OIL GAS

A sector phrase with a concentrated dollar total

$6,237,503 is the occupation-level dollar total. 4,385 is the itemization count. 449 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $1,422 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $13,892 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 10 itemizations per donor record. Four thousand-plus lines from 449 donor records is a concentrated pattern: fewer people and fewer receipts than many occupation strings with similar dollars.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $1,422 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Mean dollars per donor record sit toward the high side among keys in this dollar band. A handful of large itemizations can move the occupation total more than they would in a two-thousand-person pool.

Industry language in the occupation box

Some donors write OIL & GAS; others write OIL AND GAS, OIL/GAS, or a specific title such as petroleum engineer. Those strings do not add into this total unless the occupation field is exactly OIL & GAS.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals OIL & GAS after indexing. OIL AND GAS, PETROLEUM ENGINEER, and ENERGY remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to OIL & GAS.

Questions

How much have oil & gas donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list OIL & GAS sum to $6,237,503 across 4,385 contributions and 449 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is OIL & GAS an FEC industry code?

No. It is occupation free text. Some donors put a sector name in the job-title box. This page covers $6,237,503 from 4,385 contributions and 449 donors for that exact string. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this include petroleum engineers?

Only if they typed OIL & GAS in the occupation field. PETROLEUM ENGINEER is a different key. Mixing them would invent a combined energy total the packet does not contain. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I see the underlying receipts?

Open the OIL & GAS occupation page for the indexed table, then verify on FEC.gov. Industry pages group employer-side energy labels separately. The occupation total is $6,237,503. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.