Rank #608
Ray Lee Hunt
Net worth $6.6B
Oil, real estate · United States
- Born
- Apr 06, 1943
- Age
- 83
- Source
- Oil, real estate
- Residence
- Dallas, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Southern Methodist University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ray Lee Hunt is the wealthiest of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt's 15 children.
- He is the chairman emeritus of Hunt Consolidated, an oil and gas, real estate and investing conglomerate.
- His Hunt Oil, once one of the largest privately held oil firms in the U.S., owns stakes in natural gas fields and a gas liquefaction plant in Peru.
- Hunt Oil was one of the first to land an exploration deal in Iraq's Kurdistan region after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
- His son, Hunter Hunt, serves as CEO of Hunt Consolidated's energy and infrastructure businesses and is his heir apparent.
- Hunt's half-brothers, W. Herbert (d. 2024) and Nelson Bunker Hunt (d. 2014), once tried to corner the silver market.
- Hunt's father is said to have been a major inspiration for the J.R. Ewing character on the TV show "Dallas."