Grubstake Investments No. 1
Bill D. Stephenson moved to McMullen County, about 80 miles south and slightly west of San Antonio, in 1916. His goal was to become an...
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Kaes Van’t Hof, chief financial officer of Midland-based Diamondback Energy, presciently observed in February that “we could run the gas price to zero in the Permian and still make great returns on oil wells.”
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