“Oil/gas professionals are NOT energy transition experts”… Really?

[rangerrebew]

“Oil/gas professionals are NOT energy transition experts”… Really?
13 hours ago David Middleton 44 Comments
Guest “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” by David Middleton
“Jul 9, 2025


Journalist Markham Hislop discusses one of his pet peeves: oil and gas professionals, especially engineers, who think because they have expertise in one area of the energy system that they are experts in ALL things energy.“
The video is mind-numbing. It’s just a closeup of Journalist Markham Hislop droning on and on about oil & gas professionals not being qualified to discuss the energy transition because they aren’t experts in energy transitions. Guess what Markham? Journalists aren’t experts in anything, with the occasional exception of journalism..

Regarding the energy transition (or lack thereof): You don’t need to be an “energy transition expert” or even an “oil and gas professional”… You just need to know how to download data and use Excel.


Figure 1: Data values: Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Estimated primary energy consumption in the United States, selected years, 1635–1945. Converted from quadrillion Btu to millions of barrels of oil equivalent (BOE).

Let’s zero in on fossil fuels and renewables:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/15/oil-gas-professionals-are-not-energy-transition-experts-really/

[rangerrebew]

The are "experts" to the MSM if they oppose fossil fuels.

[Smokin Joe]

When I started out in the Patch, we were drilling vertical wells through conventional reservoirs, looking for structural and stratigraphic traps and a payday. Now, we're drilling wells that finish up (TD) three miles or more away from the surface location in rock formations that were not considered producible back then. We drill more in an hour now than we drilled in a day back then.

Transition? The goal is the same. To provide useful fuels and chemical feedstock for a wide variety of uses.

Sorry, but photovoltaics and windmills use that stuff, they don't produce it.

But along the years we have occasionally heard of or seen those unscrupulous 'operators' who would sell 200% or more of the interest in a (predictably) dry hole, and hire contractors where the money fed back to the unscrupulous and then shrug off the P&A, with a lot of jingle in their pocket.

Nothing has changed, just the means of producing the investors.