you're listening to the oil and gas this week podcast with mark lecour and jake corley

this is the show for busy oil pros who quickly want to keep their finger on the pulse of the

industry welcome back to another episode of oil and gas this week. You're listening to episode

136. What's up, Mark? Jake, you know where oil is right now, price-wise? I think we're tiptoeing

around 70. Yeah, isn't that great? Isn't that just... It's amazing. And it's going to stay around

that price for a while. So it's just awesome. You can start seeing the upstream activity start picking up. But one of the things that is cool about that is then all the service companies are going to start picking back up. And so it's got a trickle through effect through the upstream part of oil and gas industry, which we've needed for almost 30 years now. So good to see price hovered around 70 bucks. More growth, more hiring.

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We've got a great one this time, Jake. Great pulse of industry, helpful even for marketing.

I live in South Louisiana my entire life and remain mostly oblivious to all industry other than the

fact that so many of our friends and neighbors had some sort of affiliation.

I now live in Western Colorado and about five months into being the marketing director for a large wireline company.

This podcast really helps me make sense of the floods of information that is so generally labeled oil and gas.

I've listened to all of them.

I highly recommend it and have shared it in the company-wide email.

Keep it up.

So this is by, it looks like, I-hoops in iTunes. So I-hoops, reach out to us, click on the show notes, our contact information out there. I'm going to send you something. Anybody that does that company-wide email, you get a little something special from the podcast. So, Ray, jump in news stories. Yep, let's do it. So first story, let's get this out of the way.

Obviously, this is kind of on a somber note.

It's do it. All right. First story, let's get this out of the way.

Obviously, this is kind of on a somber note.

It's not necessarily new news that happened about a week ago, but, you know, it's been a little while since we recorded.

We had some stuff going on.

But obviously the drilling rate explosion in Oklahoma about a week ago, which was the deadliest oil and gas accident since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. So if you hadn't heard about that, there was five, I think it's

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