Scott D. Sheffield

And the question is: where is this supply going to come from? And what is the marginal cost of that supply? At the same time, the backlash to data centers from ratepayers, water use, and land use has started to rail-- raise real questions about the pace of delivery.

Today, I'm excited to be joined by Scott Sheffield, a man who built one of the largest unconventional oil and gas producers in the United States.

Scott became CEO of Parker and Parsley in 1985 and founding CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources in 1997, running the business across nearly three decades.

He retired in 2016, returned in 2019, and ultimately sold the company to ExxonMobil for around sixty billion dollars.

It's an integral part of what they do.

Uh, Fork Light- Forked Lightning Racket Club, we gotta talk to, uh, the man of the hour, Scott Sheffield.

Scott, thanks for joining the podcast.

Excited to talk about Forked Lightning and, uh, about this exciting gala.

That's always the, uh, the hope with tennis, right? Is hopefully the weather, uh, cooperates.

But yeah, thanks to Greg Sharko for setting this up.

And Scott Sheffield, thanks for not just coming on the show, but all that you do for tennis.

It's really cool to see people that are invested, that don't have to be, but just have a love of the sport and wanna pass it on to the next generation.

It's a heavy travel week, so this is going to be a quick audio-only commentary.

On Veritan's Close the Business Tuesday podcast this past week, we had oil industry veteran Scott Sheffield on to discuss his new memoir, From Tehran to the Permian.

It's a great read.

Definitely recommend you all go out and get it.

that I think handled that era well, but he's the only one that is retired and his company no longer exists or is at least not publicly traded.

And therefore, as not a current company, we have a self-imposed policy to not discuss and super spike existing publicly traded companies.

We are offering this perspectives on Scott Sheffield and Pioneer only at this time.

If I can leave energy executives with a few final pleas, strategy is not static.

It's old home week here at Veritan.

Scott Sheffield is in our office.

You may know, you energy watchers probably know Scott has written a book, From Tehran to the Permian.

And he's here to talk about the book and talk about life.

We can say the role of Arjun Murthy will be played by Arjun Murthy.

We'll have him in.

I think Billy Bob Thorpe would make a great Scott Sheffield.

Have y'all read about the, what's his name? His Digger movie? I don't think so.