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Thanks for joining us for episode 294.

It's February, first Friday Q&A, and I sound like crap.

So, my apologies. You don't feel good, do you? No, I have fever. Yeah, but you're being a trooper and a spreader. Got to get through it. Well, you're going to help me. A spreader? Yeah. No, it's all allergies. It's freaking cedar pollen, man. I do not like spring. It is not my favorite season. They're bothering me too. Not as bad as they were you. Yeah. But you know what was cool? What? Was the API gala we went to? Oh, it was so much fun. It was cool seeing how packed it was. So the API Houston chapter has not thrown a black tie affair in over, think, 35 years. This is the first time we've

did, and we sold it out. It was a roast. It was wonderful. It was just nice to see kind of old

school elegance come back to the industry. Yeah, my dress was long. It's fun to dress up and go do

stuff. It's like playing dress up. And I was in a tux. You can't hardly get me in a suit.

That is true.

But I own the tucks, right? So just like you sort of like getting dressed up that level every now and then. Yeah. I just need to stop buying dresses. I have too many of them. I need to start renting them so I don't run out of room. Oh, we just build you a bigger closet.

There you go.

There you go.

Speaking of bigger and better, you want to read the review?

Not really.

Okay, I'll do it.

This is from Robert Gondinise, Gondice, who's a professional engineer. Hi, Mark, been listening to your podcast for years and want to say thank you. I used to be a facilities engineer for Chevron and the Permian. did a shell boom and recently left, moved to Denver and joined a carbon capture startup as we ever the carbon boom. It was a key bunch of error there. Your show is still one of my favorites. Highly informative, keep it up. Well, Robert, we will keep it up. And actually, Robert, I'd kind of love to know what you're doing with your carbon capture startup. You have my contact information evidently. So reach back out to me,

give me a little information, or maybe let's set up a call. Really interested in that carbon capture and storage world. We'd love to learn more, especially from somebody that's an engineer and actually came from the oil and gas side. So appreciate the review. If you want to be like Robert and have your review read on the air, it's pretty simple. Go to the notes, click on the link. no matter what technology you're using, you can leave us a review.

And if you want to try to the notes, click on the link. No matter what

technology you're using, you can leave us review. And if you want to try to remember, it's love thepodcast.com 4 slash OGTW, which is easier. Everybody just to go to links and click on it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, well, let's get into the questions. And as always, We're starting off with Ludwig.

He asks, the EPA in Odessa, is that in Ukraine where I had an apartment or the USA?

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