Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To

AI can write your resume, your LinkedIn post, and your birthday flyer, but should it? Shiva Swaminathan, an AI product management leader doing fractional work across mining, edtech, and robotics, joins Jacob to make the case for keeping your brain switched on. They talk Uber drivers lost without their app, 100 identical resumes, CDs in the car, and why Shiva writes his own song lyrics and comic strips before letting AI touch a thing. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Meet Shiva 05:11 What AI shouldn't do 07:13 What we risk losing 09:11 The Uber driver story 11:13 Going old school 13:11 Resumes in the AI era 16:02 Using AI with intention 19:49 When to trust AI 23:42 Slides and visuals 25:36 Songwriting with AI 27:49 Comic strips 33:06 Stay curious 33:50 The Canva paradox 39:13 Industry-specific AI 41:52 Most promising industries 44:10 Kids and AI access 47:01 Houston https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Maps quietly run the entire oil and gas world, you just never noticed. This one breaks down GIS without the jargon, from Google Earth doodles to the software that decides exactly where to drill. Richard Webb and Zach Harlan of Exprodat explain how mapping tech places wells, dodges the neighbor's boundary, and powers everything from Zillow to the military. Plus drilling on Mars, conspiracy toll roads, and why there are no dumb questions when the whole planet is your dataset. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 What URTeC is and why mapping matters 03:40 Life as a map and rock guy 06:42 What GIS means and the old guesswork days 08:40 The pro software behind the maps 10:29 Who uses these tools and how they learn 14:40 Placing wells and the horizontal revolution 19:11 Customizing every answer for the customer 24:19 Data overload and the days before GIS 29:45 Famous drilling mistakes and how basins differ 34:20 Finding things in an ocean of blue 38:26 AI, Collide, and toll road conspiracies 42:44 GIS everywhere, from the military to Starbucks 44:53 Mapping the sky and outer space 48:21 Breaking into GIS and drilling on Mars https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Those giant pyramids of sand at every frac site exist for one reason, and it turns out the industry might be quietly running short on the good stuff. Curtis Wilie and Josh Johnson of Superior Energy Services break down how a coal byproduct called fly ash is shaking up the proppant game, why something three times finer than sand outperforms it, and how pulling forgotten barrels from legacy wells could matter more than drilling new ones. Plenty of analogies, zero shame about the dumb questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Why there's sand everywhere on a frac site 01:00 How hydraulic fracturing actually works 04:00 River frac in the 1930s and the search for the right proppant 06:00 The sand economy and a looming supply squeeze 09:00 Where sand comes from and the Permian conveyor belt 16:00 Meet EcoReach: fly ash instead of sand 19:00 Lighter, stronger, finer, and how it travels farther 21:00 Unlocking micro fractures and trillions of trapped barrels 25:00 Sourcing ash from coal plants worldwide 29:00 Walnut shells, steel balls, and other proppant experiments 30:00 Skipping the blender and pumping at six barrels a minute 33:00 Flowing like water and getting 90 percent of fluid back 35:00 The floor jack analogy for frac initiation 37:00 The godfather story and balancing the proppant triangle 43:00 Who's adopting it and the case for refracs https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Methane is invisible, odorless, and far more potent than CO2 in the short term, so how do you actually catch it leaking? Brendan Smith, CEO of SeekOps Inc., explains how technology built for the Mars Curiosity rover ended up flying on drones over oil and gas sites here on Earth. We get into spectrometers versus satellites, why offshore detection is so tricky, what EU methane rules mean for US operators in 2027, and how SeekOps turns an invisible gas into something you can finally see. