Business Career
Nelson Bunker Hunt played a very significant role in the discovery and development of the oil fields in Libya, which would later be nationalized by Muammar al-Gaddafi.
He owns the Dallas, Texas based Titan Resources Corp, which is involved in the exploration of oil in North Africa. He is chairman of Hunt Exploration and Mining Company (HEMCO).
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