Current location - Trademark Inquiry Complete Network - Futures platform - Boone pickens's little file
Boone pickens's little file
He once gained fame and fortune by annexing a large number of oil companies and accurately predicting oil prices. He turned to new energy sources in his eighties. Support George Bush who was once regarded as the "God of Wealth" by * * * and the Party; He promoted the "pickens Plan" and became a close ally of Obama. ...

Some people say that in 2008, crude oil rushed to the high price of $0/47 per barrel, and the culprit behind it was Thomas Boone Pickens and his BP Capital Management Company. Some people say that pickens is worthy of the title of "Oil God".

The right and wrong will be judged by history, but pickens is indeed a figure who has a far-reaching impact on the world energy market.

Pickens 1928 was born on May 22nd in a small town in Oklahoma, USA. He was the only child in his family. His fierce style has been obvious since he was a teenager. Pickens is only 65,438+02 years old. When he was a newsboy, he expanded his newspaper delivery line from 28 to 65,438+056. He recalled that his work experience taught him to "expand rapidly through mergers and acquisitions."

195 1 year. After graduating from pickens University, he became a geological surveyor in the Oklahoma branch of Philip Oil Company. At that time, his monthly salary was only $290. However, the long-term field work soon bored pickens. More importantly, he is tired of dealing with the serious bureaucracy in the company. So pickens quit the job on 1954, and then worked as an independent oilman for some time. 1956, ambitious pickens ventured to borrow $2,500 from others, joined hands with two partners to set up his first company, Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., and became the chairman.

At the age of 40, there was a wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the United States, and the radical and fierce means made Wall Street fearful. At the age of 68, he suddenly fell into a trough in his life and was forced to leave his Mesa company. At the same time, he was deeply involved in a divorce lawsuit and once suffered from depression. However, pickens made a comeback. After three exams, he finally got the qualification of futures fund trader, started his second venture and established BP Capital Management Company named after his initials. At the age of 77, he became the second highest paid fund manager in the United States and returned to the Forbes rich list because of his successful operation of commodity futures funds. In 2008, Oil God, who was over 80 years old, launched the "pickens Plan" with new energy as the core, which attracted the attention of all walks of life in the United States.