Episodes
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Diesel and the Global Energy War With Tatiana Mitrova
https://youtu.be/0XphI3eqKGc Recorded October 13, 2026 In episode 167 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the podcast, welcomes Tatiana Mitrova back to discuss diesel prices, wartime oil flows, and the growing importance of energy security. Tatiana is a Global...
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The Future of American Power-Energy
https://youtu.be/E4nBRL3OV-A?si=fWzd-6nEpVvaMIif Recorded September 16, 2026, and October 7, 2026 In episode 166 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis opens with an October 7, 2026 market update before sharing her September 16th, 2026 keynote conversation from the ROSA Energy Conference. The...
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$100 Oil, $6 Diesel, and NO to Banning Exports
https://youtu.be/uiecwH0josk?si=FpYEiizPecSEk-Kr Recorded: September 20, 2026 In episode 165 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, examines $100 barrel oil, diesel above $6 a gallon, and why banning U.S. diesel exports will not work. She...
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China’s Oil War Chest—What the Market Is Missing
https://youtu.be/-lVSNUBo7ZM Recorded September 1, 2026 China’s reported crude-oil imports have fallen sharply—but Chinese oil demand has not collapsed. In this China-focused special, Trisha Curtis is joined by friend, colleague, and returning guest Jason Isaac to examine what conventional...
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Pipelines, Chokepoints, and the New Geopolitical Map
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nto_uVvh6zE Recorded August 20th, 2026 and August 11th, 2026 In this special crossover episode of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, sits down with energy analysts David Blackmon and Stu Turley for a...
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Nuclear’s Comeback and the Age of Energy Addition
https://youtu.be/sOkqLZww1Rk Recorded Friday, July 10, 2026 In Episode 162 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and Host of the PetroNerds Podcast, welcomes Doug Sandridge back to the show for a wide-ranging, unapologetically PetroNerdy conversation about nuclear power,...
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Energy Security Is National Security: Oil, Hormuz, China, and LNG
https://youtu.be/–TRke8F1qM Recorded July 26 and July 9, 2026 In Episode 161 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds Podcast, is joined by Stu Turley of Energy News Beat for a wide-ranging discussion on the intersection of energy markets…
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Oil Markets, Iran, China, and the Fight for Affordable Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2f7C_7ZyG0 Recorded: July 9, 2026 In this post–Fourth of July episode of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds Podcast, welcomes Hon. Jason Isaac back to the show for a wide-ranging discussion about global oil markets,...
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Oil Flows, Hormuz, China, and the Fed’s Inflation Pivot
https://youtu.be/B4L-5KNiqNo Recorded: June 21, 2026 In Episode 159 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds Podcast, delivers a wide-ranging market update on oil, natural gas, geopolitics, China, strategic petroleum reserves, inflation, and monetary...
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Midland Talk: Geopolitics, Hormuz, China, and the Future of U.S. Shale
https://youtu.be/BV-3gt0wfsk Recorded: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 In Episode 158 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, host of the PetroNerds Podcast and CEO of PetroNerdstakes, was on stage at the Society of Petroleum Engineers meeting at the Petroleum Club of Midland, Texas, for a wide-ranging...
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Frac, U.S. Shale Resilience, and the Future of Energy with Leen Weijers
https://youtu.be/50CmjzaZzHM Recorded: Friday, May 22, 2026, and Tuesday, March 17, 2026 In Episode 157 of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, host of the PetroNerds podcast and CEO of PetroNerds, sits down with Leen Weijers, former Senior VP of Engineering at Liberty Energy and one of the…
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America’s Oil Dominance: Iran, China, and the Future of Energy
https://youtu.be/d566d0YSwq8 Recorded on April 8th, 2026 PetroNerds is honored to be hosted by John Papola in episode 156 of the PetroNerds podcast. In this crossover podcast, PetroNerds CEO and energy economist Trisha Curtis joins John Papola on Dad Saves America in Austin, Texas, for a…
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Iran, Russia, China, and Energy Security
https://youtu.be/AAQKYuRbaj8 Recorded April 10, 2026 Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, welcomes Tatiana Mitrova back to discuss the geopolitical shocks reshaping global energy markets. Just days into the Iran ceasefire, they unpack why the latest crisis is…
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Wyoming Energy with Tyler Lindholm
https://youtu.be/lLw1PhhXCEw Recorded March 16, 2026 In this episode of the PetroNerds Podcast, Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, speaks with Tyler Lindholm, former Wyoming state representative and current Wyoming State Director for Americans for Prosperity. They break down why Wyoming holds a...
