I'm Jake Corley

And I'm Mark LaGour

And you're listening to the oil and gas this week podcast brought to you by Bullwark.

This is the show for busy oil pros

You'll quickly want to keep their finger on the pulse of the industry.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of oiling gas this week.

You're listening to episode 94. What's going on, Mark?

94. It's Christmas time, Jake.

I know, man. Happy holidays holidays how's everything going for you

done i've i'm lucky enough that my wife takes care of everything

that'll be nice you got any good plans no we're not going anywhere it's um we've both been so

busy this year that we're just doing a stay staycation that you know for christmas

time staying at home um so you know

looking forward to some downtime before the new york kicks off yeah that'll be nice 2017 is going to be a

busy year 2017's could be a great year great year for the oil and gas industry i think great year for

the u.s economy as a whole i'm really looking forward to what January and February bring to us. Great year for the podcast. Yeah, and great year for the podcast. We've got a whole bunch of stuff going on. And for people that listen, this podcast could be rather short or shorter than normal just because there's not a lot of news going on because the whole oil and gas shuts down. The world slows down. Yeah. Everything is so slow this time of year. And speaking of being slow, we're going to be on the road. I'm not quite sure if that was a good tie in or not. Anyway, geo-convention, Calgary, Canada, May 15th, 19th. If you haven't got your exhibit space, go get it. Reach out to Dustin at Geo Convention.

He'll give you the special podcast listener rate. We're going to be at MidConnet Digital Allfield Conference in January. It will be at NAEP in February. Process Safety in March and Oil and Gas, I mean, OTC in May, and we have other stuff on the work. So if you like Jake and I to come talk to your

company, if you have a group, an association, an oil and gas organization, a sales, national sales

meeting, reach out to us and be happy to share the details. Fantastic. Like Mark said, we don't

have a whole lot of stories this week, but we do have something for you, so we'll cover what's

been going on in the news.

So last week we talked about the EPA kind of making a last-ditch effort to lock-in legislation

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