THE EXPORT BATTLE WON

摘要

When we last conduc-ted a formal interview with Continental Resources Inc. chairman and CEO Harold Hamm, in 2011, the Williston Basin was becoming a hotbed of drilling. Hamm was talking up the basin's virtues to North Dakota regulators, congressmen and anyone else who would listen, insisting that the Bak-ken and Three Forks plays were going to be much bigger than anyone thought. Production was going to triple in size, he said, and soon, more infrastructure would be urgently needed, especially pipelines to the Texas coast and man camps to house hundreds of workers.