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Skip College and Make $250k: The Ultimate Trade Career
Peter Brecht talks with Ben Ellis, president and CEO of Nimble Crane, who started as a custom home builder in Vermont and now runs about 37 cranes with over 100 employees.
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Subsurface Detective: 40 Years of Reservoir Engineering Secrets with Jim Clark
Jim Clark, a Houston-based petroleum engineer with more than 40 years of experience, describes a reservoir engineer as a subsurface detective who infers what lies underground from limited data such as a core sample.
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What Well Logs Miss About Shale Reservoirs: Petrophysics and the Next Oilfield Breakthrough
Peter talks with Galen Dillewyn, vice president of business development at New Tech, who started as a wireline engineer after studying chemical engineering.
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From Refinery Floor to Fuels Compliance: A 30 Year Oil & Gas Career with Brian Davis
Peter and Wade talk with Brian Davis, whose refining career has moved from operations and instrumentation through turnarounds and yield accounting to fuels compliance.
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The Pipe Whisperer: How a 30-Year Wireline Veteran Became the Oil Field's Best-Kept Secret
John Baez, the Pipe Whisperer, credits what he has done over 30 years to a mentor he worked for about 13 and a half years.
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How an A&M Walk On Became a US Olympian (And a Permian Basin Production Engineer)
Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk with Boone Niederhofer, a Midland production engineer at SM Energy who competed in bobsled at the Olympics.
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Australian Oil & Gas, LNG and Royalties: How One Executive Built a Career in Houston
Peter and guest co-host Maceo Brown talk with Sean Hanrahan, a former minerals and oil and gas executive from Australia who runs Platypus Brewing in Houston.
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Inside the Cushing Hub Moving 100 Million Barrels with Corey Brown
Peter talks with Corey Brown, an electrician at the Cushing tank farms in Oklahoma, which cover about six square miles and hold roughly 100 million barrels.
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Unleashing California: How Mike Umbro Is Turning Depleted Oil Fields Into the Grid's Biggest Battery
Peter and Wade talk with Mike Umbro, founder and CEO of Californians for Energy and Science, about activity in Kern County and why he calls CEQA the number one challenge for California operators.
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Offshore Control Systems and Platform Safety with Joey Johnston
Joey Johnston, a control systems engineer working offshore for Industrial Design Solutions after three years at Emerson, explains how an offshore project led him to fall in love with platform life.
