Raymond Plank, former CEO of oil explorer Apache, dies at 96

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Raymond Plank, who started oil and gas producer Apache Corp in 1954 with two friends and built the Houston-based company into a global energy company and financial innovator, died on Thursday in Wyoming at 96, his family said. Plank, a World War Two bomber pilot and graduate of Yale, began as a bookkeeper and tax advisor in Minneapolis helping wealthy investors with tax shelters in the oil and gas business.Plank's son Roger said in an interview on Friday his father was..