The PetroNerds Podcast

Episode 134 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerds special and an incredible deep dive into geopolitics, the economy, and what it all means for the oil and gas industry. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, front-loads this podcast with a fresh market update focusing on Iran and oil prices. In the introduction of this podcast, Trisha discusses oil prices and...

Recorded on June 9, 2025 and April 1, 2025 Episode 133 of the PetroNerds podcast is another PetroNerdy special and the first stop on the PetroNerds university tour. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is at the Colorado School of Mines in a fireside chat. She is joined by her host, Morgan Bazilian, Director of the Payne Institute at Colorado School of Mines. In thi...

Recorded on April 29, 2025 Episode 132 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerdy special and the first PetroNerds podcast with a focus on nuclear energy. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is joined by guest Doug Sandridge, Senior Vice President of Fulcrum Energy Capital Funds. He is also the founder of Oil and Gas Executives for nuclear. Trisha and Doug open...

Recorded on May 7, 2025 and January 16, 2025 Episode 131 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerds special. This podcast is the lecture Trisha Curtis gave at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy on January 23, 2025. In this lecture Trisha explains that energy is power, literally and figuratively, and she spends time putting energy in the context of geopolitics get...

Recorded on April 24, 2025 and March 18, 2025 Episode 130 of the PetroNerds podcast is the show stopping jam packed talk Trisha Curtis gave at the Houston Producers Forum on March 18th, 2025. Do not worry, she gets you up to speed on oil prices with a short introduction to this heavy hitting talk. Trisha discusses oil prices being oversold and the 10 year yield in the introduction. At the Houston...

Recorded on April 2, 2025 and January 16, 2025 Episode 129 of the PetroNerds podcast a heavy hitting round the world tour on tariffs, geopolitics, and volatility. This is the energy dense talk Trisha Curtis gave to the Denver Association of Petroleum Landmen on January 16th, 2025 titled "Outlook for 2025: Optimistic Uncertainty Mixed with Volatility" at the Denver Earth Resources Library. Trisha o...

Recorded on March 17, 2025 and March 19, 2025 Episode 128 of the PetroNerds podcast is an exceptionally timely jam-packed market update on the economy and the health of the US consumer. This a St. Patrick's Day special and Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, gets into the color of Kohl's earnings call talking about pressure on discretionary spending for lower income consumers, Costco's earnings call...

Recorded on March 7, 2025 and February 28, 2025 Episode 127 of the PetroNerds podcast is another energy dense and intel rich jam packed podcast on everything you need to know to get you caught up on the oil market and the economy. This podcast is the conversation between Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, and Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, recorded as a livestream on February 28...

If episode 126 of the PetroNerds podcast was not enough, there is more. This bonus PetroNerdy episode is the Q&A Trisha Curtis did after her talk in Midland, Texas for the Society of Petroleum Engineers on November 19th, 2024. https://youtu.be/nZQ8LBQ38hY

Recorded on February 22, 2025 and November 19, 2024 Episode 126 of the PetroNerds podcast is a deep dive PetroNerds special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, catches listeners up on everything happening in geopolitics and the economy before getting into her talk and presentation to a sold out crowd in Midland, Texas for the Society of Petroleum Engineers on Nove...

Recorded on January 23, 2025 Episode 125 of PetroNerds podcast is your complete outlook and overview on oil prices, M&A, activity, Trump, and US shale. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is joined by Chris Atherton, the CEO of Efficient Markets, also known as EnergyNet. PetroNerds is proud to announce the first PetroNerds podcast sponsorship by Efficient Markets....

Recorded on January 22, 2025 Episode 124 of the PetroNerds podcast is hot off the press PetroNerds special focussed on the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States and the multiple executive orders on energy signed on his first day in office January 20th, 2025. Trisha Curtis, the CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is joined in this episode by Jason...

Episode 123 of the PetroNerds podcast is your complete market update for everything happening in 2025. This podcast is a timely and condensed talk on oil, energy, and power that Trisha Curtis gave to students at the Colorado School of Mines. This energy dense podcast gives you everything you need to get your 2025 off on the right foot. Trisha introduces this podcast with a thorough market update c...

