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- Apr 10, 20261h 21m
EP 83: Paul Brown from BDE Data
Paul Brown, Founder and Principal Engineer at BDE Data, joins John and Bobby all the way from Scotland for a conversation that covers a lot of ground. From his days as an international drilling engineer dodging pirates off the coast of West Africa to building WellSchematic.com and tackling the nightmare of digitizing 50-year-old multilingual well files, Paul is the rare person who speaks both languages fluently.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Oil prices, energy costs, and life in Scotland vs Texas01:50 - Paul's background and path from drilling to data08:19 - WellSchematic.com and legacy well data as a service10:52 - Drilling war stories: West Africa and the Falklands15:00 - UK oil industry and energy policy34:41 - Legacy well file digitization38:06 - The PDF table extraction problem42:22 - Open source models vs foundational models44:31 - AI stack, data privacy, and cloud infrastructure51:54 - AI's role in the upstream industry56:04 - Getting tech adopted in the drilling world59:06 - Coding journey: from PHP and Laravel to Python1:02:22 - Advice for engineers getting into coding1:09:38 - Programming languages and AI-assisted development1:11:56 - Cursor and Claude Code1:13:55 - Speed round: Scotland, whiskey, and cloud platformshttps://twitter.com/collide_aihttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
- Mar 6, 20261h 35m
EP 82: John Ely, The Godfather of Frac
When you have 80 patents and a lifetime achievement award in hydraulic fracturing, you have seen some things. John William Ely, Founder of Ely and Associates Corp, and Jon Harper, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, talk frac history, pre-job diagnostics, the slick water revolution, geothermal, and why the industry keeps pumping the same thing and expecting different results.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Intro and guest backgrounds3:25 - John William Ely's origin story7:45 - Offshore blowout and well control in the Middle East11:25 - How fracturing has evolved over 50 years19:30 - The slick water revolution and where we went wrong27:40 - Pre-job diagnostics and what operators overlook36:55 - Geothermal applications and completions challenges43:50 - Parent-child well interaction and offset communication47:00 - Refracing and diversion54:15 - Increasing recovery factor1:06:35 - Longer laterals, U-turn wells, and land-driven decisions1:12:35 - Knowledge gaps in the next generation of engineers1:25:20 - The untapped tight conventional opportunity1:30:02 - Advice for young engineers entering the industryhttps://twitter.com/collide_aihttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
- Feb 27, 20261h 10m
EP 81: Deren, Dagen and Josh from Firm App
Owner relations in oil and gas has been shoved in a corner forever, basically a "here's your check, don't call me" situation, and Deren Boyd, Dagen Boyd, and Josh Wright, co-founders of Firm App, are building the platform to fix that. These three started in oilfield safety software with iScout, got acquired by KPA, and now they're tackling the massive gap between operators and their surface and mineral owners with AI-powered multichannel communication. We're talking voice agents with adjustable accents, auto-responding emails, chat widgets that actually work, and an owner-facing app that puts payment info and well data in people's pockets. Plus the OKC crew gives their take on Devon and Expand relocating and what that means for the city.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Devon and Expand leaving OKC, what it means on the ground4:42 What is owner relations and why has it been ignored7:18 Timing and the generational shift driving tech adoption10:10 How operators have been duct-taping owner relations together12:05 The owner-facing app and multichannel approach14:38 AI voice agents, email auto-response, and chatbot workflows18:15 Building and rebuilding AI architecture every six months21:29 Under the hood on voice AI, latency, and conversation nuance26:37 School districts, 10,000 page websites, and unexpected use cases34:58 The iScout origin story and oilfield safety software42:17 Getting thrown in the penalty box and winning work back with data46:13 Revenue statements, vendor portals, and what owners actually ask about52:24 NAPE plans and the land community54:48 Business model and implementation timeline55:58 NIL, college athletics, and the dumpster fire1:04:36 Dev tools, Claude Code, and the future of SaaShttps://twitter.com/collide_aihttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai
- Feb 20, 20261h 25m
EP 80: Kayla Ball from SensorUp
Bobby Neelon and John Kalfayan sit down with Kayla Ball to break down why the methane compliance space is stuck in the trough of disillusionment, how she ended up cleaning up Petra's flat file nightmare at IHS, and why vibe coding with Claude feels like training your own replacement. They dig into sensor data chaos across ops teams, why public data companies should be worried, the wild difference between building lovable prototypes versus commercial deployments with SOC2 governance, and how AI is forcing everyone to confront the fact that humans shouldn't be entering data into anything anymore.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 - Devon and Chesapeake leaving Oklahoma City4:50 - What SensorUp actually does beyond sensors11:40 - Methane space challenges and compliance markets18:30 - Why standardizing sensor data is so hard26:40 - Getting into product management from geology32:45 - AI automating regulatory workflows and field inspections38:50 - Vibe coding prototypes versus productizing for enterprises45:15 - Public data moat questions for IHS and Enverus52:30 - Duck Lake and licensing components over custom dev58:15 - Product management changing with Claude Code1:04:40 - Data problems holding back AI adoption1:11:20 - Speed round on youth sports complexes and baseball1:22:40 - Hot takes and wrapping uphttps://twitter.com/collide_iohttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
- Feb 13, 20261h 8m
EP 79: Hussein Shel from AWS
