Rodney Lewis

About Rodney Lewis

Birth Year: 1954
Birth Place: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Residence: San Antonio, Texas
Alma mater: Texas A&M International University
Occupation: Oil and natural gas industrialist Rancher
Spouse(s): Kimberly Annette Spicer Lewis (married c. 1978)
Children: Four children

Rodney Lewis Net Worth

Rodney Lewis was born on 1954 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The oil and gas bust has gutted the value of Rod Lewis' oil and gas operations on 500,000 acres in south Texas, where he's been drilling for four decades years. "We'll survive because we've rolled back our cash into the company," he says. "Reinvested in the ground." Lewis's other passion has always been airplanes. The son of an Air Force pilot, he bought his first in 1981 (an Aeronca Chief) because he was tired of driving Texas' wide-open spaces to check gauges on oil and gas wells. After a bout with esophageal cancer in 2004, he began buying up other planes in earnest. Lewis now owns two dozen Warbirds -- World War II-era planes -- including a P-51 Mustang and one of only two surviving T-6G trainer planes used by the Tuskegee airmen. His famed racer Rare Bear holds the speed record for piston-driven aircraft. He also has a B-25 bomber that he flew at an event honoring the 70th anniversary of Doolittle's raid. "But I'm just flying around," he says. "They were actually fighting, and trying to save their ass, for our country." The jewel of the collection is Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning dug out of the Greenland ice and restored to mint condition.
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💰Rodney Lewis Net worth: $1.3 Billion

2010 $2.25 Billion
2011 $2.8 Billion
2012 $2.6 Billion
2013 $2.4 Billion
2014 $2.5 Billion
2015 $2.1 Billion
2016 $1 Billion
2017 $1.5 Billion
2018 $1.39 Billion

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Biography/Timeline

1958

Lewis and his wife, the former Kimberly Annette Spicer (born c. 1958), have four adult children. He also owns a ranch in Encinal north of Laredo. Lewis is a survivor of esophageal cancer but lost his salivary glands in treatment.

1982

He started his career in the oil industry by working for Stampede Energy and for the R.L. Burns Corporation. He purchased his first oil well for $13,000 in 1982 and launched Lewis Energy the next year. In 1995, he borrowed $5 million from Enron Capital & Trade and repaid the loan in eight months. Alongside drilling in South Texas, he has drilled in Mexico for Pemex, and in Colombia for Hupecol Caracara and Solana Resources. In 2003, he sold much of his Texas pipelines to Dan Duncan, the CEO of Enterprise Products Partners. He is the first American wildcatter to drill in Mexico since former President Lázaro Cárdenas made it illegal for anyone but the Mexican government to do so. Forbes magazine called Lewis "the only gringo allowed to drill in Mexico." He can collect as much as $350 million annually from Pemex for drilling on 80,000 acres near the border. He does not own the oil or natural gas but is compensated for drilling the land. Lewis owns at least 350,000 acres of the Eagle Ford Shale property. In 2010, British Petroleum began drilling on 80,000 acres of Eagle Ford Shale property that Lewis owns.

2012

The Rod and Kim Lewis Foundation donates grants to charitable organizations. Lewis provided the furnishing of the three-story Lewis Energy Academic Center, which opened in January 2012 on the campus of Laredo Community College.

2013

In March 2013, Mrs. Lewis filed for divorce in the Bexar County Courthouse. There is no mention of a pre-nuptial agreement, and Texas is a community property state. At least thirteen lawsuits are involved in the Lewis' marital squabbles. Mrs. Lewis is asking that her husband pay her legal fees in the dispute.

2014

In August 2014, Lewis was named recipient of the annual Angel of Hope Award for his work in providing Christmas gifts to needy children in Webb County. Angel of Hope was originated by the constable's office of Webb County Precinct 1.

2018

As of March 2018, he is the 1,756th richest person in the world. He is worth US$1.3 billion. He collects World War II-era planes, and he owns 30, including Glacier Girl, which he bought for $10 million..