You're listening to the Oil and Gas This Week podcast with Mark LeCour and Jake Corley.

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

Welcome back to another episode of oil and gas this week.

You were listening to episode 120.

What's up, Mark?

Yeah, 120.

We got a little sad news here, Jake.

One of our initial listeners to show from a long time ago when we first started oil and gas this week, Jeremy Cools.

He worked at Mobile Data Tech tech passed away just recently.

So a moment of silence for Jeremy and his family.

All right.

So we don't want to make this too much of a downer.

But before we get the news show, we're going to talk about somebody else passing away,

which is OilPro. It looks like OilPro has closed the doors. I got a news release up here. Jake would throw it into show notes. But basically, if you're a user of Oil Pro, you have a couple of weeks. You have until August 2nd to get your content off there. If you want to get anything off there, and then it looks like they're shutting the doors for good.

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uh ex deal president on the front end. So let's start off with the first article is kind of just a good way for us to kind of

segue into a little bit of a tech talk. XTO president credits technology for success. So according to

the president of ExxonMobil's XTO energy technology has been the common denominator that has

powered the oil and gas industry to its current status in the world's economy and will be vital

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