George Bishop
$5B
as of 04/17/25
About George Bishop
George Bishop founded oil and gas producer GeoSouthern Energy in 1981.
In one of the biggest scores of the oil boom, GeoSouthern sold its south Texas fields to Devon Energy in 2013 for $6 billion.
In 2015, Bishop redeployed some capital into a shale natural gas play in Louisiana, in a JV with Blackstone Credit called GEP Haynesville.
He sold his stake in GEP Haynesville in 2021, when Southwestern Energy acquired the company for $1.85 billion.
Bishop reportedly owns Chub Cay, a 29-room resort in the Bahamas with a yacht marina that can accommodate up to 160 yachts.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Oil & gasResidence
The Woodlands, TexasMarital status
MarriedBirth date
10/06/37 (age 87)Self-made
self-madeGeorge Bishop’s fortune is worth
83K
troy ounces of gold
77K
median U.S. household
50K
median U.S. income
0.1%
U.S. credit card volume
0.02%
GDP of the United States
0.015%
United States debt
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Bishop endowed the George H. Bishop Scholarship in Geology at Mississippi State University, where he graduated in 1958 with a degree in petroleum geology.
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