Fact: Arkansas is the world's leading producer of bromine at around 40%.
It'd been frustrating in his big oil days, to have to deal with the brine that came up to be disposed as a byproduct. He was hallway through dumping it when his scientists stopped him with a firm hand. It was gold, nearly, they insisted. They showed him all that he called garbage could create.
And now he processed and harvested it by the ton. It, and by extension he, helped run the world and protect it from danger.
It was, he supposed, just a bit cooler than just pulling up oil. That wasn't bad at all for a by-product.