The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 37 US Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration Companies had their average stock prices drop by a massive 69% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, to March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the very lowest point for the overall stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.
But since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 37 US Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration Companies have increased by a very robust 430% through January 29, 2014, led by massive stock price appreciation of 46 times by Kodiak Oil & Gas, of 34 times by Magnum Hunter Resources and of 15 times by Rex Energy.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of a clear majority of these 37 US Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration Companies must be pleased with the impact of actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to successfully rescue the US economy from its extremely weakened state caused by the 2008 US financial meltdown.
Below here are the market prices of each of these 37 US Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration Companies on January 29, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 29, 2014:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration Companies | 1-29-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 1-29-14 | 3-6-09 | ||
| Kodiak Oil & Gas | 10.44 | 0.22 | 2.20 | 4645% | -90% | ||
| Magnum Hunter Resources | 8.11 | 0.23 | 1.98 | 3426% | -88% | ||
| Rex Energy | 18.55 | 1.12 | 11.93 | 1556% | -91% | ||
| MarkWest Energy Partners LP | 69.60 | 9.16 | 33.78 | 660% | -73% | ||
| Northern Oil and Gas | 14.90 | 2.22 | 6.95 | 571% | -68% | ||
| Whiting Petroleum | 57.55 | 10.07 | 28.83 | 472% | -65% | ||
| Concho Resources | 95.78 | 19.82 | 20.61 | 383% | -4% | ||
| Hercules Offshore | 5.00 | 1.16 | 23.78 | 331% | -95% | ||
| Helmerich & Payne | 85.12 | 20.30 | 40.07 | 319% | -49% | ||
| Approach Resources | 20.23 | 4.94 | 12.86 | 310% | -62% | ||
| Vanguard Natural Resources | 30.29 | 8.60 | 16.00 | 252% | -46% | ||
| Atwood Oceanics | 46.44 | 13.57 | 50.12 | 242% | -73% | ||
| Legacy Reserves LP | 26.93 | 7.95 | 20.70 | 239% | -62% | ||
| Breitburn Energy Partners LP | 20.29 | 6.11 | 28.90 | 232% | -79% | ||
| Patterson-UTI Energy | 25.26 | 7.80 | 19.52 | 224% | -60% | ||
| Key Energy Services | 7.16 | 2.39 | 14.39 | 200% | -83% | ||
| Halcon Resources | 3.48 | 1.20 | 15.06 | 190% | -92% | ||
| EV Energy Partners LP | 36.23 | 12.51 | 32.50 | 190% | -62% | ||
| W&T Offshore | 14.71 | 5.26 | 29.96 | 180% | -82% | ||
| Unit Corp | 50.17 | 18.34 | 46.25 | 174% | -60% | ||
| Rowan Companies plc | 31.57 | 11.57 | 39.46 | 173% | -71% | ||
| MV Oil Trust | 23.44 | 9.10 | 24.64 | 158% | -63% | ||
| Hyperdynamics Corp | 5.93 | 2.40 | 12.80 | 147% | -81% | ||
| CococoPhillips | 65.82 | 26.96 | 67.31 | 144% | -60% | ||
| Pioneer Energy Services | 8.47 | 3.82 | 11.88 | 122% | -68% | ||
| Cross Timbers Royalty Trust | 30.70 | 14.36 | 41.25 | 114% | -65% | ||
| Vantage Drilling | 1.69 | 0.80 | 7.60 | 111% | -89% | ||
| Nabor Industries Ltd | 16.99 | 8.58 | 27.39 | 98% | -69% | ||
| Bill Barrett Corp | 27.93 | 17.74 | 41.87 | 57% | -58% | ||
| FX Energy | 3.56 | 2.44 | 5.68 | 46% | -57% | ||
| Noble Corp | 31.66 | 22.59 | 56.51 | 40% | -60% | ||
| SandRidge Energy | 6.39 | 5.41 | 35.86 | 18% | -85% | ||
| Hugoton Royalty Trust | 8.60 | 8.18 | 22.43 | 5% | -64% | ||
| Diamond Offshore Drilling | 49.16 | 55.48 | 142.00 | -11% | -61% | ||
| Transocean Ltd | 43.85 | 51.11 | 143.15 | -14% | -64% | ||
| BPZ Resources | 2.03 | 2.41 | 11.18 | -16% | -78% | ||
| ZaZa Energy | 1.05 | 2.75 | 6.99 | -62% | -61% | ||
| Average % Change all 37 | 430% | -69% |
