Company · Energy · founded 1956
Mesa Petroleum
Independent oil company T. Boone Pickens started in 1956 as Petroleum Exploration, Incorporated. It was renamed Mesa Petroleum when it went public in 1964.
Of the 1 person here linked to Mesa Petroleum, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: tshaonline.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Mesa Petroleum
Founder Past
Role
Founder; started as Petroleum Exploration, Incorporated, renamed Mesa Petroleum at its 1964 public offering, 1956–1996
Source
· high confidence. The Handbook's Mesa entry dates the founding partnership (Petroleum Exploration, Incorporated, with Eugene McCartt and John O'Brien) to 1956, after two years of self-employment following his 1954 exit from Phillips; Wikipedia also says 1956. The Handbook's Pickens entry says he left Phillips in 1954 and reportedly borrowed $2,500 to start Petroleum Exploration, without a year for the loan. The end year 1996 comes from the Pickens Handbook entry.
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T. Boone Pickens
Founder of Mesa Petroleum; oil magnate, 1980s corporate raider, and BP Capital Management hedge fund manager
middle-class · some · college degree