First Friday Q&A | April 2025 | Ep 376

This week podcast. LeCore and Paige Wilson. This is the Who quickly? You're listening to the Oil and Gas This Week podcast brought to you by Cognite, AI for the industry. This is a show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their finger on the pulse of the industry. Thanks for joining us for episode three hundred and seventy-six, and it is first Friday QA.

But remember people, save the date for Impact. Cognite's annual user conference happening October 13th through the 16th. That's going to be exciting. We've already had so many emails about where are my tickets. Yep, yep, yep. But we do have a review. You want to read it? Yeah, five stars from Peter Roko. It says hi from Hong Kong cruising through the streets of Kowloon.

Tuning into your show. Excellent work team. Keep it up. Peter, thank you for the the international shout-out, and hopefully uh you drove safe while you're listening to us. Okay, let's get to the questions. Oh God, Ludwig. Paige I love her laugh. It is h hilarious and very feminine. Are the questions in it to get Paige to break her tongue? If so, if it's a first Friday QA, another show from

N A A P I was believing you always did back to recording. Just wondering how you can keep up with the news around it. Let me know when you're in London. Yeah. So you talk about when you got tongue tied.

On our last episode when you couldn't pronounce somebody's name. That's what it means a break in tongue. Everybody remember Luthwick is uh from the Netherlands, so English is not his native language, but he does pretty good. Oh, I thought you were talking about cussing about people'cause I mean fair.

Yep. And then he said another show from Nape, which if he doesn't know what it stood for, that's how you would pronounce that. That's right. So yes, Luthwick, we did two shows back to back from Nape, but We time everything to try to get the news out when it's still relevant. So we were lucky enough at Nape that we're able to record two shows and everything was still relevant. We don't normally do that. We just did it there. And and not only are we gonna let you know when we are in London,

But you made the mistake of inviting us to a barbecue. When you invite Texans to a barbecue, just be prepared. So um but anyway, uh bring the seasoning. Yep. As always, Luthwick, thank you uh for your for listening and thank you for the question. All right, next up we've got Michael Green. Hi all, I heard you guys will be coming to London for a mixer event. First of all, I'd love to attend, so please let me know.

when and how to register. Secondly, are you gonna bring merch? I'm off on expat for a few years and this will be my best chance to pick some up. Thanks, Michael. So Michael, number one, we love your company, Technic FMC. Number two, anybody in the world can go to our website and order merch and we ship to almost every country in the world. There's a couple of countries you don't ship to because they're on a sanctions list.

And if you really wanna Specifically China. Yeah, if you really well no, actually we ship to Shia. It's uh just North Korea, Venezuela. It's a couple of companies we don't shi ship to. But Mike, I added your email address to the London mixer. And for all of our audience that are wondering, we're absolutely doing it. It's still in the planning process.

Because we've never done one in London, it's just taking our our event person, Amanda, longer to get everything lined up'cause we want to make sure it's a good event. It is happening this year. We're originally shooting for April. Well, it's April now, so obviously that's not happening.

We think we're doing it in the fall. So just pay attention and we'll let everybody know when we do our our London mixer and and y'all come out. We would love to meet all of our our UK listeners. It'll be new, it'll be fun. And we're gonna have a local charity there that we're gonna support as well, like we do all our mixers.

All right, next up is John Sorison, who is definitely retired. As an avid listener to your podcast, I was surprised not a single word was mentioned about last week's Sarah Week conference in Houston. The biggest energy conference in the world and nothing was mentioned about it. What gives? Did we not talk about Sarah Week? I don't know, but I guess you need to be like, I don't know, signed up for a newsletter where we we we tell you what

conferences are coming out every month. Well he knows about Sarah Week because he brought it up. Yeah. So uh John, so first thing if Paige and I didn't talk about the show, we just didn't get to it. We were there. We were definitely there. And you gotta remember John, we have twenty one, twenty two, something at different podcasts Our other podcast hosts absolutely talked about Sarah Week. Paige and I may not have mentioned it, but but we were absolutely there.

And I don't know why we didn't mention it but for we were so b we've been so busy. Yeah. But but John, yeah, we gave Nape um not Nape, I'm sorry. We gave Sarah Week full coverage. We're there every year. We'll be back there next year. If you've never went to Sarah Week, it is an incredible conference. You you gotta go at least once in your life. And uh thank you for the question, John.

