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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 296.

Four shy of 300, Mark.

If you want to sponsor the 300th episode, you better hurry up and talk to us because it's right around the corner. It's literally in a month, right? Yeah, yeah, in a month. Two things, or actually three things page. First thing is, by the time you hear this, we will be at Sarah Week. So if you're also going to be at Sarah Week, come find us. I think you have 13 of the OGG and hosts have actually signed up. We'll be all over the place. We have the press room recording podcasts. So if you there come find us, I'd love to meet you in person. Second thing, guess what we're doing? What? It's our first industry mixer of 2023. Oh, end of March? End of March, March 30th, right here in Houston. The link will be in the show notes. We do these every month. We took us a little while this year to get things rolling again. It's going to be endeavor technologies, and we're going to get back to that later when we talk about some of the news articles. But it's just a cool gathering of oil and gas business leaders.

Everybody feels safe because it's us. You're behind the OGG and firewall. It'd be kind of weird if I didn't feel safe. Yeah. Well, it's a little bit of money to get in. I think it's $20 for a ticket. Yeah. But part of our proceeds goes to Red M to help fight human sex trafficking. So come join us. come help us save a little boy, little girl's life.

And meet your oil and gas peers, have some fun.

There'll be prizes. We're going to have a podcast that we're

actually interviewing the sponsor, which will be on the side. We're also having the Roman

reporter section. And if you're thinking about maybe sponsoring one of these with us, I think we

have six left for this year. So if you want to sponsor one is it's cheap. $3,500, you get a ton of exposure. We shoot video, you get a podcast episode for you and your company. And like I said, the profits go to help fight human sex trafficking. So it's a win-win all the way around. And then finally, why is our producer sitting in here? Oh, because we're going to have margaritas later.

Oh, okay.

So the production first and then the fun second. Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. It's just kind of cool to have Audrey in here. We usually, everything we do is remote. It's nice to actually have her here in person. Right. Are you going to produce anything in person, Audrey? She doesn't have a microphone, so she can't answer it.

She's just looking at you like, no.

And then finally, as far as reviews, you heard me say this 100 times before we get the review. We have a new way to leave a review thanks to Audrey. And it's a make, you can click on no matter what technology you're on, even on Linux. And if you want to try to remember, it's love thepodcast.com forward slash ogdw you want to read the review yeah it's actually from

ludvick that always writes in five want to try to remember it's love the podcast.com forward slash ogdb. You want to read the review?

Yeah, it's actually from Ludvick that always writes in five-star must listen. The show is a must

listen talking common sense energy, talking about what's happening. If you're not working in the oil

and gas sector, it keeps you up with the European energy crisis. This show offers insight on how to solve all quickly. Thanks, Louvick. Actually, a big thank you, Louvre. It's nice to him they actually leave us a review. Yeah, yeah, since he writes in all the time. Oh, wait, it gets better. What? So, Ludwig left me a Twitter video for the next first Friday Q&A. Oh, okay. So I'm actually have the audio when we do our next first Friday Q&A. That sounds complicated. Yeah, let's see if we can pull it off. Okay. All right. All right. So let's get into the news stories. First one, London's oil party week is back. So this has not happened since the pandemic. This is the International Energy Week, which has been going on forever.

Think of it as a combination, maybe not as high end as Sarah Week, but definitely

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