Endeavor’s Autry Stephens Is Richest US Oilman After Diamondback Deal

  • Texas driller agrees to sell for $26 billion in cash and stock
  • Sale would make him 64th richest on Bloomberg’s wealth list
Autry Stephens in 2014.Photographer: Brittany Sowacke/Bloomberg  
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Over the past six decades, Autry Stephens has worn nearly every hat in the oil industry, from trucker to driller to engineer.

Now he’s poised to don the crown of America’s richest oil tycoon.