Uh next up, Brad Morrill. Hey guys, love your podcast. Part of my weekly research now. I run an R I A here in Cyprus called Redfish Capital. Been investing for folks for thirty years now. And frankly the info y'all put out there is better than ninety percent of the garbage from Wall Street. Amen to that. I also have a very small podcast that I do and would love a regular contributor in energy, three to four

times a year. Is there anyone you could suggest I talk to? Keep up the good work, Brad Morrill. So two things, Brad. Audience. If you would like to contribute to Brad's podcast, reach out to him directly and let him know what you can contribute. And then Brad, if you're subscribed to our Sunday update.

And you see the company called Energy Rogue that gives the update on the commodities for that week and they also love to stick my face in other people's bodies. So weird. Brian and Bill both would be great people for you to reach out to. Just reach out to them directly, use my name.

They would be great on your podcast. And like I said, audience, if you have something that's valuable that you can contribute about the oil and gas energy space, reach out to Brad directly. Brad, you're welcome. Now you're gonna get like five hundred people that would contribute to your podcast.

All right, next up is from uh Cameron Meta. Hi, Mark and Page, big fan of the pod. I'm interested in starting a career in oil and gas, but don't know where to begin. Briefly I'm thirty, live in Denver, started a mortgage company young and now manage my own rental portfolio.

Been investing into oil and gas working interest the last few years. I find the world of oil and gas fascinating, but I don't know how to get more involved. Part time or flex work would be ideal. Anything from welding to flying a drone to working in an offense. Anything that could fit my niche. So Cameron, if you have experience with the drone and especially if you have I think the license called a Part One O Seven, which is the

FAA's like minimum license to do commercial drone flying. Dude, you can reach out to any major oil and gas company out there, especially the pipeline companies, and they'd hire you in a heartbeat. I mean, if you need help with that, Paige and I know several drone companies that focus on oil and gas, happy to make introductions. So just reach back out.

Welding, can you weld?'Cause Camera, if you can weld that's awesome, you can get a job right now. Yeah. Go to any of the companies that are in the Permian, any of the service companies. And and they're all hiring for field work right now. Now, you probably know this, but it's a little bit different world. So you could be away from home on on your whatever your hitch is, which is probably gonna be anywhere from four to seven days straight.

uh you're gonna work a lot, you're gonna make a lot of money, uh you're gonna live in a hotel, and then you'll have another seven to fourteen days off. And in your case, if you just wanted that to be every now and then, if you let them know that you just want to weld Once a month or once a year or twice a year, they'll work with you because there's such a shortage of welders right now. So hopefully, Cameron, that was helpful to you.

Four days. What kind of hitches you've been talking about? Th so the some of the hitches are changing depending on what you're doing. The other thing is changing is they're trying to hire local people so they don't have to put people up in workforce camps or or pay too much per diem. And they're shortening the time.

Because when the the people are there that live locally it's it's fine'cause you you're not coming from somewhere else across the world. Yeah. So things are changing out there. That's cool. It it really is. All right, next, uh Morgan Chen, marketing director for Rising Max. How can small businesses with limited marketing budgets compete effectively against larger competitors?

when marketing to the fossil fuel industry. I realize I should ask this question on the sales and marketing podcast, which is great by the way. But this show is what I listen to the most. Appreciate the help and keep turning it to the right. So Morgan, the first place I'd go with this would be content creation, especially built around search engine optimization. If you don't know what that is, you can spend 10 minutes on on YouTube and learn as much as you need to know. We do it here at OGGN.

So if you go to any search engine like Google and type in oil and gas merchandise or oil and gas merch, you'll see us come up number one organically. We're not paying for that. Google sincerely believes we are the best answer for anybody in the world that's looking for oil and gas merchandise. So stuff like that is very inexpensive. You create the content yourself.

spend some time on YouTube or or take some online courses to learn how to to write from an SEO point of view. And then pin into what your website's hosted on, there's actually add-ins that can help you write a certain way to to rank s rank for stuff. That would be one way you could compete against extremely large companies in the oil and gas industry. Most large service companies are not paying atten any type of i attention to search engine rankings or search engine optimization.

So there there's something you can do with almost no money. You just gotta spend some time. The next step up from that is I would focus on very narrow niche conferences where your buyers are and I would not exhibit there. What I would do is spend a little bit of money on geofencing on social so that everybody that's going to that conference that and that conference should be a conference that has a lot of your buyers at it.

Would get your ad. So without spending any money at the conference or going to the conference, you can actually target the people at the conference itself. and s and serve them an ad that's talking about how your product can help them solve that problem or the problem. There's something else that it takes a little bit of money, but still it'll allow you to compete with very large companies with without much of a spend.

And then finally, you know, I I'm not sure what your marketing goals are. I'm I'm mo usually it's to generate sales, generate leads. And if that's the case you're in, spend some time with your salespeople. Um, that's free. Find out what you're they're hearing from their clients, uh what they like, what they don't like, what they would like to see, how can you best educate them and put work that into your marketing plan.

Once again, that it costs you little to nothing. And if you partner with your sales team and get the information out of their head and get it to your marketing plan, that'll put you ahead of a lot of the larger companies. where the marketing departments spend no time talking to the salespeople so they don't have that advantage. So hopefully Markin Margan, that was useful to you. All right. Next up is from Priya Sharma.

Portfolio Manager Power Systems at Siemens Energy. Mark and Page, first let me commend you on doing such an excellent job with the with this podcast. One of my coworkers suggested it to me when I wanted to learn more about the oil and gas industry, and I've been hooked ever since. I love how you take complex subjects and make it easy to understand, especially for those of us outside of the oil and gas industry. Plus you have fantastic chemistry together, and you make me laugh.

Which by the way, Paige, ignore those losers that don't like your laugh. It's very charming. My question is, now that Donald Trump has been in office this first quarter, what do you both think about his impact to the entire energy space? Not just oil and gas, but all energy. Please keep up the fantastic work.

You want me to go first or you want to go first? No, I'm just gonna let you go. Well, she wants your opinion too. I don't really have one. Yeah, you do. It's probably similar to yours, to be honest. So Prya.

You can say drill Priya. You can say drill baby drill all you want, even if you're the president, and it doesn't change the market dynamics. Yep. Doesn't change how s quick it takes you to get a permit. Doesn't change if the finances work. Doesn't change how long it takes you to complete the project. Blah, blah, blah. However, with all that said, The optimism and the energy in the oil and gas space globally and here in the US is the highest maybe that I've ever seen it twenty-five years.

Um here at OGGN we have a flood of companies reaching out to us to work with us and I finally figured out why. And what it is is they feel confident, opening up their marketing budget and spending money on marketing to oil and gas industry. Because they see the potential. Whereas with previous presidential administrations they're a little bit worried that

Maybe the oil and gas industry wouldn't do so well or wouldn't grow or like some people thought might disappear, which of course is not true. So since Donald Trump has been elected, the energy, the optimism is palatable. You can see it, you can feel it. Now, on the other side, on the renewable space, unfortunately, and I have a big problem with this.

But unfortunately they're having the opposite problem. It's a bit of doom and gloom over there. The announcements that have been made on the on the uh cuts, especially the cuts in the IRA. the focus on making sure that whatever the energy source is, that it makes fiscal sense without governments writing companies checks.

they're not doing so well, which is a shame because the world needs energy. It doesn't matter where it comes from. It doesn't matter if it's solar, wind, geothermal, oil, uh, nuclear, whatever, everyone, every energy source has its place.

Every energy source has its impact to the environment, including the renewables, including oil and gas. And all of those impacts the environment can be mitigated if you want to. So at a high level, I would say that it hasn't really affected a bunch of new growth in either drilling Actually, it has affected new growth in the pipeline construction world and also is affecting downstream, but it hasn't affected new growth in the upstream side of the industry yet.

I do believe that it will as they remove hurdles from permitting, as they've already taken the teeth out of EPA. It's just gonna take some time for those changes to work its way through the market. But the energy is just amazing, palatable in a good way. And I and I love it. I'm also seeing more young people open to considering work in in this industry, which I haven't seen with past presidential administrations.

And then like I said, unfortunately it's it's not been good for the renewable industry, which is a shame because we all should be growing right now. There should be high energy and optimism for all energy sources, hydrocarbons and renewables. So that's what I think has happened since uh uh Donald Trump has been elected president. And I agree with that. Sorry guys.

I even brought snacks this time. Okay, so next up we have Amina Okafor, project accountant with Devin Energy. Just absolutely love the both of you and this pod. Here's my question. There's been quite a few layoffs in the oil and gas industry lately, especially with the super majors. Is this a trend? And if so, when will it end? Or is this a one time adjustment to the current market?

And I went to one of your mixers in January and oh my God, was that a fantastic event? Who would have ever thought a podcasting company would put on such a fantastic networking and educational and fun time that also raised money for a very worthwhile charity? I think I'm suffering from hero worship, but in a good way. I don't know if we ever heard hero worship. I don't know. So Amina, thank you. That was that was actually very nice, very sweet. And thank you for coming to our mixer.

