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Welcome back to another episode of Oil and gas this week. You're listening to episode

118. What's up, Mark? Jake, it's fall in Houston. It's below 90 degrees. I know. I actually

had to wake up and put a sweater on this morning, but then as soon as I got to lunch, I was

absolutely just drenched in sweat. So I don't know what's going on. That's Houston Weather Forest Rights right? It's the only place I lived anywhere in the world where you run the air conditioner heater in the same day and you think that's normal. I know. Yeah. So before we get into today's show, I want to talk about reviews. If you want to support the show, the best way that you can help us support the show is leave us a review. Leave us a review in iTunes. It takes all of a minute or two. You can do it from your mobile device now. We've had some great reviews, Jake. First one, great weekly recap with interesting topics by SBHL from the USA. A fantastic job with the podcast, improvements. Sometimes the volumes on the mics are completely different. Yes, we know. So we're working on that. Actually, this show should come out perfect. Future suggestions. It would be nice to have a variety of podcasts, energy, finance, economics, new technology, geopolitical news that's in the works. We have some new podcasts come out. It's funny. He mentioned that. Yep, great review. So thank you very much. Next one by, this is a great name,

Petrosaurus Rex from the USA, high quality podcasts. Very well research show, love the content,

keep up the great work. I look forward to the next episode. And then finally, pumps me up.

I love that from Alien 654. I love this podcast. Mark and Jake do a great job of keeping up to date

with the latest technology and news going on in the industry.

Their perspectives get me excited for what the future has to bring. And you know what, Alien 654, we're excited for what the future has to bring in our industry. Our industry is moving and shaking. There's a lot of change going on. Jake, I'll be doing my

2018 predictions in November sometimes. So we'll look at some of that for the future. But now

it's a perfect time, Jake, for us to jump in the news stories. What you got going on? All right. First up, Ryan Zicki announces the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. So the Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinky, which I just now found out today. I don't know why I didn't know this before. He was actually a Navy SEAL commander. I don't know. Do you know that? No, I didn't know that. Good for him.

I mean, I love having veterans in our current administration. It's awesome. Yeah, I just did a quick Google search and, like, turns out like he wrote a whole book about it. He was, I think he was on the team that commanded capturing Osama bin Laden and a couple of the other like big missions

and stuff. So this little side note. Anyway, so you announced a proposal for the largest oil and gas

lease. commanded capturing Osama bin Laden and a couple of the other like big missions and stuff. So this little

side note. Anyway, so you announced a proposal for the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S.

history totaling 79 or 76.9 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which we talked about this a

little bit before, but I think now it's actually coming to fruition. So they're offering them lease sales

and federal waters and lands, which is,

you know, obviously one of the biggest things that the Trump administration can do to show that

it is supportive of the oil and gas industry. But also like we've talked about, even though

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