPA and natural gas subsidies are discussed as well. Smith also [...]
Patrick Bertagnolli, MBI Energy Services, talks about the skills initiative program in the Bakken and how they are engaging with high school students to expose them to tech and skills careers. He explains how the student council leaders will be assisting the state of North Dakota attracting workers to the [...]
Jack Hamlin, Summit Engineering & Energy Strong Colorado, talks about Colorado’s recent shift in oil and gas perception, and how it has been catching on in other states. Prop 112 and SB 181 are discussed in detail, from the history to the current state of energy in Colorado. The idea [...]
Professional musician Shannon Curfman talks about being scouted at age 12 by the music industry and how she was signed by Clive Davis at age 13. Professional musician Shannon Curfman, once labeled as a “blues” singer songwriter, Curfman shares her views of the ever-changing music industry – from venues to [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Mark Fox, Chairman, Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Luke Geiver, BBI International gives the run down of the 2019 [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Destenie McMillen, senior landman, Northern Colorado Legal Support, talks about the [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Dr. Loren Scott, Scott & Associates talks about solar, wind and [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Ashley McNamee, Whiting Petroleum and Lynn Welker, McKenzie County Healthcare Systems, [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Dr. Loren Scott, Scott & Associates talks about solar, wind and [...]
Mark Fox, Chairman, MHA Nation, Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, ND, shares his thoughts on Crestwood’s building donation and dedication, energy empowerment, community spirit and how Native American and oil and gas co-exist in today’s world.
Ann Hafner, Killdeer Area Ambulance Services, talks about the $15K donation from Marathon Oil. Hafner also names a few other recent sponsors and donors for their emergency equipment upgrades. Hafner also talks about volunteerism and how there is a shortage of volunteers in the oil and gas communities. Hafner also [...]
Mark Fox, Chairman, MHA Nation, Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, ND, shares his thoughts on Crestwood’s building donation and dedication, energy empowerment, community spirit and how Native American and oil and gas co-exist in today’s world. Logan Edmonson, Tulsa Tube Bending, gives an overview of Tulsa Tube [...]
Bob Donner, founder, Freedom Manufacturing, gives a history of his company and their current state. “The Essence of Capitalism” is discussed, and how the energy industry seems to continue to foster capitalism at its core. How the industry and downstream industries will look after the Big Crew Change and Retirement [...]
Marvin Nash and Seth Frentheway, Encore Green Environmental, discuss the transition from agriculture innovation to the oil and gas industry. Nash explains how understanding the land, soil and water translates very well to the energy industry from agriculture. Produced water, reused water and reimagining water were discussed in detail throughout [...]
Michael Clancy, EcoPoint, Inc., gives an overview of EcoPoint, Inc. and their services. Topics involving reclamation, regulations and discoveries are integrated in with the company’s background. Clancy also opines on the environment and how the energy companies are part of the solution rather than the problem. The Essence of Capitalism [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, speaks on behalf of the McKenzie County Job Development Authority for this interview. Brown, who is the president of the advisory board, explains how the JDA assists the oil and gas industry as well as Watford City. The Essence of Capitalism and Preservation of Community is discussed [...]
Part two of Jack Hamlin, Summit Engineering & Energy Strong Colorado, talks about Colorado’s recent shift in oil and gas perception, and how it has been catching on in other states. The idea of modern day environmentalism is discussed, whereas the energy industry is leading the movement to save the [...]
Jack Hamlin, Summit Engineering & Energy Strong Colorado, talks about Colorado’s recent shift in oil and gas perception, and how it has been catching on in other states. Prop 112 and SB 181 are discussed in detail, from the history to the current state of energy in Colorado. The idea [...]
Luke Geiver, BBI International, gives the run down of the 2019 Bakken Conference in Bismarck, ND. From speakers to topics to sponsors. Geiver also shares their transition from a Bakken centric content focus to Shale Play USA. Geiver talks about other energies and the work their content company has done [...]
Live music performance from Emma Wood, Lucille Black, Moody River Band, Ciro and Topher, Brooks West, Saving Reign and Pat Lenertz.
