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Welcome back to another episode of Oil and Gas this week. You're listening to episode 114. What's going on, Mark? We remember to do first Friday Q&A finally. I know. We skipped last month. Sorry, everybody. I wish we had an excuse. We just forgot to do the show. Looking at the show notes and we're like, oh, I don't think we did a first Friday Q&A for the month of May. The month of May. So here we are back for June. You guys know the drill. You write in, ask questions. We attempt to answer them and hopefully provide you guys some value. So before we do that, you want to talk about the on-road sponsors? Yeah, so I want to talk about a couple things.

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So let's Jake, let's go ahead and jump into questions.

Sounds good. First question up. Sorry if I butcher the name, Salim Albeder, a student at University of Aberdeen. He writes, I'm currently doing a master's degree in oil and gas enterprise

management at the University of Aberdeen,

Scotland. My focal point is to look into the decommissioning business and the current

models that exist for the industry and the governments to get what they need. I believe there's

a gap, as you've pointed out in your shows, in the exploitation of big data analytics, particularly

when it comes to decommissioning. My question is, how and where do you see the

concept of big data analytics playing a major role in engineering decommissioning activities before

a project is just about to start? Yeah, what a great question. This is something we've talked about a lot.

Maybe I've never put all the pieces together in one place. I'm trying to do it here. So in case you

don't know what decommissioning is, different parts of the world have

different rules, but it's basically when you take the well that's in production and you

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