#Oil

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Abdullah Taha Bakhsh Jeddah investor who from 1987 held about 11 percent of Harken Energy, the Texas oil company of which George W. Bush was a director, through Netherlands Antilles companies.
H.L. Hunt Dallas oil billionaire who financed the Facts Forum and Life Line broadcasts, kept three families, corresponded with J. Edgar Hoover for twenty years, and whose offices Jack Ruby visited the day before the Kennedy assassination.
Hunt brothers Nelson Bunker, William Herbert, and Lamar Hunt, the sons of H.L. Hunt's first family, who held Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling in trust and were found liable in 1988 for manipulating the silver market.
Nelson Bunker Hunt Dallas oilman who lost the Sarir field to Libya, was indicted for wiretapping his father's aides, was found liable for conspiring to corner silver in 1980, and gave 475,000 dollars to Oliver North's Contra fundraisers.
William Herbert Hunt Son of H.L. Hunt who was indicted with his brother Bunker for wiretapping their father's aides, was found liable in the 1980 silver manipulation, and kept Petro-Hunt in a trust beyond his creditors' reach.

Attock Oil Oil company incorporated in England in 1913 and operating in Pakistan, called BCCI's oil company by the Senate, in which Kamal Adham, Faisal al-Fulaij and Ghaith Pharaon held interests as BCCI nominees.
Harken Energy Texas oil company, with George W. Bush as director and consultant, that won an exclusive Bahrain offshore concession in January 1990 while a Saudi investor held about 11 percent of its stock.
Hunt Oil Company Privately held Dallas oil company of H.L. Hunt and then of Ray Hunt, whose executives became ambassadors and whose 2007 Kurdish contract drew a congressional inquiry.
Standard Oil Standard Oil was the John D. Rockefeller oil monopoly broken up in 1911 into successor companies whose Latin American operations, particularly Standard Oil of New Jersey, underwrote the Rockefeller family's mid-century influence over U.S. hemispheric policy.