Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Today is Thursday, May 26, 2016, so we're talking about energy, materials, and industrials.

I'm joined by Motley Fool analyst Taylor Muckerman,

and in following through on this week's life cycle theme,

we're going to be talking about the lifetime journey

of a barrel of light sweet crude oil.

So how's it going Mr Markerman?

It's going well.

Swimmingly.

Swimmingly.

Swimmingly.

Swimmingly.

So I guess since this is Life Cycle Week and we're talking about the journey that a barrel of oil goes on from being in the ground to we probably won't get all the way to the gas tank but no that a, that's for another day.

Another day.

But should we start in the beginning

with like a dinosaur dying or something, 300 million years ago?

If you want to walk us through the biology

and the chemistry side of how it became oil sure. I think I took my last

chemistry class about six, you know that would have been in high school. I don't know

14 years ago, something. Anyway, we obviously won't get too much into the chemistry or anything like that, but okay, so let's just pretend,

let's talk about exploration first, because there's oil on the ground, it's there, we don't know how deep it is.

How do companies go about finding it?

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