T. Boone Pickens - BP Capital

Pickens: Oil prices heading back up

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November 11, 2008 10:01 pm

When billionaire oilman and investor T. Boone Pickens launched his plan this summer to boost the use of wind and natural gas to ease American dependence on foreign oil, U.S. ... Read more »

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BP Capital Loses $2B in Oil

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November 1, 2008 9:55 pm

BP Capital has recently moved its assets to cash and discussing his plan for energy with Boone Pickens, BP Capital CEO http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=911136857

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Pickens’s Investors Ask for Exit

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October 29, 2008 8:35 pm

About half of the investors in T. Boone Pickens’s energy-oriented equity hedge fund have asked to withdraw their money on the heels of losses of about 60% this year, according ... Read more »

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Pickens Funds Down About $1 Billion

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September 24, 2008 6:57 pm

Lately, T. Boone Pickens would get better marks as a policy advocate and author than an energy investor. The 80-year-old Texas oil magnate has bankrolled a massive public campaign for ... Read more »

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Boone Pickens publishes a book : The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life

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September 13, 2008 12:35 pm

Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the ... Read more »

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There Will Be Boone

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August 30, 2008 12:39 pm

  Texas Monthly magazine profiles Boone Pickens here: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-09-01/feature.php In early 2000, Boone made his make-or-break gamble, telling his brokers to take almost all the money they had left and ... Read more »

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NBC approves Pickens’ “Iran” ad

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August 28, 2008 10:15 pm

NBC Universal approved an advertisement by T. Boone Pickens entitled “Iran” which questions U.S. dependence on foreign oil, after the oil tycoon complained that the network had rejected it. Mr. ... Read more »

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McCain and Pickens Meet for Breakfast in Aspen

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August 15, 2008 10:44 pm

John McCain met for breakfast this morning with T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil man who is now campaigning for alternative fuels, particularly wind power. The pair ate at the ... Read more »

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T. Boone Pickens to release a book: “The First Billion is the Hardest,”

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August 13, 2008 10:46 pm

In his upcoming book, “The First Billion is the Hardest,” oilman T. Boone Pickens provides a series of chatty vignettes that he believes reflects key turning points in his ... Read more »

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T. BOONE TAKES BATH ON ENERGY BETS

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6:10 pm

. Boone Pickens has been an oilman for nearly 60 years, but all that experience counted for little last month as the well-schooled octogenarian tycoon took a beating on oil ... Read more »

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Pickens, Gore Sidestep Differences in Alternative-Energy Quest

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August 4, 2008 7:00 pm

The most unlikely alliance in this election year hasn’t come out of any political campaign. It’s in the convergence of interests between billionaire oilman and Republican Party backer T. Boone ... Read more »

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T. Boone Pickens loses millions on Yahoo gamble

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July 29, 2008 7:00 pm

Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens excoriated Yahoo’s management for failing to reach an agreement to sell all or part of the Web portal to Microsoft Corp. Pickens, who bought 10 ... Read more »

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Billionaire has cure for ’suicidal’ need for oil

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July 13, 2008 6:21 pm

The “Pickens Plan” is the sort of thing that happens when gasoline tops $4. America teetering on recession needs ideas like this.Boone Pickens, the Texas billionaire, proposes — and not ... Read more »

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Picken’s Plan

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July 8, 2008 5:56 pm

BP CEO Boone Pickens outlines his energy plan to reduce foreign reliance on oil. watch it at CNBC.com here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=788422670

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Pickens Says Oil Prices May Rise to $150 by Year End

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April 29, 2008 6:03 pm

It can’t be easy to interview T. Boone Pickens. A self-made billionaire (though he admits he didn’t make his first billion till he was 70 years old), Pickens is sharp, ... Read more »

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Pickens sees $100 oil through 2008

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March 25, 2008 6:45 pm

Legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens, who made more than $1 billion in 2006 by betting on rising oil prices, said he expects oil prices will hold near or above ... Read more »

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Pickens’s BP Capital Energy Fund Fell 14% This Year

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March 11, 2008 7:34 pm

Billionaire investor Boone Pickens’s BP Capital Energy Equity Fund fell 14 percent in the first two months of this year, amid soaring prices for natural gas and crude oil. BP ... Read more »

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Billionaire Pickens expects short-term fall in oil price

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February 22, 2008 6:57 pm

After correctly predicting oil’s climb to more than $100 a barrel, legendary oilman Boone Pickens said Thursday he is shorting both the oil and natural gas markets in the belief ... Read more »

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T. Boone Pickens’ son gets probation in fraud case

Filed under T. Boone Pickens - BP Capital, Investigations & Law, Billionaire kids
December 10, 2007 8:19 pm

 son of legendary oil investor T. Boone Pickens was sentenced to five years of probation on Monday and ordered to take part in a substance abuse program for orchestrating a ... Read more »

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$100-a-barrel oil just around corner, tycoon predicts

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October 21, 2007 11:53 pm

Legendary Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone Pickens sees the price of oil hitting $100 a barrel perhaps as soon as the fourth quarter but certainly sometime next year, a ... Read more »

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