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collide builds AI workflows for oil and gas, so operators can move faster and do more with less.
- That 98% flare destruction efficiency everyone reports only holds inside a narrow window of wind, flow, and gas composition. Brendan Smith of SeekOps is live now on why the industry still runs its emissions math on 1990-era estimation factors, how single-digit parts-per-billion
- Chuck's new Old Man Coffee is up, and this one's about the IT director, the guy quietly holding the whole company together while the C-suite wonders why the AI hasn't replaced everybody yet. He gets into why that seat's the hardest one in the building, and where Collide lands on
- Three different corners of the same world today, a real debate on switching software, a search for Ez-Go thread connectors, and a guy giving away a free week on his nat gas evaporators. This stuff isn't happening anywhere else.
- URTeC week's about to kick off, so we're getting everyone in one room before the badge-scanning starts. Drinks, snacks, and a crowd of energy folks at Nickel City on June 23, 5 to 8. Free if you're on Collide, twenty if you're not. Doing it with AI Driller and Midnight Marketing,
- The same laser sensor NASA built to look for life on Mars is now hunting methane leaks in the Permian. Brendan Smith, CEO and co-founder of SeekOps, on his path from JPL to flying drone-mounted spectrometers through gas plumes, and why technology that was impossible a decade ago
- This month's Doghouse pull is the co-branded RTIC cooler and tumbler set. Watts are the currency, you earn them by showing up and posting on Collide, and the gallery refreshes, so the good stuff moves.
- How'd you actually end up in oil & gas?











