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 Hi guys,

Love the show, this is the first show I started listening to when I was introducted to podcasts two years ago and I have been hooked ever since.  My question is that I recently heard an interview with the Author of the book “Saudi America” that talks about the faults of the energy industry and fracking. Have you read this book or have any thoughts on this?

The link to the book here.

Hey Guys thanks for taking the time out of your busy lives to inform and educate the masses I have a few questions I’ll like your opinion on. 

1 With LNG fast becoming the fuel of the future because its abundant, cheap, has a high combustion efficiency and clean, more operators are starting to require contractors and service companies like Halliburton, schlumberger, and liberty that offer energy intensive operations such as fracking to offer fleets that run on natural gas. There is a startup out of Boston(MIT) making predictions to deliver technology that powers commercial aircraft with LNG by 2032. Is this feasible with the FAA grounding aircraft for simple battery issues?

Also ,NY politicians have refused to issue permits to a critical pipeline schedule to bring natural gas to New York city on grounds of environmental concerns. With winter fast approaching, National grid the gas company is denying thousands of New Yorkers and businesses gas until the the pipeline is given the green light. thoughts?

Do you know of any states that have combined oil & gas rules for OSHA? If so, can you give me any contact names, emails, phone#, etc.? Thank you. 

So on your Oct 7 show you discussed diversity and specifically women in the oilfield. 

One reason I love your show is that it’s always a conversation even when readers send in viewpoints that diverge. So I’d like to give you my perspective. I’m a 2nd generation oil and gas engineer working in Texas with a petroleum engineering degree and almost 3 years of work (specifically field work experience).

My overall opinion of women in the petroleum industry is that efforts (and it is a true sustained effort) to hire them are “HR deep” and often a basically shallow attempt by a company to improve their public image by having a cute engineer in coveralls on their PR material. I work extremely hard, climb under equipment and get covered with grease. I’ve done well working in the field and running a field crew, mostly because they see I’m not afraid of jumping in and getting dirty even though I’m the engineer.

I have to work hard and run jobs successfully – my husband died in Afghanistan and I have a disabled brother to support. 

I’ve been treated pretty well overall in the field (by field personnel) but who I feel I’ve been truly been mistreated and at times abused by is management. I’ve been terminated for refusing to date a former manager. At another place I was often singled out for abuse and was often saved by other field engineers and crews vouching for me.