The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 22
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HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Jason Spiess and Sterling start the show off with a run down of The Crude Life’s upcoming travel schedule and trip to Bismarck, ND, to meet with Mayor Steve Bakken and members of the forestry department for The Industrial Forest. The Crude Life will also be in the DJ Basin and Wyoming the next week.
Jason talks about “abiotic oil” and how that theory has never been disproven, but is considered fringe science. Abiotic oil is the theory that petroleum and natural gas deposits are mostly formed by inorganic means in the mantle and core, rather than by the decomposition of organisms.
That fringe science hypothesis transitioned into a juxtaposition of how consensus science can suppress real science, like in today’s Climate Change science and yesterday’s Pangea science of plate tectonics.
Dr. Alfred Wegener, trained as an astronomer, used biology, botany, and geology describe Pangaea and continental drift as evidence for his theory. This was mocked and ridiculed by the establishment and consensus of scientists in the early 1900’s. Wegener died before his Pangea research was ever accepted as fact by consensus science.
The Play Hard portion of the morning show continues with a discussion about past Valentine’s Day experiences and what Valentine’s Week is.
News, Rumors and Newspeak
New Mexico land commissioner increases oversight of oil and gas operators
Oil and gas operators must abide by their contractual obligations to run productive wells on public lands and clean up when they’re finished — or face a new enforcement hammer.
State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard launched an effort late last year to more strictly enforce the terms of the state’s oil and gas contracts, most notably companies’ obligation to plug expired oil wells and clean up junked equipment, debris and spills when their leases end.
From the air: Drone technology locates unplugged oil and gas wells
America’s first oil and gas rush began before the Civil War, with New York and Pennsylvania at the forefront. In 1821, the country’s first gas well was drilled in Fredonia. The first oil well came to Rushford in 1860.
As the wells went offline through the years, some were plugged with materials ranging from bowling balls to tree trunks. Others simply disappeared from view, their locations lost and overgrown.
Binghamton University geophysics researchers are at the forefront of a new way to locate these abandoned wells safely using drones, and recently published their findings in the Journal of Applied Geophysics.
Invasive Asian carp is getting a new name and a public makeover to draw more eaters
Care for a plate of slimehead? How about some orange roughy?
It’s the same fish, but one sounds much more palatable than the other. The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service gave the slimehead a rebranding in the late 1970s in an effort to make the underused fish more marketable.
Now, Illinois officials and their partners want to give the invasive Asian carp threatening the Great Lakes a similar makeover. The goal: To grow the fish’s image as a healthy, delicious, organic, sustainable food source — which will, in turn, get more fishermen removing more tons of the fish from Illinois rivers just outside of Lake Michigan.
In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview: Jim Scherrer, World Shale Energy Day
Once a year, the shale energy industry comes together across the world to celebrate the transformative nature of organic-rich black shale and the array of amazing professionals who make it all possible.
With open houses, meetings, webinars, online forums, show-and-tell, and networking events, World Shale Energy Day provides a rich immersion into the shale energy ecosystem.
World Shale Energy Day aims to raise awareness of the contribution that shale has made and will make to our society and to celebrate the diverse range of people that plan, provision and execute shale energy recovery projects from large fields down to smaller regional plays.
The celebration is held on March 17th each year; a day associated with the first commercial hydraulic fracture process in 1949.
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer discusses the difference and similarities with President Joe Biden’s executive orders regarding pipelines, specifically the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline.
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