Secretary Wright stood on stage in Washington at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum and told a standing room only crowd it will take many months for energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal.
The room went quiet.
While Washington spent two days debating energy security, OFS crews were working sold-out schedules through a hot Texas summer. Drilling rigs that were stacked in January are turning to the right. Engineers are squeezing more barrels out of mature wells, same as always. The difference is that right now, every one of those barrels matters to somebody’s electric bill and somebody’s ally overseas.
Secretary Wright told the room the United States was the largest oil exporter in the world last month. That didn’t happen because of anything said at a podium. It happened because of the energy services and technology workforce that shows up every day, crisis or no crisis, whether anyone in Washington is watching or not.
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