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H. L. Hunt was a wealthy and influential oil magnate who acquired rights to the East Texas Oil Field and founded Hunt Oil in 1936. He had fifteen children by three wives, including Nelson Bunker Hunt, who tried to corner the silver market, and Lamar Hunt, who founded the American Football League.
T. Cullen Davis was a wealthy oil tycoon who faced two high-profile trials in the 1970s. He was accused of killing his stepdaughter and his wife's lover, and of hiring a hitman to kill his wife and a judge.
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 ...
The Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company (PAT) was an oil company founded in 1916 by the American oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny after he had made a huge oil strike in Mexico. Pan American profited from fuel demand during World War I, and from the subsequent growth in use of automobiles. For several years Pan American was the largest ...
Learn how oil production in California began in the 19th century and became a major industry by the early 20th century. Explore the discoveries, drilling, pipelines, and market regulation of oil in the state.
A 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell that exposed the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller and his oil empire. The book inspired the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 and is considered a landmark of investigative journalism.
An oil war is a conflict about petroleum resources, or their transportation, consumption, or regulation. Learn about the historical and current cases of oil wars, and the debate over their causes and consequences.
Learn about the history and current status of oil production in Azerbaijan, one of the birthplaces of the oil industry. Find out about the onshore and offshore oil fields, the state-owned SOCAR, and the oil trade with Persia and Russia.