|
Jean Paul Getty - wildcatter oilman
Page entitled : Jean Paul
Getty as a young wildcatter in Oklahoma
Content of this page is about :
Jean Paul Getty start as a young wildcatter seeking oil in Oklahoma in
partnership with his father George Franklin Getty
Extract :
... Paul Getty made the Tulsa Hotel his base of operations, although the Minnehoma Oil Company now had an office in the R.T. Daniel Building. There he mixed with seasoned wildcatters and newcomers, all entrenched in the ongoing oil boom, eager to buy or sell leases and snap up the latest news from the oilfields. He met many men who would move on to make oil history and some whom he would meet again at later stages of his life, usually in weaker positions : Josh Cosden, a millionaire before thirty whom he met again, broke in Tulsa in the early 1930’s, and Bill Skelly, whose company
...
…
|
|
