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Welcome back to another episode of Oil and Gas.

This week, you're listening to episode 144.

And Mark is out today.

So I've got my good buddy, business partner, best friend, brother.

Colin McClellan with me.

What's up, Colin?

What's going on?

He's here to lay down the truth.

If you don't know Colin, Colin is like probably the most

how would you describe yourself? The most polarizing figure of oil and guess. He seems to make

these posts on LinkedIn that go viral. And so either you love them or you hate him. So hopefully

you love them after this episode. So if you don't know Colin, he's in he's definitely involved in everything that I do from WellHub. He also runs River Ostratch Natural Resources, which is, you know, our operating company. So he heads that up. Anything else you want to say about yourself? Yeah. No. No, just a little background about me. Sput the last nine years in drilling and completions all over the Western Hemisphere, but primarily United States and Gulf of Mexico and just involved with running River Oaks Natural Resources

and Wellhub, so we've got a lot of exciting things going on. A lot of big things come in.

Colin and I are also going to be dropping a new podcast here soon on OGN. We're not going to see

necessarily what it is, but today's episode will kind of give you a hint towards the direction that the show will be going. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. So this episode is very tech heavy. So if you have no interest in tech, probably go ahead and shut it off right now. A lot of cool stuff, though. A lot of really, really interesting stuff. It just shows that there's a lot of hype around tech in our industry.

Before we get into it, if you want to help the show, if you enjoy listening, the biggest thing you can do to help us out is leave the review. I'm going to read off a few that we got recently. We got one that says this is a great podcast to follow. Thanks for this podcast. It is a great one-stop shop for what is happening in the oil and gas industry. I'm a senior analyst in the fleet industry and I periodically share the podcast with my company's leadership team on fuel forecast that is distributed on a monthly basis. The links to articles that you provide under each episode are really helpful. We'll keep with the great work. We get one more. Great show. I just want more shows. I know you travel a lot, but a greater frequency of shows throughout the month would be appreciated. Thanks for what you do. So we are actually, you know, like we've talked about, we were releasing more podcast on the network. I don't know if we can put out more on oil and gas this week. There's only so much oil and gas news to go around, to be honest with you. We got some good shows coming up, though. Yeah, some really good shows coming up. So listen to me of the. We've already got the HSNE podcast, if you're interested in that with Patrick Pister. We've got the industry leaders podcast with Paige Wilson. And then Colin and I have our super secret. Top secret confidential. Secrets Quirl podcast. But yeah, anyways, so let's get into the stories. Like I said, it's very tech-heavy today.

This first article I came across definitely hid close to home. So Conoco Phillips is claiming to have figured it out. And I think they really have.

They're claiming that they figured out their big data problem. And they've created what they call as like more of like their data hub that is quote unquote acting as a nucleus for data analytics and data integration. So if you've listened to this show at all in

the last year, you've heard me talk about my company Well Hub. You know what like I said,

Collins involved in that. And it's this pretty much is exactly what we've been working on building.

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