WILLISTON BASIN PETROLEUM CONFERENCE: Talking to Two Titans in the Oil Patch

摘要

When billionaire oil man Harold Hamm travels to North Dakota to visit one of his favorite shale plays in the Bakken, he is sure to take a rifle and one of his favorite dogs. If prompted, Hamm will talk about his hunt-I ing dog and the litter of pups it recently fathered that "all look just like his beagle retriever." When he isn't hunting pheasant with folks like Ron Ness, CEO of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, Hamm and the company he founded, Continental Resources Inc., are hunting for oil and gas in the Bakken and other unconventional basins in his native Oklahoma, the Rockies and elsewhere. The thirteenth child of a sharecropper, Hamm in his youth picked cotton barefoot, worked in a gas station at age 16 to help support his family, and eventually with a high school diploma in hand started his own trucking company hauling water in the oilfields of Oklahoma before drilling his first well in 1971 with a loan he acquired at age 25.