John Fredriksen net worth: John Fredriksen is a Norwegian-Cypriot oil and shipping magnate who has a net worth of $11.3 billion. Born in Oslo to a welder father, Fredriksen started his career in a ship-broking company and at the age of 27 he started working for himself. He first began trading oil in the 1960s in Beirut, then he went on to buy his first tankers in the 1970s, ran crude oil for Iran in the 1980s, and in the 1990s, with Frontline Ltd., he made a name for himself as the king of the tanker trade. In addition to the above, John has main interests in the offshore driller SeaDrill, the fish farming company Marine Harvest and the dry bulk company Golden Ocean Group, as well as the supply vessel company Deep Sea Supply. John Fredriksen was Norway's richest man until he decided to abandon his Norwegian citizenship for tax-haven Cyprus. The man who was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine in 2012, runs the world's largest oil tanker fleet from his mansion in London and he spend his days off in Marbella. John is widowed and has two children.
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