EP 83: Paul Brown from BDE Data

Paul Brown, Founder and Principal Engineer at BDE Data, joins John and Bobby all the way from Scotland for a conversation that covers a lot of ground. From his days as an international drilling engineer dodging pirates off the coast of West Africa to building WellSchematic.com and tackling the nightmare of digitizing 50-year-old multilingual well files, Paul is the rare person who speaks both languages fluently.

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00:00 - Oil prices, energy costs, and life in Scotland vs Texas

01:50 - Paul's background and path from drilling to data

08:19 - WellSchematic.com and legacy well data as a service

10:52 - Drilling war stories: West Africa and the Falklands

15:00 - UK oil industry and energy policy

34:41 - Legacy well file digitization