Podcast

Podcast: Barrels to Bytes – Episode 5:

Scott Sheffield – Lessons from Building a Shale Giant

For Episode 5 of Barrels to Bytes, Ben Dell, Lloyd Byrne, and John Ordway are joined by Scott Sheffield, founding CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources and author of the new memoir From Tehran to the Permian.

The series brings together perspectives from private equity, the sell side, and the buy side to debate the forces shaping energy markets today.

This episode covers everything from: why Scott sees flat rather than growing Permian production as the industry moves into tier two and tier three inventory; why recovering more than 6–8% of the oil in place is shale’s next big technology frontier; the deals Pioneer weighed before ExxonMobil came calling; why the number of public independents could halve again; what separates an engaged board from a rubber stamp; how producers can break free of Henry Hub and capture global gas prices; and why an FTC commissioner’s comparison put John D. Rockefeller at the top of his dinner list!

Watch Episode 5 here: