Big Digital Energy

Heating Oil Hits 5.50, Europe Gas Panic & The Buffers Are Gone | BDE 09.15.26

Distillate inventories are scraping bottom right as winter shows up. Maine heating oil is already past 5.30 a gallon, the Exxon Joliet refinery went down on a utility fai

Chevron Bets 7 Billion on Venezuela, Citadel Hunts Shale Oil & No Iran Deal | BDE 09.08.26

Chevron is the only super major stepping into Venezuela, committing 7 billion across two JVs and targeting 600,000 barrels a day by 2031, while Exxon still calls the coun

Venezuela Crude for the SPR, Bessent vs Druckenmiller & Oil Talked Down | BDE 09.01.26

Trump calls the Venezuela concession the biggest oil deal in world history, so Chuck Yates and Kirk Coburn pull it apart with Mark Meyer out of the room. Whether heavy Ve

U.S. Energy In A Changing Global Market with Sean Maher

​Energy markets are shaped by more than a headline price. In this Community Call, Sean Maher, VP of IR and Chief Economist at Phillips 66, joins us for a macro-level conv

Diesel Cracks Hit $102, Hormuz Day 176 & Token Burn Is Just AI Flaring | BDE 08.24.26

Diesel cracks just hit 102 dollars a barrel while the Treasury Secretary says he does not understand why oil spiked, which tells you everything about a products led marke

Hormuz Deadline Expires, Diesel Crack Tops $102, Meta Wants 10 Gas Plants | BDE 08.18.26

The sixty day clock on the Islamabad MOU ran out and nobody blinked, so Hormuz is still a coin flip and the diesel crack just printed 102 dollars, bigger than the price o

Amazon Builds a 7.6GW Gas Grid, EOG Strikes UAE Shale | BDE 08.14.26

EOG drilled two wells in the UAE that look suspiciously like the Eagle Ford, and Chuck has a theory about why. From there it's Amazon dropping a 7.6 gigawatt private gas

Trump Steals Warren's Windfall Tax, Chevron Becomes Microsoft's Landlord | BDE 08.04.26

Trump wants the oil majors to hand their profits back to the public, and the crew has opinions. From taco trade whiplash in the Strait of Hormuz to Chevron reinventing it

Every Gas Shortage Call Has Been Wrong, PE Dumps Assets & SLB Chases GPUs | BDE 07.28.26

Somebody spent 18 months modeling every well, pipe, and storage facility in the US gas system and came out calling for a shortage by 2028. Collide is not buying it, and t

Iran Kills US Troops, Houthis Blockade the Red Sea & Oil Shrugs | BDE 07.21.26

A listener named gopher27 fired back with Bastiat, Krugman, and Thomas Jefferson, and what followed might be the sharpest debate this show has had in two years. From whet

Trump's $32M Hormuz Toll, Houthis Break Truce & Oil Nears $90 | BDE 07.14.26

Slap a 20% toll on oil tankers, add drones that can sink a ship for less than the price of a pickup, and you get a Strait of Hormuz that keeps running out of off ramps. F

US Bombs 90 Iran Targets, Oil Yawns, & Russia's Diesel Export Ban Detonates Crack Spreads | BDE 07.09.26

Four energy supply shocks landing on three continents at once, and somehow the oil traders got bored before the generals did. The crew works through strikes on Iran, Russ

Trump's Big Oil Witch Hunt, $58 Cracks Spike & California's Refinery Graveyard | BDE 07.03.26

Gasoline creeps past four bucks and everyone reaches for the same villain, but the real story lives in the refining margin, not the gas station down the street. Arjun Mur

Trump Blinks on Iran, Cushing Hits Tank Bottoms & Warren's Big Oil Shakedown | BDE 06.23.26

Cushing is scraping tank bottoms, the SPR is back at 1980s lows, and somehow there is room to argue about soccer, the World Cup, and the audacity of parking your car at t

Lee Raymond Dies, Oil's Pavlovian "Deal" Swoon & Gunvor's $300M Enron Sequel | BDE 06.12.26

Lee Raymond gets his due first, the Exxon legend who turned the Valdez disaster into a safety overhaul and still holds the record for oil's biggest merger. Then it's whet

Paxton vs Talarico Goes Nuclear, ERCOT Chokes Data Centers & BP Burns Its Boss | BDE 05.28.26

BP just fired its chairman after eight months, and that somehow is not even the wildest thing this week. The Texas Senate race opens with Ken Paxton and James Talarico al

Microsoft Kills Claude Code, Tank Bottoms Loom & NextEra's $67B Dominion Grab | BDE 05.22.26

Venezuela is suddenly back on the table after being branded un-investable, and the tone shift has Mark and Kirk picking apart who blinked and why Exxon's posture lines up

Reacting to Joe Rogan's Deranged Oil Take, Climate Doomsday Dies & Claude Mead Caged | BDE 05.14.26

Gas hits $7.90 a gallon in LA and Joe Rogan blames Big Oil, so Chuck and Mark grab the mic to set the record straight on California's fuel island, refinery shutdowns, and

Iran Trade "Syndicate," SPR Drops Below 400M, & Musk's Memphis AI Power Play | BDE 05.07.26

Kirk and Mark fly solo while Chuck takes a break, and there is plenty to chew on. Crude took a hit on Iran peace talk leaks, and a suspiciously timed 925 million dollar s

Permian Gas Goes Negative, Brent Tops $100, UAE Dumps OPEC & LIV Golf Implodes | BDE 05.01.26

Petroleum inventories are screaming lower, the SPR is down under 400 million barrels, and gas prices are creeping up just in time to sour the midterms. The guys break dow