Recorded on October 22, 2025 and September 17, 2025

Episode 143 of the PetroNerds podcast is an exceptionally timely and heavy hitting podcast focusing on oil prices and geopolitical risk.

Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, spends time in the introduction of this podcast walking listeners through the recent drop and rebound in oil prices, driven by sanctions placed on Russia. She gets listeners up to speed on geopolitics and oil price dynamics, Ukrainian strikes on Russia, and US China negotiations.

The body of the podcast is the keynote address Trisha Curtis gave in Fort Worth at Whitley Penn’s Fueling the Future conference. She is joined on stage by the moderator of the fireside chat, Haley Mitchell, Senior Audit Manager at Whitley Penn. Haley is PetroNerds podcast listener and she comes prepared with a series of questions for Trisha.

This keynote address covers everything from oil prices and the shale patch to China. Trisha gets into the state of oil prices, US production levels, Russian refineries getting attacked, and the status of the Russian war in Ukraine. She dives into US shale patch nuances, service companies and thin margins and blank space, what $60 oil means for the economy, what is happening with the Fed and inflation and interest rates and continued inflation, and her concerns about goosing inflation with lowering interest rates. Trisha further discusses tariffs and revenue, the US economy, health of the global economy and China’s economy, and she connects it back to oil prices.

She talks about China’s economy, deflation and actual Chinese oil demand, US electricity prices. Europe and their energy prices and commitments to NATO, US natural gas prices, natural gas demand, LNG, and AI. She touches on electricity and power purchase agreements and so called “cheap” wind and solar driving up electricity prices, the role of coal and need for coal in the US, coal as the enabler of natural gas, China’s role in Russia’s war, Chinese stockpiling, understanding markets and risk and oil trading, and nuclear energy.

Trisha closes the keynote with some great questions from the audience on natural gas prices, electricity prices, and holding up US production levels. And she does this all in less than one hour. Please share this podcast with your colleagues and friends, watch it on the PetroNerds YouTube page or the PetroNerds website: https://petronerds.com/podcast-2/.

Trisha Curtis’ oped in the Daily Caller, “Winning Against China Means Winning on Energy,” can be found here: https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/19/opinion-winning-against-china-means-winning-on-energy-trisha-curtis/.

And please reach out to PetroNerds and Trisha directly on the “Contact Us” page on the PetroNerds website: https://petronerds.com/contact/

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Recorded on October 10, 2025 and September 8, 2025

Episode 142 of the PetroNerds podcast is an energy dense mic drop special with Trisha Curtis and Stuart Turley. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is a guest on Stuart Turley’s Energy News Beat podcast. Stuart is also the CEO of Sandstone Group.

This is a heavy hitting podcast covering “peak shale” and “peak Permian,” OPEC, Russia’s war in Ukraine, China, and rising electricity prices in the US. Before this podcast starts, Trisha takes the time to introduce the episode and explain to listeners what is happening with rare earth export restrictions from China, Trump’s Truth Social response, and the market fallout.

In this episode of Energy Newsbeat – Conversations in Energy, Stu Turley dives deep with Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, in a no-holds-barred conversation on the myths of peak Permian, U.S. shale resilience, OPEC’s bluff, China’s global energy influence, rising electricity costs, the EU’s energy collapse, and the urgent need for pragmatic U.S. energy policy.

From oilfield boots-on-the-ground insights to the geopolitical chessboard, this is a masterclass in energy dominance, national security, and market realities. Don’t miss it. I had an absolute blast visiting with Trisha, and she is truly a national treasure. Very much like Meredith Angwin is to nuclear, Trisha is to oil and gas.

I really appreciate her taking the time to stop by the podcast. Connect with Trisha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trisha-curtis-petronerds/ and on her website: https://petronerds.com/

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Recorded on September 25, 2025 and September 3, 2025

Episode 141 of the PetroNerds podcast is an energy dense, hot off the press, Washington, DC special.

Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, gives a complete market update on oil prices at $65 a barrel, the war in Ukraine, and Trump’s speech at the UN. She covers the latest in geopolitics and her recent travels across the country.

The podcast is a Washington, DC studio recorded conversation with Trisha Curtis and Jason Isaac. Jason is the President of the American Energy Institute. Trisha is also the economist for the American Energy Institute.

In this conversion Trisha and Jason get into the role of the UN in climate, China and China’s energy use and China’s direct competition with the US, the policies coming out of the Department of Energy and the EPA, power generation and electricity prices, and why it is so important for the US to harness and embrace its incredible US oil and natural gas resources.

This is a heavy hitting special recorded in an awesome studio so please watch, listen, and share with your colleagues and friends.

And please reach out to PetroNerds directly at petronerds.com. https://petronerds.com/contact/

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Recorded on September 11, 2025 and August 28, 2025

Episode 140 of the PetroNerds podcast is another energy dense, hot off the press, keynote address that Trisha Curtis recently gave in Midland, Texas.

Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market update on oil prices, the Fed, escalating geopolitical risk with Russian drones entering Poland, and increasing drone and missile attacks on Ukraine.

In this podcast Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, sits down with Breanna Oakley, Tax Partner at Whitley Penn, at the Midland Petroleum Club for a keynote address and fireside chat kicking off Whitley Penn’s Fuel of the Future conference series. Breanna asks Trisha a series of questions from oil and natural gas prices to what is happening with the Federal Reserve and interest rates?

Trisha gets into the drivers of oil prices, global supply and demand, US shale production, “peak shale,” natural gas prices, and the excitement around AI. Trisha further dives into geopolitics, OPEC production and Saudi production increases, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Breanna also asks Trisha about the economy and Trisha dives into the health of the US consumer, the Fed, interest rates, and China.

Trisha also talks about the Permian Basin specifically, how folks are feeling with prices in the low $60s, and what this means for drilling and completion activity.

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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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Recorded on August 14, 2025 and July 2, 2025

Episode 138 of the PetroNerds podcast is a frac and oilfield service special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, sits down with Ron Gusek, CEO of Liberty Energy in an hour and a half conversation covering the state of US shale and the frac industry as well as power generation and AI.

Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market update on oil prices and the economy and the current rig and frac fleet count. She covers the highlights of oilfield service company earnings calls and the whitespace on the calendar in the second half of the year as well as the Trump Putin meeting in Alaska and the Fed and rate cuts. Trisha and Ron discuss the state of oil and gas, supply and demand, “peak shale,” the drop in rigs and frac fleets at $65 oil prices, Liberty’s activity and work in Australia, power generation and Liberty’s investments in power, and the incredible advances Liberty and the frac industry have made in extracting more oil and gas from the rock.

In this conversation, Trisha and Ron get into the logical feats of frac, the changes in horsepower and simil and trimul fracs, speed and efficiencies, longer laterals, and the sheer amount of sand being pumping per lateral foot 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

This is an absolute show stopping PetroNerds podcast you are going to want to listen to again and share with your colleagues and friends. Please reach out to PetroNerds directly at PetroNerds.com at https://petronerds.com/contact/.

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Recorded on July 25, 2025 and August 3, 2025

Episode 137 of the PetroNerds podcast is a heavy hitting energy dense China focussed special.

Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, sits down with Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute to discuss China, energy and power generation, and energy security and national security.

This podcast was prompted by a question Trisha and Jason received when recording a livestream on the Big Beautiful Bill. Someone asked if they could talk more about the US energy industry in the context of national security and energy security and China’s rising power and military threat. In this Fliparoo podcast, Jason acts as the host and asks Trisha a series of questions that allow her to dive into the competition between the US and China and lay out the framework and importance of energy in this imperative head to head battle.

Before getting started, Trisha updates listeners on everything happening in the oil market and the economy with a fresh introduction covering the recent OPEC output increase, Russia’s provocative tweets, and the Fed.

Trisha and Jason then cover everything from the Chinese grid and power generation to the US grid and power generation, the use of power generation in manufacturing military equipment, Europe’s supposed increase in military spending, Shell’s pulling out of a sustainability group, Chevron’s purchase of Hess, and US shale productivity. Trisha specifically gets into US national security and the link to energy security, Chinese energy consumption, US power generation and consumption, Chinese power generation, Chinese oil demand, and how competing head to head with China means competing head to head with China on energy.

Two great takeaway quotes from Trisha Curtis: “Energy is everything in global competition” and “Shell is waking up to the reality of energy.”

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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.

Take a listen and share with your colleagues and friends.

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Recorded on July 1, 2025

Happy 4th of July PetroNerds listeners!

Episode 135 of the PetroNerds podcast is your 4th of July special and hot off the press.

Trisha Curtis, host of the PetroNerds podcast and CEO of PetroNerds, walks listeners through oil prices, supply and demand, geopolitics, the US’ Big Beautiful Bill, and much more in 37 minutes. She gets into $65 oil prices and what is happening with both supply and demand on the back of hot wars, Iran, and so much geopolitical risk and reality.

She talks about “peak shale” and a forthcoming paper she has coming out with the Peterson G. Foundation. Trisha also talks about the Big Beautiful Bill and the wind and solar subsidies that are crippling the US taxpayer, the US consumer, and US businesses and manufacturing. She discusses US exceptionalism and what is really happening in the US economy vs. the stock market.

While Trisha is concerned about the economy and inflation and what is happening under the hood, she explains why the US is truly exceptional due to its deep, transparent, and liquid markets, from oil to treasuries. Trisha also discusses what she calls the “hanging in there” economy or the “hanging in there” consumer. She gets into inflation, employment, and immigration and the average hourly work week.

This is another PetroNerds showstopper folks.

Please listen, leave reviews on YouTube, Apple, or anywhere you listen to this podcast. And book Trisha to speak at your company or next industry event. https://petronerds.com/contact

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Recorded June 20, 2025 and April 10, 2025

Episode 134 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerds special and an incredible deep dive into geopolitics, the economy, and what it all means for the oil and gas industry. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, front-loads this podcast with a fresh market update focusing on Iran and oil prices.

In the introduction of this podcast, Trisha discusses oil prices and Iran, the Federal Reserve and interest rates, and the economy and oil prices.

The body of the podcast is Trisha’s keynote fireside chat with Todd Hoffman at Montana Tech’s annual symposium. Todd Hoffman is the head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. He sits down with Trisha to discuss oil prices, the Trump Administration, tariffs, China, Iran, Russia, and everything in between.

They get into Trisha’s background and business, the health of the economy and the consumer, China’s product dumping and the state of the Chinese economy, what Drill Baby Drill actually means, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Europe’s exposure to China, Venezuelan sanctions, and a whole lot more. This is another must listen to the episode you are going to want to download, listen to again, and share with your colleagues and friends. Reach out to PetroNerds directly at https://petronerds.com/ and the PetroNerds Contact Us page at https://petronerds.com/contact/.

And please take a look at Trisha’s recent opinion piece in the Washington Times on China, tariffs, and energy. This article and oped is part of Trisha’s work as the CEO of PetroNerds and the economist for the American Energy Institute. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/9/us-china-competition-hinges-energy/

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