Right

...

the son of, uh, Bolsonaro and, and Lula.

And it's a very, very, very tight, tight race.

And so I think sometimes in, in Latin America you will see particularly, uh, governments try not, not to hit the news, right? Or grab headlines with...

Especially in very fraught elections.

You know, this...

Any hints that Petrobras will try to farm down on, on Morfo and the adjacent blocks?

However, sentiment still remains pretty cautious as investors continue to seek a greater certainty around that but but yeah there's a growing sense of momentum there with many hoping that next year's discussions will focus less on the potential opportunities which is what everyone's talking about this year and more on projects that have moved into execution but yeah on Venezuela we actually recently just published an insight piece on it if you want to talk about that a bit more Tom

Yeah, thanks, Victoria.

Yeah, we kind of, with all the, I guess, excitement, right, cautious excitement around Venezuela, we kind of took a deep dive, right? Because as you know, Bruce, you know, we have clients and we also have prospects.

And one of the topics that always comes up is Venezuelan data, right? And so the data record in Venezuela, I don't want to say it's a mess, but as they would say in Argentina, it's a quilombo.

I don't want to say the word art in Venezuelan Spanish because I would get I would get in trouble.

I would get censored.

But it's a hot mess to a certain degree.

offshore.

So-

E- exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's...

Yeah, because I mean, with the OFAC license, right? I mean, the US Treasury couldn't blockade it like they've done with, with Cuba t- to that extent, right? But it, you know, it kinda turned Venezuela into the, uh, the Britney Spears of OPEC in the sense of, okay, you know, we're in control.

And you h- do have Washington, and I do think Washington has been very astute in its handling of, uh, the Venezuelan finances because, you know, let's be honest, I mean, the, the Chavistas were very Britney.

They love to spend money, splurge money on themselves.

Sure

How does this party stop ever?

Yeah, I mean, you know, let's just hope that Messi keeps up with Millet when it comes to at least the initiative, right, of reform.

But, you know, I mean, everything, you know, I would question the term honky dory.

Things are better than before, right? I mean, there's a lot of stuff left to do on the macro side of things.

But I think Argentina is moving in the right direction.

And, you know, as you said, it's one of the rare times, I think, in modern history, just from my point of view, that really the provinces and the federal government are actually trying to work towards common energy goals.

And you're seeing that with Rigi.

way down in Patagonia, right?

Maybe they've always been strong, except for Petavesa, which got emasculated.

It's a good point, Patrick.

I think you are starting to see the rise of Latin corporations coming to their own.

I think if you look at the history of the oil patch in the Americas, it's always been dominated by the NOCs and then the conflict with super majors and Western oil companies coming in.

And there's always been that sort of like, you know, the rubbing of two titanic plates right at times.

But in that process, you are starting to see the emergence of credible, respected and financially backed Latin independence.

So I think for companies like Geopark, a couple other than that ranking, it's very exciting.

So Shell is proceeding with its section on its own.