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Wildcatter meaning
Someone who drills for oil speculatively. | A worker who participates in a wildcat strike. | A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them.
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It took the family of wildcatter H.L. Hunt 50 years to win their second Super Bowl.
The list of shale companies struggling with debt includes Whiting Petroleum Corp. and Chesapeake Energy Corp., a fracking pioneer co-founded by the late wildcatter Aubrey McClendon.
The Oklahoma City-based shale pioneer, co-founded by late wildcatter Aubrey McClendon, submitted the Chapter 11 filing in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, according to a company statement.
In Hugo Fregonese 's action adventure film Blowing Wild (1953) with Barbara Stanwyck, he plays a wildcatter in Mexico who gets involved with an oil company executive and his unscrupulous wife with whom he once had an affair.