You're listening to the oil and gas this week podcast with Mark LeCore and Paige Wilson.

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 today for episode number 275.

What's happening, Mark?

You don't sound like Paige. Yeah. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's a good thing. So I was kind enough, Paige's not feeling where I was kind enough to get Ali, who's been a long time member of the gang to join us. And we got much more to come from him. But thank you for filling.. It's really cool of you. Yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity.

It's just sort of a not necessarily lifelong dream, but it's really cool to see how this podcasting stuff works. So I'm really excited and a little nervous to fill. There's some big shoes to fill in. Dude, if this is a lifelong dream of yours, we need to get you out more. Yeah, we'll say that it's not the first time I've heard that.

You want to read the review?

Yeah, sure.

So far, the route here it says, here it says better than any news agency. So it's basically a shout out here. So this is just a big shout out. And thank you from Wyoming's Joint Minerals Business and Economic Development Committee. We depend on your reporting of the news to help us make sound economic and business decisions for the residents of our state. Mark and Page, what you do is amazing, is making a big difference. Please give up the great work. What a great review is a five-star review. So thank you, one of one's joint mineral business and economic development committee. No pressure on me to get stuff right if y'all use in our show to make decisions but hey economic decisions but don't forget

economic decisions for an entire state you know yeah that's some that's a big miss more right

but seriously guys thanks for the review and if you'd like to leave us a review and you love the show

let us know and if you think there's something we can change i'll let us know in the review as well as that

let's get into the news stories what's up up first? All right. For first story here, BLM approves first application for

permanent carbon storage on public lands. Now, what is really cool about this is BLM, which typically

regulates the oil and gas industry on land in the U.S. has went ahead and green lighted ExxonMobil's

proposal to sequester carbon

in Wyoming. And it was really cool about this. So first thing is we've used carbon dioxide. We've injected in reservoirs for decades as a well stimulation technique. I talked to somebody other day, Ali, and they thought it pressurized the reservoir and had it correct. It's like it actually doesn't. What it really does is add energy to the oil, which makes it less viscous and easier

to get out of the ground. Yeah, that doesn't stick to the rock. But what's cool left this, this is the U.S. government saying, okay, ExxonMobil, you have the mechanical, physical ability to pour carbon dioxide out of the air. we're going to let you sequester or we're going to let you inject it underground and use it for commercial uses.

Now, what's really, and I've said this before, what's really cool

about this is up until just recently, all of the major operators, actually not just major

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