Harold Hamm, fracking pioneer, faces career reckoning as Continental Resources slashes output and rips up delivery contracts to survive oil market crash
May 21, 2020 at 12:27 PM EDT
Harold Hamm, the wildcatter who helped usher in the American fracking boom and owns nearly 80% of Continental Resources Inc, lost more than $3 billion in March after Saudi Arabia and Russia triggered a global oil market crash by flooding the world with crude in a poorly timed war for market share.