Mark Hiduke recently raised $100 million to build his three-week-old company. The 27-year-old isn't a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur. He's a Texas oilman. Now that a breakthrough in shale drilling technology has U.S. oil and gas production booming, an aging workforce is welcoming a new generation of wildcatters, engineers, and aspiring oil barons. After years of failing to attract and retain young talent, the industry is suddenly brimming with upstart mil-lennials such as Hiduke-oil and gas veterans call it "the great crew change." "I've never seen an industry do what the oil and gas industry has done in the last 10 years," says T. Boone Pickens, the 86-year-old oilman. "Ten years ago I could not have made this statement that you have picked the right career."
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