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Thanks for joining us for episode 374. Please say the date for Impact Cognite's annual user conference happening October 13th through

the 16th here in Houston, Texas. And hey, Mark, where are we? We're at the University of Houston

Energy Industry Crawfish Boyle. It's like the 34th one or something. Thirty-fourth one. We've been doing

this for a long time. You have a lot of companies represent here from the oil and gas industry, a lot of students here. Great food, cold drinks, got some cold beer, great band behind us. And we're going to do something a little bit different, which, by the way, if you're listening, and you have some questions for Paige and I. We have a Mike here so you can ask some live questions. questions but at the end of the show we're going to make an announcement about something we're doing with the university of houston however you got to listen to the whole show before we get to it ha ha jokes on you guys uh speaking of jokes this is not a joke we got a review uh i don't know how many stars we got he says hi mark greetings on the UK greetings on the UK. Even though I've never worked in old gas, I absolutely love your podcast. And Page is fabulous. Two, also. Let's get to news stories. All right. First up, petroleum students capture awards for research to reduce fracking expenses. How as cool is this? Just happens to have a University of Houston story while we're at

the University of Houston. So this is at the hydraulic fraction technology conference a couple

months ago, SP put on. And Mohamed Abel Gabri, he's a Ph. student in the Trulham Engineer Department,

actually won for his PhD work on his research, how to reduce fracking expenses.

So what is he researches around is finding practical applications for the industry. He has actually three patents. He hasn't finished his PhD yet. And he's published 10 papers. And everything that he's doing is what I love about him. This isn't stuff that he's done research on that's in the lab. It's in vitro. So this is actually real world rubber hit the road out in the field out the website

Well site ways to actually actually stuff that he's done research on that's in the lab, it's in vitro. This is actually real world,

rubber hit the road out in the field, out the website, well site, ways to actually reduce the cost

of fracking, which just helps everybody. So number one, congratulations, Muhammad, for winning the award.

Number two, congratulations Cullen's College of Engineering to have this type of talent

working their PhDs in your program. Yeah, right on.

All right. Next up, we have Penn State Shell Collaboration Funds Environmental Research Project.

Love this. I love the collaboration between universities and the oil and gas industry.

And this is between Penn State and Shell, actually Shell U.S. And Shell has committed over a million

dollars to focus on things like decarbitization,

polymer recycle, and biodiversity.

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