石油大亨布恩·皮肯斯去世，享年91岁

石油大亨布恩·皮肯斯去世，享年91岁

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens, the one-time wildcat Texas oil prospector who built an energy empire during a 65-year career, and whose personality was as outsized as the state he called home, died Wednesday at 91.

亿万富翁T·布恩·皮肯斯(T. Boone Pickens)周三去世，享年91岁。皮肯斯曾是德克萨斯州的野猫石油勘探者，在65年的职业生涯中，建立了一个能源帝国。

The energy industry pioneer, philanthropist and hedge fund magnate whose boardroom brawls, corporate raiding and oil booms and busts became the stuff of legend, died of natural causes surrounded by friends and family, spokesman Jay Rosser said in a statement from Pickens's foundation.

发言人Jay Rosser在皮肯斯基金会的一份声明中说，这位能源行业先驱、慈善家和对冲基金巨头在朋友和家人的陪伴下自然离世。

The "oracle of oil" vaulted to prominence in the 1980s, along with other brass-knuckles corporate titans such as Carl Icahn.

20世纪80年代，这位“石油之神”与卡尔•伊坎(Carl Icahn)等其他重量级企业巨头一起声名鹊起。

Pickens made the cover of Time Magazine in 1985 as a "corporate raider" after his Mesa Petroleum bought shares in Gulf Oil and began pressuring the company to restructure itself and boost shareholder returns.

皮肯斯于1985年登上《时代》杂志封面，当时他的梅萨石油公司购买了海湾石油公司的股票，并开始向该公司施压，要求其进行重组，提高股东回报。

As a young man, Pickens worked for Phillips Petroleum before striking out on his own, using 2,500 U.S. dollars of borrowed money to launch Petroleum Exploration Inc.

皮肯斯年轻时曾在菲利普斯石油公司(Phillips Petroleum)工作，后来自立门户，用借来的2,500美元创办了石油勘探公司(Petroleum Exploration Inc.)。

It was a predecessor company to Mesa Petroleum, which he took public in 1964 and built into one of the country's largest independent oil and gas firms.

它就是梅萨石油公司的前身，梅萨石油于1964年上市，并成为美国最大的独立油气公司之一。

Pickens founded BP Capital when he was in his late 60s in 1997 and rode the fund to great riches in oil and gas price movements.

皮肯斯在1997年60多岁时，创立了英国石油资本公司(bp capital)，并利用该基金在石油和天然气价格变动中，获得了巨大的财富。