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The wildcatter launched Endeavor in 1979 and grew it into one of the largest closely held U.S. oil and gas firms by buying tough-to-drill wells that oil majors snubbed. ... Texas-based company for ...
Laura married Jack Blanton, who became a Scurlock Oil and Eddy Refinery executive. Scurlock established and chartered the charitable Scurlock Foundation in April 1954. He was a chairman of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, an advisory director of Texas Commerce Bank , and a director of Lon Morris College and Texas Medical Center .
Mack C. Chase was born in Texas on April 29, 1931, the fourth of eight children of Edgar and Marie Chase. [2] [3] He started work in the oil industry at age 14, and after graduating from Artesia High School in 1950, went to work for Nash, Winfor and Brown. [3] He served in the US Army from 1951 to 1953 as an A&E mechanic during the Korean War ...
In 1952, he moved to Texas, where he borrowed $1,000 to buy five trucks that could carry crude oil from wells in the Permian Basin to distant refineries. By the 1960s, this investment had grown into the Permian Corporation, a multimillion-dollar business and the world's largest independent petroleum transport company, with 1,100 employees, a tractor-trailer fleet of 550 vehicles and a strong ...
Hugh Roy Cullen (July 3, 1881 – July 4, 1957) was an American industrialist and philanthropist.Cullen was heavily involved in the petroleum industry having struck oil near Texas in 1928. [1]
Reese McIntosh Rowling (1928–2001) was an American businessman and geologist, who co-founded Tana Oil and Gas Corporation with William E Colson in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was eventually taken over by Texaco. [1] He was born in 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, the son of Harry Herschel Rowling, a railway worker, and his wife Lily Mae Rowling. [1]
Thomas Baker Slick Jr. (May 6, 1916 – October 6, 1962) was a San Antonio, Texas-based inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil business. Slick's father, Thomas Baker Slick Sr., a.k.a. "The King of the Wildcatters", had made a fortune during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1910s.
Hamon started his career in Ranger, Texas, in 1920 and drilled his own well a year later. [1] He subsequently partnered with oilman Edwin B. Cox (Edwin L. Cox's father), and established a corporate office in Dallas, Texas, in 1932. [3] The two men worked together until 1950. [3]