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And the trickle through would be those stocks.

so but what i am thinking is and this kind of a counter trend idea but i rather be long right now let's say oil services oih etf and short xop the integrated oils thinking that oil can come off exons and mobiles of the world will react with that more so than the schlumberger's halliburton's and baker hughes as well so as a pair trade i'm more apt to be kind of if i want to have exposure in the sector and i do i'd rather be long the oil service names than the the integrated names right now i personally own xle i bought it earlier this year And I myself am contemplating if I take some off here.

And that's obviously XOP and OIH are all component pieces of the bigger energy sector itself.

Because crude oil is at a place that it certainly could see a pullback from.

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Now, another way you could play it that investors could consider it is on the oil field services side, because obviously you need Halliburton.

and Schlumberger basically to go into the country to help rebuild the infrastructure, to help drill the wells.

So there's other ways to play it, but Chevron's probably the best risk-adjusted return way to play it.

Rob, it's always a pleasure.

I got my bachelor's degree from IIT Roorkee, which is one of the oldest civil engineering school in India.

And since then, I worked in the field, literally underground, spent several years at Schlumberger in oil and gas, where I worked as a field engineer, project manager and operations engineer, walking the field in my baggy overalls as the only female in 300 men across rigs in the middle of the ocean and in the deserts.

And I think that really gave me a very deep appreciation of how infrastructure actually works on the ground level.

But I really wanted to increase the breadth and depth of my experiences.

And of course, as oil prices rise, you are going to see that in the sectors, like we just pointed out, and the energy.

Everybody's up today, except for my friend Schlumberger, or Schlumberger, if you prefer the Anglo-Saxon version of that.

They always act as kind of like the weird outlier, like black sheep of this cohort, and they always go against it.

I really should spend some time figuring out why.

And also joining us today is Wendell Sissel.

She is the President of North America's Land for SLB.

So nice to see you.

Thanks for being with us today.

So thank you, Lyndall, for sharing.

Tell us a little bit of background and how you got into this leadership role that you're in today.

Yeah, I have the amazing privilege of leading the North America land businesses for SLB, formerly Schlumberger to a lot of listeners, I'm sure.

I originally started in the field and when I got into the office I had a training and development role for a short period of time and I just loved going to the field and I loved working with people and developing and then the business side of it came quite naturally as part of my background.

I had a couple.

One was with Schlumberger, and then one was with my father-in-law as the founder of an oil and gas operating company and private equity firm.

And so he said, hey, come to our internship program.

We usually have 15 to 20 interns.