How To Use Wildcatter In A Sentence
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I’ve never been able to figure out whether a wildcatter is a special breed of man… or just a fool.
Wildcatter’s Woman
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Wildcatters, then hard-charging, daring frontiersmen, sought oil anywhere they found a seep or in places others wouldn't dare, such as hillsides.
Small oil drillers say new rules threaten wildcatters' survival
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An oil wildcatter raised by an oil wildcatter, he moved into the railroad business in the early 1980s and made billions by laying fiber-optic cable along his Southern Pacific Railroad track and purchasing Qwest Communications.
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The map looked like something a wildcatter might use—not to drill for oil but to barrel Riesling and Cabernet Franc.
Paper or Plastic? Wine by the Box, Keg and Can
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If a prospector finds a new gold mine or the wildcatter brings in a rich oil well, the probability of other prospectors and wildcatters making equally valuable finds diminishes, however slightly.
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Part wildcatter, part deal-maker, the 64-year-old executive has a track record of building up oil and gas exploration companies from scratch, taking them public and selling them for a premium, having done so twice prior to Thursday's deal.
Deal Is Coup for Petrohawk's Chief
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After years languishing in the backwaters of the world's stock markets, the wildcatters are back in business.
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Kali Bose is a wildcatter - an investor with an eye on promising new areas.
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He's a wildcatter, taking over an old mine whose riches are mostly gone.
Chile Mine Collapse Highlights Safety Risks
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It is the reason why the wildcatter, the independent oilman whose test drillings might come up dry 20 times before gushing in the end, is an enduring Texas symbol.
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Uncle Drew, a wildcatter from Oklahoma, swirled his very wet tongue in his very wet mouth.
Three Stages of Amazement
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Mr. Lane, who started out in journalism helping compile Forbes magazine's billionaire scorecards, is an ingenuous narrator who likes to remind the reader that he was essentially a schlump living in a fourth-floor walkup while his glossies burnished the egos and tweaked the appetites of Wall Street's new wildcatters.
Published and Perished
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Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.
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Part wildcatter, part deal-maker, the 64-year-old executive has a track record of building up oil and gas exploration companies from scratch, taking them public and selling them for a premium, having done so twice prior to Thursday's deal.
Deal Is Coup for Petrohawk's Chief
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Big Oil now acts more like a risk-averse bank than a wildcatter, following Wall Street dictates on cash flow instead of Texas traditions of risk-taking.
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In 1920 she moved to Los Angeles with her third husband who worked as a wildcatter in the oil industry.
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Oil people loved stories about wildcatters betting everything on a single well.
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Independents - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical wildcatter - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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The term "wildcatter" generally refers to a person or company that drills oil wells in areas not known to be oil fields, indicating that many of the companies included in this fund maintain speculative, risky operations.
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