T. Boone Pickens

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Thomas Boone Pickens (born May 22, 1928 in Holdenville , Oklahoma , † September 11, 2019 ) was an American entrepreneur and oil investor . He was one of the richest people in the United States and was considered a great donor, especially for sports and education.

Life

T. Boone Pickens, 2011

Pickens was born in Holdenville, the only child to his parents. His father was already in the oil business. During his high school years, the family moved to Amarillo, Texas . At the age of eleven he had his first job as a newspaper delivery man there. He attended Texas A&M University on a basketball scholarship, which Pickens but lost after a year. So he went to Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University ), where he graduated in geology. After graduating, he worked in a refinery before becoming a geologist at Phillips Petroleum . In 1954 he left the company and worked as a consultant, among other things. At the time he was already married, had two daughters and a third child was on his way. In 1956 he founded a company that laid the foundation for what would later be called Mesa Petroleum . He ran Petroleum Exploration, Inc. with Eugene McCartt and John O'Brien, the latter an uncle of his wife, who each held 25 percent of the company's capital. The company sold information about potential new oil production areas. In 1959, Pickens founded the Altair Oil and Gas Company to explore oil fields in Canada. In 1960 the company acquired Standard Gilsonite , a Utah mining company. In 1962 Petroleum Exploration, Inc. made a profit of $ 750,000. In 1964, the company was renamed Mesa Petroleum and converted into a public company. The company developed well, not least due to the purchase of additional companies, which Pickens viewed in the 1980s as more lucrative than growing on its own. In 1985 he made the cover of Time Magazine and was considering running for president.

Pickens has been committed to wind power since the beginning of 2008. In national commercials, he promoted his plan to build a corridor of wind turbines from the southern United States to the Canadian border in the north. Pickens made two billion US dollars available for this and announced that he would top up the amount if the campaign is successful.

T. Boone Pickens had five children and had been married to Toni Brinker since 2014 , from whom he divorced in 2017.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Forbes.com, The 400 Richest Americans - # 103 T Boone Pickens , Sept. 21, 2006
  3. ↑ a b c horatioalger.com, Boone Pickens ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 11, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horatioalger.com
  4. ↑ a b c The handbook of Texas online, MESA PETROLEUM CORPORATION , accessed July 11, 2008
  5. ↑ findarticles.com, The Journal Record, The Century Club: T. Boone Pickens , May 1, 2007
  6. ↑ tagesschau.de, US billionaire advertises alternative energies - From oil magnate to windmaker , July 11, 2008 ( Memento from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Liz Lucking: Financier T. Boone Pickens Lists Dallas Mansion for $ 6 Million. Retrieved June 29, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Pickens, T. Boone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pickens, Thomas Boone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businessman
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Holdenville , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2019