NDTV | Oil Firms Borrowed Billions. Now They're Getting Burned. NDTV TILDEN, Texas: He'd borrowed from banks and investors and retirement funds, all in a frenzied mission to drill for oil and gas, and by the time Terry Swift realized he'd gone too far, this was his debt: $1.349 billion. His company, founded by his ... The end of the US oil boom, told through one Texas company's bust |