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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 ...
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]
A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. [2] With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison Sr., amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919–1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.
Stephens was born March 8, 1938, in De Leon, Texas, one of five children to Martin Elmore Stephens, a watermelon and peanut farmer, and Hazel Lila Stephens (née Johnson; 1905–2011). [5] [6] He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1961 and his Master of Science in 1962, both in Petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. [7]
John Whitfield Mecom Sr. (January 13, 1911 – October 12, 1981), was an American independent oilman. Mecom acquired abandoned oil wells and made them profitable. He developed new fields from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia.
Joseph Stephen Cullinan (December 31, 1860 – March 11, 1937) was a U.S. oil industrialist. Although he was a native of Pennsylvania, his lifetime business endeavors would help shape the early phase of the oil industry in Texas.
James Marion West Jr. (September 26, 1903 – December 18, 1957) was a Texas oilman.He was the son of James Marion West Sr., the businessman who created the West family fortune, and brother of Wesley West.
He subsequently served as the president of the National Stripper Well Association, the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, and the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. [2] During World War II, he served as a member of the Petroleum Industry Council for National Defense. [2] He was inducted in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1968. [3]