Part two with H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute. Burnett opines about the “cult of environmentalism” and how it has risen to new heights. He folds in the The Green New Deal as part of politics and environment. Ram Laster, Cody, WY, gives a recipe on BBQ ribs. Shane [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute, gives an overview of the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule and how it impacts coal and natural gas. Innovation, clean energy and the history of wind and solar subsidies are discussed as well. Burnett opines about the “cult of environmentalism” and how it [...]
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, speaks on behalf of the McKenzie County Job Development Authority for this interview. Brown, who is the president of the advisory board, explains how the JDA assists the oil and gas industry as well as Watford City. The Essence of Capitalism and Preservation of Community is discussed [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Marvin Nash and Seth Frentheway, Encore Green Environmental, discuss the transition from agriculture innovation to the oil and gas industry. Nash explains how understanding the land, soil and water translates very well to the energy industry from agriculture. Produced water, reused water and reimagining water were discussed in detail throughout [...]
Jack Hamlin, Summit Engineering & Energy Strong Colorado, talks about Colorado’s recent shift in oil and gas perception, and how it has been catching on in other states. Prop 112 and SB 181 are discussed in detail, from the history to the current state of energy in Colorado. The idea [...]
Michael Clancy, EcoPoint, Inc., gives an overview of EcoPoint, Inc. and their services. Topics involving reclamation, regulations and discoveries are integrated in with the company’s background. Clancy also opines on the environment and how the energy companies are part of the solution rather than the problem. The Essence of Capitalism [...]
Luke Geiver, BBI International, gives the run down of the 2019 Bakken Conference in Bismarck, ND. From speakers to topics to sponsors. Geiver also shares their transition from a Bakken centric content focus to Shale Play USA. Geiver talks about other energies and the work their content company has done [...]
Jen Decker Wright, Resolute Recruiting USA, gives the details for an energy social mixer in Denver at Live at Jack’s, July 22, 2019. Decker Wright also gives her views on life in Colorado under the new oil and gas regulations. She also explains what a “like-minded person” is in Colorado [...]
Logan Edmonson, Tulsa Tube Bending, gives an overview of Tulsa Tube Bending and it’s history. Edmonson also talks about why bends matter and how many Shale Plays TTB are currently in. Tubing customers and the market is also discussed.
Rob Ryan, Roaring Lions Ranch, currently runs the Roaring Lions Ranch, which is a ranch that “raises entrepreneurs.” Rob Ryan is the founder of Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America. Ryan earned national attention when he grew his 1989 start-up company, Ascend Communications, Inc., to more than $500 million in sales [...]
Joel Brown, MineralTracker.com, speaks on behalf of the McKenzie County Job Development Authority for this interview. Brown, who is the president of the advisory board, explains how the JDA assists the oil and gas industry as well as Watford City. The Essence of Capitalism and Preservation of Community is discussed [...]
Chris Tabor, S2W Contracting, gives the details for The Permian Basin Association of Pipeliners (PBAP) and the Permian Basin Gas Processors Association (PBGPA)’s 4th Law Enforcement and First Responders Appreciation Dinner Event to be held on July 9th. Crestwood Midstream and Target Hospitality will be the corporate sponsors for the [...]
Pat Young, owner, Patloc Safety Systems, gives a brief overview of his path from roughneck to inventor to business owner in the Bakken. He also explains how PatLoc Safety Systems survived the downturn and came out with a new product that is catching on in Shale Play USA. Young talks [...]
Joe Dancy, SMU Spindletop Energy Fund Faculty Advisor, Maguire Energy Institute Professor, gives an update on the global oil market and some Summer 2019 trends. Dancy also gives an update on several conferences, EXPOs and conventions involving oil and gas. Dancy said the changes in the Bakken were a hot [...]
Bob Donner, founder, Freedom Manufacturing, gives a history of his company and their current state. “The Essence of Capitalism” is discussed, and how the energy industry seems to continue to foster capitalism at its core. How the industry and downstream industries will look after the Big Crew Change and Retirement [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute, gives an overview of the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule and how it impacts coal and natural gas. Innovation, clean energy and the history of wind and solar subsidies are discussed as well. Burnett opines about the “cult of environmentalism” and how it [...]
4th of July BBQ Special! Leonard, Jesse Johnson, Dennis Jared, Ram Laster, Rusty Padgett, Junior Urias and Guillermo Barreto share secrets, tips and BBQ stories. Junior Urias tells the story of how he became Travel Channel’s BBQ Pitmaster’s Champion.
Pat Young, owner, Patloc Safety Systems, gives a brief overview of his path from roughneck to inventor to business owner in the Bakken. He also explains how PatLoc Safety Systems survived the downturn and came out with a new product that is catching on in Shale Play USA. Young talks [...]
Part two of the interview with Joe Dancy, energy educator and expert, part two as he gives a global energy update for the 2019 Summer. He also recaps several energy conferences and what they discussed, including much on the Bakken oil fields.
Joe Dancy, energy educator and expert, gives a global energy update for the 2019 Summer. He also recaps several energy conferences and what they discussed, including much on the Bakken oil fields.
Friday night singer songwriter spectacular! Bryce Neimiller, Blind Joe, Moody River Band, Ciro & Topher, Blue Wailers, Brooks West, Hailey Rydell, Emma Wood and Woody Pines.
Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist, Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to [...]
Terry Etam, Energy Writer BOE Report and Author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, talks about the issues with renewable energy. Etam, who works and lives in Canada, discusses the pros and cons with solar and wind energy. He suggests that we [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., The Heartland Institute, gives an overview of the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule and how it impacts coal and natural gas. Innovation, clean energy and the history of wind and solar subsidies are discussed as well. Burnett opines about the “cult of environmentalism” and how it [...]
Jen Decker Wright, Resolute Recruiting USA, gives the details for an energy social mixer in Denver at Live at Jack’s, July 22, 2019. Jen Decker Wright, Resolute Recruiting USA, gives the details for an energy social mixer in Denver at Live at Jack’s, July 22, 2019. Decker Wright also gives [...]
Ray Scott, Colorado State Senate District 7, explains some of the issues in Colorado with Prop 112 and SB 181. Scott recently had an article OP/ED piece published in The Federalist regarding CO Governor Jared Polis and his anti-fracking crusade. The rise of the Cult of Environmentalism was discussed in [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken oil fields. He gives an overview of their unprecedented 300% city growth. Stenberg lists new local businesses that have popped up on Main Street, new school being built and a new airport. Josh Swanson, [...]
Vawnita M Best, City of Watford, discusses the 274% growth in Watford City, ND, the heart of the Bakken oil field. Best talks about the area’s housing needs, workforce competition, new businesses, educational services and new medical facilities. The interview also discusses the Prairie Dog Bill, which directs state money [...]
Ray Scott, Colorado State Senate District 7, explains some of the issues in Colorado with Prop 112 and SB 181. Scott recently had an article OP/ED piece published in The Federalist regarding CO Governor Jared Polis and his anti-fracking crusade. The rise of the Cult of Environmentalism was discussed in [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Ashley McNamee, Whiting Petroleum & Lynn Welker, Consultant-McKenzie County Healthcare Systems, [...]
Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to a renewable economy and infrastructure. Scott [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Austin F. Jennings III, Energy Exposition, talks about the upcoming Energy Expo, June 25-27, Gillette, WY. Jennings gives an overview of the speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Drone footage will be recorded this year for future promotions and social media. Jennings also said that Prop 112 in Colorado will be discussed [...]
Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist, talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to a renewable economy and infrastructure. Scott [...]
Terry Etam, Energy Writer BOE Report and Author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, talks about the issues with renewable energy. Etam, who works and lives in Canada, discusses the pros and cons with solar and wind energy. He suggests that we [...]
Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Terry Etam, Energy Writer BOE Report and Author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, talks about the issues with renewable energy. Etam, who works and lives in Canada, discusses the pros and cons with solar and wind energy. He suggests that we [...]
Ray Scott, Colorado State Senate District 7, explains some of the issues in Colorado with Prop 112 and SB 181. Scott recently had an article OP/ED piece published in The Federalist regarding CO Governor Jared Polis and his anti-fracking crusade. The rise of the Cult of Environmentalism was discussed in [...]
Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist, talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to a renewable economy and infrastructure. Scott [...]
Ashley McNamee, Whiting Petroleum & Lynn Welker, Consultant-McKenzie County Healthcare Systems, give details about the $200K donation Whiting made to the McKenzie County Healthcare Systems. The donation will provide resources for the hospital’s labor and birth wing. Watford City has grown over 250% in the past decade and births are [...]
Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Jeff Kummer, MineralTracker.com, discusses their technology tracking mineral rights in the Bakken oil field. He talks about their free mobile App, mineral trackers valuation, audits and asset data services. Kummer also talks about the potential of connecting buyers and sellers of mineral rights due to the organic growth of their [...]
Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, co-founders, Bakken BBQ, give a run down of the 7th Annual Bakken BBQ, June 14, in Dickinson, ND. This year’s Bakken BBQ is expected to draws thousands as they continue to raise money for Make A Wish ND through pulled pork, ribs and chicken! The [...]
Keith Baudin, Oil & Gas Drilling Consultant, gives an update on the Haynesville and Austin Chalk shale plays. Baudin also updates the energy infrastructure and construction in the Lake Charles area as well as the new refineries. He also opined on how politics are causing issues with energy development. The [...]
Geoff Simon, Western Dakota Energy Association, talks about the recent regulation in the state of Washington impacting the transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil fields. Simon also gives a recap of The 2019 Annual Business Meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and some of the [...]
Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Dr. Robert Nielsen, Nielsen Counseling Services, talks about why he chooses to only have a handful of clients, while focusing more on the non-work related parts of life. He also discusses what it is like to be working in retirement. Although technically retired, Nielsen still works a couple of jobs [...]
Joseph Triepke, Oilfield Water Connection, talks about the Oilfield Water Connection Conference in Houston, TX. Water is discussed in detail – from investments, land owners, surface rights, infrastructure and production. Recycling water technologies are discussed in detail as more companies are seeing results for a variety of reasons. Kimberly Wurtz, [...]
Ray Scott, Colorado State Senate District 7, explains some of the issues in Colorado with Prop 112 and SB 181. Scott recently had an article OP/ED piece published in The Federalist regarding CO Governor Jared Polis and his anti-fracking crusade. The rise of the Cult of Environmentalism was discussed in [...]
Terry Etam, Energy Writer BOE Report and Author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, talks about the issues with renewable energy. Etam, who works and lives in Canada, discusses the pros and cons with solar and wind energy. He suggests that we [...]
Dr. Loren C. Scott, energy expert and economist, talks about solar, wind and natural gas as it pertains to the economy, politics and consumerism. Scott explains the pros and cons with renewables and how it compares to other countries who have devoted resources to a renewable economy and infrastructure. Scott [...]
Ashley McNamee, Whiting Petroleum & Lynn Welker, Consultant-McKenzie County Healthcare Systems give details about the $200K donation Whiting made to the McKenzie County Healthcare Systems. The donation will provide resources for the hospital’s labor and birth wing. Watford City has grown over 250% in the past decade and births are [...]
Austin F. Jennings III, Energy Exposition, talks about the upcoming Energy Expo, June 25-27, Gillette, WY. Jennings gives an overview of the speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. The interview also discussed the “essence of capitalism” preserved in the oil and gas industry as well as community development. Environmentalism, industry promotion and [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Rusty Padgett, Shawcor, shares some tips on how to cook pork butts at the Bakken BBQ, an oil and gas community fundraiser for Make A Wish. Padgett also talks a little BBQ Bravado and about doing business in oil and gas in many [...]
Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Austin F. Jennings III, Energy Exposition, talks about the upcoming Energy Expo, June 25-27, Gillette, WY. Jennings gives an overview of the speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Drone footage will be recorded this year for future promotions and social media. Jennings also said that Prop 112 in Colorado will be discussed [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, co-founders, Bakken BBQ, give a run down of the 7th Annual Bakken BBQ, June 14, in Dickinson, ND. This year’s Bakken BBQ is expected to draws thousands as they continue to raise money for Make A Wish ND [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Jeff Kummer, MineralTracker.com, discusses their technology tracking mineral rights in the Bakken oil field. He talks about their free mobile App, mineral trackers valuation, audits and asset data services. Kummer also talks about the potential of connecting buyers and sellers of mineral rights [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Vawnita M Best, City of Watford, discusses the 274% growth in Watford City, ND, the heart of the Bakken oil field. Best talks about the area’s housing needs, workforce competition, new businesses, educational services and new medical facilities. The interview also discusses the [...]
Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, co-founders, Bakken BBQ, give a run down of the 7th Annual Bakken BBQ, June 14, in Dickinson, ND. This year’s Bakken BBQ is expected to draws thousands as they continue to raise money for Make A Wish ND through pulled pork, ribs and chicken! The [...]
Joseph Triepke, Oilfield Water Connection, talks about the Oilfield Water Connection Conference in Houston, TX. Water is discussed in detail – from investments, land owners, surface rights, infrastructure and production. Recycling water technologies are discussed in detail as more companies are seeing results for a variety of reasons.
Austin F. Jennings III, Energy Exposition, talks about the upcoming Energy Expo, June 25-27, Gillette, WY. Jennings gives an overview of the speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Drone footage will be recorded this year for future promotions and social media. Jennings also said that Prop 112 in Colorado will be discussed [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, Bakken BBQ, give an update on [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, Bakken BBQ, give an update on [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Tiffany Steiner & Jackie Jenkin, Bakken BBQ, give an update on [...]
Weekly Davis Refinery Update William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Geoff Simon, Western Dakota Energy Association, discusses the importance of water [...]
Vawnita M Best, City of Watford, discusses the 274% growth in Watford City, ND, the heart of the Bakken oil field. Best talks about the area’s housing needs, workforce competition, new businesses, educational services and new medical facilities. Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, talks about their products which are 100% biodegradable [...]
Austin F. Jennings III, Energy Exposition, talks about the upcoming Energy Expo, June 25-27, Gillette, WY. Jennings gives an overview of the speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Jennings III talks about the drone footage that will be recorded this year for future promotions and social media. Jennings also said that Prop [...]
Kimberly Wurtz, Ball Morse Lowe, PLLC, discusses some of the current water issues in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico shale plays. Water is the new frac sand! Wurtz dives into water rights’ and selling to oil and gas companies. In addition to government water services encroaching in several states. Joe [...]
Daniel Stenberg, McKenzie County Job Development Authority, gives an update from the heart of the Bakken oil fields. He gives an overview of their unprecedented 300% city growth. Stenberg lists new local businesses that have popped up on Main Street, new school being built and a new airport. Josh Swanson, [...]
Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Mark Bullock, BMA Biotech, talks about their products which are 100% biodegradable within 75-days and reduce risks to health, safety, and the environment. In addition, they are all non-toxic and non-flammable, and are engineered to be diluted with water, prior to use. He also discusses Flow Assurance and Pipeline Remediation [...]
Kimberly Wurtz, Ball Morse Lowe, PLLC, discusses some of the current water issues in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico shale plays. Water is the new frac sand! Wurtz, recently spoke at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission about oil and water issues recaps her presentation. The interview also dives [...]
Vawnita M Best, City of Watford, discusses the 274% growth in Watford City, ND, the heart of the Bakken oil field. Best talks about the area’s housing needs, workforce competition, new businesses, educational services and new medical facilities. The interview also discusses the Prairie Dog Bill, which directs state money [...]
Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, fleshes out some possibilities of subsidizing Natural Gas. Not because it is necessarily needed, but because it is an achievable goal and solution that could sprout new innovation.
Jeff Kummer, MineralTracker.com, discusses their technology tracking mineral rights in the Bakken oil field. He talks about their free mobile App, mineral trackers valuation, audits and asset data services. Kummer gives an update on their parent company, Krown Energy Group. Kummer also talks about the potential of connecting buyers and [...]
Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, gives an update from the Interstate Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Oklahoma City, OK. Drones, UAS, pipelines, iPipe technology, Big Data, the Bakken and Permian were discussed in detail.
Geoff Simon, Western Dakota Energy Association, talks about the recent regulation in the state of Washington impacting the transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil fields. Simon also gives a recap of The 2019 Annual Business Meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and some of the [...]
Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
Kimberly Wurtz, Ball Morse Lowe, PLLC, discusses some of the current water issues in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico shale plays. Water is the new frac sand! Wurtz, recently spoke at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission about oil and water issues recaps her presentation. The interview also dives [...]
Joe Dancy, energy expert and educator, gives an update from the Interstate Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in Oklahoma City, OK. Drones, UAS, pipelines, iPipe technology, Big Data, the Bakken and Permian were discussed in detail. The interview went into pontification land as host Jason Spiess and Dancy fleshed out [...]
Geoff Simon, Western Dakota Energy Association, talks about the recent regulation in the state of Washington impacting the transportation of crude oil from the Bakken oil fields. Simon also gives a recap of The 2019 Annual Business Meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and some of the [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. According to Prentice, the Bakken has “probably the greatest crude oil to refine on the [...]
Tye Juarez, ThePetroDex.com, tells the story of his history working rigs and wells in the oil and gas industry until the downturn came. During the downturn Juarez reinvented his skills and returned to the oil and gas industry as a service company. Juarez also comments on the retiring of the [...]
Professional musician Shannon Curfman talks about being scouted at age 12 by the music industry and how she was signed by Clive Davis at age 13. Once labeled as a “blues” singer songwriter, Curfman shares her views of the ever-changing music industry – from venues to social media to royalty [...]
Joe Dancy, Energy Law and Economics, Oil, Gas, Natural Resources, and The University of Oklahoma College of Law Energy Center and visiting professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas talks about using natural gas capturing to mine bitcoins. He also discusses some current issues with wind and solar energy. The [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Friday May 3, 2019 Friday Night Singer Songwriter Spectacular! Blind Joe, Blue Wailers, Flatlands, Bump, Ciro and Topher, Tom Peckskamp, Pat Lenertz, Saving Reign, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Lucielle Black and Moody River Band.
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Thursday May 2, 2019 Brent Bogar, Jadestone Consulting, shares the results of a North Dakota oil and gas tax revenue study. The purpose of the study was to review the oil and gas extraction and gross production tax collections by the state of [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Wednesday May 1, 2019 Josh Swanson, Vogel Law Firm and the NDSU Bison Illustrated Podcast, talks about the 2019 NFL Draft and several of the players drafted including Easton Stick, NDSU and Marcus Epps, Wyoming. Swanson and host Jason Spiess sidebar into an [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Tuesday April 30, 2019 Destenie McMillen, senior landman, Northern Colorado Legal Support, talks about the new oil and gas regulations in Colorado which are having major impacts. McMillen, third-generation oil, talks about the early industry hits and how it is already bleeding into [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Monday April 29, 2019 Terry Etam, Energy Writer & Author, talks about the rise of environmentalism in the oil and gas industry. The narrative has gotten so extreme that two presidential candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, are saying they will ban drilling [...]
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Friday April 26, 2019 Friday Night Music Showcawse – Blind Joe, Brooks West, Haley Rydell, Patrick Thiel, Ace Young, Woody Pines and Lucielle Black.
MultiMedia Cafe Special Guest and Topics Menu Thursday April 25, 2019 Tye Juarez, ThePetroDex.com, tells the story of his history working rigs and wells in the oil and gas industry until the downturn came. During the downturn Juarez reinvented his skills and returned to the oil and gas industry as [...]
William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group, gives an update on the Davis Refinery, being constructed in the Bakken oil fields. The location of the refinery, near Belfield, is close to major transportation and distribution arteries. Destenie McMillen, senior landman, Northern Colorado Legal Support, talks about the new oil and gas [...]