Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUS Bombs Iran, Oil Barely Flinches, OPEC Ramps & the Regime Change Gamble | BDE 03.03.26
Episode 188
The Persian Gulf just became a live fire zone and crude is barely flinching. What does that tell you about where oil markets really stand? David Purs…
6 hours ago
Texas Railroad Commission Candidate on Zombie Wells, Injection Crisis & CCS Scam | 02.23.26
Episode 187
Hawk Dunlap, 2026 Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, pulls no punches on zombie wells, produced water injection, and why carbon capt…
1 week, 1 day ago
Chevron Buys Texas Ranch to Dodge Lawsuit, Wind Blade Graveyards & Musk's Space AI | BDE 02.13.26
Episode 186
Kirk, Chuck, and Mark cover Chevron's settlement to buy a West Texas ranch rather than face trial over decades of alleged pollution, Ken Paxton's law…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Devon-Coterra Mega Merger, Data Center Cancellations Spike & Rubio's Mineral OPEC | BDE 02.06.26
Episode 185
Kirk Coburn, Mark Meyer, and Chuck Yates tackle Devon's $58 billion merger with Coterra—a Delaware Basin land grab with Marcellus as an afterthought.…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Winter Storm Fern Flops, ERCOT Grid Survives & IEA's $15 Trillion Oil Mistake | BDE 01.29.26
Episode 184
Winter Storm Fern exposed the grid's contradictions, New England burned 40% oil for power while sitting 300 miles from the Marcellus Shale, ERCOT's b…
1 month ago
Trump at Davos, Natural Gas Spike & Continental Energy Halts Drilling | 01.23.26
Episode 183
Kirk, Chuck, and Mark reunite on the Big Digital Energy Show to dissect the week's chaos - from natural gas spiking 75% in five days while Waha trade…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump vs Exxon on Venezuela, Chevron’s Caution, & Conoco’s $6–$12B Problem | BDE 01.19.26
Episode 182
Venezuela’s “open for business” moment gets a reality check, plus a wild Chavez-in-Houston story that tells you everything you need to know. Mark and…
1 month, 1 week ago
Landman Pay Stagnates, AI Hits the Field, & NAPE Signals a Bigger Energy Shift | 01.14.26
Episode 181
Landman day rates have basically been stuck in neutral since 2000, and Kyle Reynolds of RBG Permian walks Chuck through why that’s turning into a rea…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Year-in-Review: WTI Whiplash, EIA vs Texas Data & Venezuela Shock | BDE 01.09.26
Episode 180
Oil prices, gas at the pump, Venezuela headlines, and a brutally honest scorecard on markets, politics, and global conflict all collide as Chuck and …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Can Venezuela Replace the Permian? Not a Spigot + What to Watch Next | BDE 01.09.25
Episode 179
Headlines love tossing around Venezuela’s “303 billion barrels” like it’s a magic switch, but the reality is messy, expensive, and slow. Mark and Dav…
1 month, 3 weeks ago