God breathes life into creation while great leaders breathe knowledge, courage, opportunity, and human flourishing into our people and industry.

For 64 years, Marvin Meshack has not merely witness the history of oil and gas and energy, helped write it and improved our success.

I'm extremely honored to sit with Marvin, Ryan Sanders, and Josh McCollom for this conversation with a living legend.

Marvin began working in the Halliburton laboratories in Duncan, Oklahoma, in 1962. He spent 36 years studying, testing, and improving the chemistry field crews depended upon.

Before computers, digital frac vans, or one person controlled an entire spread from a screen, calculations were done by hand. Men stood at pumps in brutal weather, shifting gears, throttling engines, and operating equipment in the open.

Guar and cellulose gels could lump enough to require screens. Early crosslinked systems improved through pressure, patience, problems, and the occasional batch that looked more like Braum's shakes than frac fluid.

Marvin watched horsepower multiply, chemistry mature, acidizing advance, horizontal drilling unlock formations once considered uneconomic, and an industry repeatedly predicted to disappear keep finding new ways to produce energy.

Yet the most powerful chemistry in the room was not mixed in a blender.

The margarita chemistry came later.

The real chemistry was the bond between experience, humility, friendship, faithfulness, and honor.

Ryan and Josh shared how they called Marvin when a fluid system would not cooperate. Within minutes, he could ask the right questions, isolate the issue, and help a crew finish the job.

Marvin never guarded what he knew. He shared his research, wisdom, and field experience so others could succeed.

Nearly 89, still working, and married for 67 years, Marvin never claimed the credit alone. He pointed to the mentors, chemists, engineers, field crews, friends, and family who carried the work with him.

One sentence captured his character and perhaps the culture our industry needs most:

“If you have a problem, we all have a problem.”

That may be the most important formula he shared.

This episode explores chemistry, completions, energy, mentorship, marriage, and the future of oil and gas.

But it is more than a technical conversation.

It is an archive, a classroom, a thank you, and a reminder that progress has parents.

Few conversations have made me feel the weight of our industry's history quite like this one.

Thanks to all who helped build our industry we're fortunate enough to inherit.

Share this! Understand where our knowledge came from!

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Hot topic conversation with impressive team Darien G. O'Brien, P.E., MBA and Luke Frash during Geothermal Rising gathering! We'll see a lot of well bores drilled for additional #energy​ demands thanks to forward thinking, disruptive, novel idea makers, and leaders. Hope to see a lot of heated debate on these topics but my take away was that there is a lot of funds available to make it seemingly like our own shale revolution. There was a lot of talk about needing twice the rigs we are using for #oilgas​ and also how most of the same people, contractors, services, and skill sets are needed right away. Fascinating #fossilfuelfriday​ forum.

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Stay safe and God bless. Praying you are thriving, healthy, and successful.

We just recorded a very important conversation with David Reid and Melanie Harr-Hughes, M.A., APR from redM joinredM.com

The subject is #humantrafficking​, not easy to talk about and exactly why we must talk about it.

Most of us hear “human trafficking” and think it is happening somewhere else.

Another country. Another city. Another neighborhood. Another family.

This issue is closer than most of us want to believe.

What stood out to me about redM is that they do not lead with fear, politics, shame, or hopelessness.

They lead with awareness, education, community, practical action, and hope.

redM exists to resource, empower, and develop people who want to fight human trafficking in sustainable ways.

A problem this large cannot only be left to someone else.

It takes parents. It takes businesses. It takes industry leaders. It takes communities. It takes people willing to pay attention.

This conversation reminds me again that out energy industry has such a powerful role to play.

Oil and gas people understand hard work.

We understand difficult environments.

We understand long odds.

We understand what it means to show up, build teams, solve problems, and keep moving when the work is uncomfortable.

That same mindset is needed here.

This is not about everyone becoming an investigator, rescuer, or expert overnight.

It is about learning the signs.

It is about supporting survivor organizations.

It is about helping local chapters grow.

It is about using our networks, resources, influence, and relationships to push back against one of the darkest problems in our society.

The redM model gives everyday people a place to start.

You can give an hour. You can show up to an event. You can connect a sponsor. You can help raise awareness. You can support a local organization already doing the hard work.

Most of us do not need our lives to look big.

But we do want our lives to do something big.

That is what I felt in this conversation.

Hope.

Not soft hope.

Fighting hope.

The kind of hope that says human trafficking is real, organized, hidden, and devastating…

But it is not untouchable.

It can be exposed. It can be fought. It can be disrupted. And people can be protected.

Thank you to David Reid and Melanie for bringing this message into the room and helping build awareness here in Oklahoma City.

Thank you to Farrow Energy Services for providing the space.

Thank you to Oilfield Tailgate for helping create a platform where important conversations like this can happen.

Learn more about joinredm.com

Awareness is not the end of the work.

It is where the work begins.

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