Stuart Broadley

I mean, and we certainly could.

I mean, but aside from filling more space and... we have to keep ensuring that adipec remains relevant on one we are really fortunate because our host partner is adnok

and this is uh this is ceo dr sultan aljaba who's an incredible leader but more importantly than an incredible communicator

yeah incredible he sits over companies like xrg He's also

Adi Pek is not just about the UAE.

I think that that's the first point to mention.

We try and act as a platform for our host partner, Adnok, and the other companies, energy companies within the UAE, because we believe they have a great story to tell, both with what they do within the borders of the UAE, but across the world, whether it's, you know, Mazda, Mobile, or XRG.

And that's

I'm well.

It's wonderful to host you here.

Welcome.

Well, of course it's a home gig for me.

Would it get us back if we keep investing in the UK to the heights of our past? No.

But we actually have a, a long, graceful decline ahead of us if we invest steadily, or we have a long, or shorter disgraceful decline if we continue to see investment falling away at the rate it is.

I know, uh, from work I was involved in before I, I stepped back from Oil & UK, there's something like £50 billion worth of opportunities sitting in the wings still in the UK that are struggling to attract capital simply because the investment climbs in the UK from a mixture of tax and policy, and almost hostility from parts of the government towards the sector mean that that capital is better deployed elsewhere.

And that has a big knock-on effect.

You know, if you see companies like Equinor puzzled as to whether the UK is attractive to invest in, it won't just be concern about whether it's investable for oil and gas.