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Avoiding Devaluation and Improving Economics in Oil and Gas Production
Justin McBroom, a petroleum engineer, recalls a boss saying only geologists add value and the rest of the job is to avoid devaluing it.
Show Notes
Notes and write-ups from Local Energy episodes.
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Why NO RISK is the Most Dangerous Phrase in Well Control
Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk with Krystina Amos, a well control instructor, about managing well pressures to prevent blowouts and how subsea well control differs.
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Killing Gatekeepers with Kindness: The Energy of Juan Macias
Juan Macias of Wagner Energy Services and Macias Industries tells Peter and Wade how he started as a wireline operator at Baker Hughes in 2014.
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How to Stall 86 Times and Still Find Oil
Peter and Wade talk with Steven Startz of Bionic Directional Drilling about his 25 years in the industry and his path to directional drilling.
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Off by 2,38,000 Pounds!!! What Weight on Bit Actually Means
Wade describes using Claude Sonnet 4.5 to rebuild a mud report analysis he first made with Power Automate and GPT.
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The Real Reason We Will NEVER Run Out of Oil
Chad Koury, a petroleum geologist with about 15 years in the oil and gas industry, explains that geosteering remains a big money maker for his business.
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How a 1968 Well Became Wireline Training Grounds
Peter and Wade talk with Russell Smith of Top Gun Oil Field Training, a former farmer who learned wireline at Halliburton.
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Why California Just Reversed Course on Oil (And How Petcoke is Changing the Game)
Peter and Wade discuss California Senate Bills 237 and 767, which would open Kern to drilling permits and have the energy commissioner monitor crude pipeline deliveries to prevent refinery disruptions.
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Why 3,000 Pounds of Sand is INSANE
Wade explains washouts, where formations drilled with water-based mud wash out to holes far wider than the bit, and why open hole sidetracks go to the low side.
