Willie Chiang
Analyst · JPMorgan Securities. Your line is open
Well, I would say it's not a perfectly smooth trajectory if you think about consolidation. And you know, and specifically for us, we've made a couple of large transactions. Our focus right now is really to execute on those. We look at all kinds of opportunities that are out there. So you can be assured that as we look at things, we'll stay capital on being able to acquire things. But I do think there will be more opportunities that are out there. And, frankly, you know, to your earlier question, when you think about the macro and you look at the North American infrastructure, you asked about Venezuela. Everyone has a different outlook and view of what might happen there. I personally think it's gonna be very challenged to get a amount of growth out of Venezuela, which leads, know, leads us to a more constructive, crude oil environment going forward. When you think about the infrastructure that we have in ground and the ability to repurpose, if it makes sense, there's a lot of need opportunities there. And know, I mentioned this on one of the last calls. If you think about the basins that you wanna be involved in, the Permian Basin, obviously, is key, close to markets, growth, low breakevens, but you also have Western Canada. And everyone's aware of the desire for them to go to the West Coast. And, you know, we stay very involved in potential of bringing more barrels down to the US. So there's a lot of need opportunities, and you can expect us to stay on track at looking at those with financial discipline.