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This is the show for busy oil pros who quickly want to keep their finger on the pulse of the industry.

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This is the show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse of the industry.

Thanks for joining us for episode 297.

Getting closer at 300, Mark.

I know, I know.

Guess what?

What?

We've had a couple of companies reach out to us, one, to help us celebrate our 300th recording,

so we'll see where that goes.

We'll keep our audiences updated.

Guess what else?

What?

I messed up really bad. Uh-oh. A big shout to Rudolph Hubber. He reached out to me saying basically, I still love the podcast despite the incessant plugs by Mark. Well, first thing, Rudolph, somebody has to pay for this stuff. So I'm sorry, you have to put up with the plugs. By the way, Mark, I learned a ton about oil and gas from you, but I think in this week's

podcast, you garbled up Adnock and Saudi Aramco.

Adnock IPO does not concern Saudi Ramco.

They're competitors in different countries.

Besides, I would not expect too much transparency, but it's a different topic from the IPO.

And he's absolutely right.

So what I was doing when I was getting prep for last week's

episode. Yeah. Is I was trying to compare the Saudi Ramco IPO and what Adnock was talking about

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