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're listening to episode

117.

117, Jake. That means we have 83 episodes to go before we have to pull off our 200 live event.

So the clock's ticking. We've already got that. I'm starting to plan out.

Yeah. It's, um, we've both been so busy. People that listen to us probably don't realize this, but Jake and I almost never see each other. In fact, we're not even in the same place when we record the podcast. Yep. But, you know, you're headed toward some really cool stuff. You know, we have a bunch of stuff happening with a modal point that's changing. We've got a bunch of growth in the podcast world. By the way, Jacob, I'm glad we were talking about this. So On Gas Global Network, we're getting ready to change that into a magazine-style web presence, and we're going to invite our entire audience to come contribute content. So if you have a company that you're working for, and you want to get your company's message out there. You want to talk about your product or service.

We're going to let you shoot some short video and post it on OGGN so you get access to our audience. How cool is that? Yeah, it would be awesome. Yeah. So if anybody wants to know the details, it's reach out to me and I'll be happy to share. It's probably be another month before that goes live. but this way is kind of we get to help you if you work for a company or work for yourself

get your message out in front of the oil and gas industry. We're not charging you anything. And speaking of not charging anything, Jake, we also have a radio station we don't charge for. Exactly. Completely free, 24-7. You want to listen to our amazing voices. You can do that. Yep. So Jake will put a link in the show notes. Speaking of amazing voices, we have some amazing on the road sponsors. So we have total land the world's most advanced field land management system. They literally are the landman's virtual office. Go check them out. If you're in that world, without them, we wouldn't be able to travel and hit all these conferences and meet all our fans out there. Also, Lee Heck Harrison, they're global experts in talent management.

Lee Heck Harrison helps over 75% of the top oil and gas companies with leadership and workforce transformation.

So take a look at these two companies.

Like I said, without their help, we wouldn't be able to travel as much.

And then if you'd like Jake and I to come talk to your organization, your conference, your company event, sales or marketing meetings, any of that sort of stuff, let us know. We'd be happy to share the details. We have a whole bunch of colleges starting to speak to. So if you're at a university and you want us to come speak, let us know because at the end of the year is starting to fill up for us. Oh yeah. We've got at least probably half a dozen to a dozen. I can't remember the exact number now.

Yeah, I think it's eight.

I think we're up to eight.

Okay.

Yeah.

So let us know. And I think Jake's about time. We just jump right into the news stories. Let's do it. So the first story is kind of a continuation of the story that we talked about last week. We talked about how EQT purchased rice energy for $6.7 billion to create one of the largest

natural gas operators in the U.S. So I came across this article. It was giving a little more

backstory about the Rice family, who made up most of the management team and owned a majority of

the shares. I thought this is really cool. So these brothers moved out to Pittsburgh while

in their 20s and started the company from a downtown apartment.

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