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Oil and Gas This Week

S&P Acquires IHS and Texas Jobs are Picking Up! – OGTW223

Oil and Gas This Week

Mark LaCour & Paige Wilson

Business

4.6582 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to another episode! This Week, Mark and Paige hit the following: * S&P Global to buy IHS Markit in all-stock deal worth $44bn * Robot dog Spot is a star on YouTube and works on a BP oil rig  * OPEC, allies mull extending output cuts  * Venezuela resumes oil shipments to China […]

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0:00.0

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

0:14.5

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

0:24.3

You're listening to Oil and Gas This Week podcast brought to you by IBM.

0:27.7

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

0:32.0

Thanks for joining us for episode 223.

0:36.1

How's it going, Mark?

0:37.0

I don't even know how to answer that question. We've gotten so busy the end of this year. We've got a bunch of new stuff going on. It's all good stuff. But I guess answer your question, it's going really good. Just trying to get to the end of this year so we can start doing our planning for 2021. But speaking of planning for 2021, do you know what we're going to do as an organization page. I know a lot of those things, but I don't know what you're specifically speaking of planning for 2021, you know what we're going to do as an organization page?

0:54.5

I know a lot of those things, but I don't know what you're specifically speaking of.

0:58.1

You actually do about this because I've talked about before.

1:00.0

And, you know, people, you know what I've used on climate change and how I still don't think that it's been proved that man's activity has added to that.

1:07.0

But OGGN is making a pledge that we will be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

1:12.9

If I am wrong about climate change, then we're doing something good for the planet.

1:17.9

And if I'm right, we're still doing something good for the planet.

1:20.4

The cool thing is if we actually hit our goal by 2030, we'll do it 20 years before

1:24.7

Equinoor, Shell, BP, and Microsoft.

1:26.9

Boom.

1:27.6

Yeah.

1:28.0

And it's actually pretty simple.

1:29.2

I did a little bit of research into the biology of carbon dioxide utilization. If people don't know, I have a degree of wildlife management. That sort of stuff's easy for me to do. And it's literally what we're going to do is we're going to plant trees. We're going to give to charitable organization that plant trees, and you can actually do the math backwards.

1:44.2

Look at how much CO2 that OGGN releases,

1:47.3

which, by the way, Paige, do you know how much CO2 you release?

1:52.7

No.

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