The Crude Life Interview: Chase Broussard, DealMakers

March 14, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Interview: Chase Broussard, DealMakers Chase Broussard talks about cost effective, revenue generation, and business growth within the oil and gas sector. Broussard explains how his experience managing projects, people, and executing services has created a niche within the industry. Broussard has experience in Marcellus, Utica, Eagleford ETX & STX, Haynesville, […]

The Crude Life Interview: Breidenstein on flaring, gas capturing

March 3, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Interview: Walter Breidenstein, GasTechno Energy & Fuels Group of Companies Walter Breidenstein, GasTechno Energy & Fuels Group of Companies, talks about the issue of flaring in the Bakken and how his company is providing one of the solutions in gas capturing. Breidenstein is currently living on location, near Stanley, ND, […]

The Weekly Word: Water Wars in the West

February 13, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Greg Walcher, President of the Natural Resources Group, a consulting firm specializing in energy, water, public lands, forestry and wildlife. In addition, Walcher has served in the Governor’s Cabinet as the head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and he also has spent a decade working in the U.S. […]

Energy Events: NAPE EXPO, Greg Reidl

February 2, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Greg Riedl, NAPE Expo , gives an overview of the industry’s major event, held in Houston, TX. This year, NAPE Summit is celebrating 25 years of bringing together dealmakers from all around the world to connect, reconnect and make deals happen. NAPE is the oil and gas industry’s marketplace for […]

The Weekly Word: Wet and dry gas, NY fracs and the Marcellus

January 30, 2018 jasonspiess 0

This Weekly Word with Jason Spiess and the professor Stephen Heins hosts Tom Shepstone from Pennsylvania, who is an urban consultant, community planner, researcher and advisor for zoning and land use in the Northeast of the U.S. Shepstone began the conversation by providing a history of the Appalachian Basin over […]

Patterson 219 Assistance Information and Fundraising Sites

January 24, 2018 jasonspiess 0

A rig explosion devastated Pittsburg County on Monday as five employees on the site were presumed dead pending identification of remains by the state Medical Examiner’s office. Emergency officials received calls about a rig fire around 8:45 a.m. Monday and aerial footage of the scene later showed the derrick at […]

The Weekly Word: Investing in Shale Play USA

January 22, 2018 jasonspiess 0

The Weekly Word is a weekly high level discussion about energy, quality of life, globalism and the environment.  This week Professor Stephen Heins and Jason Spiess are joined by Tsering Ngudu is a Senior Equity Analyst at Tocqueville Asset Management L.P..    Summary written by Stephen Heins, The Word Merchant.   Jason […]

The Weekly Word: The Safety of Fracking

January 2, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Interview: Susan Mickley, MPH – the author of a new report that reviews Pennsylvania Department of Health data on mortality rates in the most drilled counties in the Marcellus, Professor Stephen Heins, energy columnist, owner of the Word Merchant;  and Jason Spiess, The Crude Life Media Network. Summary written by […]

Whiting seeing an increase in Bakken refrac activity

January 1, 2018 jasonspiess 0

Part 1-of-5 in a Series on ReFracs in the Bakken Over the past decade, oil companies have been searching for innovative techniques in order to find new recoverable oil in new places. According to industry reports, approximately 75,000 new wells have been drilled in North America during that time. As […]

ND Gov explains the evolving Bakken job market

December 27, 2017 jasonspiess 0

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum explains how the 15,000 jobs available in the state will be filled by out-of-the-region and out-of-country workers if the area doesn’t fill those positions. He compares a few aspects of what is happening to the Bakken’s economy to what happened in Canada.    

Coffee & Capitalism Radio Episode 150: Do leaders need to reinvent their business plan?

December 11, 2017 jasonspiess 0

Small Business USA Interview: Lynn Helms, director, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Helms explains why business leaders, political leaders and players involved in major decisions need to reinvent themselves as leaders in today’s global economy. GroundBreakers Interview: David Owen, Legalize ND Owen discusses his full cannabis legaliztion ballot initiative, […]

The Weekly Word: The changing global job market

December 9, 2017 jasonspiess 0

Interview: Professor Stephen Heins, energy columnist and owner, The Word Merchant In this week’s episode of The Weekly Word, host Jason Spiess and Heins talk about the ever-changing global oil industry.  A big portion of the discussion is on the addition of oil and gas jobs across the country, and […]

The Weekly Word: Pipeline spills and the religion of environmentalism

November 25, 2017 jasonspiess 0

Interview: Professor Stephen Heins, energy columnist and owner, The Word Merchant On this week’s installment of The Weekly Word with professor Stephen Heins, climate change and environmentalism are discussed. Heins begins talking about the recent pipeline spills and how pipelines are still the most effecient and safe means fo crude […]

The Weekly Bakken Get Together: U.S. Senator John Hoeven

November 23, 2017 jasonspiess 0

In the latest installment of The Weekly Bakken Get Together, host Jason Spiess sits down with U.S. Senator John Hoeven to discuss: Energy development in the Bakken Comments on North Dakota Governor’s challenge to oil and gas Quality of life increases in the Bakken How energy is driving ND’s entrepreneurship […]