Paying for gas, finding a good-paying job, housing problems and paying for health care are major components of peoples' concerns in these two states, chosen because they will be critical in this fall's national elections.
Exxon-Mobil, like all integrated oil and gas companies is finding the cost of replacing and growing reserves has a nasty habit of rising.
The challenge there is no longer in finding the gas, but getting it out as efficiently as possible.
However, finding shale gas is just one small step toward actually producing it.
But while geologists believe the rich Texas gas fields extend across the border, Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Pemex, has focused on boosting oil exports and hasn't proved effective at finding natural gas.
"As a country, we are consuming more natural gas than we are finding, " says Sempra Chief Don Felsinger, adding that more infrastructure will help lower the cost of the fuel that typically sets electricity prices.
Mexico used to talk about exporting gas to the U.S. But though geologists believe that the rich Texas gas fields extend across the border, Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Pemex, has focused on boosting oil exports and hasn't been effective at finding natural gas.
This exploration company has a knack for finding oil and gas in the ground without wasting a lot of money looking in the wrong places.
Larry Nichols has been spectacularly successful at finding oil and natural gas on Wall Street.
Unable to afford college, he did what he could to get by, finding work as a gas station attendant, a produce salesman, a meat-cutter, and a welder in the shipyards of Baltimore and Tampa during World War II.
In April 2008, I wrote about McMoRan and the vision it had for finding significant oil and gas deposits by going deeper in areas that provided significant discoveries decades ago in the Gulf area, both onshore and offshore, in shallow wells drilled years ago.
Since drilling wells is the only means of finding oil and natural gas, IDCs essentially amount to what any other industry would be able to deduct as a part of its cost of goods sold, a concept of accounting and tax law as old as the tax code itself.
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The increase is due largely to improvements in finding and recovering oil and gas.
In the midday speech, Obama will attempt to counter Republican demands for domestic oil development including more offshore oil drilling that have resonated with voters finding higher prices at the gas pump in the wake of unrest in the Middle East.
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Unsurprisingly, Shell started "finding" lots more oil and gas by reevaluating what it already had.
Finding and producing enough oil and gas to replace the oil and gas sold every year is a difficult task for all of the major oil companies.
Converting coal to gas before burning it is plausible, but finding an economical way to dispose of the carbon dioxide besides venting it is, to put it mildly, an ambitious goal.
For the first time since cheap Middle East oil invaded Western markets, Newman says, a vast new source of energy is arriving at prices well below the prevailing cost of finding, developing and delivering natural gas.
Their most significant finding is that climate change means the gas is being released from more and deeper areas of the Arctic Ocean.
Finding vast new reserves of oil and gas in your own back yard must count as good fortune in a land as hungry for energy as America.
As the people of Clackmannanshire are finding out, it takes a long time for gas company people to visit every property to reconnect, and that's traumatic in cold weather.
I'm in favor of finding environmentally sound ways to tap our oil and our natural gas.
Cynthia Falardeau of Vero Beach, Florida, had little problem finding a pay phone because she knew the owners of a gas station that had one.
Same deal: Dinner last night with Mayor Kathy Taylor and assorted Tulsa entrepreneurs who are finding their fortunes in everything from software to rental cars to gas cans to oil.
Moreover, building better machines is something that we have had ton of luck at over the past several hundred years and is a more reliable source of growth than finding new easy-to-get deposits of oil and gas or decreasing the long run volatility in energy prices.
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If more wine were finding its way into European gullets, less would be destined for the gas pumps.
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