“Of course that’s your contention. You just wrapped your summer internship and read a BCG report on energy transition strategy. Now you’re convinced the future of oil and gas is digital twins, predictive maintenance, and ‘culture-first digital transformation.’
That’ll last until you get into a field office and find out the compressor data still comes in a PDF attached to an email from someone named Rusty.
Next month you’ll be quoting Deloitte on ‘full-stack decarbonization,’ and then next year, you’ll be pitching AI-powered lease optimization to a land team that still uses fax machines.
Let me guess…you read ‘The Prize’ and now you think you understand upstream economics?
See, the thing is, in 20 years you’re gonna realize the business was never about the slide deck, the acronyms, or the strategy offsite in Austin.
It was about talking to the foreman, finding the leak, and making sure the wells came back online Monday morning.
You dropped $180K on a degree when the answers were at the well pad the whole time.”