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State of Energy: War, Risk, and Geopolitics
https://youtu.be/YNwOi5XyfbQ?si=IJ8gUgADuwjV6RtG Recorded March 25, 2026, and February 26, 2026 Episode 153 of the PetroNerds podcast is a heavy-hitting, energy-dense podcast packed with intel and data in every second. Trisha Curtis, CEO and host of the PetroNerds podcast, walks listeners and...
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War and $100 Oil
https://youtu.be/7CWU0Yyht6Q Recorded March 12, 2026 Episode 152 of the PetroNerds podcast is a one hour deep dive on the war in Iran, $100 oil prices, and the events that have taken place in the Middle East since February 28, 2026. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNeds and host of the PetroNerds...
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Iran, US Shale, and Oxford Oil Day
https://youtu.be/YtMJzZvo9MA Recorded February 26, 2026 and November 7, 2025 Episode 151 of the PetroNerds podcast is an Oxford special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, gives a 20 minute introduction on the state of the oil market, Trump’s State of the Union,...
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Rockies, Risk, and Geopolitics
Recorded February 11, 2026, and November 5, 2025 https://youtu.be/3B23i_w-5ig Episode 150 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerds special. This 150th PetroNerds podcast is celebrated with a fresh market introduction covering oil prices hitting $65 a barrel on February 11th, 2026. Trisha...
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Geopolitics, Iran, and US Shale
Recorded January 20, 2026, and November 13, 2025 https://youtu.be/BpqTFn-8AUk Episode 149 of the PetroNerds podcast is a heavy-hitting, energy-dense, PetroNerdy geopolitical special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, packs hours of intel into her 30-minute talk...
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Power, AI, Nat Gas, and Venezuela
Recorded December 16th, 2025 Episode 147 of the PetroNerds podcast is a PetroNerdy Christmas special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast is joined by Jason Isaac, Founder of the American Energy Institute. Trisha and Jason cover the world, from US electricity and...
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Coal for Christmas and Oil Price Drop
Recorded December 16th, 2025 Episode 147 of the PetroNerds podcast is a PetroNerdy Christmas special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast is joined by Jason Isaac, Founder of the American Energy Institute. Trisha and Jason cover the world, from US electricity and...
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Russia, Risk, and Oil Prices
Recorded November 4th, 2025 and September 17th, 2025 Episode 144 of the PetroNerds podcast is another heavy hitting PetroNerdy special. The body of this podcast is Trisha Curtis' talk to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce on September 17th, 2025. Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market...
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Oil Negativity, Geopolitics, and Power
Recorded November 4th, 2025 and September 17th, 2025 Episode 144 of the PetroNerds podcast is another heavy hitting PetroNerdy special. The body of this podcast is Trisha Curtis' talk to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce on September 17th, 2025. Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market...
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Oil Prices, China, and the Economy
Recorded November 4th, 2025 and September 17th, 2025 Episode 144 of the PetroNerds podcast is another heavy hitting PetroNerdy special. The body of this podcast is Trisha Curtis' talk to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce on September 17th, 2025. Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market...
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Oil Prices and Geopolitical Risk
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...
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“Peak Shale” and China
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...
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China, $65 Oil, the UN and DC
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...
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Oil Price Drivers, Geopolitics, and the Economy
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...
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Austin Energy with Bud Brigham and Matt Gallagher
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…
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Liberty Energy with Ron Gusek
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...
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China, National Security, and Power
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...
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Midstream with Mike Howard
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...
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$65 Oil and US Exceptionalism
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…
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Iran, Geopolitics, and Montana Tech
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…
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China, Tariffs, and Oil Prices
Recorded on June 9, 2025 and April 1, 2025 Episode 133 of the PetroNerds podcast is another PetroNerdy special and the first stop on the PetroNerds university tour. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is at the Colorado School of Mines in a fireside chat. She is...
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Oil and Nuclear
Recorded on April 29, 2025 Episode 132 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerdy special and the first PetroNerds podcast with a focus on nuclear energy. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is joined by guest Doug Sandridge, Senior Vice President of Fulcrum...
