Sentences with phrase «oil wildcatter»
The daughter of a successful oil wildcatter, Roberta Wright ran off to Tijuana to marry Jack McCain, then a young Navy ensign.
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Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.
When it comes to spewing methane, big oil companies and little wildcatters both make the list for biggest contributors to global warming
Jim Hall Jim Hall had the gambling heart of a Texas wildcatter, the hefty bankroll of an oil tycoon, and a precocious imagination tempered by a degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech.
The trilogy addresses all the known clichés associated with Texas: its industries of cattle, oil and space, its heroes of cowboys, wildcatters and astronauts, its vast land and skies and extreme weather.