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athollywood

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About athollywood

Electrical engineer by training, oil and gas engineer by practice.

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    Comment #36236445

    Airthings! It’s great.

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    Comment #36236232

    I bought a fairly expensive air quality monitor. Accuracy wasn’t what caused me to go with a more expensive model. I wanted CO2 readings, which most models under $200 don’t provide…

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    Comment #26175415

    Texas electric prices have been capped at $9000/MWHr for the last few days. Average is about $35/MWhr. The Texas electric bill is about $10 billion per day right now.

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    Comment #19245267

    The pay is good enough but their are other constraining factors when it comes to extreme rapid growth in an area. Housing shortages are one example.

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    Comment #19245248

    Not disagreeing with any of what you said, however I encourage you to consider the alternatives of pipelines. Rail and trucking typically have a significantly higher spill rate. ht…

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    Comment #19240225

    Speaking as an employee at one of the largest independent E&P’s, we haven’t relied on debt and equity financing in the last few years because we have had enough free cash flow. The…

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    Comment #14172214

    My natural gas furnace doesn't vent to the outside, and neither does my stove. Natural gas has orders of magnitude less pollution than coal.

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    Comment #13143993

    I guess I'll explain how the business side of drilling a well works. An operator (think Chevron) will decide where and when the well is drilled. They will then hire a drilling comp…

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    Comment #13143944

    All of our data is proprietary unfortunately. This leads to another start up idea: a data consortium company for this type of work. I don't think we would mind giving the data up i…

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    Comment #13143872

    I am. Google "fiber optic DAS" and you will find quite a lot. http://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/fiber-optic-sensors...

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    Comment #13143561

    The oil and gas industry is ripe with potential start ups. Here are a few that come to mind: 1. A better system for automation and measurement. Current solutions aren't ideal when …