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Raymond Plank (May 29, 1922 – November 8, 2018) was the founder and Chairman of Apache Corporation. He led Apache from a small oil and gas concern to a conglomerate with interests in energy, commercial real estate, agriculture, manufacturing and telecommunications, then divested its non-energy assets to concentrate exclusively on oil and gas exploration and production. Under Plank’s leadership Apache expanded its oil and gas operations internationally and built the company from its original 250,000capitalizationtoamarketcapitalizationofover250,000 capitalization to a market capitalization of over 250,000capitalizationtoamarketcapitalizationofover30 billion.Plank invented the Master Limited Partnership and made it a personal and company mission to expose corruption at Enron and within the energy merchant trading sector.