He's a wildcatter, taking over an old mine whose riches are mostly gone. From Wordnik.com. [Chile Mine Collapse Highlights Safety Risks] Reference
But tomorrow's oil prospector will be more high-tech engineer than wildcatter. From Wordnik.com. [Big Oil's Shifting Landscape] Reference
Like a west Texas wildcatter, Perot has an instinct for tapping gushers of discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Let The Party Begin] Reference
As a born wildcatter, he's doing what he loves: studying geology and buying up promising acreage. From Wordnik.com. [America's Richest Oilmen] Reference
You'll meet a wildcatter who is trying something different to ease at least his pain at the gas pump. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2006] Reference
Yet Hamm, a self-made wildcatter, is a bright spot in an industry suffering a public relations nightmare. From Wordnik.com. [America's Richest Oilmen] Reference
T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter turned oil baron, is building the world's biggest wind farm, in the dry. From Wordnik.com. [T. Boone Pickens: Natural Gas Takes Center Stage in Las Vegas] Reference
The father went into the oil business and became famous in Houston as a wildcatter who never hit a dry hole. From Wordnik.com. [Bush War] Reference
His father was a Texas oil wildcatter who struck it rich and moved his large (10 children) family to Connecticut. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
An economist by training, soft-spoken by nature, the 53-year-old Mr. Watson is hardly some swaggering wildcatter. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Without Apologies] Reference
PAMPA MEL.HORITA, Peru -- Seven decades ago, Texas wildcatter H.L. Hunt used poker winnings to build an oil company. From Wordnik.com. [Hunt Family Rushes In] Reference
I showed up in S. Texas with a 25-06 because my Dad was a wildcatter in the 60's when the 25-06 was getting popular. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations on the Whitetail Deer] Reference
He was the wildcatter who found his black gold in software instead of oil and got richer quicker than any Texan ever. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero] Reference
Canadian wildcatter Murray Edwards is leading the charge into the hemisphere's next great energy supply oil sands. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report: The World's BillionairesThe World's Billionaires] Reference
Because although there is a bit of the gambler in every wildcatter, these were not gamblers but something closer to gangsters. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Norris de Montaigu: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Already Here!] Reference
The Oklahoma wildcatter tapped into a billion-dollar fortune by taking Continental Resources, his oil-and-gas-exploration company, public. From Wordnik.com. [America's 50 Richest Paydays] Reference
While hardly a wildcatter, the company did help innovate in recovering coal gas and in horizontal drilling in Texas's Barnett Shale field. From Wordnik.com. [Former Accountant Worked to Build] Reference
The buyer was a partnership including Ray Washburne and his wife and sister-in-law, both great-granddaughters of oil tycoon and wildcatter H.L. Hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Texas-Size Deal Boasts Strong Dallas Roots] Reference
But high energy prices have emboldened the industry, stirring wildcatter passions and prompting companies to look anew at previously abandoned projects. From Wordnik.com. [A Famed Dry Hole Gets a Second Shot] Reference
T. Boone Pickens: man with a plan: the quintessential Texas wildcatter is convinced that he's got the answer for our nation's energy crisis: can his plan ... air?. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pickens calls off massive wind farm in Texas] Reference
As far back as 1981, a Texas wildcatter by the name of George T. Mitchell experimented with a new way of gathering natural gas from tight-rock deposits of organic shale. From Wordnik.com. [Shale Gas Will Tip The Scale] Reference
There was no mistaking that McCarthy, however, was the model for the tempestuous wildcatter Jett Rink, who sprang from the pages of the book Ferber decided to call Giant. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Texas] Reference
This from an industry with the environmental instincts of a wildcatter?. From Wordnik.com. [Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine] Reference
Hamm soon became a wildcatter, making his first big strike in 1971 at the age of 26. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
But as someone who made his fortune as an oil wildcatter, gambling is still second nature. From Wordnik.com. [A1 HOME - Top Stories] Reference
I think he can be something special as a hybrid quarterback/wildcatter/tight end/receiver. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
But, as someone who made his fortune as an oil wildcatter, gambling is still second nature. From Wordnik.com. [Sportsnet.ca - Sports News] Reference
It wasn't some hedge fund wildcatter that forced the Federal Reserve to step into the breach. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
Jim Bob's find: Legendary wildcatter used skill and nerve that deserve notice in energy policy circles. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Va. gov McDonnell signs offshore energy bills] Reference
An oil wildcatter raised by an oil wildcatter, he moved into the railroad business in the early 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Indeed, the fourth-largest corporation in the world appears to have conducted itself like an 1890s wildcatter for years. From Wordnik.com. [News & Politics] Reference
There's no avalanching of economic benefits to the economy had the money gone to a farmer, rancher, wildcatter, or miner. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
The story of Glenn McCarthy, once Houston’s greatest wildcatter, had one final chapter. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Texas] Reference
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