Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised
The Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast addresses issues facing the petroleum industry in a way that highlights its transformation in light of the energy transition to a net-zero carbon future, as well as the ongoing evolution to a more inclusive and equitable society. With in-depth perspectives from OGJ editors and guests from all facets of the business, the podcast will explore and discuss the ways operators, service companies, and their employees from this historically very traditional industry are working through and finding solutions to these more progressive, nontraditional issues.
Episodes
In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Managing Editor and Content Strategist Mikaila Adams reconnects with Deborah Byers, nonresident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies and former EY Americas industry leader, to revisit a set of questions first posed in 2017.
In 2017, the industry was emerging from a downturn and recalibrating strategy; today, it faces ...
In this bonus episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Head of Content Chris Smith is joined by Jim Krane, the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Fellow in Middle East Energy Studies and Center for Energy Studies Lead for Energy and Geopolitics in the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The two discuss the regional political forces shaping the Iran war so far, exactly how vulnerable the Strait o...
In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Laura Bell-Hammer examines how US crude oil imports have evolved from structural dependence in the mid-1990s to today’s model of strategic grade optimization.
Using historical and current data, the episode traces how refinery configuration, shale-driven production growth, regional pipeline integration, and shifting geopolitics reshaped US trade flows...
In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Head of Content Chris Smith updates the evolving situation in Venezuela as the industry attempts to navigate the best path forward while the two governments continue to hammer out the details.
The discussion centers on the new legal frameworks being established in both countries within the context of fraught relations stretching back for decades.
In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Alex Procyk, Upstream Editor, recaps four recent technical papers shaping today’s upstream decisions. He looks at how lightweight and ultralight proppants are influencing fracture performance and gravel-pack stability, why updated data show the Marcellus continuing to expand without signs of productivity loss, and how airborne monitoring offshore Angola is...
In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas ReEnterprised podcast, OGJ Head of Content Chris Smith talks with Bob Crossen, Vice-President of Content Strategy for the Water and Energy Groups of Endeavor Business Media, about the latter’s first trip to the world’s largest oil and gas trade show: Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC).
Conference themes discussed as they relate to the year ahead inclu...
In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Oil & Gas Journal Head of Content, Chris Smith, talks about the issues shaping what happens next in Venezuela now that Nicholas Maduro has been removed from power.
An oversupplied crude market, deep infrastructural needs, and in-country political uncertainty are only a few of the problems to be addressed.
In this, the final Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast episode of 2025, Mikaila Adams, managing editor, along with a team of OGJ editors, walks readers through content that most captured readers’ attention throughout the year.
In this episode, you’ll hear short recaps of this year's most-read content from OGJ.com...shared in our editors’ own words...with thoughts to carry into 2026.
Give it a listen...you don't know what y...
In this Market Focus episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Conglin Xu, managing editor, economics, takes a look at the growing oversupply in global crude markets and the shift now underway as fundamentals begin overtaking sentiment and geopolitics as the primary price driver.
In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Statistics Editor Laura Bell-Hammer takes listeners on a journey through three decades of oil-market transformation.
Bell-Hammer looks back at the mid-1990s, when US production was believed to be in irreversible decline, fast-forwarding to today’s record production highs powered by shale technology, deepwater advances, and new global producers.
From ...
This Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast examines the rapidly growing power demands in the Permian basin region and the implications for operators, utilities, and adjacent industries.
OGJ Editor-in-Chief Chris Smith interviews Will Kernan, Power Solutions Strategy Manager for Caterpillar Oil & Gas, on why electricity demand has surged by multiple gigawatts since 2021 and why traditional reliance ...
In this episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, OGJ managing editor Mikaila Adams sits down with Andrew Stakelum, an energy disputes partner at King & Spalding LLP, to unpack oil and gas decommissioning from a big picture standpoint.
Wondering what happens when an operator goes bankrupt? Or when decades-old wells still need to be plugged? Stakelum explains why decommissioning is a business and regulatory p...
In this episode of Oil & Gas Journal’s ReEnterprised podcast, Alex Procyk, Upstream Editor, talks with Allen Sinor, Geothermal Sector Council Manager for The Competency Alliance, about effective geothermal design and drilling for electricity and district heating.
In this episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Chris Smith, editor-in-chief, talks with Kristin Leonard, North American Marketing Director for the Energy Market at Sherwin-Williams. They discuss the causes and consequences of CUI, including its impact on asset integrity and operational safety. This episode offers insights into how evolving engineering solutions are addressing long-standing challenges in energy ...
In this ICYMI episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Robert Brelsford, Downstream Editor, dives deeper into the state of California’s recent decision to walk back more aggressive policies governing in-state refiners and what the move potentially could mean in the future for other US states with refineries.
In this Market Focus episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Conglin Xu, Managing Editor - Economics, asks Dr. Robert Brooks about his outlook on global LNG markets and the forces shaping prices in the near and long term. Dr. Brooks is CEO and founder of RBAC, a provider of global and regional gas and LNG market simulation systems.
Brooks highlights how storage levels, new supply projects, and shifting demand a...
In this second part of a two-part Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Alex Procyk, upstream editor, continues his discussion with Laura Capper about about opportunities and challenges related to produced water in the Permian basin.
Procyk and Capper discuss Permian produced water cleanup standards, projects, and goals.
Capper is chief executive officer of EnergyMakers Advisory Group and CAP Resour...
Insights: Permian produced water needs someplace new to go - a discussion with Laura Capper (Part I)
In this first part of a two-part Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Alex Procyk, upstream editor, talks about opportunities and challenges related to produced water in the Permian basin.
Joining Procyk is Laura Capper, chief executive officer of EnergyMakers Advisory Group and CAP Resources. Capper holds a BS (1983) in electrical engineering with a minor in bioengineering and computer science from...
Introducing Then & Now, a new series in the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast lineup. In these episodes, Oil & Gas Journal editors and guests will discuss the many ways in which the oil and gas industry has transformed.
In this episode, Laura Bell-Hammer, Statistics Editor, takes listeners on a journey through the dramatic changes undergone by the industry—from early wildcat drilling and gut instincts to today’s d...
In this ICYMI episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Mikaila Adams, Managing Editor - News, recaps the long-delayed-but-now-closed deal between Chevron Corp. and Hess Corp. and highlight details from a new report on global upstream merger and acquisition activity from Rystad Energy—including potential deals to look out for this year.
References
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