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Setup and the Power Hour combo 02:24 Crossing paths back in 2019 04:14 From PhD dropout to CEO 05:24 JPL, the first patent, and Mars rover tech 12:34 How a drone measures a methane plume 13:49 Ground, drones, planes, and satellites 19:00 Spinning out of JPL and the Equinor bet 24:55 What methane is and why it matters 29:01 Net zero and EU methane regulation 32:00 LNG, coal, and offshore detection 42:10 Lidar, photogrammetry, and 3D models 45:36 What's overhyped and the road ahead 49:24 Why Austin, and the Houston debate 53:16 Wrap up https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Getting laid off twice taught Yogashri Pradhan, founder of IronLady Energy Advisors, that staying visible matters as much as staying technical. She traces a career running from UT petroleum engineering to Devon, Endeavor, Coterra and Chevron, the downturns that reshaped it, and why she got married in front of a pump jack. There is also honest talk on the Diamondback merger, the wildcatters she looks up to, where AI fits in the field, life in Midland, and her new book Fueling Impact. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro from Midland 0:46 The full career timeline 6:42 Studying petroleum at UT 8:00 University Lands explained 11:30 Devon and the Ivory Tower 14:38 What a downturn really means 20:00 Raising money in oil and gas 22:30 The Endeavor and Diamondback merger 24:35 Meeting Autry Stevens 26:12 Wildcatters worth knowing 27:33 Devon and Coterra coming together 30:41 Inside Chevron 34:24 Advice for picking the right company 36:11 Going back for a master's and MBA 39:00 Starting IronLady Energy Advisors 43:16 Her connection to Wyoming 45:52 Why she stays in Midland 50:01 Working with OpsAI 51:06 Where AI fits in energy 54:34 Collide and the energy community 56:19 The book Fueling Impact 1:01:50 Sushi night with Chuck https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Micro turbines hitting 83% efficiency could replace flares and turn stranded wells into tiny neighborhood power plants. Mark Ronkin of Grid Energy Solutions came down from Edmonton to talk with Jacob and guest host Britt Breaux about jumping from five years in the Canadian Army to wireline to running his own MWD shop, then stumbling into the tech at a gas show in Milan. Plus getting sick next to a flare, the oilfield marketing problem in eastern Canada, and why a 9 to 5 and entrepreneurship can coexist. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro and the FDE model at Collide 5:46 Mark's path through the Canadian Army 9:25 Oil and gas as a polarizing industry across Canada 13:19 Louisiana refineries, Cancer Alley, and Alberta boomtowns 19:08 Living downstream of a flare 21:18 Military to wireline to MWD 25:09 Going independent and the entrepreneurship bug 28:14 Peak oil and modern directional drilling 32:44 Turning your day job into your business 36:54 Career advice and finding the Collide community 43:14 Imposter syndrome and the entrepreneur grind 45:59 Stumbling into micro turbines at Gastech Milan 52:46 Commercializing the tech in Canada 1:00:02 Replacing flares with neighborhood power plants 1:01:29 What the next 5 to 10 years look like 1:06:18 Grid Energy Solutions and what's next https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Building software inside a frac and wireline giant is a different beast than doing it at a startup. Ben Dickinson and Raleigh Bumpers from NexTier Completion Solutions get into life under the Patterson UTI umbrella, the EOS platform, the Vertex automated pump control system, the shift from diesel to natural gas powered fleets, agentic AI in the field, and why the world genuinely stops if oil and gas stops. Plus Pittsburgh shale stories and a Colorado School of Mines reality check. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 The NexTier 60-second pitch 2:00 Why integrating every service on location wins 4:30 Ben's path from Pittsburgh to wireline to digital 11:15 Raleigh's jump from computer science to the Eagle Ford 17:00 If oil and gas stops, the world stops 19:30 Pittsburgh, the shale boom, and incoming data centers 21:30 Completions 101 23:30 The EOS platform and Vertex automated pump control 27:00 Earning trust from veteran hands on new software 32:00 Generative AI versus agentic AI in the field 34:00 Diesel, natural gas, and electric frac fleets 41:30 Colorado School of Mines and the next generation 44:00 The road to a fully autonomous well site 46:30 The 80 percent AI failure rule debate https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Dan Grech, Founder and CEO of Global OTEC, swung by from London to break down ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology that turns the ocean's heat into 24/7 baseload power. Jacob asks the dumb questions about warm surface water meeting cold deep water, why Jimmy Carter is the unsung hero of ocean energy, how OTEC stacks up against offshore wind and Peter Thiel's new wave bet, and why Hawaii and the Caribbean might lead the way. