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Engineering and Technology

This hub gathers the podcast's most technical conversations. Aman Srivastava describes building Halliburton's cloud-based digital well program, replacing a workflow that used to scatter data across Excel files and hard copies from Oklahoma to the Middle East. Dr. Shahrukh Irani, moving from academia into manufacturing consulting, argues that lean principles built for Toyota's high-volume lines don't transfer cleanly to high-mix, low-volume job shops, and that AI in manufacturing is only as good as the data feeding it. Clay O'Neil explains how a 1% rate of return forced the industry toward the Barnett Shale's first horizontal wells, a shift he helped pioneer. Jeff Wells, a reservoir engineer, describes insisting on public data before source-trap-seal analysis, and cutting well proposals down to three slides instead of thirty. Heinrich Bartels traces an engineering career from heat exchangers to armored military vehicles, and what the 2014 downturn looked like from the land side of the business. Nick Rose also appears here for the real-time subsea monitoring systems he helped build offshore. Together these episodes show the engineering decisions — in software, materials and process — that sit underneath the industry's public face.

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Journey Into The Oil And Gas Industry

Posted on February 5, 2026 In this episode of the Under Pressure Podcast, David Abshire interviews Jeff Wells, a reservoir engineer with a background in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M. Jeff shares h…

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