Episodes

  • Petroleum Powerhouses: Meet Ukraine’s Rising Stars at SPE’s ATCE 2024 | Ep 283

    Petroleum Powerhouses: Meet Ukraine’s Rising Stars at SPE’s ATCE 2024 | Ep 283
    Jan 15 2025
    Ukrainian Petroleum Engineering students (student SPE members) from 5 student chapters of SPE across Ukraine talk with Elena Melchert about their goals and aspirations for careers in Petroleum Engineering and the future Ukrainian oil and gas industry. https://www.spe.org/en/section/250 Brought to you on OGGN, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. […]
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    27 mins
  • Tomas Reyna at the USA Hydrogen Alliance Conference | Ep 282

    Tomas Reyna at the USA Hydrogen Alliance Conference | Ep 282
    Jan 8 2025
    Elena talks with Tomas Reyna, Intern with Niche Consultants and student at Albright College in Redding Pa, studying Political Science. Tomas does legislative research among other things at Niche Consultants and is interested in Political Science because he is learning about a lot of different areas. He discussed his 3 take aways from the conference: […]
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    29 mins
  • Future Energy Insights with Glen Davis at US Hydrogen Alliance

    Future Energy Insights with Glen Davis at US Hydrogen Alliance
    Dec 25 2024
    Host, Elena Melchert, talks with Glen Davis, current Director of Energy for the Virginia Departmet of Energy. Mr. Davis talks about the “all of the above” energy policy in Virginia and the fact that energy demand is growing in the US and even at a rate of 5% year over year in Virginia. He said […]
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    11 mins
  • Christmas Special 2024

    Christmas Special 2024
    Dec 24 2024
    In this festive OGGN Christmas Special, the hosts and co-hosts engage in a fun-filled quiz that tests their holiday knowledge. The conversation flows from introductions to a series of light-hearted trivia questions, with plenty of laughter and banter along the way. The episode wraps up with warm holiday wishes and a humorous note about one […]
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    11 mins
  • Carlos Torres: Founder of Royal Oaks Energy, SPE Coordinator | ATCE 2024

    Carlos Torres: Founder of Royal Oaks Energy, SPE Coordinator | ATCE 2024
    Dec 18 2024
    Host, Elena Melchert, talks with Carlos Torres at the SPE/ATCE 2024 conference in New Orleans about his 24-year career in oil and gas that includes experiences in Asia, Venezuela and the US with SLB before founding his own energy services company. Episode Link https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosatorres1 Brought to you on OGGN, the largest and most listened-to podcast network […]
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    29 mins
  • Dr. Jeremy Boak: Geologist, Advisor, and Carbon Expert

    Dr. Jeremy Boak: Geologist, Advisor, and Carbon Expert
    Dec 11 2024
    Host, Elena Melchert, talks with Dr. Jeremy Boak about his over 40 years’ experience as a geologist in various roles from ARCO to the Department of Energy, the Colorado School of Mines, and currently as Consultant to Teverra where he is working on geothermal energy. Dr. Boak discusses produced water and its effects on the […]
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    45 mins
  • Dr. Hamed Soroush, Founder and CEO, Teverra

    Dr. Hamed Soroush, Founder and CEO, Teverra
    Dec 4 2024
    Dr. Hamed Soroush talks with Host, Elena Melchert, about In this episode of Oil and Gas Upstream, host Elena Melchert speaks with Dr. Hamed Soroush, founder and CEO of Tavera, about the company’s innovative approaches to subsurface technologies, including geothermal energy, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and energy storage solutions. They discuss the rebranding of […]
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    39 mins
  • Derrick Whiting and Yani Araujo of Intertek Westport Technology Center discuss how Intertek is playing a role in CCUS methods and evaluations | Ep 277

    Derrick Whiting and Yani Araujo of Intertek Westport Technology Center discuss how Intertek is playing a role in CCUS methods and evaluations | Ep 277
    Nov 27 2024
    In this episode, Elena Melchert talks with Derrick Whiting and Yani Araujo of Intertek at the CCUS conference in March 2024. They discuss how CO2 is effectively injected for storage and how Intertek evaluates the rock formation and effects of CO2 injection. They discuss the long-term effects of C02 injection that must be evaluated to […]
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    35 mins