Collin McLelland joins Chuck to discuss the past present and future of the commodities trading markets with the best oil trading advisor on the planet, John Saucer. Things get really interesting when the talk turns to daily clearing of trades through block chain and potentially the Bitcoin network. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, ...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 66
A missing piece of the story of this year’s Railroad Commissioner’s race is exactly how sharp and well informed Republican candidate Sarah Stogner is. So Chuck put her to the test with The Five Questions. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episo...
Feb 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 65
Chuck and David Ramsden-Wood talk mental health. Both dudes went through some real lows during quarantine. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - Mental Health Awareness 09:48...
Feb 16, 2022•58 min•Ep. 64
Two key people in Clayton Williams life - his CFO Mel Riggs and his widow Modesta - show Chuck around Claytie’s office which remains the same as the last day he was in it. Amazing stories about Clayton’s journey, the governor’s race, how he wooed Modesta and yes, Barbara Bush had a crush on him. Watch this one if you can, the video is priceless. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide....
Feb 09, 2022•39 min•Ep. 63
Chuck visits Antina Ranch and expects to find an old oilfield and that ranch owner Ashley Watt and her lawyer Sarah Stogner were being overly dramatic about how Chevron is operating. Suffice it to say Ashley and Sarah aren’t crazy and Chuck does a simple experiment to prove it. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI yo...
Feb 03, 2022•29 min•Ep. 62
Chuck chats the evolution of energy transition with Tudor Pickering Holt alum Deanna Zhang. From being on John Gibson’s team, oilfield digitization, carbon and to her own transition…from banker to blogger. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this epis...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 61
Chuck and Will talk the past, present and future of energy private equity AND Will’s decision to run for the Texas State House of Representatives. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Int...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 60
Chuck and long-time energy investor / executive (Exxon, Goldman, Simmons, TPH, Apache) Mark Meyer chat the history of energy investing and get drawn into a deep discussion of the importance of data and its analysis to the future of the energy business. Yeah, and of course, they start with sports analogies. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your ...
Jan 31, 2022•14 min•Ep. 58
Twas the Night before Xmas in the EFT house... Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. 00:00 - Introduction to the Video 00:49 - Gracie's Overview 02:21 - Twas the Night Before Christmas Reading https://www.instagram.com/digitalwildcatters h...
Jan 30, 2022•8 min•Ep. 57
Chuck, the bleeding heart Libertarian, chats politics with Democratic candidates Chase West and Larry Baggett. Wellsite Navigator is introducing the new technology you’ve been asking for: Lease Road Navigation. They’ve already mapped over 19,000 miles of oilfield lease roads that don’t appear anywhere else, and every week they are adding more! Try Wellsite Navigator for free and get a $10 Amazon Gift Card for every friend you refer! https://fbuy.io/wellsite/energycrue Digital Wildcatters brings ...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 56
Ever met a guy that played football with Odell Beckham and can wax poetically on Black Scholes and oh yeah has a petroleum engineering degree, Chuck has and you get to listen to his chat with that guy, Robert Smith of Donovan Capital. Wellsite Navigator is introducing the new technology you’ve been asking for: Lease Road Navigation. They’ve already mapped over 19,000 miles of oilfield lease roads that don’t appear anywhere else, and every week they are adding more! Try Wellsite Navigator for fre...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 55
This week you get a preview of our newest show Big Digital Energy Show with Collin McLelland and Chuck Yates. Catch the BDE Show every Tuesday live at 10:30 AM CST: https://www.digitalwildcatters.com/podcasts/the-bde-show/ Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Jan 30, 2022•33 min•Ep. 54
Chuck chats with Alaskan Kelly Tshibaka and her bid for the US Senate. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro 01:06 - Critical Race Theory Overview 04:24 - Reasons to Run for Senate 1...
Nov 17, 2021•32 min•Ep. 53
Chuck talks shop with noted energy investor Brad Olsen. And asks the pertinent question: are you Mr. Skilling? Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Is Brad Olson Mr. Skillin...
Nov 10, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 52
Chuck chats with notable energy futurist Mark Mills on the day of his book release. In The Cloud, Mark suggests that the 2020s will be the greatest decade we’ve ever had for economic development better than the Roaring 1920s because of developments in computing power, materials and and mechanical prowess. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your c...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 51
Want to know what’s up with all things OPEC? Chuck did…so he chatted with Queen Anne’s Gate Capital Management’s Kathleen Kelley who has spent the last decade advising the highest powers at OPEC. Spoiler alert: oil’s going to rip. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to w...
Oct 27, 2021•49 min•Ep. 50
Chuck shares his wit and wisdom to the Lafayette Geological Society in a speech titled “The Red and the Black (but unfortunately we have the Green too)”. And of course, the idiot got a speeding ticket on his drove over that morning. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 49
Chuck premieres the brand new podcast from Digital Wildcatters - the Big Digital Energy Show - where he and Collin McLelland give the week in energy a new twist - takes, opinions and facts not heard elsewhere. For people who think morning notes suck and Jim Cramer doesn’t know shit. Special treat this week legendary energy investor Dan Pickering guest hosts. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online communit...
Oct 06, 2021•35 min•Ep. 48
Chuck totally geeks out on his love for Houston stand up comedy - a deep dive into its history, the science of the joke, the lifestyle of a performer - with local comedians Andy Huggins, Rob Mungle, Brian Gendron and Jamie Rowan. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions. Click here to wa...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 47
Chuck and his priest Patrick Miller, the rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Houston, talk life and plans for their upcoming retreat in November. Chuck and Patrick are hoping to create a deeper dive experience for retreat attendees - some laughing, maybe some tears, a lot of sharing and hopefully some tools and a new set of friends to deal with life. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community a...
Sep 22, 2021•46 min•Ep. 46
Chuck chats with Chris Transier, Managing Partner at Bandera Group, about buying minerals, dealing with private equity, and receiving a smash in a smash co. Oh yeah, and Chuck got a new car. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 45
Chuck deep dives COVID with the best doctor on the planet…his father, Dr. Charles Yates, Jr., a self proclaimed retired country doctor. Topics range from “why did it take six months to start talking about T-cells and B-cells” to “the vaccines work” to “natural immunity is the best defense” and oh yeah…”masks don’t work and neither does six feet spacing”. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at...
Sep 08, 2021•49 min•Ep. 44
Chuck joins a panel discussion at the NAPE Business Conference about the current and future state of upstream private equity. And as is typical, Chuck’s a bit of a buzzkill. Moderated by Buddy Clark of Haynes & Boone, the other panelists include Greg Robbins of Grit Oil & Gas and Michael Freeman of Haynes & Boone. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with exp...
Sep 01, 2021•49 min•Ep. 43
Chuck chats with Max Gagliardi about the business, energy transition and probably reveals too much of the inner secrets of private equity. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 42
Chuck chats all things hydrogen with Carmine Battista, CEO of Damorphe. Where is the hydrogen market today? What are the challenges to adoption of hydrogen? What’s the Damorphe solution? Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Aug 18, 2021•57 min•Ep. 41
Ashley Watt’s consultant Bill Burch walks us through an operational update on Chevron’s activities on the Antina Ranch. (This is a follow up to episode 34 where Ashley discussed the numerous well control issues Chevron is having on her ranch). This one gets pretty engineering intense so engineer extraordinaire Chris Bird joins me as co-host. Despite the engineering “porn”, everyone should should listen to this follow up episode as we discuss solutions, ramifications and implications on the ranch...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 40
Industry veteran Grant Pierce tells a harrowing story of being on a contract job for Shell Nigeria and then COVID hits. Grant was stuck for nine months in Turkey and then Cambodia away from his family and home in Vietnam. SHELL’s response: You’ll get nothing and like it. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toug...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 39
Chuck unleashes Oilfield Rando and the conversation goes from bringing down Confederate statues, China culpability in COVID, favorite Bond, energy advocacy, counterculture, the Kennedy assassination, Melania Trump and…wait for it…bidets. Thank you to our sponsor: EAG Services: https://www.eagservices.com/ Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your c...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 38
Chuck chats with the hosts of the Oil Money podcast Yousuf Chaudary and Donnie Davis about a lot of stuff - life, wardrobes, the business and a miserable fail at a kindergarten interview. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 37
Chuck and private equity veteran David Hayes of NGP talk Rice University baseball, the Merrill Lynch energy group back in the day, all things NGP, the market and oh yeah…how he’s kicking cancer’s ass…. Digital Wildcatters brings the energy community together through events, cutting-edge content, and powerful tools. Join our online community at collide.io . Engage with experts, level up your career, and ask Collide AI your toughest technical questions....
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 36
