EP 84: Ben Dickinson & Bryan Frantz from NexTier Completion Solutions

Everybody in oil and gas has been sitting on mountains of completions data and barely using it. Ben Dickinson and Bryan Frantz of NexTier Completion Solutions built the fix from the inside out, an end to end frac data platform made by the people running the pumps. John and Bobby get into why the closer you are to the equipment the closer you are to the truth, where frac data standards are headed, and whether efficiency has hit its ceiling. Plus AI coding and the hunt for a good Pittsburgh wing.

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0:00:00 - Back from summer break
0:00:41 - Trying to keep pace with AI
0:10:16 - Who NexTier is and where it came from
0:12:22 - Building an end to end frac data platform
0:15:17 - The industry's siloed data problem
0:20:39 - Agnostic architecture and one tool for everyone
0:26:44 - Borrowing solved problems from other industries
0:31:41 - The tech stack and starting greenfield
0:35:17 - Control systems and the job data schema
0:44:11 - Why frac data has no standard
0:47:08 - Fleet Stream and getting data to customers
0:53:23 - Has operational efficiency hit its ceiling
0:59:58 - How opinionated should the software be
1:03:08 - Physics vs data driven modeling
1:08:41 - The AI coding tools they use
1:10:35 - Western PA wings and pierogi

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