Coolers, $15k, Bees 🐝

Local Energy Episode 27

Author

Peter Brecht
July 03, 2025

I share my phone number with complete strangers.

Four phone calls this week, all with early followers from our socials and great people working in oil and gas. If you have questions you’d like to ask Wade (or me, I guess), hit reply to this email.

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Back in the day, early 2000s, vendors would send us soap sticks in coolers. We’d put hard hard stickers all over those coolers, until one year a lawsuit named every vendor whose sticker appeared on the cooler. Now we just get brown cardboard boxes.

Safety Guy

And if you’re into Local Energy gear, there’s an easter egg in the full YouTube pod.

  • ‘Merica

  • Project Blender

  • Drilling Process 101

  • Underbalanced Drilling

  • TVD vs MD 🐣

  • Mud Pulse Telemetry

  • Mud Logging 101

  • Produced Water

  • Contract Pumpers

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Flipped the head over. While attempting to hang the well on bridals the bees living in the horses head became very agitated and attacking the crew. Secured the well in till the A.M. E.O.T.

Peter Brecht & Wade Spear

PS We finally put up a landing page at https://localenergy.io.

PSS (We wanted the dot com domain, but it was $15k and we’re not players).