Farris Wilks

Net worth over time

Biography

• Farris and his brother Dan 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.
• The brothers began their careers as stone masons, like their father, founding Wilks Masonry in 1995.
• 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.
• Farris Wilks is the pastor of his own church, the Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day Church, near Cisco, Texas.
• Farris Wilks and his brother are active Republican donors.

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