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D CEO Magazine Cover- T Boones Next Big PlayDuring his career, the oft-quoted T. Boone Pickens has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications and on daily business programming on CNBC, CNN, and Fox News. CNBC first coined the term "Oracle of Oil" to reference Pickens and his uncanny accuracy in calling oil price movements. He also has been the cover subject for the following periodicals: Business Week, June 12, 2008; D CEO magazine, June 2008; Philanthropy World, Issue 4 Volume 11; 100 Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century, 2000; Texas Business, September 1996; Investment Dealers’ Digest, December 1988; Ultra, October 1986; Futures, August 1986; Time, March 1985; Business Week, May 1985; Chief Executive, Autumn 1985; Regardie’s, December 1985, Westward, 1984, and Fortune 1983.

T. Boone Pickens In The News: Some Recent Stories of Note

Texas Monthly magazine September 2008
The most famous wildcatter in Texas history is spending $58 million of his own money to promote the Pickens Plan, which proposes massive wind farms (which he’s already building), more reliance on natural gas (which he has a huge stake in), and ways to combat global warming (which loyal Republicans aren’t supposed to believe is real) to break America’s addiction to foreign oil.

D CEO magazine June 2008
In the same way that T. Boone Pickens long has drawn possibility—and oil—from uncharted terrain, he sees potential in the unharnessed currents that kick dust across the Texas plains. 

Forbes Magazine June 2008
T. Boone Pickens gets a brain scan, and Forbes magazine tags along to find out how a billionaire really thinks. 

The Dallas Morning News 05-25-08
T. Boone Pickens' prediction: Oil production is reaching its peak

Fast Company Magazine 05-09-08
Interview with T. Boone Pickens about his interest in renewable energy

The Dallas Morning News 02-27-08
Pickens pledges $10 million to Dallas' Museum

The Dallas Morning News 03-19-08
Pickens and co-honorees practice dining in the dark to benefit Foundation Fighting Blindness 

New York Times 02-23-08
Move Over, Oil, There’s Money in Texas Wind 

Chronicle of Philanthropy  01-15-08
Americans Who Gave the Most in 2007

Motley Fool 12-31-07
10 Who Affected Energy Most in 2007

The Dallas Morning News 12-10-07
In Jubilee Park, $6M gift is reason for hope 

The Dallas News 08-02-07
Pickens clears air with trip to China 

The Dallas Morning News 05-17-07
Pickens donates $100 million to Medical Institutions

Playboy Magazine January 2007
Far-ranging interview with T. Boone Pickens

 

 

 


 

 

 
 

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T. Boone Pickens is currently the chairman and CEO of BP Capital, which operates energy focused commodity and equity funds. He is also the largest shareholder in Clean Energy, the largest provider of vehicular natural gas (CNG and LNG) in North America with a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets.