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Thanks for joining us for episode 319.

And we're at the SPE Electric Submersible Pumps

Symposium. So a big thanks to Magny Grandi for sponsoring this event.

And you know, Paige, they've taken such good care of us.

They've whined us. They've dined us. We have this really cool table.

They've vodkaed me.

We vodkaed you right smack in the middle of everything. And Elaine is here with us, too. Yep. Yep. What's going on this week? We have Jordan. Jordan Driscoll is in Abu Dhabi at Apeg. And then Delphina Govia is in Arizona. Arizona at the gas compression conference. Gas compression conference. And we're here at the S-E.

And then a bunch of our people will be at ATCE next week.

That's right. So OGGN is all over the place. And if you're listening out there and you don't know who we are, shame on you. This is the largest oil and gas podcast. Maybe they just don't know what a podcast is, Mark. That could be that too. but we actually don't have a review which is weird.

If you want to leave us review, it's really simple.

On the show notes, you go click on the link or if you want to try to remember it, love the podcast.com forward slash OGTW. Let's get the news stories. All right. First, we're just going to nip it in the bud. Biden administration plans zero offshore oil and gas lease sales for 2024.

So if you look at the last five years and you look forward to 2024, including the last

five years, that will mean there's only been three lease sales beginning all the way to

2025. Now, only five lease sales is coming from an administration who tells the public that they're

doing everything they can to help the consumers at the pump, and they're not in any way hindering

the American oil and gas industry. Obviously, our current administration is saying one thing and

doing something else. Now, one of the interesting things we talked about this last week is that they've connected

the offshore wind industry leases to the offshore hydrocarbon leases.

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