Drea Knufken
If there’s an oil tanker or drilling rig on the ocean, chances are good that John Fredriksen owns it. His massive oil tanker fleet includes natural gas shipping company Golar and the 80-odd crude tanker fleet run by Frontline, which his website claims is the world’s largest.
The ocean magnate also has major stakes in international offshore drilling ship company SeaDrill, farmed fish company Marine Harvest, oil tanker giant Overseas Shipholding Group, and dry bulk shipper Golden Ocean. Although not as dramatic and public as Aristotle Onassis was, Fredriksen, whose shipping empire is big-to-bigger than Aristotle’s, but whose drama seems limited to forsaking his Norwegian citizenship in favor of a Cypriot one, has been compared.
