Jerry Benton,  born in 1944, began in the oil industry during summers off from high school in Houma. He worked offshore for a contract company and was injured in an accident when a Halliburton truck was unloading some pipe. After he recovered in 1964, he went to work for his father at Benton Casing. In the mid-1990's, he opened his own tubing business called Benton Completion which he still runs.