Podcast

Off by 238,000 Pounds: What Weight on Bit Actually Means

When Peter looked at drilling rig specs showing a 1 million pound hook capacity, he made an educated guess about weight on bit: 250,000 pounds.

Interviews

The Real Reason We'll NEVER Run Out of Oil

Chad Koury is a brilliant mind in the oil and gas industry. With each new listen, there's something new to pull out of this conversation; Chad has great stories and ideas that you can apply to your personal life and career.

Interviews

How a 1968 Well Became Wireline Training Grounds

How a Texas farmer built a wireline training company from a forgotten well, bringing people from all over the world to learn the art of oil and gas wireline.

Podcast Featured

Why California Just Reversed Course on Oil (And How Petcoke is Changing the Game)

California will hopefully pass SB 237 and 767 passed into law soon, and petcoke is starting to pop up on our social media feeds now.

Podcast

Why 3,000 Pounds of Sand is INSANE

Why sand and propant matters and Exxon's new petcoke product, and the difference between the Greek letter "Pi" and "Phi"

Articles

Wireline Insights from an Oklahoma Independent

Modern engineers can't interpret historical wireline logs despite needing that data to find the next hole... and other old-timer thoughts.

Podcast

How To Track Oil Prices Using Ford Raptors

Why the Ford Raptor index is critical for determining how things are really going in the oil field, and why layoffs are cyclical.

Podcast

Drilling Rigs and Surfboards Are Basically the Same Thing

Discover why drilling rigs and surfboards share surprising similarities in this week's oil & gas chat with Peter Brecht and Wade Spear

Podcast

Swag, Drill Bits, and Bad Abbrevs

Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk about Underdog Wire and Pipewhisperer swag, oil and gas drill bits, and bad abbreviations.

Articles

All About Drill Bits

Complete guide to oil & gas drill bits: PDC, roller cone, hybrid Kymera™ technology. Selection strategies, economics & operational impact.

Articles

How AI Drones Could Replace Oil Field Pumpers

Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk with Unmanned Operator, an edge AI drone company solving pumper problems on the oilfield.

Podcast

Stuck Pipe Recovery: Free Point Tools, String Shots & Jarring Explained

Stuck Pipe Recovery: Free Point Tools, String Shots & Jarring Explained

Podcast

OKC, 700 Fracks, and Interstellar

Peter visits Wade in Oklahoma City for The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma engineers meet up. We talk fracking numbers, fishbone wells, and nitrogen.

Podcast

Does AI predict production better than engineers?

Peter and Wade talk about ChatGPT analyzing LAS files, king snakes, and attorneys.

Articles Featured

Flowback vs. Well Testing

We learned a lot about flowback vs well testing from our fans, and we got a lot of stuff wrong.

Podcast

Why BHA Run Numbers Matter

Expand Energy has a record-breaking longest lateral.

Podcast

Coolers, $15k, Bees

Happy Birthday, America! We talk about Blender, drilling 101, and MPD.

Interviews

Red Dirt Results: Growth Through Reliability

Scott Gilliland is an incredible human, working the oil and gas fields in Oklahoma.

Articles

Never Do That Again

On August 7, 2023, with tripping operations underway, a member of the drill crew was caught between a moving hydratong and a pipe stump in the rotary. Thankfully, the floorhand sustained only minor injuries.