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So this is the Oil and Gas This Week podcast. This is the number one podcast in the oil and gas industry on the planet. Sitting here with Jake Carly, we're live here at National Oil Varcoe shrimp oil. Everybody's having a good time, got a bite to eat, a chance to tour their equipment. We're actually going to jump into some news articles and then we're going to have a guest. But before we do that, Jake, let's thank our on the road sponsors.

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So Jake, let's go ahead and jump in the news articles.

What we got going on?

So this week, Exxon Mobil and Chevron have both released quarterly results, and each reported

results that have beat the estimates.

So Exxon, of course, is the world's largest publicly traded integrated oil and gas company.

So with the first quarter, they earns $4 billion, an increase of 122% from the first quarter

of 2016.

You're popping.

Am I'm popping?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So an increase 122% from first quarter 2016 Exxon mobile's not

hurting it or they no not at all yeah so what's going on with cash flow with Exxon so

cash flow from operations was 8.2 billion in Q1 versus 4.8 billion a year ago the

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