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Welcome Dan, tacos, and OTC week in Houston 01:20 From luxury fashion to ocean energy 08:45 What OTEC actually is 12:15 Coastal versus offshore deployments 16:00 From Jules Verne to Jimmy Carter 19:20 Why ocean energy isn't sexy yet 21:00 Peter Thiel's wave energy bet 26:15 Offshore wind, solar, and dumb questions 33:00 DeepStar and working with the majors 35:54 Reinvented submarines and crossover tech 37:00 Energy mix futures and Hawaii pilots 40:25 Collaborators, no enemies 42:20 Five-year ocean prediction https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Three decades of front-row energy seats and takes you genuinely can't argue with. Mark Meyer gets into the Strait of Hormuz mess, Heathrow's jet fuel shortage, countries sitting on hydrocarbons while importing them, the IEA's net zero detour, BP's expensive U-turn, and why 2 billion people still cooking over dung deserves more airtime than another COP summit. Astros predictions and a Joe Rogan tangent included. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro 3:21 Strait of Hormuz and energy attention spans 6:23 Heathrow's jet fuel crisis 8:06 Land Man tour through a barrel of oil 9:55 New England's oil-fired electricity paradox 14:07 Countries sitting on hydrocarbons while importing them 21:39 Gas prices and the political blame game 25:12 California, the Jones Act, and US shipbuilding decline 28:46 ASU hackathon and hope for the next generation 35:22 Chris Wright as energy secretary 37:49 Advice to 2016 Jacob about the climate narrative 46:28 OPEC, IEA, and the agencies shaping the conversation 51:34 The IEA's Net Zero by 2050 detour and BP's pivot 1:00:38 EPA rescinds the 2009 endangerment finding 1:03:33 Wood pellet accounting and the China India reality 1:08:20 The global South and the moral case for hydrocarbons 1:14:38 Mark's daily media diet 1:17:23 Price gouging vs Big Tech margins 1:21:39 Joe Rogan, cable news fatigue, and Peggy Noonan 1:29:01 Astros baseball predictions 1:36:22 Wrap up https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Andrew Richard, CEO and Co-Founder of Automated Rig Technologies, flies in from Calgary to break down why the oilfield spent 70 years optimizing brute force instead of rethinking the process. He gets into the jointed pipe injector that strips 97% of operator input out, what rig hands call the "barbecue basket," why everyone in oil and gas wants to be first to be second, and the IKEA chatbot that accidentally solved the automation jobs debate. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Calgary, metaverse throwbacks, and meet Andrew 02:20 - What Automated Rig Technologies actually does 05:50 - Starting in the basement in 2009 07:44 - The jointed pipe injector breakdown 09:13 - Red zone risk and the barbecue basket 17:05 - From Energy Tech Night pitch to the Bakken trial 20:22 - How 15 people get in front of major operators 24:14 - Marketing, trust, and selling the sizzle 30:30 - The automation jobs debate, ATMs and IKEA 36:03 - The dangerous jobs that shouldn't exist 38:11 - Change management and first to be second 42:15 - Bad data is a platform problem 44:59 - What's next with AI and data https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Chlorine is in your pipes, your microchips, your drinking water and somehow nobody talks about it. Roxanna Delima, Co-founder and CBO at Rushnu, breaks down why this overlooked chemical is critical to US manufacturing and how her team is flipping the script on a 100 year old industry by using heat instead of electricity and turning waste carbon into actual product. No government subsidy dependence, no gigaton fantasies, just hard tech with a real business model. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro and background on Roxanna 2:05 What is Rushnu and the chlorine industry 4:22 The product and why chlorine matters 6:36 How traditional chlor alkali works and its problems 8:01 Rushnu's thermochemical approach 9:30 How costs are cut by 60% 11:32 Pilot site at Silicon Valley Clean Water 14:06 Texas connections and TotalEnergies partnership 15:58 Carbon capture without the gigaton hype 19:26 Why VC funding models are broken for hard tech 21:09 Carbon capture as a polarizing topic 24:50 Building a profitable business from the start 27:17 Startup advantages over big industry 29:01 Inside the Chlorine Institute conference 31:08 Chlorine safety and the Ohio train derailment 32:10 Energy transition and realism 34:31 The 60 second chlorine elevator pitch 36:13 AI in the chlorine industry 36:45 What the future looks like for Rushnu https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

