Russell Greco is the Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Battalion Oil Corporation. In his 10+ years in the oil and gas industry, he’s worked at EP, Halcon, and Battalion — donning a few titles including, reservoir engineer, manager of assets, and director of corporate reserves. Despite these titles and the workloads associated with them, Russell is arguably one of the happiest people I’ve ever met. He always sees the brighter side (unless we’re on the golf course, then well, everything’s fair game there) and knows how to bring out the best in people.
In this episode, we cover the growing importance of training current employees due to the reduction of new talent entering the industry, how to tactically maintain relationships, and how the impacts of AI within oil and gas.
Links
Russell Greco LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-greco-b8b198b/
Matt’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattMHarriman
Matt’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattharriman/
Matt’s book, Integrated Upstream Planning: https://amzn.to/3n9Obvl
Pod2 website: https://pod2.co/
Pod2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pod_2
Show Notes
[00:00:00] Opening clip
[00:00:24] Introduction
[00:01:04] Russell’s background
[00:09:35] Russell’s optimistic view of life
[00:12:48] Building and maintaining relationships
[00:15:47] The tactical side to keep up with people: Google Keep and Google Calendar
[00:21:11] Productivity and effectiveness and efficiency
[00:23:21] Life’s not a zero-sum game
[00:26:06] Middle managers are the least transparent
[00:28:14] Balancing success vs contentment vs happiness
[00:31:36] Work smarter, not harder
[00:34:01] The importance of defining your “good enough” at work
[00:35:16] What makes a “good day” at work
[00:37:20] Russell’s “perfect” Friday night
[00:38:48] Why is oil and gas still using paper folders for AFE?
[00:43:04] Slow adoption of the Cloud in oil and gas
[00:45:02] The lack of education on technology within Oil and gas
[00:48:00] Why training is more effective than hiring
[00:53:07] The benefits of Chat GPT for engineers
[00:58:05] The secret to happiness: Keep learning
[01:01:10] Where to connect with Russell