Recorded on December 18, 2024 and October 3, 2024 Episode 122 of the PetroNerds podcast is your pre-Christmas PetroNerds special. This podcast is the panel discussion Trisha Curtis hosted at the Denver Earth Resources Library with Leen Weijers, VP of Field Engineering at Liberty Energy and Brenton Cheeseman, VP of North America at NCS Multistage. Trisha spends time talking to Leen and Brenton abou...

Recorded on December 5, 2024 and November 11, 2024 Episode 121 of the PetroNerds podcast is another PetroNerds special, recorded on November 11th, 2024, with Chris Wright at Liberty Energy's office in Denver, Colorado. This is right after the election victory of Donald Trump's second term and days before Chris Wright is officially named Trump's pick for US Energy Secretary. Jason Isaac, the Presid...

Recorded on November 15, 2024 and November 13, 2024 Episode 120 of the PetroNerds podcast is a show-stopping 30-minute post-election run down covering everything from U.S. shale to geopolitics. This podcast is Trisha Curtis’ talk and presentation to the Oklahoma Petroleum Alliance in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 13th, 2024 with a fresh market intro from Washington, DC. This heavy-hitting an...

Recorded on November 18, 2024 and September 9, 2021 This is a special reissue podcast with the oil and gas industry's very own Chris Wright. On Saturday November 16th, 2024 CEO of Liberty Energy, Chris Wright, was announced as President Elect Donald Trump's pick for the US Secretary of Energy. I have known Chris Wright since 2017, and I can honestly say there could not be anyone more qualified for...

Recorded on October 30, 2024 Episode 119 of the PetroNerds podcast is a US election PetroNerdy special focussed on the impacts to US energy from this consequential Presidential election. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, is joined by Jason Issac from the American Energy Institute and former Texas representative. This fun election special tries to get into the politics and policies while keeping it...

Recorded on October 23, 2024 and October 2, 2024 Episode 118 of the PetroNerds podcast is part two of the politics, ESG, and climate special with Paul Tice, NYU Stern Professor, investor, and fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics. Trisha Curtis starts this podcast with a complete rip of the current volatility in US and global markets, oil prices, the US election, comments by Paul Tudo...

Recorded on October 2, 2024 Episode 117 of the PetroNerds podcast is part one of a two-part PetroNerds special on the state of ESG policies and climate politics with Paul Tice. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, is joined by guest Paul Tice, author, NYU Stern Professor, and Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics. If you have been looking for a substantive podcast that gets into the poli...

Recorded on September 18, 2024 Episode 116 of the PetroNerds podcast is a compact heavy hitting PetroNerds special focussed on explaining the role of traditional fuels in the economy and the reality of power generation and CO2 emissions in the US and China. This is Trisha Curtis' talk at the Dry Fork power plant in Gillette, Wyoming on September 18th, 2024 to state legislators from across the US w...

Recorded on September 11, 2024 and July 12, 2024 Episode 115 of the PetroNerds podcast is another jam-packed PetroNerds special you are going to listen to, relisten to, and share. This is the keynote address that Trisha Curtis gave to IPANM, the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 12th, 2024. This podcast is front-loaded with an energy-dense PetroNerd...

Recorded August 16 2024 In episode 114 of the PetroNerds podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, is joined by Chris Brown, VP of Policy and Research at the Common Sense Institute, to discuss the recent report Trisha co-authored on Colorado's declining energy competitiveness. Energy is not just a sector of the economy; it is the sector upon which all businesses rely. Colorado, along with the res...

Recorded on August 14, 2024 Episode 113 of the PetroNerds podcast is a must listen to episode to get you caught up on everything happening in the economy, oil prices, geopolitics, and escalation globally in hot wars. Trying to figure out why oil prices seem to want to go down even when wars in the Middle East and Europe continue to escalate? Saw the sell-off a couple of weeks ago when oil prices d...

Recorded on July 31, 2024 and June 21, 2024 Episode 112 of the PetroNerds podcast is the keynote address Trisha Curtis gave to AAPL, the American Association of Professional Landmen (Trisha still calls it Petroleum). This is an absolutely jam-packed energy-dense podcast filled with intel to get you up to speed on oil prices, the economy, geopolitics, and war. Trisha dives into the push and pull on...