mark humphery-jenner, - went wrong this time. mark humphery-jenner, great i went wrong this time. mark humphery-jenner, great to | went wrong this time. mark i humphery-jenner, great to have humphery—jenner, great to have you on the show, thank you. let's turn to the us now — and big oil — because one of the world's giants just got bigger. conocophillips has agreed to buy its us rival marathon 0il in a $22.5 billion dollar deal. it's the latest mega merger in the oil and gas industry — which has seen takeover deals worth a quarter of a trillion dollars last year — as us oil production hits record levels. erin delmore reports. think about the early days of the pandemic. people were stuck at home, not going out and not driving their cars. oil prices crashed. but since then, oil prices have come back up. oil producers are back to making bank, and they're using their cash on hand to strike some deals. take conocophillips. its share price has nearly tripled in the last four years, and now it's acquiring marathon oil in an all—stock deal worth $22.5 billion — including deb