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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.
In 1976, the company was founded as Lomak Petroleum, based in Hartville, Ohio. The company drilled wells in eastern Ohio. In 1992, the company moved its headquarters to Fort Worth, Texas. In 1997, the company acquired American Cometra for $385 million, which owned properties in the Permian Basin. [2]
Finley Resources is a privately owned and operated energy company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. [1] [2] The company operates about 2,500 oil and gas properties in nine states including Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico.
Fluor Corporation's predecessor, Rudolph Fluor & Brother, was founded in 1890 by John Simon Fluor [3] and his two brothers in Oshkosh, Wisconsin [4] as a saw and paper mill. [3] John Fluor acted as its president [ 3 ] and contributed $100 in personal savings to help the business get started. [ 5 ]
Robert Muse Bass was born on 19 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Perry Richardson Bass, was an investor, philanthropist and sailor. His mother, Nancy Lee Bass, was a philanthropist. He has three brothers: Lee Marshall Bass, Ed Bass, and Sid Bass. His uncle is Sid Richardson. [citation needed]
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In 2008, XTO Energy began supporting Navarro College's petroleum technology certificate program. [28] Since 2009, XTO Energy has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to build homes in Fort Worth. [29] In 2010, XTO Energy and ExxonMobil gave a $5 million grant to Colorado State University to fund studies on the impact of oil and gas drilling on ...
Bass took control of the family business in 1968. His investments include oil and gas. Along with his father and two of his brothers, he was the largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until after the stock market crash in 2001.