David Holt, President of Consumer Energy Alliance, sits down to unpack 20 years of fighting for affordable, reliable energy for regular Americans. From NIMBYism and lazy politics to the data center power surge, nuclear's comeback, carbon capture, and why the price of eggs is actually an energy story, this one covers a lot of ground and makes it all make sense. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - What is Consumer Energy Alliance 01:12 - Energy affordability and who it hits hardest 03:14 - Politics, NGOs, and policy by soundbite 05:34 - You can have clean energy and oil and gas 08:31 - New England's self-inflicted energy crisis 10:04 - Term-limited politicians and long-term problems 12:19 - Gas prices and what consumers actually misunderstand 14:41 - US energy self-sufficiency and geopolitical insulation 16:42 - Reshoring, AI, and the new energy demand reality 18:48 - Breaking down the Biden energy policy 23:41 - Infrastructure deficits and the permitting war 26:42 - How data centers should pay for their power 29:51 - Inside data centers and why they use so much energy 33:35 - Nuclear is back and it's actually cool 37:27 - Texas, nuclear, and energy diversity 41:10 - Carbon capture and community education 44:28 - The next 10 to 15 years of energy change 47:28 - What every American should know about energy 49:29 - Energy Day festival in Houston https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Shawn Cutter, Founder & CEO of EnergiAcres, went from sixth-generation Ohio farmer to Discovery Channel reality TV star to selling his oil and gas software startup to Quorum before Series A. Now he's building circular energy infrastructure that pairs power plants with data centers and greenhouses to make energy count twice. We get into the grid crisis, the cloud vs on-prem debate, and whether data centers will ever make it to space. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro and guest background 01:24 - Sixth-generation farmer and family oil and gas roots 02:39 - The Discovery Channel reality TV show 07:44 - Building an oil and gas software startup 10:45 - Getting acquired by Quorum before Series A 15:39 - Life inside a big company post-acquisition 19:15 - Mistakes, pivots, and finding his way back 21:49 - What EnergiAcres actually does 24:07 - The data center power crisis. 28:20 - Energy mix and fixing the grid 31:13 - How data centers evolved and why power demand exploded 36:27 - Cloud vs on-prem and the cost reality 39:28 - Water usage and cooling problems 41:54 - EnergiAcres' greenhouse and circular energy model 45:23 - SMRs, space data centers, and what comes next https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

The Beetaloo Basin in Australia's Northern Territory is one of the most exciting shale plays nobody is talking about yet. Jason Finlay and Aiden Anderson-Barr from Vantage North Group, both former NT government officials, break down why Australia had a fracking moratorium, how a left-leaning government lifted it, what the East Coast energy crisis actually looks like, and why US technology is the key to unlocking it all. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Intro and the Beetaloo Basin 8:30 - Australia's energy landscape and LNG exports 10:00 - East Coast energy security crisis 22:00 - The fracking moratorium and how it got lifted 35:00 - Traditional owners and community engagement 45:00 - US technology and gas recovery 59:00 - Vantage North Group and bridging the US-Australia gap https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Offshore driller Justin Forrest of Valaris Limited joins Jacob and Mark Meyer to break down what it actually means to sit in the driller's chair on a seventh-gen drillship, why managed pressure drilling is the offshore equivalent of horizontal drilling, what 28 days on a rig really looks like, and how Justin has been quietly documenting the hidden world of offshore drilling one black and white photo at a time. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Introductions and offshore backgrounds 04:00 - Justin's career path: Navy to drillships 06:00 - What is managed pressure drilling? 