Profil Financier
Farris Wilks occupe actuellement le rang #2013 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur Énergie). Fortune nette estimée : $2.1 B (-$226 sur 24h).
Farris and his brother Dan got a combined $3.5 billion (pretax) in 2011 selling their fracking company to a group led by Singapore-based firm Temasek.
The brothers have acquired more than 672,000 acres of land in six different states across the West, becoming America's 12th-largest landowners.
The brothers began their careers as stone masons, like their father, founding Wilks Masonry in 1995.
In 2002 they went into fracking, launching Frac Tech and growing it into an oil and natural gas giant before cashing out less than a decade later.
The brothers are also investing in oil and gas businesses, including fracking company U.S. Well Services and data provider Dawson Geophysical Company.
Farris Wilks is the pastor of his own church, the Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day Church, near Cisco, Texas.
Farris Wilks and his brother are active Republican donors.