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Local Energy

Hosted by Peter Brecht and Wade Spear · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes

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About this podcast

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

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Peter Brecht and Wade Spear hosts Local Energy, a business show with 23 episodes published.

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Inside the Cushing Hub Moving 100 Million Barrels with Corey Brown

Jun 2, 202629mEp. 22S2026

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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Unleashing California: How Mike Umbro Is Turning Depleted Oil Fields Into the Grid's Biggest Battery

May 22, 202643mEp. 21S2026

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

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Offshore Distributed Control System (DCS) with Joey Johnston | Industrial Design Solutions

May 15, 202643mEp. 20S2026

Offshore 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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Joey Johnston on offshore oil and gas as a career choice.

May 11, 20260m0

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Wireline, Workovers, and Oilfield X with Tejano Brown

May 8, 202642mEp. 19S2026

Nosotros 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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Drill Baby Drill, One Year Later: Oil Prices, AI, and the Oilfield

May 1, 202621m0

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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This Cambridge Engineer Says We're Solving the Easy Problem Last | James Macnaghten, Caldera CEO

Apr 24, 202637m0

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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Welcome to the Local Energy Podcast

Apr 23, 20260m0

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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Non-Operated Oil & Gas Assets Explained: Inside Red Stag Resources with Matt Dangel & Richard Ball

Apr 17, 202630m0

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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From Political Campaigns to Pipelines: How Leigh Haas Built Mockingbird Land Services

Apr 10, 202627m0

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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Oilfield Heat Safety: Dehydration, Wearable Tech, and the Science of Sweat with Randall Arms

Apr 3, 202622m0

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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Submarines to Subsea: Michael Fry on Eliminating Human Error

Mar 27, 202635m0

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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From Oil Rigs to Film Sets: A Third Generation Oilman's Mission

Mar 20, 202627m0

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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H2S Wells: The Invisible Killer in Oil & Gas

Mar 13, 202610m0

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 Near $90: How Middle East Conflict Shakes US Oil Markets

Mar 7, 20268m0

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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The Death of Oil & Gas SaaS

Mar 6, 202637m0

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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Why Big Tech is Building On-Site Gas Power Plants in Texas

Feb 27, 202635m0

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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RE-RELEASE: Why Oil & Gas Companies Take 120 Days to Pay (And How Oilfield Contractors Survive It)

Feb 25, 202624m0

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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RE-RELEASE: Inside the Oil Patch: Zipper Fracks, Hot Stacks, and Why Raptors Matter

Feb 23, 202627m0

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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From .45 Long Colts to High-Tech Gas Guns: The Evolution of Acoustic Fluid Level Measurement

Feb 21, 202643m0

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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Local Energy is hosted by Peter Brecht and Wade Spear. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 23 episodes.

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