"This is not going to be a decentralized project like you think..."

You apparently don't understand what I think. Increasing producers increases decentralization. Reducing producers increases centralization. The oil and gas industry isn't going to be distributed across the population in the way food production will, because there are high barriers to entry and limited means of accessing the resources that have inherently high capital requirements.

Overall, decentralization is improvement. It's not utopia I expect. Improvement is enough.