Elizabeth Trovall

Oh, man, don't make me get into like prehistoric geology.

But underground, there's basically a ton of like dinosaur age or maybe before dinosaur age rocks that have all of this brine that has lithium in it.

And there's like these kind of emerging technologies sucking kind of the lithium out of this brine in order to make batteries.

And maybe not now EV batteries.

Maybe now there'll be batteries for data centers.

So like it's kind of interesting, right?

Because you see like maybe the battery supply chain for EVs, maybe that's not where it's going, but maybe we still want to have that kind of renewables battery supply chain.

But maybe it's more going towards, yeah, like that hyperscaler question.

So that's another kind of shift that I saw.

Well, I'm super interested in in the like Venezuela.

Chevron has been there this whole time.

And I'm and and also there are like while I mean, this conference is really focused on it's like the big oil majors that are publicly.

held companies.

They have to pay out to shareholders.

But there are like companies that, you know, small private companies, wildcatter companies that will go out to a Venezuela and just be like, we're going to throw money at this and and and try to make this happen as quickly as we can.

And they might not be, you know, scaling up production in a way that kind of makes major headlines.

But I'm super interested in like what it means to go back on the ground in Venezuela for for U.S.

companies.

And a lot of Venezuelans are

live in Houston and work in the energy industry.