How the world looks at Oil & Gas

When you travel outside of oil producing states, have you ever been reluctant to discuss that you work in Oil & Gas? A long time ago on a long flight next to a nosey person, the question invariably arrived. I’m not proud of myself but I said: “I am a scuba diver for Roto Rooter” so that the conversation would end right then and there.

Sometimes, we are thought of as untrustworthy. Why is that? We deliver over 100 million barrels of oil per day. Every Day. Mississippi River kind of volumes. But Oil & Gas has become a commodity that just appears at a gas station or heat that seemingly is produced from a thermostat.

Here is a great quote from “Landman” (WSJ 2/12/25). When Kayla Wallace asks, “Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the environment?” Thornton’s Tommy Norris responded, “Do you have any idea how much diesel will have to burn to mix that much concrete or make that steel and haul this out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that thing?”

We are seemingly invisible and many like it that way. But we have to tell our story, or nothing will ever change.