Michael

Christian, Forward Deployed Engineer, Petroleum Completion and Intervention Engineer. Builder, learner, problem solver.

[collide. @collide_ai]

Scott Gale was everywhere in Houston’s energy community, on stages, in studios, in the room for anything that mattered. Most of us know his story by now. It’s been over two years, and his birthday is next week. Brad Rossacci and Collide have spent the last year going through every recording that exists of him, including a conversation Scott and Brad sat down for in April 2024 where he talks about the diagnosis directly. The film that came out of it is a little different. There’s no narrator. It’s Scott, in his own words, cut together from four years of podcasts, panels, and interviews, with the people who knew him filling in the rest. It’s called ONWARD. Here’s the trailer. It releases on his birthday next week, Tuesday, November 17.

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

This is a really good read. Learning from our country's mistakes in the past of not building refineries and relating that to data centers

[Chuck Yates @nimblephatty]

Silicon Valley, you're about to find out what it's like to be an oil company.

Everybody wants your product cheap. Nobody wants your plant next door. Then the price goes up and you're the asshole.

Compute is the new gasoline.

Latest Old Man Coffee. Link in the first reply.

[Chuck Yates @nimblephatty]

Silicon Valley, you're about to find out what it's like to be an oil company.

Everybody wants your product cheap. Nobody wants your plant next door. Then the price goes up and you're the asshole.

Compute is the new gasoline.

Latest Old Man Coffee. Link in the first reply.

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

Cheveron CEO Mike Wirth came by today.

big oil in the house.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Every chain of title is a scavenger hunt.

A patent. Some deeds. A probate two counties over. A correction deed fixing the last correction deed.

The trick isn't reading the documents. It's putting them in order and proving every link.

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

@JSON_JEFF lol @JSON_JEFF we were just talking about this.

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

@sydneyarch @FracSlap Dang. Didn’t think it would be that many tokens to rebuild all my favorite Nintendo games. #GenX

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

@JSON_JEFF Holding that data hostage

[🇺🇸🍩 JULIE DONUTS 🇺🇸🍩 @Juliedonuts]

President Trump just posted this…

JUSTICE IS COMING‼️

Listen closely to what John Solomon says… This was not just another 4 yr election.

THIS IS THE TIME OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE!! 🔥🇺🇸 THEY ALL FALL…💥💥

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

Exactly. Let us do the work that no one wants to do. Let us get the data classified and structured for you. Then it’s game on with agents, skills, tools and workflows.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Everyone wants to deploy AI agents in oil and gas.

Almost nobody does the boring part first.

12,000 land and title docs. Scanned, handwritten, never linked.

We turned them into one graph:
- every well tied to its lease
- every lease tied to its tracts
- every answer traced back to the page it came from

The trick is you solve the data problem before the agent ever touches it.

Agents are easy. Trust is the hard part. https://t.co/NodvLoW9mm

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

OpenAI picked off my founding AI engineer last month.

You would not believe how much street cred that has got us in the market.

[⚡️John Kalfayan⚡️ @jakalfayan]

Shoutout to my @collide_ai devs for keeping our skills and tools up to snuff! I love the "fix my shit" skill we've got!

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

I love when I hire a software engineer from the coast and I see them rocking a Big Oil hoodie in the office on day one.

We are hydrocarbon evangelists.

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

@FracSlap It will run on Minnesota Iron Range ore and Texas gas, come online in late 2027 with magnet-grade iron in early 2028, and the stated next step is a ~500,000-ton-a-year mill.

The re-industrialization of the USA is in early stages.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Peak Collide. We spend all day teaching AI about oil and gas, then @sydneyarch turns it on @FracSlap.

Real question is whether it pushes back as hard as the real one. https://t.co/TSYhJWovSO

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

The AI industry will soon find out how much domain expertise matters, we're proving it in oil and gas.

Jev was all the rage, but when we ran it, our classifiers smoked it on oil and gas documents.

We have spent an incredible amount of time and effort with oil and gas subject matter experts to build our document fracking process to categorize and extract data out of unstructured documents.

[Murdoch Murchison @MurdochMurch]

Other shops: "Upload some documents (just not too many or it will break) and chat with them."

Us: 12,000 land and title docs turned into a living map of who owns what, where, and why.

We're not the same.

[Michael @michaelcortez78]

@FracSlap @jakalfayan Our Land SME FDE put in some serious work when classifying and extracting that data! So proud to be a part of the @collide_ai FDE team.

This is the foundational data work that we do best. This is just a part of Layer 1 of the Collide Operations System.

[Collin McLelland 🏴‍☠️ @FracSlap]

You need forward deployed engineers with deep domain expertise to build AI that actually works in technical industries.

Full stop.

[Chuck Yates @nimblephatty]

I drove to the Alamodome to watch My Chemical Romance play The Black Parade.

Last week the AI labs ran a funeral march. Coxon quit. Hubinger put extinction over 10%. Dario said keep building.

Then the jumbotron posted the only rule that actually matters.

Same dread. Same assignment. You carry on.

https://t.co/0D6OQ2sSUU