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Ready, Break (opens the original)
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Local Energy is taking a break after 64 weeks straight! Thank you all for listening, we hope to talk with you again soon. ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Local Energy Podcast explores the people, technology, risk, and stories behind the oil and gas industry. Hosted by Peter Brecht, the show features conversations with operators, engineers, service providers, entrepreneurs, and energy professionals working across upstream oil and gas, insurance, technology, and local energy markets.Local Energy Podcast: htt
Skip College and Make $250k: The Ultimate Trade Career (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Local Energy Podcast, Peter Brecht sits down with Ben Ellis, President and CEO of Nimble Crane. They discuss Ben's incredible journey from building custom homes in Vermont to operating a 37-crane fleet in the Texas oil and gas industry. Ben shares why young people should consider skipping traditional college routes to enter the trades, noting that dedicated workers can quickly advance and potentially earn up to a quarter of a million dollars within four years. The conversa
Subsurface Detective: 40 Years of Reservoir Engineering Secrets with Jim Clark (opens the original)
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A 40-year reservoir engineering veteran breaks down how oil and gas companies actually decide what's underground — and why AI still can't replace the domain knowledge it takes to get it right. Jim Clark, CCS Reservoir Analytics Engineer at JWC3 Resources, joins Local Energy to explain reservoir engineering as detective work, the real economics of carbon capture, and how a $30 billion gas project came down to a single well-log calculation.Jim spent decades working reservoirs from the Gulf of Mexi
What Well Logs Miss About Shale Reservoirs: Petrophysics and the Next Oilfield Breakthrough with Galen Dillewyn (opens the original)
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What do well logs miss about shale reservoirs? Galen Dillewyn from NuTech joins the Local Energy Podcast to explain petrophysics, reservoir intelligence, water cut prediction, AI in oil and gas, and why the rock still controls everything. In this episode, Peter Brecht sits down with Galen Dillewyn, Vice President of Business Development at NuTech, for a practical conversation about how operators understand what is really happening underground. Galen shares lessons from his wireline days, why "se
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