Podcast Off by 238,000 Pounds: What Weight on Bit Actually Means When Peter looked at drilling rig specs showing a 1 million pound hook capacity, he made an educated guess about weight on bit: 250,000 pounds.
Interviews The Real Reason We'll NEVER Run Out of Oil Chad Koury is a brilliant mind in the oil and gas industry. With each new listen, there's something new to pull out of this conversation; Chad has great stories and ideas that you can apply to your personal life and career.
Interviews How a 1968 Well Became Wireline Training Grounds How a Texas farmer built a wireline training company from a forgotten well, bringing people from all over the world to learn the art of oil and gas wireline.
Podcast Featured Why California Just Reversed Course on Oil (And How Petcoke is Changing the Game) California will hopefully pass SB 237 and 767 passed into law soon, and petcoke is starting to pop up on our social media feeds now.
Podcast Why 3,000 Pounds of Sand is INSANE Why sand and propant matters and Exxon's new petcoke product, and the difference between the Greek letter "Pi" and "Phi"
Articles Wireline Insights from an Oklahoma Independent Modern engineers can't interpret historical wireline logs despite needing that data to find the next hole... and other old-timer thoughts.
Podcast How To Track Oil Prices Using Ford Raptors Why the Ford Raptor index is critical for determining how things are really going in the oil field, and why layoffs are cyclical.
Podcast Drilling Rigs and Surfboards Are Basically the Same Thing Discover why drilling rigs and surfboards share surprising similarities in this week's oil & gas chat with Peter Brecht and Wade Spear
Podcast Swag, Drill Bits, and Bad Abbrevs Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk about Underdog Wire and Pipewhisperer swag, oil and gas drill bits, and bad abbreviations.
Articles All About Drill Bits Complete guide to oil & gas drill bits: PDC, roller cone, hybrid Kymera™ technology. Selection strategies, economics & operational impact.
Articles How AI Drones Could Replace Oil Field Pumpers Peter Brecht and Wade Spear talk with Unmanned Operator, an edge AI drone company solving pumper problems on the oilfield.
Podcast Stuck Pipe Recovery: Free Point Tools, String Shots & Jarring Explained Stuck Pipe Recovery: Free Point Tools, String Shots & Jarring Explained
Podcast OKC, 700 Fracks, and Interstellar Peter visits Wade in Oklahoma City for The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma engineers meet up. We talk fracking numbers, fishbone wells, and nitrogen.
Podcast Does AI predict production better than engineers? Peter and Wade talk about ChatGPT analyzing LAS files, king snakes, and attorneys.
Articles Featured Flowback vs. Well Testing We learned a lot about flowback vs well testing from our fans, and we got a lot of stuff wrong.
Interviews Red Dirt Results: Growth Through Reliability Scott Gilliland is an incredible human, working the oil and gas fields in Oklahoma.
Articles Never Do That Again On August 7, 2023, with tripping operations underway, a member of the drill crew was caught between a moving hydratong and a pipe stump in the rotary. Thankfully, the floorhand sustained only minor injuries.
