Recorded on June 11, 2025

Episode 136 of the PetroNerds podcast is a heavy-hitting midstream special with Howard Energy Partners. Your host, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, is joined by Mike Howard, CEO of Howard Energy Partners.

The two discuss the current oil and gas market, natural gas and midstream, and what it takes to get something built. They get into Mike’s career in the midstream and the progression of natural gas, and the shale revolution. Howard Energy Partners gathers and processes natural gas from the Marcellus to the Permian to the Eagle Ford. Mike talks about the business of infrastructure and being a long term diversified midstream company that takes energy products and brings them to the consumer. Trisha gets a little nerdy on the Eagle Ford and varying geology and API gravity shifts from oil to natural gas along the play.

They shift into talking about the macro, the long term, and national security, as well as the short term and current natural gas prices. Trisha asks Mike to talk about “peak shale.” They also talk about education and the need for education in energy in and outside of the energy market. Trisha asks Mike to talk about how he translates market realities into actually building things in a market and society that does not want to build infrastructure. Trisha and Mike cover all of this and much more folks.

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