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“Energy is Power”
Recorded on May 7, 2025 and January 16, 2025 Episode 131 of the PetroNerds podcast is a true PetroNerds special. This podcast is the lecture Trisha Curtis gave at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy on January 23, 2025. In this lecture Trisha explains that energy is...
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Buckle Up – Oil and Geopolitics
Recorded on April 24, 2025 and March 18, 2025 Episode 130 of the PetroNerds podcast is the show stopping jam packed talk Trisha Curtis gave at the Houston Producers Forum on March 18th, 2025. Do not worry, she gets you up to speed on oil prices with a short introduction to this heavy hitting…
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Tariffs and Geopolitical Volatility
Recorded on April 2, 2025 and January 16, 2025 Episode 129 of the PetroNerds podcast a heavy hitting round the world tour on tariffs, geopolitics, and volatility. This is the energy dense talk Trisha Curtis gave to the Denver Association of Petroleum Landmen on January 16th, 2025 titled "Outlook...
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The US Economy and Health of the Consumer
Recorded on March 17, 2025 and March 19, 2025 Episode 128 of the PetroNerds podcast is an exceptionally timely jam-packed market update on the economy and the health of the US consumer. This a St. Patrick's Day special and Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, gets into the color of Kohl's earnings...
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Oil Prices and Oscillating Volatility
Recorded on March 7, 2025 and February 28, 2025 Episode 127 of the PetroNerds podcast is another energy dense and intel rich jam packed podcast on everything you need to know to get you caught up on the oil market and the economy. This podcast is the conversation between Jason Isaac, CEO of the...
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BONUS EPISODE: Fireside Chat Q&A
If episode 126 of the PetroNerds podcast was not enough, there is more. This bonus PetroNerdy episode is the Q&A Trisha Curtis did after her talk in Midland, Texas for the Society of Petroleum Engineers on November 19th, 2024. https://youtu.be/nZQ8LBQ38hY
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Russia, the Fed, and Midland
Recorded on February 22, 2025 and November 19, 2024 Episode 126 of the PetroNerds podcast is a deep dive PetroNerds special. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, catches listeners up on everything happening in geopolitics and the economy before getting into her…
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Oil Price Volatility, Trump, and US Shale with Chris Atherton
Recorded on January 23, 2025 Episode 125 of PetroNerds podcast is your complete outlook and overview on oil prices, M&A, activity, Trump, and US shale. Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds and host of the PetroNerds podcast, is joined by Chris Atherton, the CEO of Efficient Markets, also known as...
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Trump 2.0, Oil Prices, and Executive Orders
Recorded on January 22, 2025 Episode 124 of the PetroNerds podcast is hot off the press PetroNerds special focussed on the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States and the multiple executive orders on energy signed on his first day in office January 20th, 2025.…
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Higher Oil and Higher Yields
Episode 123 of the PetroNerds podcast is your complete market update for everything happening in 2025. This podcast is a timely and condensed talk on oil, energy, and power that Trisha Curtis gave to students at the Colorado School of Mines. This energy dense podcast gives you everything you need...
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US Frac, the Fed, and Oil
Recorded on December 18, 2024 and October 3, 2024 Episode 122 of the PetroNerds podcast is your pre-Christmas PetroNerds special. This podcast is the panel discussion Trisha Curtis hosted at the Denver Earth Resources Library with Leen Weijers, VP of Field Engineering at Liberty Energy and…
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Energy and Trump 2.0 with Chris Wright
Recorded on December 5, 2024 and November 11, 2024 Episode 121 of the PetroNerds podcast is another PetroNerds special, recorded on November 11th, 2024, with Chris Wright at Liberty Energy's office in Denver, Colorado. This is right after the election victory of Donald Trump's second term and…
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Post Election Rip: US Shale and Geopolitics
Recorded on November 15, 2024 and November 13, 2024 Episode 120 of the PetroNerds podcast is a show-stopping 30-minute post-election run down covering everything from U.S. shale to geopolitics. This podcast is Trisha Curtis’ talk and presentation to the Oklahoma Petroleum Alliance in Oklahoma…
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PetroNerds Special – Nerding Out with Chris Wright
Recorded on November 18, 2024 and September 9, 2021 This is a special reissue podcast with the oil and gas industry's very own Chris Wright. On Saturday November 16th, 2024 CEO of Liberty Energy, Chris Wright, was announced as President Elect Donald Trump's pick for the US Secretary of Energy. I...
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