Herbert Hunt, Wildcatter

Abstract

An obituary for Petro-Hunt founder William Herbert Hunt, who died on Apr 9 at the age of 95, is presented. A son of East Texas oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt, he grew his Dallas-based Petro-Hunt to operations globally and across the US, including in the Permian, Williston and Powder River basins and in the Eagle Ford Shale. Hunt and his family were inducted into Hart Energy's Hall of Fame in December. Domestically and globally, Petro-Hunt was instrumental in some of the largest oil discoveries in the world. In 1961, Hunt and brother Nelson Bunker Hunt discovered the Sarir Field in Libya, one of the largest oil fields onshore Africa.