Episodes
Published 10/18/23
Seminole Chief of Police Jake Simms tells it like it is in 1927.Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/oggn/) Get notified about industry events (http://bit.ly/19EZRvh)More...
Published 10/18/23
The world is nuts and it's hard to figure out what's what. So what else is new? This one is about navigating.Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/oggn/) Get notified about...
Published 10/12/23
A hundred years ago we first made a way to see through the earth. And then we found a lot of oil. Now we're making things that make things for us. I wonder what that means for our next 100 years. --Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group...
Published 10/04/23
Enter geophysics. But first, thorns have roses. Just go with it.--Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/oggn/) Get notified about industry events...
Published 09/27/23
The title pretty much says it all. Listen to this one while you pour a drink and raise your glass to all the great purveyors of fine fossil fuels.Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page...
Published 09/20/23
Clean combustion is here and it's making a real impact on the oil and gas industry. Featuring Darin Bohlmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/darin-bohlmann/) from the product team at Caterpillar Oil and Gas (https://www.cat.com/en_US/by-industry/oil-and-gas.html).
Published 09/20/23
Thanks to four or five generations of abundant affordable energy, today's humans have the luxury of worrying about tomorrow's humans. But should we really be so preoccupied with the future?
Published 09/14/23
The much-awaited conclusion to the unplanned three-part series on the early days of offshore drilling. Just what was that Project Mohole all about?Sign up for the OGGN Newsletter here (https://oggn.com/newsletters/).Brought to you on OGGN (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page...
Published 09/07/23
Continuing the story from last week, this one is about people who were just crazy enough to venture into the Gulf. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 08/30/23
A nod to one of my favorite industry journalists gets me thinking about offshore. This one is about how it all started – this business of drilling under the water.Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network (https://oggn.com/), the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry.More from OGGN ... Podcasts (https://oggn.com/podcasts) LinkedIn Group (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8343544) LinkedIn Company Page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/oggn/) Get...
Published 08/23/23
If we're racing toward affordable, abundant, reliable, *clean* energy — then who's really closer to the finish line? Maybe it's the oil and gas folks. And maybe we should be talking about that. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 08/15/23
You can get it out of the ground but can you move it around? Also a movie review of sorts. -- Brought to you on OGGN, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 08/07/23
This one is about how the oil booms do a lot more than just make a ruckus. -- Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 08/01/23
Spindletop. That's what. -- Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 07/24/23
Sometimes, in light of certain evidence, or deeper thoughts, you have to change you position. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 07/20/23
It's okay to be in the molecule business and let other people handle the electrons. This one is about how talent thwarts rhetoric. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 07/11/23
Engineering got us started, but science showed us the world. This one is about the beginnings of a thing called geology. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 07/04/23
Michael picks up the sidebar from last week about this lithium thing. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.      
Published 06/27/23
The year is 1848. The place is a tiny peninsula on the Caspian Sea. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.        
Published 06/16/23
How do we bring the talent and experience of the O&G community to bear on the new energy problem? Michael goes on-location at the launch party for EnergyCapitalHTX. Hear from: Lindsey Ferrell – editor, EnergyCapitalHTX Katie Mehnert – founder, Ally Energy Jane Stricker – executive director, Houston Energy Transition Initiative Bobby Tudor – founder Artemis Energy; director, Greater Houston Partnership Will Fraizer – VP technology development, Eunike...
Published 06/06/23
This one is about Memorial day, turning on renewables in Texas and the book that says it all ... "From the earliest days, finding and producing oil and gas was fraught with obstacles and danger, and the pioneers were as challenged to innovate as we are today ... By ingenuity, perseverance and luck, these larger-than-life characters transformed wild and improbably ideas into viable businesses ..." ... from the forward of "Groundbreakers – The story of oilfield technology and the people...
Published 05/29/23
This one is about how how refineries beat the odds no matter what we throw that them. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN Podcasts More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.          
Published 05/23/23
This one is about how the humans who figured out how to produce oil put civilization on the fast track. More from OGGN Podcasts Apple Channel More from Michael O'Sullivan Saving the Dream — A show about life in America. Featuring people who live there.        
Published 05/16/23
The long awaited and much requested (at least in our heads) return of the Oil and Gas Tech podcast — but it comes back with a twist. Tune in to hear the whole story from Michael O'Sullivan and Mark LaCour. Recorded straight from the OGGN podcast pavillion at the 2023 Offshore Technology Conference. This episode is made possible by Fifth Ring — real life experts in marketing for the oil and gas industry. Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to...
Published 05/10/23