What is the breakdown in gas usage among different sectors in the U.S. economy?
The wildcatter legend is rich in American lore, and like all legends, there is much that is accurate and much that has been embellished. The truth is, there aren’t a lot of wildcatters operating anymore. Wildcatters were men who poked holes in the ground pretty much anywhere they could gain permission (and sometimes without permission), and there was little regard for geologic facts or research. Some got incredibly lucky. But then some folks get incredibly lucky playing roulette in Las Vegas. Most investors find the slim odds of wildcatting unacceptable today. The fact is, in the oil discovery game, Mammoth Resource Partners and nearly everyone else operates within the broad middle ground between the dumb luck of wildcatting and the silver bullet of technological certainty. Almost all oil discovery today, from the multi-billion-dollar offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico on down, is dependant largely upon educated guesses based upon geologic mapping, combined with local experience.
