When an oil executive goes missing aboard the deep-sea Atlas Station, the company sends agent Synøve Pan down for answers — and she’s just the woman to get them. Welcome to the Second Oil Age: a sci-fi podcast that transports listeners to a post–energy-crisis world in which humanity’s thirst for oil is satisfied through a bargain with a mysterious deep-sea species. The first three episodes drop October 31st.

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UDEX agent Synøve Pan descends toward Atlas Station in search of a missing person, but discovers she’s not alone aboard the automated sub.

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Suspended between a troubled surface world and her deep-sea destination, UDEX agent Synøve Pan strikes a deal with a stowaway journalist -- and prepares for what awaits her on Atlas Station.

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Synøve Pan arrives at Atlas Station and encounters a bustling hub of deepsea industry. She comes face to face with the station’s authority figures -- and begins asking inconvenient questions.

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Synøve Pan wanders the crowded confines of Atlas Station, seeking answers in a looking-glass distortion of the world above. As her pharmacological enhancements wear off, she’s forced to face some of her own inner demons.

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Synøve Pan finally meets an emissary of the Deep and demands answers in her missing persons case. She gets far more than she bargained for.

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Chaos erupts on Atlas Station and Synøve Pan is thrust into the very center of the conflict.

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The ocean holds many deeper, darker places than Atlas Station -- and Synøve Pan finds herself trapped there and charged with a heinous betrayal.

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