re: A&M, Florida, Missouri, Georgia, and Arkansas are the Big 5....Top 25

Also Mississippi is about to get in on the oil game. Maybe all that "old money" that Ole Miss claims to have will finally turn in to real money.

Aren't most of those finds natural gas? My grandfather has property in that region that has potential.

Per Forbes.com List:

Arkansas
17 Jim Walton 15.9B
19 S Robson Walton 15.8B
21 Helen Walton 15.6B
645 Winthrop Rockefeller 1.2B

48.5B Total

Texas
12 Michael Dell 17.1B
20 Alice Walton 15.7B
100 Dan Duncan 6.0B
129 Robert Rowling 4.8B
147 Henry Perot 4.3B
200 Robert Bass 3.4B
278 Harold Simmons 2.6B
292 Ray Hunt 2.5B
317 Richard Kinder 2.4B
317 George Mitchell 2.4B
335 Richard Rainwater 2.3B
350 Charles Butt 2.2B
428 Lee Bass 1.8B
428 Mark Cuban 1.8B
428 Fayez Sarofim 1.8B
486 E Marshall 1.6B
512 Gerald Ford 1.5B
512 Tracy Krohn 1.5B
512 T Pickens 1.5B
562 Sid Bass 1.4B
562 Joseph Jamail Jr 1.4B
562 Robert McNair 1.4B
606 Christopher Goldsbury 1.3B
606 Donald Horton 1.3B
645 Edward Bass 1.2B
645 Billy Joe (Red) McCombs 1.2B
645 Robert McLane Jr 1.2B
698 Jerral Jones 1.1B
698 Kenny Troutt 1.1B
746 Perry Bass 1.0B
746 Anne Windfohr Marion 1.0B
746 Todd Wagner 1.0B
746 Samuel Wyly 1.0B

93.3B Total

50 Texans make Forbes' list of world's richest people


edited: HA! see that I was beaten to it

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Aren't most of those finds natural gas? My grandfather has property in that region that has potential.

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In the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale? Or in the Eagleford? The oil windows are the focus in both at the moment. They both have natural gas, but natural gas it too cheap at the moment to even try and drill them.

Missouri
100 Jack Taylor 6.0B
278 Ann Walton Kroenke 2.6B
350 Nancy Walton Laurie 2.2B
451 E Kroenke 1.7B
645 Pauline MacMillan Keinath 1.2B

12B Total

Florida
52 John Kluge 9B
94 Micky Arison 6.1B
214 Maurice Greenberg 3.2B
365 H Huizenga 2.1B
382 Peter Lewis 2B
382 Robert E (Ted) Turner 2B
428 S Daniel Abraham 1.8B
512 Fred DeLuca 1.5B
512 James France 1.5B
512 William France Jr 1.5B
512 George Lindemann & family 1.5B
512 Arthur Williams Jr 1.5B
562 Edward Debartolo Jr 1.4B
562 James Moran 1.4B
562 Albert Ueltschi 1.4B
606 Malcolm Glazer 1.3B
645 Harvey Chaplin & family 1.2B
645 Phillip Frost 1.2B
645 John MacMillan III 1.2B
645 William Morean 1.2B
645 Jorge Perez 1.2B
698 Edmund Ansin 1.1B
698 Charlotte Colket Weber 1.1B

47.4B Total

Georgia
29 Anne Cox Chambers 12.4B
350 Bernard Marcus 2.2B
606 Arthur Blank 1.3B
698 Jesse Robinson 1.1B

17B Total

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In Mississippi.

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That would be the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. Goodrich Petroleum has a well from Wilkinson County, Mississippi peak production was 527 BOE(bbl of oil equivalent) Comprising 500 bbl of oil and 174 Mcf of gas.

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I don't know where you got these numbers but I personally know the granddaughter of a Mississippi multi-billionaire

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Forbes... I trust them more than the friend of an unnamed multi-billionaire from a lolpoor state. The cotton trade stopped being lucrative a century ago but someone forgot to tell Ole Miss.

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not unnamed, his name is Leslie Lampton, founder and CEO of Ergon, Inc

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Not a billionaire anymore.

According to Forbes, Lampton was worth $1B in 2011. Since he was on the million/billion bubble at that point, it very conceivably could've changed since then.

edited -- DAMN. Late again. I'll just keep my slow comments to myself.