Why Energy Companies Lose the AI-Search Battle to Smaller Competitors
Ask a generative engine a narrow operational question — who handles sour-gas treating on a compressed turnaround, who has run managed-pressure drilling in a specific basin, who recycles produced water...
View ArticleAI in Reserves Estimation: The Disclosure Risk Nobody’s Documenting
Most energy companies have spent the last two years asking whether AI belongs in the reserves process. That question is already behind them. Machine learning sits inside the decline-curve software, the...
View ArticleWhat “Defensible AI” Means for Energy Operators in 2026
Most energy operators can now tell you which AI tools they use. Far fewer can tell you what those tools decided last quarter, who reviewed the output, and on whose authority the company acted on it....
View ArticleBeyond the Demo: Why Oil & Gas AI Pilots Stall — and the Governance Checklist...
Almost every operator and service company now has an AI pilot running somewhere. A model that reads drilling reports. A copilot for the maintenance team. A tool that summarizes contracts or triages...
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Crew Call
Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSS Frontline crews who keep energy and infrastructure running tell the moment the system broke — and the call that turned it around. Hosted by Andrea Tsakanikas....
View ArticleAI Names the Same Few Energy Companies. The Rest Are Invisible.
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini who a buyer should hire for a job in oil and gas. A completions program. Produced-water handling. A gas-processing dedication. Power for a data center. You get back the...
View ArticleWhen a Buyer Asks ChatGPT About Your Oilfield Service Company
A procurement lead at an operator has a short list to build. Ten years ago she’d have called three people she trusts and run a Google search. Today, before any of that, she opens ChatGPT and types:...
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The Energy Basket
Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSS Hosted by Kailey Euceda. The Energy Basket Podcast focuses on industry problems within a systemic framework. The weave of the basket carries its distributed load....
View ArticleThe Marcellus Isn’t Slowing Down—It’s Getting Better
Drive across northern Pennsylvania today and it’s easy to believe the Marcellus Shale has settled down. The endless lines of water trucks are fewer, drilling rigs don’t dominate the skyline the way...
View ArticleWhat Oil & Gas Boards Should Ask Before Approving an AI Tool
Somewhere in your organization, a capable manager is about to put an AI tool into a workflow that touches a material decision — a reserves narrative, a maintenance call, a trading input, a hiring...
View ArticleOil & Gas Doesn’t Have a Marketing Problem. It Has a Trust Problem.
Most energy companies that lose a deal blame the same three things: price, timing, or the incumbent. Almost none of them blame the real one, because the real one is harder to look at. They lost...
View ArticleThe Next Lesson from Act 13.
Pennsylvania quietly reached a milestone this month that deserves more attention than it received. With the latest distribution of Act 13 revenue, the Commonwealth has now returned more than $3.12...
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Oil and Gas This Week
Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSS The one that started it all. Hosted by Mark LaCour and Paige Wilson, this is the show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse of the...
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Brasil: Visão Energética
Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSS Visão Energética is a Brazilian Portuguese podcast (with English subtitles) connecting energy professionals across Brazil and the United States. Hosted by Brazilian...
View ArticleEveryone Is Talking About Data Centers. What Are We Missing?
When I first saw the gas industry coming to northern Pennsylvania, I knew I didn’t want to go back to the pipeline. Pipeline work had been good to me. It paid for my education at Pennsylvania College...
View ArticleThe Gutter Guy Knew Before I Did.
Robots Change How We Keep up with Everything Years ago, during the height of the Marcellus boom, I wrote a story about a lawn care guy who somehow knew more about my life than I did. One afternoon he...
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Oil & Gas Has a Two-Front AI Problem
Two things happened to energy companies in the last eighteen months, and most leadership teams are only paying attention to one of them — usually neither. The first: your buyers, partners, investors,...
View ArticleThe Pipelines Are Coming Back
For the better part of a decade, pipeline expansion in Appalachia has been the energy equivalent of trying to nail Jell-O to a tree. Every project became a knife fight. Court challenges. Permit...
View ArticleWhy Being Part of the Energy Conversation Still Matters
Oil and gas has always been a relationship industry. Deals may get signed in offices, but trust is usually built long before that. It happens in conversations.At events.On podcasts.In technical...
View ArticlePrivate Wireless Is Becoming the Foundation for Industrial AI
At OTC this week in Houston, one theme kept surfacing beneath all the AI discussion: Most industrial AI projects still succeed or fail at the infrastructure layer. I had the opportunity to moderate a...
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