Nishadi Davis from Wood

Nishadi Davis went from wireline field engineer at Schlumberger to Director of Strategic Advisory, Americas at Wood, and she has watched plenty of energy projects live or die on the numbers. She explains what Wood actually does, why some hydrogen megaprojects never stood a chance, how community pushback can sink carbon capture, and why microbes turning old wells into cheap hydrogen has her excited. Plus real talk for founders trying to land their first big partner.

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00:00 Intro
01:14 What Wood does
04:53 Wood's history
05:52 From wireline to Wood
09:43 Life as a woman in the field
13:19 14 years at Wood
15:02 The hydrogen hype
17:16 Delivering bad news
22:42 Community risk and permitting
26:13 Why decarbonization
28:23 Comparing carbon capture
31:28 Eclipse Energy and microbial hydrogen
38:57 How startups land partners
43:10 What startups need

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Nishadi Davis from Wood