09:00 - Drilling in Australia: culture, regulations, and water depths 15:00 - The modern driller's role and rig floor automation 23:00 - Life on a drillship: schedules, food, and losing the social scene to Starlink 30:00 - BOP testing and the regulatory landscape 37:00 - Real-time data and remote monitoring 39:00 - Offshore market outlook 42:00 - Close calls and scary rig stories 44:00 - Justin's offshore photography hobby https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Pressure testing, cold calls from Wendy's parking lots, and a family logo that goes back generations. Clint Wagner, Owner of Wagner Energy Services, Juan Macias Jr, Operations and Business Development Manager at Wagner Energy Services, and Peter Brecht, Commercial Insurance Broker at Falcon West Energy Insurance Solutions pull up to the NAPE edition of Energy 101 to talk about what hydrostatic testing actually looks like in the field, how TikTok comments turned into real business relationships, getting kids excited about energy careers in Ohio schools, and why the oilfield might be the most accepting industry out there for anyone willing to put in the work. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Intro and welcome from NAPE 0:37 Wagner Energy Services and what pressure testing actually is 4:27 Peter Brecht and the Local Energy Podcast origin story 7:04 How TikTok and LinkedIn built real oilfield connections 13:38 The Wagner logo and its multigenerational family history 17:34 Starting a business from your garage at 4am 18:42 Being dads in the oilfield 22:30 The famous crystal gauge photo and how art led to a job 25:06 Social media culture in oil and gas 31:26 Platform personalities from LinkedIn to X to TikTok 35:41 Ohio Natural Energy Institute and getting kids into energy careers 40:04 Why the oilfield is open to everyone 46:14 Northeast vs Texas vs California energy talk 52:15 Shout out to Macias Industries 52:59 The surfer and rig photo story https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai

Sean Hanrahan, Founder and Managing Partner of Platypus Brewing in Houston, spent 25 years in global minerals and oil and gas before trading the corporate world for a brewmaster apron. From offshore exploration in Australia and the Gulf of Mexico to opening a craft brewery in the First Ward, Sean breaks down what those two worlds actually have in common. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Sean Hanrahan intro and background 1:35 - Global oil and gas career and Australian energy landscape 5:14 - Australia vs US infrastructure and energy markets 13:11 - Texas and Australia culture comparisons 20:36 - How Sean ended up in Houston and started Platypus Brewing 25:11 - Australian Day in Houston and Chamber of Commerce 28:20 - Career lessons and building relationships 35:20 - Craft beer industry trends and where it's headed 43:06 - Platypus Brewing operations and distribution strategy 52:52 - AI in brewing and closing thoughts https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters

Prabhdeep Sekhon, CEO of Eclipse Energy, breaks down the hydrogen rainbow and why it doesn't tell the whole story about cost, carbon intensity, and water use. From farm boy in Canada to petroleum engineer in the Bakken to clean tech founder, Prab explains how his team is using microbes to eat leftover oil in abandoned fields and produce hydrogen without water, turning billion-dollar liabilities into clean energy assets. He walks through their first-of-a-kind California project that hit 40% hydrogen production, the West Texas deployments coming next, and why co-locating data centers in oil fields solves both the molecule transport problem and the cooling water challenge. They discuss hitting $0.50 per kilogram hydrogen by 2028, why natural gas isn't going anywhere, and how oil and gas companies are actually paying them to figure out the future of their abandoned reservoirs. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Prab's journey from farm to petroleum engineer 03:15 - Skills oil and gas taught him for clean tech 08:26 - Energy pragmatism and decarbonization economics 10:30 - Breaking down the hydrogen rainbow 14:01 - Green hydrogen costs and water intensity 15:53 - Gray and blue hydrogen trade-offs 17:55 - Natural and geological hydrogen potential 21:14 - Eclipse's approach to the problem 24:17 - Eating oil with microbes for hydrogen 26:20 - California first-of-a-kind project results 28:41 - Field operations walkthrough 32:10 - Hydrogen use cases and volumes 36:01 - Cost parity with natural gas 38:07 - Data centers solve the transport problem 43:03 - Path to commercial scale by 2028 https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters

