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To: grania

Anyone know this Ham fellow he referred to several times?


10 posted on 05/27/2016 4:04:10 AM PDT by lilypad
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To: lilypad

Harold Hamm from Oklahoma.Rags to riches story in oil.one of the earliest developers of the horizontal drilling concept.Accumulated early on the most “leased” mineral acres to develope in ND. Gave the commencement address at University of ND a year or two ago.Been a top notch oilman in ND. Was worth according Wall Street Journal 16 to 17 billion dollars when his wife sued him for divorce at the height of the oil boom. She ended up with $900 million. Not sure of the appeals process end result.


14 posted on 05/27/2016 5:06:51 AM PDT by nodakkid
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To: lilypad

He was on the cover of Forbes describing his quest from near nothingness to great success as an oil man

An American success story


16 posted on 05/27/2016 8:09:24 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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