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.

What's going on, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of Oil and Gas this week. You're listening to episode 165, which is also the same speed. It's the fastest speed I ever got on my motorcycle, too. I've never been that fast. I was on a CBR 1,100, whatever, this is years ago. And I got about to 130 and the helmet started pulling the chin strap underneath my neck. I go, you know, Mark, you better slow down. So I did. But 165, geez, Jake, that's fast. Everything just becomes a blur at that point. But anyways, do we have any good reviews do you want to read? Oh, heck, yeah. So a couple of good ones. Favorite O and G podcasts.

Hey, gents, thank you for the great content. I've been selling lube's downstream. That sounds so bad for the past three years after working upstream for 10 years. The podcast has been an excellent way to keep current with upstream issues and topics while working downstream. I recently moved back to Upstream and tell everybody I talk to about your podcast. I enjoy all OGGN podcasts and look forward to the new episodes being launched this year.

Cheers.

That's awesome.

And you know what, Jake? move back to Upstream and tell her by I talk to about your podcast. I enjoy all OGGN podcasts and look forward to the new episodes being launched this year.

Cheers.

That's awesome.

And you know what, Jake, think about that.

This is somebody, this is Ivan Lee III.

This is somebody that had the downturn and realized they could just go to the downstream part of the industry.

It was booming because of the downturn.

That's pretty cool.

They learned to jump from one section to another. And then we have another, Henry, Hina, Settra. Greetings from Baltic and Nordic States. Hey, greetings. I have been listening to your podcast now for a while, and there's a long time of oil and gas enthusiasts. The insights you provide are absolutely amazing. Oil and gas this week and starts podcast. Oh, that's cool. Jake has brought a lot of motivation and knowledge to pursue career in the field. After I'm ready with my business studies in business schools, thank you and keep up the great work. Hey, Henry, we will absolutely creep up great work. And thanks for mentioned the startups podcast because it really is a good show. And if you don't know what we're talking about, audience, Jake and Colin have an oil and gas startup show, just Google it. You'll find it. It's

awesome. Even if you're not in the oil and gas world, go listen to it. It's really good. And today is our first Friday Q&A, like always. We take questions from the listeners. And then if we read them on there, we give you a big shout out. So Jake, let's jump into the questions. Cool. First question is from Sarah, who's in government affairs at Chevron. She writes,

Good Morning. Love the show. And I'm beyond grateful for the information and insights you provide as the industry as I'm new. I'll leave a rave review on the podcast, but first I wanted to ask you if you have plans to come into the Bay Area this year for Happy Hour. Please let me know. and if so how I could help coordinate.

Looking forward to hearing from you guys.

The reason I left that one in there, Jake, you know where I am right now?

You're in San Francisco? I'm in the Bay Area. So Sarah, hi. And so I actually reached out to Sarah, and we are coordinating launching a pot of happy hour in the Bay Area, which the surprising thing, Jake, is I've known Chevron for 20 years. They headquartered in San

Ramon's beautiful. And I've been out there a gazillion times. And I asked her, said, is there any other oil and gas companies out here? Because we can't just have a happy hour. I guess we could have a half hour just for Chevron, but we'd prefer not to. And you know, Jake, she rattled off about 20 other oil and gas, either operators or service companies or midstream companies. that didn't even know we're here. So we're working on launching one here. And then the funny thing is we then also got asked to launch another happy hour further north in California. So we may end up with two happy hours in California, which is not a bad thing. That's so funny. One of the most liberal states out there with two oil and gas happy hours. Yeah. And if you're listening out there and you work in a town where there's an oil and gas presence in the U.S., although we do have one international in Tanzania. Hey, Hussein. Yeah, if you ever go to Tanzania, we have an oil gas happy hour there. But if you want to help us launch an oil and gas happy hour with OGGN in your neck of the woods, reach out to me and talk to me. We've got a bunch of them in the works, but we would like to have a bunch more. All right, Jake, what's next? We have a question from Bin Kwasnik. No clue what he does or where he's, who he is with. But he writes, you mentioned hoping a Gaiana's government would manage the recent find responsibly. Can you share some examples for a template of a government doing a good job of

...