Hosted by Peter Brecht and Wade Spear · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes
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Oil and gas podcast with real field experience. WTI markets, drilling, production, oilfield careers, LNG, and energy news — no fluff, just shop talk.Local Energy is hosted by Peter Brecht and Wade Spear. We cover field operations, energy markets, oilfield careers, drilling, production, midstream, LNG, and offshore — with guests from field hands to CEOs, grid operators, and 30-year Chevron veterans.Oil and gas news, career stories, and market analysis from people who did the job — this is your channel.Topics: WTI forecasts, H2S safety, company man roles, oilfield finance, SCADA, Bitcoin o
Peter Brecht and Wade Spear hosts Local Energy, a business show with 23 episodes published.
Corey Brown takes listeners inside the Cushing Tank Farms in Oklahoma, one of the most important crude oil storage and transfer hubs in the U.S. He explains how the site supports WTI benchmark pricing, how crude is measu
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California is importing 70% of its oil while shutting down its own refineries. Mike Umbro has been watching it happen from the inside. In this episode, Peter Brecht and Wade Spear sit down with Mike Umbro, founder and CE
Show notesOffshore platforms only look like steel and hardware from the outside. Underneath, they run on logic, alarms, timing, and people who understand exactly how the process is supposed to behave. In this episode, Peter Brecht
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Show notesNosotros estamos tan de vuelta. Tejano Brown joins Local Energy for a real oilfield conversation about wireline, workovers, the Permian Basin, Oilfield X, and training the next generation. In this episode, Peter Brecht a
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One year later, Peter Brecht and Wade Spear are going back to where Local Energy started: Drill Baby Drill. In this anniversary episode, Peter and Wade look back on the first 51 episodes of Local Energy and revisit the s
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Industrial heat causes 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions — and almost nobody's working on the easy part. James Macnaghten is a Cambridge-trained engineer with 20+ patents who shut down his first energy storage compa
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The oil and gas industry is full of corporate talking points and "green energy theater"—this podcast is the antidote. Most energy content is produced by people who have never stepped foot on a rig. Local Energy is differ
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Two former Chevron professionals walked away from corporate energy to build something different. Matt Dangel (CEO) and Richard Ball (COO) of Red Stag Resources join Peter Brecht to explain how non-operated partnerships a
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Leigh Haas ran a congressional campaign before she could legally rent a car. Now she runs Mockingbird Land Services and has managed 350 land agents across a 600-mile, 5-state pipeline project. She joins Peter Brecht and
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A 3% loss in body fluid causes the same cognitive slowdown as a 0.08 blood alcohol level. Randall Arms of Epicore Biosystems joins Peter Brecht to explain why waiting until you're thirsty is already too late — and how we
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Discover how elite submarine discipline and cognitive psychology are redefining safety and operational excellence offshore. In this episode of Local Energy, host Peter Brecht sits down with Michael Fry of Core Kognition
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What happens when a third-generation oilman picks up a camera to tell the story Hollywood refuses to touch?Rickey Bird still works the drilling rigs of Taft, California — and he's making a documentary about it. In this e
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Peter Brecht Facetimes with Safety Guy to separate fact from fiction on hydrogen sulfide in the oil and gas industry. After watching the dramatic H2S scene in the hit show Landman, Peter wanted to understand the real dan
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WTI oil prices are near $90/barrel — and this week marked the biggest single-week WTI price gain in the history of oil trading. Peter Brecht and Wade Spear recorded this impromptu Saturday episode to break down what's re
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Why are energy professionals canceling their SaaS subscriptions and building their own tools instead? In this episode of Local Energy, Peter Brecht (oil & gas insurance broker) and Wade Spear (drilling engineer turned AI
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Discover how the worlds of oil and gas, data centers, and AI are colliding to reshape the global energy landscape. Julie Thompson of Halper Strategies joins Peter Brecht to explain why the "bridge to grid" strategy is es
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Calyn Taylor joins Local Energy to break down one of oil and gas's best-kept secrets: factoring. If you've ever wondered how small contractors manage cash flow when operators take 90-120 days to pay, this conversation is
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This is a re-release of an episode from January 2026. Join hosts Peter Brecht and Wade Spear for a deep dive into oil and gas fundamentals! In this recap episode, we decode industry terms, analyze market indicators, and
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In this episode of Local Energy, we sit down with Justin Bates from Echometer to explore how a small 18-person company became the global industry standard for acoustic fluid level measurement in oil and gas operations. F
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