It’s March Madness folks and for many it’s that time of year again when Las Vegas gambling becomes Black Friday activity level and places of work get more sick day requests than the rest of the year combined. This year The Crude Life will be running another March Madness Bracket […]
I received one of the best news tips in years this week, and at the same time it was one of the most bone-chilling signs of our new reality. I should point out that in 2009, I hosted a Night Show in Fargo which had a live video stream in-studio […]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 446. Professional Executive Coach, Father, Husband, Business Owner and Podcaster Joe Sinnott joins Jason Spiess to talk about how to navigate the management waters of the Monday Morning Quarterbacks the day after the Super Bowl and […]
Does your organization need a Chief ESG Officer. That is a question many within the inner ESG circles have been asking. And by there way, there are many ESG inner circles right now floating around the planet, which is one of the best arguments for a Chief ESG Officer. However, […]
It sure seemed like Chesapeake Energy was all in a NAPE 2022. From the booths to the meetings to the presentations to the executive chairman playing some reindeer games with the attendees. Well college football games really. “Today, we’re going to play a game and the game is going to […]
Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and was introduced in the House of Representatives by House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and […]
Summit Carbon Solutions announced that Continental Resources Inc. will commit $250 million over the next two years to help fund the development and construction of Summit’s $4.5 billion carbon capture and sequestration project. Continental Resources Chairman Harold Hamm and CEO Bill Berry along with Summit Agricultural Group CEO Bruce Rastetter […]
Over the weekend week I was catching up on my reading with a couple of hippie do-goodery publications like “Peas On Earth” and “New Jack Hippie”, and came across an interesting news brief (from last year) about the European city of Brussels creating a world where deisel and gasoline cars […]
It’s an ENCORE airing after a donation to the University of Mary (after Oklahoma State University), The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviews Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources, after he spoke at Wildcatters Wednesday at The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. Hamm talks about […]
The Crude Life had the privileged to be invited on to the production studio and set of Sherwood Forest, a docufilm about a historic time in American Oil and Gas’s impact on global independence and empowerment. By the summer of 1942, the future of Great Britain and the outcome of World War […]
Jason Isaac, Director of Life:Powered, a national initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to raise America’s energy IQ, joined Jason Spiess to talk about how Texas became the first state to break through on the ESG Narrative allowing fossil fuels to have a seat at the table. “We were […]
Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director, Power The Future (PTF) joins Jason Spiess to talk about Nord Stream 2, Russia and the Ukraine. “After the Biden Administration consistently got it wrong on Nord Stream 2, it’s truly unfortunate that it took Germany to stop the process from moving forward. America […]
Move over Survivor and Amazing Race, the Texas Railroad Commission election has become one of the most interesting reality shows in the nation. This year’s race has almost everything. It’s got an incumbent fighting to keep his spot, a newcomer endorsed by the state’s largest newspaper and an upstart female […]
John Di Lemme is a speaker, author, capitalism strategist, conservative political commentator, and founder of the Conservative Business Journal with a team of 20+ contributors. He has built one of the top Conservative news sites feared by the fake news with a proven Alexa ranking. On this episode John discusses […]
Bobby Adkins, iTankData, joins The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin at NAPE to discuss how time is money. Adkins explains how their software is allowing companies to access real data on their phones and laptops in order to see uptime, downtime and other metrics. “CFOs get it in […]
Since I began writing for more news outlets outside of oil and gas my inbox has been filled with news tips, press releases and interview ideas. Well this one actually came from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). About a week ago, Apple filed their report for its 2021 […]
In response to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Saturday night filing asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to stay the decision overturning the arbitrary use of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), Western Energy Alliance issued the below statement attributable to Alliance president Kathleen Sgamma. In its filing, […]
Western Energy Alliance criticized the Department of the Interior for extending the onshore leasing ban another quarter, as it missed the 45-day deadline to hold a sale in the first quarter of 2022. The missed deadline means continued defiance of a court order requiring the department to hold lease sales […]
Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) reported fourth quarter 2022 net income of $649 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, which includes the impact of certain items not typically represented in analysts’ earnings estimates and that would otherwise affect comparability of results. The adjusted net income was $592 million, or $0.77 per […]
After spending some time on his literal death bed, The ESG Doubting Thomas is back full of ESG and Vinegar! Wordsmith and poet Stephen Heins returns to The Crude Life to share his continued doubts about the ESG movement and it’s intention. Host Jason Spiess discusses some of the recent […]
Here are this week’s special guests on The Crude Life Week in Review Episode 444. Heath Holloway, CEO, Titan Solutions, joins Jason Spiess to talk about their 3-Year Anniversary with Incident Free Operations in their Greeley, Colorado offices. Todd Garland, CEO, Great American Mining company is one of those “smart […]
Thomas Ratliff, co-owner and geophysicist at DDD Exploration, (pronounced 3-D Exploration) joins The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin at NAPE 2022. Ratliff and Lavin begin the interview talking about conventional methods in oil and gas. “We built our company around 3D seismic, and we’ve always liked to use 3D […]
Drew Allen is a Texas-bred, California-based millennial author, columnist, and political analyst. Fluent in Italian, Drew has lived and worked in Italy in the fashion industry and in New York City and Los Angeles as an actor, screenwriter, and independent film producer. He is a fresh, young, bold voice for […]
Bismarck (ND) resident Dustin Gawrylow announced his intention to seek a seat on the Burleigh County Commission. Gawrylow is a political consultant and lobbyist by trade and specializes in Taxpayer Advocacy – having served as the Managing Director of the North Dakota Watchdog Network since 2012, and Executive Director of […]
FERC today issued two policy statements, providing guidance for future consideration of natural gas projects by the Commission. In addition to providing an analytical framework for many need, environmental and public interest issues that arise when companies seek to build new natural gas facilities, the certificate policy statement and interim […]
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is exploring the issue of oil pipeline capacity allocation problems that can arise when irregular events or factors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, affect demand for oil pipeline capacity. Specifically, the Commission is responding to concerns regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on jet […]
Curtis Shuck, Chairman of the Board, Well Done Foundation joined Jason Spiess, who was guest hosting on SuperTalk 1270’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken, about the recent endorsements, ambassadors and scheduled projects. Throughout the interview, Jason opines how the new Orphan Well craze has a “sexiness” to it that […]
Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of the canine. I have personally adopted ten dogs in my adult life and honestly prefer the company of dogs to most humans. Since these ESG University Classroom Columns are all about transparency, I figured a disclaimer about my favoritism towards dogs should be […]
Professional Executive Coach, Father, Husband, Business Owner and Podcaster Joe Sinnott joins Jason Spiess to talk about how to navigate the management waters of the Monday Morning Quarterbacks the day after the Super Bowl and water cooler talk when people are not able to meet at the water cooler. Since […]
One of the hottest political races in the country is happening in Texas right now. It’s the Texas Railroad Commissioner race and it’s got everything a salacious political race could ask for, and some reality you wish that wouldn’t have happened at all. Candidate Marvin Leon “Sarge” Summers fell victim […]
Scott St. John, Reagan Smith, joins The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin live at NAPE 2022 in Houston TX. The two discuss how the environmental and cultural past impact the present and future projects. Primarily the interview discusses how Indian (Native American) land, Federal Land and cultural archeology […]
UPDATED: The Lake Ridge Chapel & Memorial Designers have released funeral and obituary information on Marvin “Sarge” Summers. There will be a broadcast of the Celebration of Life, which can be found here. Obituary The family of Marvin “Sarge” Summers will celebrate his life of 69 years at 1:00 […]
Trent Korby, Owner/CEO, Korwell Energy Services, joins Jason Spiess to talk about their company’s journey, which has been a roller coaster of dedicating full time, part time and full time once again of personal and professional time allocation. Korby gives an overview of their services as well. Korwell Energy is […]
With over 400 exhibiting companies, 300 prospects and millions of acres registered, the NAPE expo floor is open for business — and dealmakers and decision-makers are connecting, reconnecting and making deals happen! Zach and Allison Corcoran of Sir Drake Oil and Gas Co. in Corpus Christi, Texas, hit pay dirt […]
Matt Welch, State Director at Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, talks with Jason Spiess about the The Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance (TXGEA) and how he sees geothermal energy playing a role in oil and gas. The Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance is a Texas-based, Texas-led advocacy organization created for the purpose […]
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