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Hosted by Peter Brecht and Wade Spear · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 28 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 28 episodes published.
In this episode of the Local Energy Podcast, Peter Brecht sits down with Ben Ellis, President and CEO of Nimble Crane. They discuss Ben's incredible journey from building custom homes in Vermont to operating a 37-crane f
A 40-year reservoir engineering veteran breaks down how oil and gas companies actually decide what's underground — and why AI still can't replace the domain knowledge it takes to get it right. Jim Clark, CCS Reservoir An
What do well logs miss about shale reservoirs? Galen Dillewyn from NuTech joins the Local Energy Podcast to explain petrophysics, reservoir intelligence, water cut prediction, AI in oil and gas, and why the rock still co
Brian Davis has spent 30+ years in oil and gas, working across refinery operations, instrumentation, maintenance, turnarounds, yield accounting, and now fuels compliance.In this episode of the Local Energy Podcast, Brian
John Baez doesn't make sales calls. He doesn't need to. After 30 years of solving stuck pipe, running plasma cutters at 15,000 PSI, and building a reputation one clean cut at a time — operators across the Permian Basin w
What does it take to balance a career as a Production Engineer in the Permian Basin with the rigorous demands of being a U.S. Olympic bobsledder? In this episode of the Local Energy podcast, hosts Peter Brecht and Wade S
Why does Australia raise more revenue on beer taxes than its massive gas exports? What You'll Learn: The Australian Energy Tax Paradox: Why independent Senator David Pocock is calling out the government for making more r
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Corey Brown
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Mike Umbro
Partner · Californians for Energy and Science
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James Macnaghten
CEO · Caldera
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Richard Ball
Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets · New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
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Michael Fry
Core Kognition Global
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