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Lobbyists rule higher oil and gas prices ..

Oil & Gas Lobbying Profile

$34,803,726
Total Spent so far on Oil & Gas, 2022

163
Number of Clients
582
(65.81%)
Number of Lobbyists/Percent of Former Government Employees

ConocoPhillips $4,600,000
Koch Industries $3,250,000
Occidental Petroleum $2,780,000
Exxon Mobil $2,050,000
Chevron Corp $1,870,000
OAO Gazprom $1,630,000
Shell plc $1,360,000
Phillips 66 $1,190,000
BP $1,160,000
American Petroleum Institute $1,150,000
Cheniere Energy $990,000
Marathon Petroleum $740,000
TC Energy $717,500
Williams Companies $530,000
Valero Energy $520,000
PBF Energy $435,080
Enbridge Inc $400,000
Marathon Oil $300,000
American Fuel & Petrochem Manufacturers $267,500
Reliance Industries Ltd $260,000
Ovintiv Inc $260,000
Interstate Natural Gas Assn of America $248,571
Hess Corp $240,000
Equinor $230,000
American Gas Assn $230,000


Koch Supply and Trading is a sprawling trading octopus that operates in the dark for the most part. For all anyone knows, it could be trading Russian oil on world markets, which could be propping up the price of Russian oil and helping to finance Putin’s brutal and murderous campaign in Ukraine.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the first-ever shipments of Russian crude oil purchased by the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in were supplied by Koch Industries.