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Youngest Oil Tycoon Finds Fortune After Washout as Trader
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When he left Midland, Texas, in 1997, Bryan Sheffield didn’t plan on returning. His father and grandfather both had earned their fortunes drilling wells in this flat, dusty landscape, living through oil industry booms and busts. Sheffield aimed for a career in finance.
After earning an undergraduate business degree, he moved to Chicago and traded futures. By his late 20s, he was trading German bonds at an office in Gibraltar and living in a beach town on Spain’s Costa del Sol.