OIL & GAS money in federal elections

A sector phrase, not a producer census

FEC forms store OIL & GAS when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply NAICS 211. The $5,608,717 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the ampersand phrase. It is not wellhead production, not a Bureau of Land Management lease file, and not every staffer who typed a company legal name instead.

People who typed OIL AND GAS without the ampersand, ENERGY, PETROLEUM, or a specific operator name sit in other rows if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into OIL & GAS. The FEC field is not an American Petroleum Institute roster.

280 donors and a high dollar-per-person cluster

280 unique donors produced 5,798 OIL & GAS contribution lines totaling $5,608,717. That is on the order of 21 itemized receipts per donor. Relative to other employer keys near this dollar band, the unique-person count is small, so dollars per listed donor run high. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among upstream, midstream, and downstream jobs.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and association PAC filings are outside the $5,608,717 unless an individual receipt itself carries this phrase. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Company names stay on their own pages

Operator and service-company employer strings are separate keys. Combining them with OIL & GAS would mix a generic sector phrase with legal names. This page stays at $5,608,717 for OIL & GAS only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the phrase. ENGINEER, GEOLOGIST, and LANDMAN-style words still hold people who omitted OIL & GAS. State filings are omitted from the federal total.

Donor table

The OIL & GAS donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a lease, a pipeline docket, or a motive to that line. The 280 unique-person count is not an industry employment census.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the sector phrase. Repeat names among 5,798 lines from 280 people are expected. People who typed a producer legal name are not in these 280 unless a receipt also grouped to OIL & GAS.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,608,717, 5,798 contributions, 280 donors, top employer OIL & GAS. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this phrase.

Keep OIL & GAS’s $5,608,717, 5,798 contributions, and 280 donors on this ampersand phrase. Producer legal names, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS extraction total.

Sector-phrase dollars versus producer PAC filings

OIL & GAS is a typed sector phrase, so the $5,608,717 cannot be read as ExxonMobil, Chevron, or any other operator total. Those legal names, if present in the ranking, sit on other pages. Association PAC filings are other FEC categories. Unitemized gifts never enter the 5,798 lines.

280 unique donors is a small person-count for this dollar band, which is why dollars per listed donor run high. About 21 receipts per person still leaves the file far from a payroll-style 70-plus-lines-per-donor pattern. The packet does not split upstream, midstream, or downstream jobs.

Occupation pages show engineer, geologist, and related titles stored beside the phrase. The industry index ranks other energy strings without merging them here. Follow the donor table for disclosed committees. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to OIL & GAS. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Keep OIL & GAS’s 280 donors and 5,798 lines on the ampersand phrase. Producer legal names remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,608,717 only.

Questions

How much have OIL & GAS-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,608,717 to the OIL & GAS employer string, from 5,798 contributions and 280 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a trade-association PAC and not a NAICS oil-and-gas total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this the oil industry’s corporate political spending?

No. The $5,608,717 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to OIL & GAS. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold producer legal names into this phrase. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include ExxonMobil or Chevron employees?

Only if the grouped employer text is OIL & GAS. Company legal names are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the sector phrase. Staff who typed ENGINEER without the phrase sit in occupation-style rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed OIL & GAS?

The rollup counts 280 donors and 5,798 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employment census of the extraction sector. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.