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🛢️ Millionaire of the Week: Mark Hiduke

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Good morning, here's what the OilPatch Team has for you today:

Millionaire of the Week: Mark Hiduke

The acquisition wiz

When Mike Hiduke graduated from Southern Methodist University, his career goal was investment banking.

As luck would have it, the timing couldn’t be worse.

It was 2008, the global financial crisis was in full swing and investment banking wasn’t hot.

At all.

So after a short stint as a financial analyst, Hiduke took a job with Pioneer Natural Resources.

In their asset acquisitions division.

It was during his time with Pioneer that he noticed something.

There was a lot of small-scale acreage being sold…

And it was getting ignored by the big fish in the oil pond.

But it wasn’t ignored by Hiduke.

The private equity start

Hiduke got his start with $100 million in funding from NGP.

With the money, he set up a firm called PCORE.

The firm’s specialty: buying up small leases in order to flip them quickly and make a profit.

At the time, Hiduke boasted a threefold return on investment for his backers.

And oil prices were trending down at the time.

It could have something to do with the acreage flipped being in the Permian.

That strong start led to PCORE II.

That enterprise got $200 million from NGP.

It still focused on the Permian.

And it kept making money.

It was only a matter of time before Hiduke got into drilling.

A million barrels of oil

HOG Resources was set up in 2019.

In 2023, HOG Resources raised close to $53 million from investors.

That’s what happens when you know what you’re doing.

Last year, Hiduke wrote on LinkedIn that HOG had hit the milestone of 1 million barrels.

Just two years after it sold its first barrel, back in 2022.

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“No rich people thought there was any safe way of getting 8% if you go back to 1880 among the rich people of England.”

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Trump Takes Aim at DoE Transition Loans

The Trump admin is considering ways to cancel billions in transition loans.

A lot of these were handed out in a rush last year after the November election.

We’re talking close to $40 billion in last-minute loans.

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