{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Energy 101: We Ask The Dumb Questions So You Don't Have To","title":"How Dead Oil Fields Became Clean Energy Goldmines","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5050c9ee\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2703,"description":"Prabhdeep Sekhon, CEO of Eclipse Energy, breaks down the hydrogen rainbow and why it doesn't tell the whole story about cost, carbon intensity, and water use. From farm boy in Canada to petroleum engineer in the Bakken to clean tech founder, Prab explains how his team is using microbes to eat leftover oil in abandoned fields and produce hydrogen without water, turning billion-dollar liabilities into clean energy assets. He walks through their first-of-a-kind California project that hit 40% hydrogen production, the West Texas deployments coming next, and why co-locating data centers in oil fields solves both the molecule transport problem and the cooling water challenge. They discuss hitting $0.50 per kilogram hydrogen by 2028, why natural gas isn't going anywhere, and how oil and gas companies are actually paying them to figure out the future of their abandoned reservoirs.\n00:00 - Prab's journey from farm to petroleum engineer\n03:15 - Skills oil and gas taught him for clean tech\n08:26 - Energy pragmatism and decarbonization economics\n10:30 - Breaking down the hydrogen rainbow\n14:01 - Green hydrogen costs and water intensity\n15:53 - Gray and blue hydrogen trade-offs\n17:55 - Natural and geological hydrogen potential\n21:14 - Eclipse's approach to the problem\n24:17 - Eating oil with microbes for hydrogen\n26:20 - California first-of-a-kind project results\n28:41 - Field operations walkthrough\n32:10 - Hydrogen use cases and volumes\n36:01 - Cost parity with natural gas\n38:07 - Data centers solve the transport problem\n43:03 - Path to commercial scale by 2028\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_io\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitalwildcatters.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collide-digital-wildcatters","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8F_7R-SE-nw_rUP_p1-vdDVWboJt_kcEhdbgrgTEL7E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYjY2/Yjk4MWJiZWFlYmVl/ZGIxYjkxYTdiYTdi/ZGUwMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}