Jonathan Pillet

Husband. Father. Protector. Provider. Upstream oil and gas professional. Freelance consultant delivering practical insight on energy, operations, and risk.

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Why hasn't the Pentagon deployed swarm drones? 🤔✈️ #Drone #AI

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Will AI really replace oil and gas jobs? 🤔💼 #AI #Jobs

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Can a $6,000 drone really outsmart a $6 million missile? 🤖💥 #Drones #AI

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What risk could cost a CEO their job? 💼🤔 #CEO #Risk

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Can data centers rely on renewables? 🌱⚡ #Energy #DataCenters

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David Blackmon on the Future of Oil, Shale, Energy Policy and American Power

David Blackmon on the Future of Oil, Shale, Energy Policy and American Power
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David Blackmon joins Jonathan Pillet on Practical Energy Insights for a wide ranging conversation about the oil and gas industry, US shale, the Permian Basin, regulation, energy security and the changing geopolitical landscape.

David brings roughly forty years of oil and gas experience, including decades working in public policy, regulatory affairs and corporate energy strategy. We discuss how his career began, what the oil collapse of the 1980s taught him, whether US shale can sustain current production levels, the future of LNG, nuclear power and renewables, and how changing global alliances could reshape American energy policy.

We also explore Venezuela, Iran, the Gulf states, Ukraine, drones and the growing vulnerability of critical energy infrastructure.

The conversation closes with David’s perspective on the future of oil and gas careers, where young professionals should focus, and which skills he believes will remain valuable over the coming decades.

Practical Energy Insights is focused on real conversations with professionals who have spent their careers working in and around the energy industry.

Subscribe for more discussions on upstream oil and gas, drilling, completions, careers, energy markets and the people shaping the industry.

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25 Years in oil and gas.

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Livestream with Mohsen Johari, Iranian Film Maker. https://t.co/RdRbK30GZx

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Trump Tacos. Energy sector transitions

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Practical Energy Insights Live August 6th, 2026 https://t.co/Fnj2AmwyjX

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@deryaa1214 I think you need bigger problems

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Practical Energy Insights Live July 12, 2026 https://t.co/qqL3SMDgEf

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JD Vance speaks on what it’s like to negotiate with the Iranians

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@roberta_bastoss Unarmed man robs unarmed man 🙄

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@FAFO_TV You can’t park there

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Drone Defense May Be Oil’s Next Big Business

The U.S. has now struck Iranian drone and missile sites, Iran has retaliated against Kuwait and Bahrain, and a Panamanian flagged vessel has been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz as tensions expand around Omani territorial waters and Gulf transit corridors.

With negotiations now moving to Doha, Qatar, the region is once again sitting on the edge of escalation.

But beyond the immediate headlines, there is a bigger energy security trend starting to emerge.

China is using strategic oil and LNG reserves to support nearby countries, strengthen regional relationships, and protect its own energy interests without compromising national security. At the same time, Beijing is deeply aware of its own vulnerability through the Strait of Malacca, one of the most important maritime choke points in the world.

That is why China is investing in overland pipelines and alternative supply corridors.

But as we have seen in the Persian Gulf, land based infrastructure is also vulnerable. Pipelines, terminals, storage facilities, ports, refineries, LNG plants, offshore platforms, tankers, and drilling rigs can all become targets in a modern conflict.

This is where I think the next major opportunity may emerge.

Drone defense for the oil and gas sector.

Gulf countries like Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia may need far more private and semi private drone defense systems to protect energy infrastructure. Major operators like ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, Chevron, QatarEnergy, ADNOC, Saudi Aramco, and others may eventually need dedicated systems to intercept incoming drones, missiles, and low cost attacks before they hit critical infrastructure.

This may not happen overnight, but over the next five to ten years, I think drone defense, infrastructure protection, and private energy security could become a major niche inside the oil and gas sector.

If you work in energy, security, technology, defense, logistics, or infrastructure, this may be one of the areas worth watching closely.

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@elonmusk hey Elon, don’t you think you have enough? No One Needs to Be a Trillionaire

Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire raises a bigger question: at what point does extreme wealth stop being success and start becoming a threat to society?

This is not an anti capitalism argument. Capitalism rewards effort, risk, innovation, ownership, and value creation. People should be able to build businesses, create wealth, and benefit from their work.

But there has to be a serious conversation about scale.

A million dollars can change a family’s life.

A billion dollars is already more money than most people could ever reasonably spend.

But a trillion dollars is more than the GDP of many countries.

At that level, wealth is no longer just personal success. It becomes political power. It becomes influence. It becomes the ability to shape governments, markets, public policy, media narratives, and national priorities without ever being elected.

Meanwhile, ordinary people are dealing with homelessness, food insecurity, unaffordable health care, addiction crises, famine, war, and economic instability.

The question is not whether successful people should be punished.

The question is whether any system, even a capitalist one, should allow one individual to accumulate wealth at a scale that can overpower governments, distort democracy, and sit beside mass human suffering.

As someone who believes in capitalism, personal responsibility, and hard work, I still think this is unreasonable.

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