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Big Digital Energy

Big Digital Energy

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Welcome to Big Digital Energy with Chuck Yates, Mark Meyer and Kirk Coburn. Weekly news in energy covering oil and gas and cleantech.2025 Digital Wildcatters, Inc Politics & Government
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  • Trump at Davos, Natural Gas Spike & Continental Energy Halts Drilling | 01.23.26
    Jan 23 2026

    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 trades negative, to Trump's Davos windmill rant and the mainstream media's Greenland invasion hysteria. They break down why Harold Hamm's decision to shut down Continental's drilling makes perfect economic sense at $70 oil, debate whether 50% well-level returns ever translated to actual corporate performance, and explain how OPEC's Amine Nasser is signaling that global spare capacity is actually lower than the 2.5% he's publicly claiming. Plus, the crew explores how AI-native workflows are creating trillion-dollar opportunities by capturing decision-making data that Excel spreadsheets and Salesforce never could, all while Kirk dodges the incoming Dallas ice storm from his parents' house.

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    00:00 Winter storm forecast and natural gas price spike
    04:36 Waha pricing chaos and infrastructure bottlenecks
    07:49 Trump's Davos speech and windmill comments
    15:16 Military action in Greenland media hysteria explained
    19:00 UK turning North Sea into museum of regret
    21:14 China's climate strategy and green technology positioning
    26:20 Harold Hamm shuts down Continental drilling completely
    31:14 Well-level returns versus corporate performance disconnect
    35:15 Aramco CEO on global spare capacity concerns
    40:07 AI-native software capturing workflow data

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  • Trump vs Exxon on Venezuela, Chevron’s Caution, & Conoco’s $6–$12B Problem | BDE 01.19.26
    Jan 19 2026

    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 David Pursell unpack why Exxon and friends are hesitant, what the EIA gets right and wrong, why the forward curve is the real lie detector, how Iran risk actually moves barrels, BP’s renewable hangover, and Tesla casually speed-running a lithium refinery in Texas.

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    00:00 Tech hiccups and setup
    01:00 Chavez Houston story
    05:00 Trump press conference and Venezuela hype
    08:00 Why Venezuela isn’t investable
    14:30 EIA outlook and US production
    19:00 Rigs, frac spreads, and revisions
    22:00 Backwardation vs contango
    27:00 Iran supply risk
    30:30 Condensate and power constraints
    38:30 Geopolitical risk premiums
    40:30 BP write-downs and strategy shifts
    46:30 Energy transition reality check
    53:30 Tesla lithium refinery in Texas
    56:30 Data centers and power scramble
    01:01:30 Wrap-up and outlook

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  • Landman Pay Stagnates, AI Hits the Field, & NAPE Signals a Bigger Energy Shift | 01.14.26
    Jan 14 2026

    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 real problem as the field vets age out. Along the way they hit what AAPL actually does, why records still aren’t fully digital, how AI is speeding up title work without replacing judgment, and why NAPE is quietly turning into a marketplace for way more than just oil and gas.

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    00:00 Oscars cold open and grim stats tease
    01:00 AAPL basics and what it actually does
    03:20 The field landman shortage and aging workforce
    05:10 Day rates vs inflation and the ROI argument
    06:05 Why tech hasn’t removed courthouse work
    12:15 Speeding up drill readiness with better pay and tools
    15:30 AI in land work, productivity, and replacement fears
    20:00 Why humans still need the rules to break them
    26:00 Data centers, minerals, and land becoming the bottleneck
    33:20 NAPE dates, format changes, and what’s new
    36:20 Hubs: bitcoin, minerals, rare earths, offshore, data centers
    39:05 Energy is really electrons now
    41:10 Paying for quality and avoiding expensive cleanup later

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