He's spent the last two years negotiating with Conoco Phillips, ExxonMobile, and BP, to build a pipeline to tap into the largest known reserve of natural gas in North America.

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The ExxonMobile Smart Card, a chip-embedded gas-only card that is coming out later this year, will allow card holders to earn a six-cents-per-gallon credit on up to 100 gallons in each billing cycle.

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Because Kaiser only buys companies based in the U.S. for his two largest funds, those stringent guidelines have led him to stock up the shares of companies like Google, Apple, ExxonMobile and Carlisle.

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Total could also take the mantle, but while ExxonMobile has a history of timely efficiency in its projects, the Kazhak government probably fears a loss of bargaining power by letting the biggest oil and gas company in the world take control of its gas field.

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