Roy Michael Huffington (October 4, 1917 – July 11, 2008)[1] was an American oilman originally from Tomball in Harris County, Texas, who later served as United States Ambassador to Austria.

In 1966 HUFFCO signed production sharing contract with Pertamina to explore oil in the Kutai Basin of the Mahakam River delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Initially the exploration object was oil, but finally Huffco discovered a giant natural gas reserve in 1972 at Badak Field.

[4][5] He then returned to Houston and resumed the position of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., an independent international oil company.

[1] He and his wife, the former Phyllis Gough, who died in 2003, created the Huffington Center on Aging at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.