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U.S. crude oil production is not expected to rise much next year from the current levels of around 8.6 million bpd, energy mogul Harold Hamm said at the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum on Thursday. If the United States were to go all out with oil production, it could probably double to 20 million barrels per day, according to Hamm, but that it would be “foolish for us to do that” precisely because it would create an oversupply. Hamm called the OPEC deal that lifted prices wise on their part, but that OPEC’s previous attempt to out-stay and...

Mr. Hamm was one of the pioneers of this method in the 1990s, and it has done for the oil industry what hydraulic fracturing has done for natural gas drilling in places like the Marcellus Shale in the Northeast. Both innovations have unlocked decades worth of new sources of domestic fossil fuels that previously couldn't be extracted at affordable cost. Mr. Hamm's rags to riches success is the quintessential "only in America" story. He was the last of 13 kids, growing up in rural Oklahoma "the son of sharecroppers who never owned land." He didn't have money to go to...

Industry experts may disagree on the EXACT number of recoverable barrels of oil that lie beneath the Bakken. But they do agree, it has to be in the BILLIONS. There are about 170 rigs drilling in North Dakota and oil tycoon Harold Hamm says that number is expected to rise. Although, that's not the only increase that will take place. They decorate the horizon in much of western North Dakota....a touch of scenery ...but more importantly the icon of energy development in our state (Harold Hamm/Continental Resources, CEO) "In total development in the Bakken we see about 48000 wells, of...

To: National Desk Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-289-5792 WASHINGTON, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement today on the shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Friday: "Our prayers go out to the victims of gun violence in Seattle and their families. To the family of the victim who died, we express our deepest condolences. To the victims who are struggling to recover, we offer our hopes for a full recovery. "This terrible attack appears to have been launched...

CLINTON, Ill. - The rescuers arrived at Clinton Lake that September evening to find a car submerged in the water and a mother screaming from the shoreline, her boyfriend by her side. Investigators said it took only a minute or two to pull three children from the back seat, but it was too late. Six-year-old Christopher Hamm and his half brother, 3-year-old Austin Brown, were pronounced dead at a Clinton hospital a few minutes later. Kyleigh Hamm, 23 months, was flown to a Peoria hospital where she died the next day.

Mrs. Nomar Garciaparra -- that would be soccer star Mia Hamm -- was a military brat who grew up all over the USA, but California seems like home these days. Hubby is from Fontana and her dad lives here as well. She also has a political side. Look for her to add some of the glitter from her Olympics gold to fund-raisers for Golden State Democrats. They don't want her to contribute cash. They want her to show-up at those fund-raisers and draw soccer moms back onto the Democratic bench. ...

Why are so many people up in arms about the questionable judging at the Olympics? OK, an American won a gold medal because the "experts" judging the event didn't give the right score to a South Korean. Are you surprised? I'm not. It's typical. Blame the American. Make men's all-around champion Paul Hamm give back his medal. Don't blame the judges, blame the American. That's what the International Gymnastics Federation wants to have happen. These aren't your Jim McKay-hosted Olympics anymore. The feel-good times of the Games are gone. From the top of the International Olympic Committee on down to...

Should Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Paul Hamm surrender his disputed gold medal, or keep it?

This thread is to debate whether Paul Hamm should keep his gold medal. I am putting up another thread for those who wish to join me in sending him a message of congratulations.

Not as Good as GoldPublished: August 24, 2004 e were among those thrilled at the astonishing come-from-behind heroics of the American gymnast Paul Hamm in the men's gymnastics all-around competition at the Olympic Games last week. Mr. Hamm, who had been favored to win a gold medal, looked as if he had blown it when he stumbled and fell off the mat in the vaulting event, dropping him to 12th place. But in the final two events, the parallel bars and the high bar, he earned stunning marks that, when coupled with faltering performances by some leading competitors, propelled him...

Let me be clear here, since some self-righteous columnists who wouldn't know a handstand from a night stand have entered the fray: Paul Hamm should not give up his gold medal. Nor is his gold medal tarnished, as the headline writers have suggested. Nor should a second gold medal in the men's all-around competition be awarded to South Korea's unfortunate Yang Tae Young. This is not another Skategate, where judges in the pairs competition in Salt Lake were caught colluding. It's time for the media to back off.

this guy is right on.... the Koreans always whine.

ATHENS, Greece - Paul Hamm had his golden moment, and he grabbed it like a starving wolf latching onto a lamb chop. And now he has a golden opportunity, worth a lifetime of moments, and if he doesn’t grab it right now, it will be gone forever.

Hamm: I thought the gold's gone for sure   By Seth Wickersham ESPN The Magazine   ATHENS, Greece -- Hamm? No, Hamm was out of it. Everyone knew. The American had just taken his chance at a gold medal and tossed it like a stone into the Mediterranean, stumbling off the vault like a man stepping on his own shoe lace, nearly falling onto the judges' table the way basketball players do when trying to save a loose ball. His hopes were hopeless. Sure, Paul Hamm had pulled an Elway before, coming back from a separated shoulder last year to...