Zapata Company Description
Zapata Corporation is working at the art of...well, doing nothing. In the last two decades, Zapata has gone from pumping oil out of the ground to wringing it out of fish to fishing for new opportunities. Co-founded by former President George H. W. Bush as an oil and gas company in 1953, Zapata sold its energy businesses in the 1990s and became a producer of marine protein through its holdings in Omega Protein. Omega's facilities, which produced fish meal and fish oil products used as ingredients in animal feed and human food, suffered major hurricane damage in 2005. Zapata sold Omega the next year. In early 2009, the firm was considering new investments, but has had no ongoing business enterprises since 2006.
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