Chuck Yates Got A Job

Chuck joins a panel discussion at the NAPE Business Conference about the current and future state of upstream private equity. And as is typical, Chuck’s a bit of a buzzkill. Moderated by Buddy Clark of Haynes & Boone, the other panelists include Greg Robbins of Grit Oil & Gas and Michael Freeman of Haynes & Boone. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the commu...

Chuck chats with Max Gagliardi about the business, energy transition and probably reveals too much of the inner secrets of private equity. 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 discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today...

Chuck chats all things hydrogen with Carmine Battista, CEO of Damorphe. Where is the hydrogen market today? What are the challenges to adoption of hydrogen? What’s the Damorphe solution? 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 discussi...

Ashley Watt’s consultant Bill Burch walks us through an operational update on Chevron’s activities on the Antina Ranch. (This is a follow up to episode 34 where Ashley discussed the numerous well control issues Chevron is having on her ranch). This one gets pretty engineering intense so engineer extraordinaire Chris Bird joins me as co-host. Despite the engineering “porn”, everyone should should l...

Industry veteran Grant Pierce tells a harrowing story of being on a contract job for Shell Nigeria and then COVID hits. Grant was stuck for nine months in Turkey and then Cambodia away from his family and home in Vietnam. SHELL’s response: You’ll get nothing and like it. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share in...

Chuck unleashes Oilfield Rando and the conversation goes from bringing down Confederate statues, China culpability in COVID, favorite Bond, energy advocacy, counterculture, the Kennedy assassination, Melania Trump and…wait for it…bidets. Thank you to our sponsor: EAG Services: https://www.eagservices.com/ Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil &...

Chuck chats with the hosts of the Oil Money podcast Yousuf Chaudary and Donnie Davis about a lot of stuff - life, wardrobes, the business and a miserable fail at a kindergarten interview. 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 discuss...

Chuck and private equity veteran David Hayes of NGP talk Rice University baseball, the Merrill Lynch energy group back in the day, all things NGP, the market and oh yeah…how he’s kicking cancer’s ass…. 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. Ju...

Chuck chats with Jeremy Arendt, Ryan Gurney and Mark Mills (the Montrose Lane guys) about energy technology, the future of energy and how do we advocate for the energy business. By the way, we are not having a climate melt down and cloud computing is a game changer. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insight...

Ashley Williams Watt shares her family’s struggles with Chevron and the Texas Railroad Commission on their cattle ranch in West Texas - multiple P&A wells spewing contaminated water into the family’s water supply, crude oil bubbling up into the family’s toilet, missing ground water tests, and a red bucket. Everyone in the oil and gas industry needs to listen and weigh in on “when does an oilfi...

Chuck chats with folk singer Michael Patrick Smith aka Magic Mike about his amazingly personal book the Good Hand, his tale of moving from Brooklyn to Williston, North Dakota to work as a hand in the oilfield… 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 f...

In part two, Chuck and the world’s greatest energy investor Dan Pickering talk energy transition, Dan’s new venture MERGE that helps clients convert fleets to electrical vehicles and answer EFT’s questions lightening round style (including favor color of Speedo). Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights,...

In the first part of a two part series, Chuck chats with the best energy investor on the planet Dan Pickering about making energy great again, do investors hate us and stealing watches.... 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 discus...

Chuck and longtime Petrie Parkman banker Sean Mueller talk old school investment banking, the Petrie Parkman sale to Merrill / BOA, did Aubrey commit suicide, and how to actually make money in energy transition / carbon capture. Yes. Actually make money...by farming kelp. Thank you to our sponsor, EAG Services: https://www.eagservices.com/ Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collid...

Chuck and country music star, guitar bad ass Lindsay Ell recall buzzing Mt Rushmore while on tour, propose an Imagine Dragons / Kendrick Lamar tour, talk being a Survivor and how fathers must create safe spaces for their kids, and finding faith and forgiveness. Plus an amazing live in the studio version of her song “Make You”. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the comm...

Chuck and self described PetroNerd Trisha Curtis talk everything but oil...except for the turpentine incident in college....Quite simply put, Trisha is a fascinating person. Trisha's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aasXJ40xe6Df6b0tsKQU3?si=soDLQb2WTxmDIE6Cx8g9uA Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, shar...

If you could only listen to one of my podcasts, don’t let it be this one. These people bury nuclear bombs under apartment buildings and detonate them if one person doesn’t pay the rent. Yes, you read that right. 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...

Chuck and fellow Rice alum Mark Bahorich, co-founder of Q Engineering, talk starting a company, energy, God, family and work and whether Captain Kirk was an intern. Mark's Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rlFh2wSJsyMLJkBGdDIem?si=vQ9ZHldEQda4qEDMTe75mQ Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights,...

Chuck talks shop with noted industry veteran Art Berman. The recent kerfuffle with Energy Finance Twitter, the US Shale plays, the path to energy transition and will oil and gas folks even be invited to that discussion. 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 n...

Chuck hangs out with Little Gully (aka King P), the resident rapper/ videographer of Energy Finance Twitter. His rap videos are amazing, his story is even better (Quick Draw brought him to us) and he’s probably not a serial killer. Fascinating dude and discussion. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights,...

Did Putin “eliminate” a high ranking Russian scientist that purportedly had solved carbon capture? 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 discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io

Chuck fan boys on Pete Stahl, the lead singer of pioneering DC punk band Scream (and Wool, Earthlings? and Goatsnake) as they recount their meeting backstage at the Foo Fighters, dinner at the Rainbow, Cowboys / the Washington Football Team trash talking and rock n roll. No doubt why Pete was the inspiration for the Foo Fighter’s song “My Hero”. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy....

A Saturday morning sit down (ie., sober) with the self-proclaimed inventor of the cube and downspacer extraordinaire - MOAR Drilling. Chuck and MOAR go in-depth on memes, the Morrow, and the future of energy. 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 fl...

Back in 2014, Chuck delivered the keynote speech at the IPAA Capital Conference where he compared each Energy Private Equity firm to rock bands....who’s the Beatles, Coldplay, Keith Richards or Nirvana???? A five minute podcast. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems toget...

In the name of great American debate - the Constitutional Convention, Lincoln / Douglas, Nixon / Kennedy, Biggie / Tupac....Stacey McDonald and I referee the epic clash of BRV and QDC. Their Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/616hpeRYHXWaKHAlXsOZlr?si=ad08e9669c214d0b Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals con...