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Thanks for joining us for episode 256.

What's up, Mark?

It's freezing, literally.

Yeah. Too chilly for me. Yeah, and rest of the country, don't make fun of Texas that we freak out when it gets below 45. Well, I'm pretty sure we all have PTSD from last year. Yeah. So last year at this time was horrendous. That was that big outage that took a lot of the grid down in Texas.

Luckily right now, everything I've seen, we've had some small outages, but nothing major like that. The sun's out. It's 38 degrees, so it's not horrendous like it was yesterday. Yeah, no, the wind was killing it and then, you know, the humidity. But speaking of killing it, we got a review. Oh yeah, five star, knowledgeable staff with good foresight, Jessup, 1977. See, you can be just like Just Up 1977 in a couple of words. Hit that submit, and we'll give you a big shout out on the show. And Paige, it's really interesting. We've got a lot of reviews. I think it's because we keep asking for it. I think it's because we beg it for them. But sincerely, you know, all your new listeners, all of our long-time listeners, we appreciate when you leave us a review.

Let's get into new stories.

All right.

Here's a big one.

Nigerian oil production and storage vessel explodes.

Yeah, FPSO, floating production storage.

Floating production storage.

You're the one that told me what this meant because I didn't know what it was right. Floating production storage and something else. Damn, I can't remember what the O stands for. But anyway. Offloading. Offloading. Yeah, yeah. So what these are, these are vessels. Think of maritime vessels, like a ships that can actually park over an existing well, connect to a riser, pump up that mixture of oil and gas and sand and water and everything else, separate it at the boat on the

surface, compartmentize it, and then take that gas and oil that's left and then bring it to shore

or to a terminal somewhere and offload it. Real popular in Brazil and becoming more popular in the U.S.

They serve a good purpose.

Unfortunately, in this case, in Nigeria, this FPSO caught on fire and actually partially sank.

I think they had a crew member of 13 on board and they have yet to find any of them.

Now, because the water there is warm and because if certain parties are still going on, there's still high hopes that will find people that are alive. But by the time that the officials and the rescue crew should up there, the fire so intensely going to get close to the facility. So we're going to keep an eye on this, you know, hearts and prayers to the people on that FPSO. We just want to make sure everybody's safe.

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