Oil Ground Up

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Inside the High-Stakes World of Wireline and Modern Fracking

This episode of the Oil Ground Up podcast features host Rory Johnston in conversation with Andy De La Rosa, a senior field engineer with 15 years of experience in the wireline industry. De La Rosa describes wireline as the "tip of the spear" for the fracking process, utilizing sp ...  Show more

From Super Major to Super Surplus: Parsing Chaos in the Oil Market with Doug Terreson

The Oil Ground Up podcast welcomes Doug Terreson to parse the dynamics of the chaotic and confusing current oil market. Terreson details his illustrious career path, which included drilling oil wells for Schlumberger, managing one of the world’s largest energy funds on the buy si ...  Show more

What's at Stake with Venezuela's Oil Industry as US Military Activities Escalate

The Trump Administration has gotten increasingly aggressive in its relations with Nicholas Maduro's government in Venezuela, accumulating a historic volume of US military capability in the Caribbean and cancelling a raft of oil sector operating licenses. Whether or not this leads ...  Show more

The Future of Canada's Oil Sands: Production, Pipelines and Policy

The Western Canadian oil industry pumps more crude than most OPEC members but its production is located far from consuming markets and depends on a dizzying array of pipelines to connect that supply to end demand. At the same time, Canada's oil producers have had to navigate a qu ...  Show more

SuperSpiked: Arjun Murti on Why "Super Volatility" Replaced the Super Cycle

Rory Johnston welcomes Arjun Murti, a partner at Veriten and former Goldman Sachs equity research analyst with 33 years of experience covering the full energy value chain. Murti discusses his Substack, SuperSpiked, explaining that the branding harkens back to the 2004 call for a ...  Show more