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He is now offering advice on the new leadership of PdVSA, traveling to Brazil and elsewhere to recruit oilmen and create a lucrative new era of partnership between the state-run oil company and Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

It gave the oilmen and real estate developers and business titans across Texas who funneled cash to their alma mater bragging rights at the Petroleum Club of Houston and country clubs in Dallas.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2024

Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

"Barrack has done deals with Saudi princes, Texas oilmen, a Caribbean dictator — even with Donald Trump," that sycophantic Fortune profile recounted.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2022

In 1920, Sinclair, Marland, and other oilmen helped finance the successful presidential bid of Warren Harding.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann