It’s Been 50 Years in the Making

Interview: William Prentice, CEO, Meridian Energy Group

Prentice gives an overview of how many people are involved creating the first greenfield refinery in over 50 years in the United States. He also talks about how the new technology is setting new regulations in the oil and gas industry.

Interview: Mary Anderson, Executive Director, ABLE Inc. and Monte Besler, FRACN8R Consulting

The two give testimonials and examples of how the social program ABLE Inc is helping oil and gas families in the Bakken.

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Jason Spiess

Contributor - The Crude Life Content Network

Jason Spiess is a multimedia journalist, entrepreneur and content consultant. Spiess has over 25 years of media experience in broadcasting, journalism, reporting and principal ownership in media companies. (Over 30 years experience if you count his adolescent years as a newspaper delivery boy learning the importance and logistics of daily distribution and monthly door-to-door bill collecting.) Spiess has worked in the areas of oil and gas, UAS and precision agriculture, health care, cannabis, agriculture, real estate, government affairs and economic development. Spiess is the host of two radio programs, Building the Bakken and Coffee & Capitalism, and three specialty programs, MonDak OilField Review, Corporate Ink and UnStuck, that carry a radio network that spans five states and two countries. Spiess is a North Dakota native and graduated from North Dakota State University.