Austin Draughon spent nine years at BP keeping Gulf of Mexico wells producing tens of thousands of barrels per day from floating platforms in 6,000+ feet of water. He breaks down why offshore is ten times more expensive, takes ten times longer, and involves ten times more people than onshore drilling, from robots tightening bolts on the seafloor to the ice problem that can kill a well in eight hours. Jacob and Julie learn why you can't just build 6,000-foot concrete pillars, how Christmas trees got their name, and what happens when asphalt buildup shuts down a 10,000 barrel per day well worth the energy consumption of Montana. Plus: helicopter crash training, North Slope darkness, and why AI's best trick is turning 35-page documents into the one sentence you actually needed. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Gulf of America officially renamed 01:41 - Nine years producing offshore Gulf of Mexico wells 02:59 - North Slope Alaska: darkness and extreme cold survival 05:06 - Production engineer managing 12 high-stakes offshore wells 07:11 - Asphalt buildup can kill a 10,000 barrel per day well 09:13 - Building technology to predict well failures early 11:03 - From Excel spreadsheets to cloud-deployed Python scripts 12:07 - Dry tree versus wet tree subsea completions explained 18:19 - Wildcat exploration: finding elephants to justify $30B platforms 20:09 - Blowout preventers and seafloor robots with little hands 23:11 - Five-mile flowlines connecting subsea wells to platforms 24:23 - Onshore takes weeks, offshore takes 90+ days minimum 26:29 - Automation levels on offshore drill ships 29:00 - 300+ people living on floating production facilities 32:06 - ROV operators controlling robots like video games 34:16 - Why offshore wells produce 1,000x more than stripper wells 36:16 - Pushing spaghetti four miles to hit a four-foot target 37:47 - Hydrate ice problem: eight-hour clock before well dies 39:08 - North Sea waves versus Gulf of America conditions 41:15 - Helicopter crash training at the YMCA pool 44:17 - AI's killer use case: many to one summarization 46:26 - Narrative layers surface buried statistics automatically https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters

Texas electricity is way more complicated than flipping a switch. Brittany Devlin from DOB Ai breaks down the deregulated energy market where customers can actually choose providers and save serious money, but most people just overpay out of laziness. From how the grid physically works to why your AC destroys your summer budget, she explains the whole pipeline. The real hack? Like energy aggregation companies that negotiate contracts for you, breaking deals when better rates appear. Plus: why unplugging appliances matters, how battery storage is fixing solar's sunset problem, and the truth about those "free nights and weekends" billboard scams. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - From nano photonics to energy risk management 02:22 - Aviation business intelligence mirrors energy markets 04:15 - Flight pricing tricks you shouldn't try 07:33 - Deregulated Texas electricity explained 08:15 - Why those billboard energy deals are sketchy 09:14 - Fixed rate contracts beat variable pricing 10:29 - How aggregators find cheaper electricity plans 12:08 - The Griddy lawsuit and contract regulations 13:06 - No monopolies: you can switch providers anytime 15:28 - Energy Ogre cuts bills in half for $10/month 18:10 - How contract switching and negotiation works 22:12 - The power grid is literally all connected 24:58 - Power to Choose website limitations 27:31 - Energy mix and the renewable integration 29:19 - California's duck curve problem hits Texas 31:03 - Battery storage: use it or lose it technology 32:25 - AI data centers and grid infrastructure 36:31 - Natural gas fueling most Texas electricity 38:01 - Why correlation between gas and electricity prices weakened 40:12 - Complex gas contracts and pipeline capacity 43:14 - Did deregulation actually help consumers? 44:13 - Rapid fire tips to lower your electricity bill 48:55 - Smart meters track usage every five minutes 51:12 - Insulation and weatherstripping matter more than you think 52:36 - Three story homes are wildly inefficient https://twitter.com/collide_io https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters