Episodes

In Episode 15 of The Energy Question, David Blackmon talks with Sean Strawbridge, the dynamic CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi, where he has led one of the great under-told economic development stories in the history of Texas in recent years.

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

In Episode 14 of The Energy Question, David Blackmon talks with Dane Gregoris, Managing Director at Enverus Intelligence Research, about the firm's recent report documenting a full inventory of the resource extent in North America's various shale plays. The magnitude of the resource remaining in those various basin is unprecedented, and rich with more than 125,000 potential undrilled locations with a potential break-even price of just $40/barrel WTI.

In Episode 13 of The Energy Question, David interviews the dynamic CEO of Talos Energy, with a focus on his company's efforts to mount a set of Carbon Capture and Sequestration projects along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. It's a fast-paced 30 minutes in which Duncan covers the CCS landscape in the U.S. Enjoy.

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

In Episode 12 of The Energy Question, David Blackmon talks with Tim Stewart, President of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, about the results of the recent mid-term elections and their implications for the oil and gas industry.

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

In Episode 11 of The Energy Question, David interviews S&P Global Vice Chairman Dan Yergin, author of the incredible series of books about oil and energy: "The Prize," "The Quest," and his most recent, "The New Map." In this episode, David and Dan discuss world events surrounding energy and energy policy, with a focus on the fact that Dan foresaw so much of what is happening today in "The New Map." Sub-topics include: - the origins of Europe's energy crisis; - how that crisis is spreading gl...

In Episode 10 of The Energy Question With David Blackmon, David's special guest is Michael Cembalest, Chief Investment Officer at JP Morgan Asset Management. Every year, Michael creates and publishes a comprehensive report on the global energy space as a service to investors. This year's report is titled "The Elephants in the Room," a 49-page opus that provides an excellent overview of that is happening related to energy and the energy transition across the globe. The report is also publicly a...

Want to know what's happening in the world's most active and prolific oil and gas production area, the Permian Basin? Here you go. In this episode of The Energy Question, David Blackmon interviews Ben Shepperd, President of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. Created in the early 1960s, PBPA represents the interests of the oil and gas industry in the huge region, which spans most of West Texas and a big swath of Southeastern New Mexico. During the course of this interview, Ben discusses h...

In Episode 8 of The Energy Question, David interviews Krishna Sapkota, Energy Associate, Energy at Enverus. The focus is on a recent report by Enverus authored by Krishna, which finds the potential for parts of Europe running out of natural gas by late winter unless drastic conservation measures currently being undertaken across the continent are successful.

In Episode 7 of The Energy Question with David Blackmon, David interviews the great fossil fuel energy advocate Alex Epstein, author of "Fossil Future" and "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels," both of which can be found and purchased at Amazon and at AlexEpstein.com

In Episode 6 of The Energy Question with David Blackmon, David interviews Craig Jones, the CEO of Forever Energy. Forever Energy is a startup company that has plans to manufacture Vanadium Flow Batteries in the U.S. VFBs have tremendous potential to displace less-efficient and reliable lithium-ion batteries in the electric vehicles and renewable energy space in the years to come. The technology is already being made and distributed at scale in China, and Forever Energy plans to lead the way to ...

Today, David interviews Jack Belcher, Principal with the Cornerstone Group, a diverse advisory firm with a dozen offices around the country. Jack leads the advisory group based in Houston, and has expertise in all phases of the energy sector.

I was thrilled to be able to spend half an hour recently with one of the finest energy writers working today, Bulgaria-based Irina Slav. Irina writes for OilPrice.com, Shale Magazine, where I recruited her while serving as editor, and also maintains her own newsletter here at Substack. Along with the great Armando Cavanha, she also partners with me at The Energy Transition podcast, where we have great fun covering the faltering landscape of this energy transition each Monday. In this episode of...

In Episode 3 of The Energy Question with David Blackmon, David and Stu Turley interview Sarp Ozkan, Vice President of Commercial Product at Enverus and Tim Stewart, President of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, for their respective takes on the "Inflation Reduction Act" passed by the Democratic Party and signed into law by president Joe Biden.

EnergyX is developing a direct lithium extraction technology that holds the promise of dramatically increasing rates of recovery from brine-based lithium in a fraction of the time required and environmental impacts of traditional evaporative processes. In this episode, Teague gives viewers an update on the company's progress and describes where we go from here. Given the IEA's projection of demand for lithium rising by 900% by 2030 and by 4,000% by 2040, this is the kind of technological advan...

In this episode, David Blackmon welcomes viewers and provides a preview of his plans for his new weekly podcast interview show.

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity

Armando Cavanha, Energy Thought Leader, Podcast Host, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Contact on Twitter @cavanha Irina Slav , International Author for Oil Price, Substack and others, Writing about Energy, Mining, and Geopolitical Issues. Bulgaria Contact on Twitter @SlavEnergy David Blackmon, Principal at DB Energy Advisors, Energy Author, Contributing Author for Forbes, and Podcast Host. Contact on Twitter @EnergyAbsurdity