Oil and Gas Startups Podcast

Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey. We go down the rabbit hole of Andrew Richard’s successes, failures, mental health and the building of Automated Rig Technologies. 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. N...

The guys from IronIQ explain how they are the future of SCADA. IronIQ is a modern cloud-native SCADA platform allowing you to remotely monitor and control any device from anywhere in the world. 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 d...

Jimmy Jett sounds like the name of a Heisman winning running back. While he may not be as fast as he sounds, Jimmy and IntegrityBiochem are quickly on their way to running the vegetative polymer game. Don’t know what that is? Yea we don’t either. We’ll let Jimmy explain. LiquidFrameworks’ product FieldFX optimizing field services, check them out here: https://liquidframeworks.com/fieldfx/ Join the...

If you're looking for the most badass energy tech sales guy, you call Jeremy Funk. Funk Futures was founded on decades of Jeremy's experience within energy tech sales to help tech companies get their products in front of their customers. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world probl...

Want to learn about bitcoin mining with natural gas? We had Unchained Capital and Limpia Creek Technologies come nerd out with us on the impact of Bitcoin and how mining will be the fasting growing industry over the next generation. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems t...

Marketplaces are hot! Why would the Pipe business be any different? Operators order more pipe than they need because they can't afford the opportunity cost of coming up short when it's go time. Conversely, during a supply crunch you can't get the pipe you need to get started. Pipesearch (https://pipesearch.com/) solves this as a peer to peer marketplace for pipe. Join the conversation shaping the...

If you're looking for specific well logs, good luck. You'll probably find yourself looking for data in about 50 different locations - regulatory agencies, service companies, operators, universities, libraries, collections & numerous websites. Luckily for you, Sabata Energy Consultants has already gone out and indexed who has a what. Think of them as a Google for Geologic well data. Type in whe...

EnergyFunders is transforming the way energy investments happen with an online marketplace for energy projects. Laura Pommer, CEO of EnergyFunders, and Jeff Allen, Director of Business Development, talk about the future of energy investing. Laura’s experience in deal evaluation and risk analysis - from both a geological and financial perspective - makes her the perfect person to achieve their key...

The Environmental Defense fund did a study of the Permian basin that showed oil and gas can be produced with absolutely zero emissions. Yet as an industry we emit 3 billon tons of CO2 emissions each year, with 80% of that stemming from the production process. EcoVapor’s mission to bring that number to zero while also helping operators turn rogue emissions into more cash. Join the conversation shap...

Data management is one of the biggest challenges facing our industry today. It's hard to manage what we have when we're constantly generating more. There are ton's of tools for capturing this data and probably even more when it comes to analyzing it - especially for Upstream. Vintri Tech is different in that they don't smash together a billion data points and eliminate anomalies that could be vita...

The amount of data we generate and capture compounds daily - especially in this industry. Thanks to improvements in data network coverage from the major carriers, even some of the most remote locations have service now. Laptops, Tablets and IoT devices can now connect and steam this data like never before. The problem this creates is companies typically are forced to rely on multiple providers to...

Is Bitcoin mining the future of Oil and Gas? JAI Energy is on the forefront with their Bitcoin mining operation in Wyoming. Ryan and Justin share their story of making the transition from being on a management team of an E&P to being one of the most innovative Bitcoin miners. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect,...

Quite often, the most profitable businesses are not the sexiest ones. Those businesses don’t win awards or get front page stories, but they are the ones that are printing cash every year because their tech is essential. The guys at Hulk are one of those companies. They have developed a product that protects ESP cables- saving E&P’s thousands of dollars in cable damage, and averting potential d...

Reducing emissions seems to be a goal of most countries and major corporations. But how do we realistically and accurately track emissions in a way where the data is traceable, scalable and secure? Enter Blockapps - particularly their TraceCarbon app - a blockchain business network built to bring together a corporation’s emissions data from within and from partners, vendors and utilities. It’s goo...

Presidio Petroleum is doing what many critics think is impossible these days - making money as an operator, consistently. Launched in 2017, Presidio wasted no time multiplying their team through a series of large strategic acquisitions. Founder and Co-CEO, Will Ulrich, dropped by to talk about how they're able to run leaner by giving more responsibility at the field level and how they intend to ev...

President Lincoln once said, “If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe” – meaning, preparation is everything. In an industry as complex as oil and gas, you may have to run dozens of models before you can make a decision. The problem is that models have historically taken weeks if not months and we simply might not have the time. So with limite...

Landmen have arguably been hit the worst by the downturns of the last decade. Then E&P’s struggle to find good landmen when they actually need them. Part and Parcel is working hard to solve this problem by building a match-making marketplace between landmen and companies who need land work. Jon Yoachim drops by to walk us through his journey as a Landman and how they plan to revolutionize the...

There’s no better way to build culture than to lead from the front. Cully Cavness joined us for a second time to chat ultra-marathons, building culture, closing $100mm+ in new funding and how Crusoe Energy Systems is rapidly expanding their Bitcoin mining facilities. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insigh...

There are a lot of things we simple humans can’t do as well as computers and algorithms – production optimization is one of those things. Hundreds of variables per well, all changing in real-time. Even optimizing for one well is impossible. Ed Cowsar with OspreyData dropped by walk us through his journey and Osprey’s Production Optimization Platform. –Liquid Frameworks has their annual ConnectFX c...

Contrary to popular belief, oil & gas can be produced with zero methane emissions. The problem is that most methane detection technologies are intermittent, expensive and only detect the largest of leaks. The guys at Qube Technologies are taking emissions reduction head on through continuous monitoring with their IoT devices. Eric Wen walked us through how incumbent emissions technologies have...

Even though Lindsey Ferrell isn't related to Will Ferrell - she's pretty much just as cool. After cutting her teeth working in accounting for some of the most successful E&P's of their day, she realized her biggest challenge was simply data management. Ever since, she's been a crusade to rid the industry of bad data and WellDrive is furthering that mission in a huge way. Join the conversation...

Second time on the show. Pioneering Energy Intelligence. Do you sell your data as a subscription? That’s typically how I prefer to sell it. Also only sell it to people who have money. This episode was a long overdue followup with the Hugh Jackman of the Oilfied. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, a...

Let’s be honest – there’s nothing sexy about bolting. Sexy or not, you wouldn’t want to be on a bridge or a in a skyscraper where the bolts weren’t tightened to spec. The same goes facilities across our industry. Rob Westover from Applied Bolting breaks down the science behind tension, friction and torque and why it matters. Thank you to our sponsor: Datagration. Their product, Petrovisor, enables...

Every week we have oil & gas tech founders on to walk us through their journey and their amazing technologies. Yet, E&P startup guys are still our most downloaded and requested episodes. So if there’s any guy in this space you should know, it’s Don Burdick. Don came up as a geologist and was a part of a few management teams over the years. He dove into launching PE-backed Olifant Energy I...

This week we officially squash the beef with SPE-GCS. The King of Shoutouts - Ni Nunoo - joined us to talk about founding SPE's IES and how that led to him taking over the GCS Chapter. We realized by the 20th shoutout just how many mutual friends we have. We're honestly surprised it took us this long to meet but the wait was well worth it. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collid...