ويليام مايرون كيك

ويليام مايرون كيك  هو رائد أعمال أمريكي، ولد في 27 أبريل 1880، وتوفي في 20 أغسطس 1964 في مقاطعة لوس أنجلوس في الولايات المتحدة."Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic", Kevin Krajick, Open Road Media, Feb 2, 2016. Quote: "This was Howard Keck. Keck was not just any Houston oil billionaire; his father had been William Keck, the world's greatest oil prospector, a man whose instincts about the location of petroleum were so uncanny, some believed him clairvoyant. Starting as a penniless roustabout, he rose in the 1920s to found the Superior Oil Company. He pioneered deep offshore drilling, was first to find commercial deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, and practically ran the oil-rich nation of Venezuela. Even in his later years, when a drilling rig brought up a slimy core, old man Keck sniffed and tasted the rock to gauge the prospect." "Wildcatters: A Story of Texans, Oil, and Money", Sally Helgesen, page 175, Quote: Keck started Superior after he made one of the biggest streaks of the 1920s, in California's Kettleman hills. William Keck then became one of the first oilmen to move his business to Houston, which at the time was not much more than an inadequately drained malarial swamp.William Keck was known throughout the company he had created as "the Old Man," and people called him that until the day he died. His character was strong and some said it was mean. His political views were fiercely conservative, but he was nimble and innovative when it came to doing business. He was the first independent to drill offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, and year after year he set records for the deepest-drilled well. He gambled on a big scale and earned Superior the epithet it still carries today, that of being "the Cadillac of the oil business." William Keck ran his company like a one-man machine, and he retained control of the stock even after it went public. 

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تصنيف:أشخاص من كوالينغا (كاليفورنيا)
تصنيف:أصحاب أعمال أمريكيون في صناعة النفط
تصنيف:أمريكيون من أصل ألماني
تصنيف:فاعلو خير أمريكيون
تصنيف:مواليد 1880
تصنيف:وفيات 1964