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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 359.

Hey, Paige.

Hi.

You sound a little congested. I am. It's a bad allergy season, Houston, like it always is. Yeah, I'm like this all the time. So, one of the things I want to talk about before we get to news articles and everything else is you and I were lucky enough to go out to Colorado just recently. Yes. And we recorded live. This audience has heard us at the Prairie Operate Company's site. And we have some video. So if you'd like to actually see what Paige and I look like, if you've never looked us up, if you want to see us on the drill site, there'll be a link in the show. It's just a very short 15 seconds of video, but we had a blast out there. So thanks again. I even got a sunburn on my neck.

Right where the little V is. The only thing I'm not covered. Yeah, well, you're extremely fair skin. So that would help either. Speaking of helping, though, you want to read the review? Oh, that one. Okay. It says boots on the ground. Ben and Rina? Yeah. And if you don't know who Ben and Rina are, they're the newest host for our Energy Conference podcast, which probably should remember the name of.

Has it been still recording.

But we go to so many conferences around the world and not just oil and gas conferences,

anything to do with energy, which includes a lot of tech shows.

We finally decided to launch a podcast on the actual conferences itself. The cool thing about this has Ben Arena will be at all the conferences, setting up all the gear, the camera, the microphones. Is that just you and me? And then we just show up. Oh, that's cool. Do we come back? But give them a couple weeks a show will launch and it is going to be a blast. And this could be just another addition to the OGGN suite of podcasts. And they're both heavy to social media. So I expect to see some cool TikTok videos come from them, some Instagram reels. Oh, they're everything I'm not. Let's get the news stories. All right. First off, hours long talk to gas leak at Pemex Oil Refinery near Houston.

Far exceeded legal limit.

Yeah.

You know Pomex, what are you doing?

I can tell you what you're doing.

You're not spending the money on planned maintenance and repair.

You're not doing the due diligence to make sure that everybody stays safe.

Both your workers, the general public workers, the local communities you operate in. This discharge is 43,500 pounds of hydrogen sulfide gas,

which if you don't know is lethal. And this went on for more than seven hours. Now, this is

refinery, it's the old Shell Deer Park refinery, which I have visited multiple

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