Dan Wilks

Net worth over time

Biography

• Dan and his brother Farris got a combined $3.5 billion (pretax) in 2011 selling their fracking company to a group led by Singapore-based firm Temasek.
• The brothers have acquired more than 672,000 acres of land in six different states across the West, becoming America's 12th-largest landowners.
• They first founded Wilks Masonry in 1995, following in their stone mason father's footsteps.
• In 2002 they went into fracking, launching Frac Tech and growing it into an oil and natural gas giant before cashing out less than a decade later.
• The brothers are also investing in oil and gas businesses, including fracking company U.S. Well Services and data provider Dawson Geophysical Company.
• Dan Wilks and his brother are active Republican donors.
• The brothers reportedly spend four months a year in Montana, working on building homes on their large ranches.

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