Oil and Gas Startups Podcast

A lot entrepreneurs don’t know how to stop hustling. Celestine Vettical is one of those guys. After selling his last startup, Performix, to Baker Hughes he could have easily kicked back and relaxed a bit. Instead he identified a new problem in the industry, rolled up his sleeves and founded inerG. Enjoy! Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

The one and only Josh Robbins of Beachwood joins us again to talk about the launch of their Beachwood Cloud product which allows oil & gas asset sellers to list their deals for free. Thank you to our sponsor: Datagration. Download the latest paper from Datagration, “Improving Unconventional Asset Evaluationn by Automating Data Analytics”: https://www.datagration.com/improving-unconventional-asset-evaluation Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

This episode is different - Schlumberger is very far from a startup. But we have a pretty interesting story of the genesis of their DELFI product, which they dub as a Cognitive E&P Environment. The original team was comprised of a just a few people and one of those being, Melissa Suman. We had a great conversation talking about her career with Schlumberger over the past two decades and now running the show on their software side. Real quick before we get into the episode: April 24th , we are hosting the Inaugural Wildcatters’ Block Party down in historic Richmond, Texas. It’s going to be at Chuck Yate’s house and we’re shutting down the street. There’s gonna be all you can eat crawfish, cold beer, tasty margaritas, live music, and even a cornhole tournament. It’s going to be a blast and we’re excited to see all of you in person again. Just go to the website to register and we’ll see you guys there! Thank you to our sponsor: Datagration. Download the latest paper from Datagration, “Improving Unconventional Asset Evaluationn by Automating Data Analytics”: https://www.datagration.com/improving-unconventional-asset-evaluation Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

This week, we had the chance to sit down with Scott Hamilton, Founder & CEO, of Hex Technology. These guys guys realized early on that this entire industry is comprised of nuts and bolts and these tend to be where failures happen. This was due to the fact that no one was properly trained on how to assemble things. So Scott walked us through how set out on a mission to do educational training for various organizations, predominately on the downstream side of the business. Real quick before we get into the episode: April 24th , we are hosting the Inaugural Wildcatters' Block Party down in historic Richmond, Texas. It's going to be at Chuck Yate's house and we're shutting down the street. There's gonna be all you can eat crawfish, cold beer, tasty margaritas, live music, and even a cornhole tournament. It's going to be a blast and we're excited to see all of you in person again. Just go to the website to register and we'll see you guys there! Download the latest paper from Datagration, “Improving Unconventional Asset Evaluation by Automating Data Analytics”: https://www.datagration.com/improving-unconventional-asset-evaluation Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

We've grown our lineup of podcasts recently and one of those is Petronerds hosted by Trisha Curtis and Ethan Bellamy. They're absolutely crushing it on that show. Both of them come from the research and consulting side of the industry and are able to dissect both the macro and micro trends to really break down what's going on in the industry, so go check out their podcast. In this episode, we finally sit down with Trisha and really dive into how she ended up consulting some of the biggest players in the space - various E&Ps, the Pentagon, and even OPEC. On April 24th, we are hosting the Inaugural Wildcatter's Block Party down in historic Richmond, Texas. It's going to be at Chuck Yate's house and we're shutting down the street. There's gonna be all you can eat crawfish, cold beer, tasty margaritas, live music, and even a cornhole tournament. It's gonna be a blast and we're excited to see all of you in person again. Just go to the website to register and we'll see you guys there! Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

This week we had Ben Heinzelmann from Energy Domain on the show. Now you may know Ben from another popular startup, MineralWare. He dives in to tell us about the new product they've beeb building with Energy Domain and creating a market place for O&G assets. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

We sat down with Chip Moldenhauer (our first DC guest), CEO of Arbo, to talk about his story and how he got started. Chip has a great story and like many entrepreneurs, he saw problems in the industry and decided to create a solution. Arbo provides software technology and analytics to the energy marketing, transportation, and trading industries for decision analysis and business automation. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Last year, the biggest Energy Tech acquisition, potentially of all time, happened when Enverus acquired RSEG for over $1b - solidifying their position as the 600 lb gorilla of Energy Tech. While we didn't talk about Enverus, we did dive into the genesis of RSEG. Peter Bernard joined us this week to talk about how as chairman, he pieced together a few companies to create the modern version of RSEG most of us know, and the importance of knowing the right time to sell. We dove deep into his next chapter as the chairman of Datagration and all of the cool stuff they're doing in the space. This was a really fascinating conversation and we've already joked about getting Peter back on for part 2. Also if you didn't know yet, on March 10th we are hosting an event called Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas. Big thanks to TechnipFMC for being the headlining sponsor. The question we are trying to answer is what does the next evolution of oil & gas look like? And what cutting technologies can help us get there? Registration is completely free. Just go to: digitalwildcatters.com/evolve Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

In the oil & Gas industry, we depend very heavily on our equipment. And the more you use your equipment, the dirtier it gets. So to extend the life of the equipment your operations rely on, you've gotta keep your stuff clean. Darrell Stang from Clean As New came by the studio to talk to us about how they're using their Tech Sonic technology to clean huge heat exchangers. This tech is pretty cool - to my understanding it's high pressure water and sound waves and that works some sort of magic. Also if you didn't know yet, on March 10th we are hosting an event called Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas. Big thanks to TechnipFMC for being the headlining sponsor. The question we are trying to answer is what does the next evolution of oil & gas look like? And what cutting technologies can help us get there? Registration is completely free. Just go to: digitalwildcatters.com/evolve Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.

Oilfield Services have really gotten the short end of the stick over the last decade. As soon as commodity prices start to slip, E&P’s start asking for major discounts from their vendors, thus cutting into the already really thin margins.Despite all of this, there are still OFS startups like Panther Fluids popping up across the industry. We talked about how they’re setting themselves a part from their competitors and how they’ve evolved and expanded into new offerings that they hope will provide them an edge.Great episode, I hope y’all enjoy it.Also if you didn’t know yet, on March 10th we are hosting an event called Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas. Big thanks to TechnipFMC for being the headlining sponsor.Events have always been a big part of what we do and we wanted to figure out a way do a virtual event that wouldn’t suck. We wrangled up some of the biggest names in the industry including Toby Rice – CEO of EQT, Dan Pickering, CIO of Pickering Energy Partners, Allen Gilmer, Chairman and Founder of Enverus, David Ramsden-Wood & Chuck Yates.We’ll be having casual conversations about what this next Evolution of Oil & Gas is going to look like and how we can leverage cutting technologies to get there.... Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io. Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions.