What is it that drives development and training at Devon?
Paul Poley. You could identify three things. One, there’s the market demand of organizational performance. We’ve got investors, and we’re competing for their dollars. There are high expectations. We have an obligation to our shareholders and it’s getting tougher and tougher as the demands of the oil and gas business are getting more complex. The easier days of gas are gone, and the technology is changing. Secondly, there is an extreme and acute demand for talent. This is felt particularly in the technical industries, and we’re a technical-oriented company. This ties into the final reason, which is related to the demographic gap that exists. The oil and gas industry is missing half to two-thirds of a generation, because during the 1980s and even part of the 1990s, life in this industry was tough. A lot of the smart technical folks shied away and went into the dotcoms. As a result of that there’s a high demand in this industry for our commodities. That’s pushing a high demand for people,
