Hunt Oil Co. is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in
Dallas
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,
Texas
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. It conducts its main oil production activities in the
United States
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,
Canada
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and, as of 1984, in
Yemen
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. In the past, the company was owned by American oil tycoon
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt.
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It also participates in liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...
production projects in Yemen (Yemen LNG
Yemen LNG (also called YLNG) is the first natural gas liquefaction (LNG) project in Yemen. The LNG plant is located in Balhaf.
History
Yemen LNG Company was incorporated in 1995 to develop the LNG plant. In 1997, the development was halted beca ...
) and Peru
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( Peru LNG).[
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Together with Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., the company drills wells in the Eagle Ford Shale Play, located in the Western Gulf Basin in South Texas.[
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Hunt Oil is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, with $4 billion in 2013 revenues. It is one of several Hunt companies active in energy, real estate, investments, ranching and infrastructure.
In 2007 Hunt Oil signed a production sharing contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is the official executive body of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.
The cabinet is selected by the majority party or list who also select the prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdish poli ...
to engage in oil and gas exploration and extraction.[
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Hunt family
Oil companies of the United States
Companies based in Dallas
Year of establishment missing
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