We've worked really hard for years to make our mixers valuable to the people that show up. We don't just want another place where everybody's eating snack foods in a cocktail napkin and having some warm beer. Like Amanda who does runs all our events all over the world does an excellent job, even to the the decorations that she puts up.

Oh honey, she brings me my own drink. So like she's very thoughtful when it comes to this type of stuff. Yeah. So we focus on putting on high quality events. They're not large. We don't have hundreds and hundreds of people. We'll have a hundred, a hundred twenty, right? Seventy five, whatever. But the people that go have a great time and that's what we want because every one of our mixers anywhere in the world, its goal is

to do one thing and that's to raise money for local charity and to make the world a better place. Right. So if we can make the event happy, you come back and we can help the world over and over again, which is what we do. As far as the layoffs, unfortunately, it's it's it's not a trend. It's also not a one-time adjustment. The industry is fundamentally changing.

And it's actually changing for the better. However there's growing pains and part of the growing pains is positions, especially with the large super majors, are being getting rid of permanently. So it's not like when the price of crude uh is is low and they lay a bunch of petroleum engineers off knowing that in the next year, six months, year and a half, whatever, they'll hire a lot of them back. It's cyclic, right? This is not that.

This is jobs that are that are just disappearing forever. And it sucks. And I have uh extremely close friends that have been affected by this. I have people reaching out to me on a daily basis that's been affected by this. And usually my advice to them is find something to pay your bills, keep your head up, don't dog your last employer, keep applying for stuff, and in a short amount of time, you'll be hired back making more than you were before in the oil and gas space.

It's not gonna happen this time. So if you're listening to this and you have a job in this space, by this time, this is this is mid-April, so you're probably okay. You're probably safe. If you're listening to this and you've been laid off First thing we go my heart goes out to you'cause I know this is different and it's gonna be more stressful than the than the typical round of layoffs.

Other thing is we are trying to help. We're a small company. We can't help everybody. But if you listen to us where we can, we're making a difference. We're volunteering time and and resources to help the people have been laid off. We're shooting very short videos for them for free.

So they can sell themselves. So it's not a resume, it's being put through some software somewhere. And we're trying to put those short videos in front of hiring managers and companies, which we've we've actually done it quite a bit of. So I mean that there's the answer to your question. And like I said, unfortunately, these layoffs are not a trend. It's not cyclic. It's a permit change to entry. Now, once we get through this, once we hit twenty twenty six,

The people that have laid off hopefully by then will find good jobs. Yeah. But it's gonna be the industry's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be lean. It's gonna be fast. This negative public perception that we fought against for the last 25, 30 years is starting to disappear. Uh we're gonna be high tech. And even that is going to help prevent the cyclic layoffs, which traditionally we've had to deal with. So we just gotta get through this and we'll be fine.

All right, next up is from Bill Keller, Chief Geophysicist at EOG Resources. I've been listening to the two of you for a very long time and recommend you to others so much that they think oh They work call me the oil and guess this week fanboy. Which I'm proud of. When are y'all gonna give away the Satan Sic Cognite users conference? Uh how many pounds of crawfish do I need to buy page to increase the odds? of me getting a pair of tickets. Joking, sort of. The answer is seven.

Uh so Bill, we don't have the tickets yet. I don't know how many we're gonna give away and I have to figure out the process we're gonna use. So I can't answer you. And Paige would appreciate the crawfish, but I cannot ethically allow that to affect how we're gonna give these tickets away. Send me an emo bowl.

But uh thank you for being a listener. Thank you for being a fanboy. Um and as soon as we get the tickets and know how many we have, we're gonna figure out how to give them away. And I have your contact information and if I can do this ethically, which I will. Um, I'll let you know, like if we do a contest or something, I'll shoot you a note letting you know when the contest is gonna happen. It's probably the best I can do. But thanks for for being a listener. Yeah, absolutely.

Next up we have Zoe Blackwell, VP of sales at Honeywell. What strategies can sales leaders employ to optimize territory planning and account segmentation when dealing with complex global accounts that have multiple business units and decision makers across different regions?

The reason I asked this question is I've recently been asked to lead a different sales team that is spread across the world and focused on the large oil and gas companies. Appreciate you both of your insights. Please keep up the great work. I am not gonna answer that question.

