{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chuck Yates Got A Job","title":"Why Oil Companies Leave So Much Money Downhole","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c0807705\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2723,"description":"Everybody chases the drill bit, but the real money can hide in wells that have produced for years. D.J. Snyder left drilling and completions to chase what nobody wanted to touch: production. His company Vannevar builds downhole tools that squeeze more oil out of wells already in the ground, using a marginal gains mindset borrowed from F1 and the Tour de France. Chuck gets into frac plugs, pumper routes, why nobody shuts in a well to fix it, and how AI could give operators one source of truth.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n00:00   Meet D.J. Snyder\n01:05   From drilling to the overlooked world of production\n02:47   Old tech, new problems: gas, sand, and horizontal wells\n06:24   Physical widgets and the marginal gains mindset\n08:32   Why there's no one size fits all\n13:00   Heresy: actually watch and fix your wells\n16:57   The AI promise of one source of truth\n18:43   Rethinking the pumper's daily route\n22:57   War stories, the Bakken, and naming tools\n25:18   ROI, payback, and how you really sell it\n28:25   Who to call, what it costs, and building a company\n36:03   How AI reshapes the work itself\n38:16   Robots, drones, and the future of the field\n40:14   Why boards say yes and value beats cheap\n44:53   Wrap up and where to find DJ\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_aihttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.iohttps://www.facebook.com/collide.iohttps://www.instagram.com/collide.iohttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_iohttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c5WQufo5wbt5DUoayihGmjPfi-6mpIXlFv-B8NwxUXk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ODIw/NmQyYjMwOTI3MTcw/NjU3ZTI2NDViYTlk/M2NkNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}