The most secure field ticket approval method? A physical stamp, according to John from Collide. Mean

Richard Zamora from AI Driller has one piece of advice for operators modernizing their tech: "Rememb

Andrew Chan predicts the AI crash starts with Cursor: "They have no IP, they're easy to replicate, o

Kirk Coburn on oil markets: "It's easier to buy a barrel than to find a barrel. We're drilling in ti

"You have to be attentive the entire time, maintain your rate, be gentle on increases, and wait unti

"AI committees want automated drilling and seismic interpretation, the sexy stuff. They ignore regul

"Renewable diesel is a drop-in fuel. You put it right in the locomotive that had diesel the day befo

"You'll never see Chevron start experimenting with AI internally and coding their own models. There'

Chad Koury from Koury Exploration ran machine learning with 50 variables at once. But the real value

"We all think we can write software because we wrote scripts in school. Then I started a software co

Andrew Chan from California has a geophysics degree, and here's what he told us about energy transit

"If you're walking in a stream and you step on a rock, that water was super clear. But you step on i

"If a company tells me they're using AI, I ask 'What does that actually mean?' There's pressure to g

"The Bakken's interesting because the success of refracs there is largely attributable to just going

"There's companies you've never heard of emitting 6, 7, 10 tons every year for 20 years. Some pluggi

"China's playing 4D chess while our climate czars are playing Candy Land. They don't care about carb

"We were all probably spending too much time on Venezuela. Iran matters. It's four million barrels a

"For the love of God, mud log the whole thing. A mud logger's $20 an hour. It's so cheap up front an

"I call renewable diesel the cousin of diesel. It works the same way, same pipelines, same tanks. Th

"Sunday evening, 6:26 PM on ERCOT during winter storm Fern: solar was at 0 because the sun's down, w

"Startups go target the super majors as their first clients. You do a free pilot just to get the big

"A lot of engineers aren't social butterflies, but we're all nerds. We all went to school together.

"A re-stimulation costs $600,000. A re-completion with mechanical isolation costs $4.7 million. But

"For 10 years, investors have been hammering companies to improve free cash flow. If I can spend les

Peter Duncan from MicroSeismic said it bluntly: “Pancake fracs are real and they can wreck productio

"How cool is it to come into a job right out of college already having a presence on Collide that po

"People knock space tourism, but it's less about tourism and more about innovation. Think about our

"There's this technology where you induce an electric signal from the surface. It's like a resistivi

"Chavez stood up with no microphone and corrected the CEO: 'It is not Gulf of Paria. It is Golfo de

"The best part about working in these roles? You can see your impact every day." Shad Frazier from C

"We literally sent hellfire missiles to Denmark. Now we're gonna do military action against them? Pu

We’re teaming up with aai agency to host a coffee hour at the Collide HQ on Thursday, January 29 fro

"Industry is focused on new wells 90% of the time. I don't think they understand refracs well enough

"Anyone intellectually honest needs to look at the proficiency of our military today and go, 'Holy s

"We're only recovering 10% of the oil. 90% is still there. That's just mind-blowing to me." John fro

"If you add 3 people to your organization, your productivity actually doesn't scale linearly. It reg

"The next version will literally tell you: 'Look up and to your left to make sure that valve's close

Here's what blew our minds when talking to Mark at Collide: "Tesla's Texas lithium refinery went fro

Fracslap from Collide laid it out: “Talent intensity beats headcount every time.” #startups #leaders

"Chávez started singing a revolutionary song in the middle of his speech. We walked back to the offi

John Kalfayan from Collide put it simply: “If you can’t control oil prices AI helps you lower costs

Chuck Yates from Collide said it best: “The people who win with AI are the ones willing to say screw

Rodney Garrard from Arch Insurance International warned: “Europe’s grid learned the hard way that 10

Colton Dudley from Richroc Consultants said it clearly: “AI won’t replace geophysicists it just make

Real life landmen reacting to landman: “Fence hopping wells without thinking about H2S was way riski

Tyler Wilson at Altor Solution joked: “PDCs drill so fast rigs feel like service units now.” #drilli

Peter Duncan from MicroSeismic noted: “The same tech used to track artillery led to early oil discov

David Pursell was blunt: “After the midterms demand catches up and spare oil capacity is thin.” #oil