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  • He Worked Global Oil & Gas, Then Built a Brewery

    He Worked Global Oil & Gas, Then Built a Brewery
    2026/02/24

    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.

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    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

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  • How Dead Oil Fields Became Clean Energy Goldmines

    How Dead Oil Fields Became Clean Energy Goldmines
    2026/02/16

    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.

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    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

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  • The Insane Engineering of Deepwater Oil Production

    The Insane Engineering of Deepwater Oil Production
    2026/02/12

    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.

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    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

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  • The Real Reason Your Electric Bill Is Absurdly High

    The Real Reason Your Electric Bill Is Absurdly High
    2026/02/04

    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.

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    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

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  • How Chemicals Prevent Billion Dollar Well Failures

    How Chemicals Prevent Billion Dollar Well Failures
    2026/01/26

    Brandon Wamsley from Flatirons Chemicals joins the show to explain how the $100 billion oil and gas chemical industry actually works - from killing bacteria that sours wells to keeping pipelines from corroding in minus 58 degree North Dakota winters. He shares his journey from laying tile in construction to becoming a field technician in Williston during the Bakken boom, where people literally camped in tents chasing oil field opportunities. The conversation breaks down why chemicals are cheap insurance for producers, how bacteria creates hydrogen sulfide downhole, what H2S scavengers actually do, and why the industry churns through chemical providers every 2-3 years in an expensive honeymoon cycle that Flatirons is trying to disrupt with AI-powered solutions.

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    00:00 Why chemicals are essential to oil and gas production
    03:45 Brandon's construction background and move to North Dakota
    08:01 Williston during the Bakken boom and tent cities
    11:19 Learning the chemical industry from the ground up
    14:08 Meeting mentor Ed and his 40 years in midstream
    18:01 Frack chemicals and evolving completion designs
    22:03 How bacteria contaminates wells and creates H2S
    27:11 The stream analogy for disrupting formations
    31:24 Turning wells on to production and artificial lift
    36:03 Midstream chemicals and H2S scavengers explained
    40:12 Innovating the chemical procurement process with AI
    45:09 Houston meetings and vertical integration strategy
    48:16 Life back in Colorado after two years in Williston

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  • Inside America's First 100% Renewable Diesel Program

    Inside America's First 100% Renewable Diesel Program
    2026/01/20

    Joe Natale from Knight-Chemstar joins the show fresh off pulling off something pretty remarkable in Massachusetts - successfully running the first 100% renewable diesel pilot program for commuter rail locomotives in the country. He breaks down the wild logistics of moving renewable diesel from Midwest producers to New England, why heating oil is basically diesel's cousin, the bacon grease problem that happens when biodiesel gets cold, and why drop-in fuels make way more sense than ripping out all our infrastructure for electrification.

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    00:00 Joe's background from terminal operator to renewables
    08:08 Development of Providence biodiesel rail terminal
    14:06 Winning and executing the MBTA renewable diesel pilot
    20:21 Sustainable aviation fuel distribution strategy
    25:04 Breaking down fuel types: ethanol, diesel, heating oil
    33:00 Northeast heating oil versus natural gas infrastructure
    38:15 Renewable diesel logistics and clean heat standards
    43:35 Drop-in fuels versus full electrification
    51:05 Cloud point and the biodiesel gelling problem
    55:33 Future of sustainable aviation fuel and incentives

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  • Why Small Teams Beat Big Companies

    Why Small Teams Beat Big Companies
    2026/01/12

    Building startups turns into a rapid fire philosophy session on founders, culture, money, and why velocity beats speed when Jacob asks the dumb questions we all think about. Collin McLelland of Collide breaks down how real companies get built, why talent density matters more than headcount, how power, AI, and energy collide, and what actually keeps teams motivated when the grind gets real.

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    00:00 Cold open and founder mindset
    03:00 Why founders matter more than CEOs
    06:00 Startup ideas and power generation
    10:00 Storytelling and clarity over time
    15:00 Culture, motivation, and communication
    19:00 Building a high velocity company
    25:00 Hiring, pay, and talent density
    31:00 Remote work and office culture
    38:00 Work ethic, burnout, and holidays
    44:00 Money, capital, and long term bets

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  • The Forgotten Science That Made Shale Possible

    The Forgotten Science That Made Shale Possible
    2026/01/06

    Trying to make geophysics cool again, and honestly Peter Duncan from MicroSeismic, Inc. makes it easy. We bounce from a bear encounter in Newfoundland to why geophysicists are basically treasure hunters with pricey toys, then land on the simple difference between seismic and microseismic, why sound travels so freakishly well through rock, and how listening to tiny underground pops helps fracking and now geothermal get smarter without wrecking nearby wells.

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    00:00 Panel shoutout and event mention
    00:23 Peter’s back, making geophysics cool
    02:12 How he became a geophysicist
    07:18 Bear story in the field
    11:34 Geophysics shows up everywhere
    14:22 Geologist vs geophysicist basics
    23:13 Sound waves, earthquakes, and why seismic works
    26:05 Seismic vs microseismic explained
    28:11 Microseismic and geothermal’s comeback
    40:57 What MicroSeismic actually does in the field
    45:34 Frac hits and protecting neighboring wells
    48:52 Wrap-up and round three tease

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