That's a very complex question that takes a lot of time to answer. And there's the answers need to come both from a sales and marketing angle. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna throw the link in the show notes to our sales and marketing podcast, Matt and I. My co-host on the sales and marketing podcast will answer your question there because we're gonna make an entire episode out of this because this is a very complex answer.

And quite frankly, I don't wanna bore this audience because it's it's gonna take me thirty five or forty minutes to answer this. So Zoe, just click on the link and uh follow the All and Gas Sales and Marketing Podcast and in the next week or two

Matt and I will address this and answer your question in detail. Awesome. All right. Last up we have Raphael Mendoza, Director of Sales of IntelliSis. Mark and Paige, thank you for putting out such a great podcast. It allows me to stay up to date on what's going on in the oil and gas industry on my commute to work. I also appreciate that you put all of your pricing on your website.

How can we work with you to showcase how we can help solve technical problems in the oil and gas industry without sponsoring a podcast? We have several oil and gas clients already and we're looking to add more, but we don't have enough for me to get budgetary uh approval for a dedicated podcast. Any direction uh you can provide would be greatly appreciated. And Paige, your voice is sultry and professional. Not sure how anybody could have a problem with it.

I'm seeing a trend this episode. First thing for those people that have a problem with Paige's voice, obviously our audience thinks you're wrong and called you names. Not Paige and I call you names, our audience is calling you names.

The next thing is, you know how I can't remember which question was. Remember how I talked about how the energy and the mood in the oil gas space is so elevated that companies are much more happy to open up their marketing budgets and that's why people are reaching out to us. It just occurred to me reading this last question.

That's what's happening in this QA. We're having companies asking us about working with us, which just verifies my opinion of of the budgets being opened up. So anyway, Raphael, let me answer your question. So first thing we we put all our pricing on our website on purpose. We're open and transparent about everything we do, including our pricing. And then really from a sales point of view, if you want to know there's the strategy behind that.

the people like you that uh see our pricing when they reach out to us know what they're getting, know what they're getting into. And so they know about how much stuff costs, which then helps uh my sales team

close deals faster and make the clients happier because you know what you're getting up front. We're not trying to sell you anything. It's all laid out before we even talk to somebody over here. But what can you do if you don't have enough money to to a dedicated podcast? We have several things. And a kind of a broad exposure to our audiences. You can buy ads. They're inexpensive. I think they're$500 an ad that goes in our various podcasts.

That gives you exposure to all of our different audiences. Remember, we have the largest oil and gas audience in the world. We have listeners in every single country on the planet, all two hundred five countries.

And we have over four million listeners. So that's a good use of your money without spending six grand a month to sponsor podcasts. Uh we have a couple of newsletters that are inexpensive. You can also sponsor. But the other thing, Raphael, and I guess it's time for me to say this because it's not a secret.

But I am being dragged into video, kicking and screaming by Google. I think the audio format, which is what you're consuming right now, is the best format for a podcast because you can listen to us while you do something else, like commuting or working out. are, you know, pounding fence posts in the ground, right? You should not be watching video when you're working out or driving or pounding fence posts. And there's another psychological reason why I think the audio format's better, but

Google is putting so much money and resources into making YouTube a podcast player of choice that I have no choice. So one of the things that's new, we're getting ready to launch I think five new podcasts in the next month or two. I haven't seen that. And of those five, I think four are video first. So audience. We're going to have podcasts that are video first for the first time ever in the history of OGG and I've never wanted to do it. I literally don't have a choice.

And those podcasts, some of those have pilots where we charge just our cost on that that video podcast to get the show up and running, which is much less than the full price of the podcast. So Bottom line, Raphael, if if if you have some budget and you're not quite sure how to spend it.

Reach out to me. Let's jump on a phone call. Let's figure out what you want to accomplish. And then I'll figure out which one of our lower price offerings is a good fit for that. And then if it's not a good fit, Raphael, I'll tell you. Maybe there's other places besides OGG and you can spend a small amount of money and get good results. But

Uh thanks for reaching out. And this is interesting. This has been the Paige's voice is awesome and sales uh uh Q and A. Finally there's nobody talking about Exxon.

Oh yeah. But you know what people are talking about, Paige? What? AI produc uh increasing productivity and safety across the entire board. But you know, getting up and running isn't easy. Cognite is born from the industry. for the industry. And they can help you all your AI projects. You need help your next AI win, reach out to Cognite.

They're not gonna try to sell you anything. They're trying to help you. The links in the show notes. Tell'em that Mark and Paige sent you from All and Gas this week. Mm-hmm. You know what's time for now? This week in petroleum history. Hit it, Mark. My favorite part. So, love this. April 7th, 1902, Spindletop, which you remember the boom spindletop. Yeah. The early late 1800s, early 1900s.

They had a company that got formed as Spindletop and it was called the Texas Company. Because why? Because Spindletop was in Texas. So this company was formed in Beaumont and it was formed to transport and refine the oil that was coming from the wells on Spindletop.

I think that oil field was discovered in the very early nineteen hundreds. This new company produced kerosene, which was a huge product back then instead of gasoline. And then they went out to and they discovered other oil fields and and built refining and transportation for those fields as well. Then at some point the Texas company, which is now starting to grow, built their own telegraph office so that they could telegraph with other buyers around the world.

But when you had a telegraph back then, you use Morse code. So the more letters in your name, the more somebody had to work and the longer it took. So they shortened their name on the telegraph to Texico. Ah, okay. Right. How about this? If you don't remember the Cold War, unfortunately I do and April seventh you were there. I I I literally was there there. April seventh, nineteen sixty six.

That we had an accident where we absolut we accidentally air quotes lost a nuclear bomb in the ocean. They couldn't find it, they couldn't recover it, and we were worried. Guess what? The robotic technology used to service subsea trees back then was used, and RV was used to find that atomic bomb, recover it.

So they recovered a seventy kiloton hydrogen bomb, which is pretty pretty size big uh pretty size pretty large hydrogen bomb or off the coast of Spain, and they recovered it safely from a depth of two thousand eight hundred fifty feet, thanks to who? The oil and gas industry. Woo woo. Then, april ninth, nineteen twenty nine, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that the Congress had the right to investigate Sinclair oil.

And Congress is invite investigate uh Harry Sinclair, the founder of Sinclair R because of his personal dealings with the Secretary of Interior. They thought some corruption was going on. So it went to court. Lower court said there was no corruption. They said Harry Sinclair is innocent of all charges. It went to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court said the same thing. However, after all this going on,

Harry Sinclair was then charged and convicted of contempt of Congress after he was co uh found innocent on those two charges. Why? Because when he was found innocent of two charges, he went in front of Congress and said F U except he didn't say F U and so he got charged, he got tipped of Congress. Only an all man would go to Congress and say that, which I just great story. And then finally April eleventh, nineteen fifty-seven, independent producer Willie Skelly dies.

Now Willie Skelly was alleged in Oklahoma as an independent producer. He started when he was fifteen years old in the oil field. Prior to to the first World War One, he he founded a company called El Dorado Field. And then eventually it turned into Skelly Oil Company. And then he actually organized him personally the first international petroleum exposition in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

And he started the first radio station also in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So thank you, Willie. Without you, we would not have the conference. We would not have the companies and we would not have the the radio station that you founded. Which I just think is a wonderful thing. Don't Hi, hi Five. Yeah. So don't just think of the oil and gas industry as the roughnecks as being these crazy guys out doing wildcat or stuff. They actually did a lot of business stuff and this is a perfect example. Right on.

All right. Sign up for all our stuff. I'm not gonna bore you with all those things. Links in a show note. Just sign up. I'll know if you don't. Not really. Um weekly read count page, where are we? We're down two in the United States at five ninety. Down ten in Canada at one fifty three, down six internationally at eight ninety nine. Okay.

This is First Friday QA. If you'd like to submit a question like everybody else did, go to OGGn.com, find All and Gas this week and there's a place to submit it. You also can hit us up on our social Just not Facebook Messenger. If you're like myself or any of our experts to come to your events and do everything from a keynote to a live podcast, reach out to me, share the details. I am keynoting the bjeeties out of myself this year. I've actually I've actually got a couple of back to back.

But it's it's f I love it. It's a great thing to do. I love meeting our audiences. My most popular keynote I've been delivering this year so far is Don't worry about the future of the oil and gas industry. It's awesome. And I explained where the oil and gas industry is gonna go in the future. But not only that, but I tied things into it that you would not think would be connected with oil and gas industry.

just showing that not only we are this industry not disappearing, it's gonna continue to grow and add prosperity and mankind's modern life is literally impossible without what we do. And lit works in outer space. And that's part of my presentation that you'd have to do. I'm not. Okay. All right, Paige, you ready to get out of here? Remember folks, do great work, pay it forward, and we will see you next time.

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