Several of the 57 Companies are legally foreign corporations but with substantial operations in Texas.
The historical stock prices were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources..... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts .
These 57 Texas Oil & Gas Companies had their average stock prices increase by a very impressive 178% from January 16, 2009 to November 6, 2013. This 178% increase is 1.65 times the 108% increase in the S&P 500 Index over the same time span.
The Oil & Gas industry doesn't seem to be so hot on the Obama Administration, but that is not consistent with what has happened in Texas where the 57 largest Oil & Gas Companies have experienced an average stock market price appreciation of 178% so far during the Obama Administration or in Oklahoma where the 12 largest Oil & Gas Companies have experienced an average stock market price appreciation of an even substantially higher percentage so far during the Obama Administration.
I would be surprised if this average stock market price appreciation for these 57 Texas Oil & Gas Companies isn't above 300% for the Obama Administration's entire 8 year run. After all, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is extremely bright and also very savvy. He strongly favors Green Energy but he also knows that US technological advances in getting to oil and gas have been just spectacular in recent years and he also understands that if US natural gas drilling is done in the best environmental and safe way, it will do both economic and national security wonders for the country.
Below here are the common stock market closing prices of each of these 57 Texas Oil & Gas Companies at both today (November 6, 2013) and also at the date just before President Obama took office in his first term (Jan 16, 2009), as well as the percentage stock market price changes for this period of time:
| Market | Market | Percentage | ||
| Texas | Price | Price | Increase | |
| HQs | 11-6-13 | 1-16-09 | (Decrease) | |
| Texas Oil and Gas Corps and Partnerships | ||||
| Pioneer Natural Resources | Irving | $198.55 | $16.11 | 1132% |
| CVR Energy | Sugar Land | $34.24 | $4.71 | 627% |
| Targa Resources Partners | Houston | $50.63 | $7.89 | 542% |
| Oceaneering Intl | Houston | $85.91 | $14.77 | 482% |
| Core Labs NV | Houston | $187.61 | $33.93 | 453% |
| Oil States Intl | Houston | $107.84 | $19.51 | 453% |
| Cabot Oil & Gas | Houston | $33.89 | $6.26 | 441% |
| Concho Resources | Midland | $106.88 | $22.11 | 383% |
| Energy Transfer Equity LP | Dallas | $68.85 | $17.06 | 304% |
| FMC Technologies | Houston | $50.26 | $13.12 | 283% |
| HollyFrontier | Dallas | $43.43 | $11.42 | 280% |
| Atwood Oceanics | Houston | $54.20 | $15.22 | 256% |
| Helix Energy Solutions | Houston | $22.80 | $6.56 | 248% |
| National Oilwell Varco | Houston | $81.40 | $24.25 | 236% |
| Noble Energy | Houston | $74.59 | $23.40 | 219% |
| Western Refining | El Paso | $31.94 | $10.04 | 218% |
| Halliburton | Houston | $54.40 | $17.74 | 207% |
| Southern Union | Dallas | $41.10 | $13.44 | 206% |
| Tesoro | San Antonio | $47.44 | $15.91 | 198% |
| Enterprise Products Partners | Houston | $62.84 | $22.00 | 186% |
| Plains All American Pipeline LP | Houston | $52.37 | $18.89 | 177% |
| EOG Resources | Houston | $176.64 | $63.73 | 177% |
| Rowan Companies | Houston | $36.90 | $13.81 | 167% |
| El Paso Pipeline Partners | Houston | $41.11 | $16.65 | 147% |
| Anadarko Petroleum | The Woodlands | $92.02 | $37.48 | 146% |
| Patterson UTI | Snyder | $24.59 | $10.15 | 142% |
| Cameron Intl | Houston | $54.45 | $22.58 | 141% |
| Spectra Energy | Houston | $34.98 | $14.78 | 137% |
| Plains Exploration & Production | Houston | $48.90 | $20.80 | 135% |
| Schlumberger | Houston | $93.23 | $39.90 | 134% |
| Marathon Oil | Houston | $36.45 | $17.28 | 111% |
| Enbridge Energy Partners | Houston | $30.39 | $14.52 | 109% |
| Key Energy Services | Houston | $7.90 | $3.82 | 107% |
| ConocoPhillips | Houston | $73.90 | $37.64 | 96% |
| Linn Energy | Houston | $30.46 | $15.98 | 91% |
| Buckeye Partners | Houston | $69.40 | $37.06 | 87% |
| Valero Energy | San Antonio | $40.24 | $21.95 | 83% |
| Atmos Energy | Dallas | $44.68 | $24.43 | 83% |
| Baker Hughes | Houston | $57.96 | $31.88 | 82% |
| Denbury Resources | Plano | $19.44 | $10.76 | 81% |
| Noble Corp | Houston | $37.62 | $21.61 | 74% |
| Kinder Morgan Energy Partners | Houston | $80.96 | $48.20 | 68% |
| Nabor Industries | Houston | $17.92 | $11.29 | 59% |
| Weatherford Intl | Houston | $17.04 | $10.77 | 58% |
| Newfield Exploration | The Woodlands | $30.09 | $19.99 | 51% |
| Energy Transfer Partners | Dallas | $53.35 | $35.95 | 48% |
| Boardwalk Pipeline Partners | Houston | $28.60 | $20.72 | 38% |
| W&T Offshore | Houston | $18.99 | $13.90 | 37% |
| Southwestern Energy | Houston | $36.62 | $28.60 | 28% |
| Exxon Mobil | Irving | $93.22 | $78.10 | 19% |
| Apache | Houston | $88.45 | $74.49 | 19% |
| Diamond Offshore | Houston | $60.35 | $57.97 | 4% |
| Alon USA Energy | Dallas | $11.25 | $11.42 | -1% |
| Transocean Ltd | Houston | $49.03 | $50.09 | -2% |
| NuStar Energy LP | San Antonio | $42.72 | $45.26 | -6% |
| Ultra Petroleum | Houston | $19.28 | $34.64 | -44% |
| Quicksilver Resources | Fort Worth | $2.35 | $6.65 | -65% |
| Average Increase: all 57 Oil and Gas Corps and Partnerships | 178% | |||
| S&P 500 Index | 1,770.49 | 850.12 | 108% | |
