One of the ideas we have been tossing around here at The Oil Drum for a couple of years was the prospect of a world-reaching, web-based weekly (and archived) energy-focused show that took advantage of live chat, call-ins and other interactive capabilities available with the web--the problem was that no one around here really had the means, wherewithal, or the technical chops to execute it to our standards on a weekly basis.

Well, someone's started one, and from what I have seen thus far it has a lot of potential. It's called "This Week in Energy." The show is hosted by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Bob Tregilus. The TWiEpodcast streams live each Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (10:00am PDT & 1:00pm EDT) and runs for 90 minutes. Here is the link if you want to watch it live and/or participate in the live chat: Watch Live.

This week the featured guest will be The Oil Drum's own Art Berman; Art will be talking L/CNG, the natural gas business, peak oil, and all sorts of other related topics. Art is a geological consultant with thirty-one years of experience in petroleum exploration and production and is a specialist in prospect and play evaluation, reserve assessment, risk evaluation, subsurface geological and geophysical interpretation, and database management, so it should be quite a show.

We are very excited to work with the folks at TWiE now and in the future, and we hope you too will support their efforts. TWiE is on twitter at @twiepodcast, Nikki's handle is @aminorjourney and Bob can be found at @bobtregilus (and don't forget, The Oil Drum can be found at @theoildrum).