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Alaska wildcatter Jim White dies: fierce property rights defender
Steve Sutherlin
Petroleum News
James (Jim) Wynn White, independent oilman and Alaskan wildcatter, died Jan. 22 in Houston, Texas, at the age of 90. White was owner of Alaskan Crude Corp.
White moved his family to Kenai, Alaska, in 1968, working first for Unocal at its new fertilizer plant in Nikiski, before setting out into various business ventures in the Kenai area.
In the mid-1970s, White opened Copper Valley Machine Works, a machine shop in Glennallen, to serve the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, according to his son and fellow oilman, James A. White.