Craig Goldman: “They were shutting down wells.”

“That's not worth it for these guys to go into a new country and try and extract oil. It's not worth it for them to be in West Texas. They were shutting down wells. So the big oil producers, oil and gas producers, the Chevrons and Mobils, the Diamondbacks, they can get away with that. The small independent producers, like he's talking about, the wildcatters who are just trying to.” (15:22–15:24)

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