Recorded on August 27, 2025 and May 29, 2025

Episode 139 of the PetroNerds podcast is another PetroNerds special.

Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, sits down with Bud Brigham, Executive Chairman of Atlas Energy Solutions and Matt Gallagher, CEO of Greenlake Energy in Austin, Texas.

She was invited to give a talk and do a fireside chat with these incredible hosts in the first Austin Energy Forum. The questions from the heavy-hitting Austin energy crowd were fantastic and on point. Trisha’s fast and dense presentation titled “Volatility is Dominating 2025” covers oil prices, Trump, the economy, geopolitics and conflict, and power generation and prices. She discusses supply and demand and the fact that oil prices are oversold, lower oil prices in a weaker economy, OPEC and Saudi output increases, “peak shale,” Chinese and US competition, chips, tariffs and risk.

She gets into geopolitics and volatility, discussing Russia and Ukraine, Iran, and China. This talk and presentation, and questions from Bud and Mat,t and the audience do not disappoint folks.

Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market update covering the biggest things happening in oil prices and the economy, including an update on Russia and Ukraine, the 50 percent tariffs of India, Nvidia and China, and a lot more.

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