The PetroNerds Podcast with Trisha Curtis is a monthly, energy market podcast with a focus on oil and gas news and events. More than just a summary of headlines, the PetroNerds Podcast takes a deep analytical dive into topical energy market developments via a data-driven discussion of news, economics, companies, assets, well performance, and much more from the oilpatch. Discussions will touch on global energy markets and geopolitical events, US energy news, shale and tight oil + gas market developments, and policy issues. Trisha Curtis is a co-founder of PetroNerds, LLC. She was formerly the Director of Research, Upstream and Midstream, at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. Trisha is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and a non-resident fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. PetroNerds, LLC is a boutique energy analytics and advising firm based in Denver, CO. It provides a variety of products and services to help its clients better understand US energy markets, evaluate the performance and assets of US tight oil and gas producers, improve midstream and downstream market knowledge, and provide domestic and global policy context to ongoing events in the both US and abroad.
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The PetroNerds Podcast with Trisha Curtis is a monthly, energy market podcast with a focus on oil and gas news and events. More than just a summary of headlines, the PetroNerds Podcast takes a deep analytical dive into topical energy market developments via a data-driven discussion of news, economics, companies, assets, well performance, and much more from the oilpatch. Discussions will touch on global energy markets and geopolitical events, US energy news, shale and tight oil + gas market developments, and policy issues. Trisha Curtis is a co-founder of PetroNerds, LLC. She was formerly the Director of Research, Upstream and Midstream, at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. Trisha is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and a non-resident fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. PetroNerds, LLC is a boutique energy analytics and advising firm based in Denver, CO. It provides a variety of products and services to help its clients better understand US energy markets, evaluate the performance and assets of US tight oil and gas producers, improve midstream and downstream market knowledge, and provide domestic and global policy context to ongoing events in the both US and abroad.
Recorded November 4th, 2025 and September 17th, 2025
Episode 144 of the PetroNerds podcast is another heavy hitting PetroNerdy special. The body of this podcast is Trisha Curtis' talk to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce on September 17th, 2025. Trisha introduces this podcast with a fresh market update covering OPEC Plus' recent output increase, the Xi and Trump meeting, China and the US, geopolitics, the Fed, and the consumer. In this presentation and talk Trisha takes listeners through the oil market and the economy and begins the presentation and talk with oil prices and the health of the economy, the move to $65 oil on the back of Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, Putin and Russia's drone incursions into European airspace, and Xi Jinping's SCO meeting with North Korea, India, and Russia, and China's military parade. Trisha talks about natural gas prices and the natural gas outlook and AI demand and power generation, US vs. China and the AI race, and OPEC Plus and Saudi output and market share. She gets into oil prices and the sentiment of the oil industry, crude oil inventories, explaining tariffs and what they mean and why, tariffs on India and China, Chinese crude oil stockpiling, and China's support of Russia. Trisha further dives into tariffs being about China and competition with China, the US manufacturing industrial base, manufacturing and the role of power generation. She gets into the rig count, longer laterals, the efficiency of the service sector and the resilient output of US shale, LNG exports and prices, global LNG market, US natural gas prices and residential natural gas prices, EIA nat gas price spike projections, and electricity prices. She talks about global coal consumption, Chinese coal consumption, global electricity, Chinese electricity, and Chinese oil and gas consumption and their economy. The last 15 minutes are filled with excellent questions from the audience including peak oil, coal and electricity prices, and oil and natural gas prices projections.
Trisha Curtis' interview on Real America's Voice Steve Guber Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pIGZTrNX4
Trisha Curtis' opinion piece in the Daily Caller, "Winning Against China Means Winning on Energy": https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/19/opinion-winning-against-china-means-winning-on-energy-trisha-curtis/
The PetroNerds Podcast
The PetroNerds Podcast with Trisha Curtis is a monthly, energy market podcast with a focus on oil and gas news and events. More than just a summary of headlines, the PetroNerds Podcast takes a deep analytical dive into topical energy market developments via a data-driven discussion of news, economics, companies, assets, well performance, and much more from the oilpatch. Discussions will touch on global energy markets and geopolitical events, US energy news, shale and tight oil + gas market developments, and policy issues. Trisha Curtis is a co-founder of PetroNerds, LLC. She was formerly the Director of Research, Upstream and Midstream, at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. Trisha is a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and a non-resident fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. PetroNerds, LLC is a boutique energy analytics and advising firm based in Denver, CO. It provides a variety of products and services to help its clients better understand US energy markets, evaluate the performance and assets of US tight oil and gas producers, improve midstream and downstream market knowledge, and provide domestic and global policy context to ongoing events in the both US and abroad.
