✎ About W. Herbert Hunt

W. Herbert Hunt was born on March 06, 1929 in Dallas, Texas, United States. One of 15 children (by three women) of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt. With brother Nelson Bunker Hunt (d. 2014), he tried to corner the world silver market until the price of the metal collapsed 80% in 1980. Hunt endured in the oil business; in 2013 he sold his Bakken oilfield acreage to publicly-traded Halcon Resources for $1.5 billion cash and stock. He owns a refinery in Louisiana and oil company Petro-Hunt.
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💰W. Herbert Hunt Net worth: $3.9 Billion

2013 $3 Billion

2014 $2.8 Billion

2015 $2.3 Billion

2016 $1.9 Billion

2017 $2 Billion

2018 $2.3 Billion

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Biography/Timeline

1929

William Herbert Hunt was born in 1929 to Lyda Bunker and the oil well wildcatter H. L. Hunt.

1970

In the 1970s Hunt and his brother Nelson Bunker Hunt acquired 195 million ounces of silver, worth nearly $10 billion at the peak. When the price of silver collapsed 80% in 1980 the brothers lost their fortune in the silver trading scandal called Silver Thursday; together they lost a billion dollars. william Herbert Hunt went bankrupt in 1990, but came back to power years later.

2012

In 2012, Hunt sold his company Petro-Hunt’s stake in the Bakken shale field to Halcon Resources for $1.45 billion, lifting his net wealth to an estimated $3 billion or more.

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