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Why No One Can Forecast Oil: The 48-Hour Lesson
July 9, 2026
Offshore Oil: The Marginal Barrel Moved to Deep Water
July 8, 2026
Oil Shortage Explained: One Word, Four Meanings
July 8, 2026
America Just Broke the All-Time Oil Record — And the Price Already Vanished
July 2, 2026
Are We Running Out of Oil? The Record Nobody’s Talking About
July 1, 2026
The $45B Texas Bet Wall Street Lost to Shale
June 30, 2026
There’s No Oil Shortage — We’re Running Out of Refineries
June 26, 2026
Even $150 Oil Won’t Move Them: The Dallas Fed Warning
June 26, 2026
The Six-Week Unwind: How Oil Lost 30% on Fear Alone
June 24, 2026
Cushing Isn’t Running Out of Oil — Here’s Who Got Paid
June 18, 2026
How America Counts Its Oil: The Permian Number Is a Draft
June 17, 2026
Why Shut-In Wells Don’t Just Restart: The Hidden Cost
June 17, 2026
Permian’s Pipe Problem: Why Gas Sells Below Zero
June 11, 2026
Geology Basics: The Rock Already Dealt the Deck
June 10, 2026
Three Days From Empty: The Refinery System No One Tells You
June 10, 2026
Energy Dominance Is a Treadmill: Why Shale Can’t Stop
June 10, 2026
The Thin Barrel: 5 Questions That Expose American Oil
June 9, 2026
The Buyer List: Why Mitsubishi Is Buying U.S. Gas
June 4, 2026
Drill Baby Drill: Why U.S. Producers Won’t
June 3, 2026
The Permian Poisoned the Water: One Paragraph
June 3, 2026
Rig Count Just Flipped: The Permian Is Drilling Again at $74 Breakeven
May 28, 2026
The Thin Barrel: One Block, Half of OPEC
May 27, 2026
Permit Surge, Flat Rigs: Why 2026’s Drilling Restart Isn’t Real Yet
May 22, 2026
WTI at $102, Rig Count 551: Why the Drillers Won’t Drill
May 20, 2026
Australia LNG: How the Third-Largest Exporter Sold Out
May 20, 2026
The Deepwater Comeback: Why Big Oil Is Drilling Miles Underwater (And What It Means for Your Gas Bill)
May 14, 2026
Why American Oil Companies Are Fleeing to Greenland (And What It Means for Your Gas Bill)
May 14, 2026
$100 Oil, Fewer Workers, No Drilling Boom — Here’s Why
May 13, 2026
The Screens Have Already Decided the War Is Over. The Barrels Have Not.
May 6, 2026
$100 Oil and No Drilling Boom: 8 Stories the Industry Is Watching
May 6, 2026
$105 Oil and One New Rig: The Paradox Defining 2026
April 29, 2026
Oil’s New Reality: Treadmill Slows, Maps Matter, Clock Ticks to 2027 Gap
April 29, 2026
Bakken 2026: Not Dead, Just More Expensive — The Truth About America’s Quiet Oil Giant
April 23, 2026
Utica Shale Explained: The $114B Oil Play Under Ohio (And Your Power Bill)
April 23, 2026
How One Pennsylvania Shale Field Turned America into a Natural Gas Superpower
April 23, 2026
Hormuz Blockade, $4 Gas & Record Oil Profits Explained
April 22, 2026
Forget 101-Dollar Oil. This One Number Just Changed Your Next 5 Years.
April 20, 2026
“Dead DUCs”: The Phantom Wells Inflating U.S. Oil Supply Data
April 20, 2026
The Quiet Giant: Who Just Took Over the Hugoton Gas Field?
April 20, 2026
The “Heartbreak Shale” Just Drilled Its Best Well Ever: The Pearsall
April 18, 2026
Inside the Next Oil Shock: Rigs, Mergers, and What Happens to Your Gas Prices
April 15, 2026
China’s Secret Weapon Is Hiding Under the Ocean
April 15, 2026
The Ceasefire Dropped Oil 15% — So Why Aren’t They Drilling?
April 8, 2026
West Texas’s Forgotten Gas Field — and Why It Matters Now
April 8, 2026
BP Kaskida Correction: The Real Deepwater Horizon Spill Numbers
April 8, 2026
Oil Is $101 Now — But the Market Already Sees $62
April 1, 2026
The Rig That Caused Deepwater Horizon Just Got Approved Again
April 1, 2026
10 Billion Barrels Nobody Could Reach — Until Now
April 1, 2026
Two Oil Prices, Two Curves, One Deadline This Friday
March 26, 2026
Two Rigs Told the Truth About $119 Oil (Forward Curve Explained)
March 19, 2026
We’re #1 in Oil (and It Won’t Save You)
March 18, 2026
The Secret Chart That Already Knows When This Oil Crisis Ends
March 18, 2026
Why Gas Jumped 60¢ Overnight
March 9, 2026
Oil Up 22% in 5 Days
March 5, 2026
Arkoma Basin: The Untold Story
March 4, 2026
When the World’s Energy Throat Closes
March 4, 2026
150 Tankers Stuck — Hormuz Shutdown
March 4, 2026
$21B Merger — Big Oil Just Got Bigger
February 26, 2026
Canada: More Oil Than Iraq
February 25, 2026
Mexico’s Oil Collapse
February 25, 2026
California’s Hidden Oil Crisis
February 19, 2026
America’s Oldest Oil Region Is Now Powering AI
February 19, 2026
Austin Chalk’s Comeback
February 11, 2026
Why Oil Companies Won’t Drill When Told To
March 11, 2026
Oil Hit $119, Crashed $32: Why the Biggest Reserve Release Failed
March 12, 2026
Trump Invokes War Powers for Bankrupt Oil Company
March 12, 2026
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Made Trillions — Just Not for You
April 2, 2026
Education
BS Petroleum Engineering
University of Missouri–Rolla
Class of 1986
Key Credentials
$1.3B
Raised for two oil companies
$10B+
In transactions across nearly every U.S. basin
5,000+
Engineers trained globally
30
Years in upstream oil & gas
Career Timeline
FutureWise Energy
2025 – Present
On-camera spokesman, writer, and producer of weekly energy content
Independent Advisor
2015 – 2024
Private upstream services to clients
Trivista Energy
2012 – 2014
Energy leadership and strategic operations
PetroHarvester Oil & Gas
2009 – 2010
Upstream operations and asset management
MAAD Services
1999 – 2009
Managed hundreds of MA&D projects.
International Workshops
1995 – 1999
Global petroleum engineering training and development
Snyder Oil
1994 – 1995
Upstream oil and gas operations
Powers Petroleum
1990 – 1994
Petroleum engineering and operations
Mobil Oil
1986 – 1990
Petroleum engineer — first career role after graduation