Hussein Shel, CTO and head of business development for energy and utilities at Amazon Web Services, joins Bobby and John to talk about his journey from Chevron engineer to cloud technology leader. They explore how AI coding tools are changing the game for energy companies, why the barrier to entry for building apps has never been lower, and what it means when your reservoir engineer can now spin up their own solutions in minutes instead of months. Hussein shares why he thinks we're only scratching the surface of what's possible when you combine domain expertise with modern AI tools, discusses the cultural shifts needed for energy companies to move fast, and explains why he's both excited about AI's potential and concerned about its massive energy demands.If you’re into energy tech, you’re in the right place. John and Bobby have built a deep catalog of conversations with the minds modernizing energy inside companies like AWS, Snowflake, Devon Energy, and more. Listen to the full library on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or watch at https://collide.io/community.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Welcome and introductions03:14 - Early AI experiments and low-code tools08:11 - Core principles that haven't changed12:04 - Managing costs and governance15:15 - Data access and shadow IT17:16 - Building apps in weeks vs months19:25 - Domain-specific foundation models21:10 - AWS infrastructure and energy footprint26:21 - Custom silicon and partnerships29:11 - Current AI model landscape33:36 - Enterprise adoption challenges38:58 - Cultural change from the top42:06 - Scoping problems and quick wins46:16 - Legacy systems and technical debt52:18 - Building AI-first energy companies56:57 - Tech debt acceleration1:00:04 - Speed round and favorite spotshttps://twitter.com/collide_iohttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
- Dec 23, 202549 min
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Ship When AI Pilots Fail
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping war stories from completions, geophysics, and the startup trenches while they map out how Collide Enterprise moves past basic chat tools into search plus workflows that actually hold up in the real world.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 Setup and intros 00:45 Michael’s path and joining Collide 01:59 Nick’s background and role shift 03:08 Collide Enterprise vs community 04:16 Search, RAG, and workflow evolution 06:31 Why out of the box AI falls short 08:41 Time savings and real work focus 11:39 Single source of truth vision 13:16 Small teams scaling bigger assets 17:18 AI adoption vs past tech hype 19:26 Digital transformation missing link 20:20 Why FDEs make pilots work 23:36 Biggest learnings this year 31:52 What’s next in 2026 38:57 Bold predictions for 3 to 5 years 47:37 Fine tuned models teaser and wraphttps://twitter.com/collide_iohttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcattershttps://app.collide.io/content/RprbJAD
- Dec 5, 20251h 10m
EP 78: Bruce Holman & Corey Scott from Energy Payables
Bruce Holman and Corey Scott showed up ready to blow up the idea that accounts payable has to be slow, messy, and stuck in the past. They walked us through how Energy Payables is flipping the script with a platform that actually makes sense for operators and vendors, think cleaner workflows, real transparency, and smart tech like AI doing the heavy lifting instead of some poor soul buried in spreadsheets. Between the stories from the field, the back-office chaos they’re fixing, and the vision they have for where oil and gas operations should be headed, this conversation feels like a peek at how the industry finally gets out of its own way and into something a whole lot more efficient.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro01:42 - EnergyLink Platform08:37 - JIBLink Overview14:15 - Understanding JIBs18:10 - Vision for the Platform20:57 - Evolution of Tech Stack26:08 - Introduction to Energy Payables28:18 - What is Energy Payables?30:14 - Network Effects in Energy Sector32:50 - Vendor Pain Points38:15 - Energy Payables Pricing Model40:25 - AI Impact on Energy Ogre44:05 - AI for Normalizing Frac Data47:43 - Data Extraction from PDFs50:35 - Azure Cloud Solutions52:07 - Introduction to DataFoundry55:54 - Token Models Explained58:12 - Overview of DuckDB59:04 - Energy Payables API Insights1:02:30 - Speed Round Discussion1:06:44 - Contact Information1:08:35 - Conclusion and Wrap Uphttps://twitter.com/collide_iohttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
- Nov 28, 20251h 13m
EP 77: Justin McBroom, Operations Data Specialist
Justin has a way of making the oilfield and the data world feel like they’ve always belonged together. He walked us through how he’s helped teams untangle messy workflows, clean up data quality issues, and actually make analytics useful instead of overwhelming. From his time at Marathon Oil to experimenting with tools like Snowflake and Alteryx, he’s all about boosting efficiency and giving people the confidence to make smarter decisions. We also ended up talking about where AI actually fits into oil and gas, not the hype, but the stuff that genuinely moves the needle.Click here to watch a video of this episode.Join the conversation shaping the future of energy.Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward.Apply today at collide.ioClick here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro01:12 - Justin McBroom Introduction05:29 - Data as a Strategic Asset09:08 - Accessing Data Effectively11:04 - Optimizing Spotfire Performance14:30 - Common Pitfalls to Avoid17:44 - Empowering Your Workforce19:50 - Alteryx Virtual Query Builder Insights27:38 - Justin’s 100+ Day Streak Achievement29:37 - Analyzing Most Popular Posts31:12 - Strategies for Successful Posts33:55 - The Dynamics of Social Media Posting37:18 - The Return of Vine40:06 - Passionate Posts Discussion46:02 - AI Designed for Success50:29 - Recommendations for Companies55:20 - Encouraging Tool Exploration57:28 - Accountability in Work1:06:06 - Speed Round Q&A1:09:04 - Favorite Houston Restaurant Picks1:09:31 - Tools Everyone Should Use1:10:27 - How to Connect with Justinhttps://twitter.com/collide_iohttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters
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