{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Energy Bytes","title":"EP 83: Paul Brown from BDE Data","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a22b5e4e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4834,"description":"Paul Brown, Founder and Principal Engineer at BDE Data, joins John and Bobby all the way from Scotland for a conversation that covers a lot of ground. From his days as an international drilling engineer dodging pirates off the coast of West Africa to building WellSchematic.com and tackling the nightmare of digitizing 50-year-old multilingual well files, Paul is the rare person who speaks both languages fluently.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n00:00 - Oil prices, energy costs, and life in Scotland vs Texas\n01:50 - Paul's background and path from drilling to data\n08:19 - WellSchematic.com and legacy well data as a service\n10:52 - Drilling war stories: West Africa and the Falklands\n15:00 - UK oil industry and energy policy\n34:41 - Legacy well file digitization\n38:06 - The PDF table extraction problem\n42:22 - Open source models vs foundational models\n44:31 - AI stack, data privacy, and cloud infrastructure\n51:54 - AI's role in the upstream industry\n56:04 - Getting tech adopted in the drilling world\n59:06 - Coding journey: from PHP and Laravel to Python\n1:02:22 - Advice for engineers getting into coding\n1:09:38 - Programming languages and AI-assisted development\n1:11:56 - Cursor and Claude Code\n1:13:55 - Speed round: Scotland, whiskey, and cloud platforms\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_ai\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/collide-ai.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KU-rritAkNfd5EDWr8dy4miPzznveey9CXz1zVQDRXc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZGMz/NDQxNzEwNTFjZDU3/NmQ4ZmI3ZDU1ZTQ2/Y2U4Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}