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Roy Michael Huffington (October 4, 1917 – July 11, 2008) [1] was an American oilman originally from Tomball in Harris County, Texas, who later served as United States Ambassador to Austria. [1] Early career. Huffington was born in Tomball, Texas.
Jul 17, 2008 · Roy M. Huffington, an independent oilman who defied oil industry precedent by signing an unusually generous deal with Indonesia, made a fortune on natural gas there, then became United States...
Jul 13, 2008 · Houston philanthropist and businessman Roy M. Huffington, who started his career as a geologist for the Humble Oil Company and went on to serve as an ambassador to Austria, has died. He was 90.
Jul 14, 2008 · Roy M. Huffington, an oilman who played a major role in developing Indonesia's oil and natural gas sector and later served as a U.S. ambassador to Austria, has died. He...
Roy M. Huffington, a Houston oilman who played a major role in developing Indonesia’s oil and gas fields and who served as ambassador to Austria during the George H.W. Bush administration, died...
Roy M. Huffington’s journey into the oil and gas industry is a particularly interesting one. The son of an oil rigger and a home maker, Huffington was not a stranger to hardship. He lost his father at the age of 16 to an oil mining accident in Venezuela.
In 1956, Huffington left Humble to start his own business with the money he had saved over the previous decade. Roy M. Huffington, Inc. or “Huffco.” made a number of successful ventures around the world, most notably the discovery of vast reserves of natural gas in Indonesia in 1972.
