This week, the podcast goes back to it’s roots with a deep dive on global energy, oil, gas, electric vehicles and the energy transition. You don’t want to miss this one.   Artem is the Head of Shale Research at Rystad Energy with main responsibilities in analyzing upstream E&P data from governmental sources along with empirical research of well production profiles. Artem is the product manager for the NASWellCube, Rystad Energy’s North America Shale well database. He holds an M.Sc. in...

Pod Vid   https://youtu.be/q5NBqtKBPX8 About Nhan Nhan Nguyen is FRACPRO’s business development manager and strategist responsible for assessing and predicting trends in the upstream industry - working with software developers to solve real world problems.  Nhan developed and is working with the FRACPRO team to execute a four step DATA strategy: 1) accumulate 2) manage 3) analyze 4) monetize.  Nhan joined FRACPRO in January 2019 to assist with their efforts to move software to the cloud.  Prior to working with FRACPRO, Nhan began his...

This week on the pod we invite on Ron Gusek, the President of Liberty Oilfield Services. We talk the Schlumberger acquisition, the importance of oil and gas, have some fun with best practices and talk about the future of frac, data and the oilfield. I really like the direction of Liberty and very much enjoyed the conversation. I hope you do, too. Pod   Vid https://youtu.be/MGIl6rDif30   About Ron Ron Gusek has been the President of Liberty Oilfield Services since November 2016. Before assuming the role...

This week on the podcast, I invited Shamik Mehta with Hitachi Vantara to discuss the world of data. Join us for a fascinating conversation about the world of IT. From the fact the 99% of gathered data isn’t analyzed to the birth of the cloud, Shamik has an amazing way of articulating how companies should be thinking about their IT management and digital journey and how to maximize their data and engineer solutions to improve performance.   https://youtu.be/krbRalVlqWo    

This week on the #hottakeoftheday podcast, I welcome a passenger from my Uber driving, Adam Kaat, the author of the recent book "Life on the Grocery Line".  During the pandemic Adam was working at Whole Foods and he shares his stories, we talk about how we met, what it's like to be a minimum wage employee and how "being a hero" wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I hope you enjoy!   Podcast Audio   #hottakeoftheday podcast #116 w/Adam Kaat https://youtu.be/1hBLYWA9QT4   About Adam Adam lives...

This week, the #hottakeoftheday podcast returns with Patrick Moore, the Director of the CO2 coalition. The reason I love podcasting is some topics are like a dinner with wine: you need time, conversation and thought. This week, we talk about the miracle gas that is CO2 and discuss- is it bad? Why isn’t it bad? Where did narrative take over logic? Why don’t we consider things before 1850? We know the CO2 concentration was 2800 ppm, 7x higher than...

By Ellen Wald Yesterday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a report warning that global carbon dioxide emissions are on track to increase by 5% this year.  The organization predicts that emissions will increase by 1.5 billion tonnes and this will be the “largest single increase in more than a decade.” This sounds dreadfully scary, but a look at the actual numbers reveals that this is just hyperbole. In fact, the IEA predicts that global carbon dioxide emissions in 2021 will...

As energy policy in the United States (and other places) continues to be driven by narrative and lobbyists instead of facts and reliability, ERCOT in Texas has a strange week this week: they issued two power warnings asking customers to conserve energy. In April. Now, I love the great state of Texas but I tend to avoid it in July and August (and June and September) owing to the heat. But April.... is the most pleasant time of year. This...

By Ellen Wald A trio of environmentalist advocacy groups—Greenpeace, Earthworks and Global Witness—have jointly complained to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about advertisements from Chevron that they claim overstate Chevron’s investments in renewable energy and exaggerate its commitment to cutting pollution from fossil fuels. The environmental groups accuse Chevron of unlawfully deceptive advertisements and greenwashing. The complaint was filed a month ago, and has flown under the radar, but could actually turn out to be a much more influential action...

By Ellen Wald In a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a “minimum global corporate income tax” and said the Biden administration planned to work with the G20 on this issue. Now, the Biden team claims to be working on a global floor for corporate income taxes, though this would go against the interests of most other countries. The Biden administration can’t be so naïve as to think that...