Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/tag/harold-hamm/)
From board rooms to drilling rigs, much of the U.S. fossil fuel industry has been counting down the days until President Barack Obama turns over the keys of the White House. Donald Trump doesn’t officially take the wheel of the nation’s energy policy until January 20th, but Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry says its prospects have already improved under the President-elect.
Donald Trump is wooing energy interests with support for oil and gas development, a rollback of federal regulations and a promise to bring back coal. His chief energy advisors are well-known in energy circles: North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer and Harold Hamm of Continental Resources.
Oil tycoon Harold Hamm told the Republican National Convention that Trump will make America energy independent.
For a week each year, energy executives from around the globe as well as top government officials descend on Houston for the annual IHS CERAWeek conference, which drew to a close last Friday.The meeting was a chance for these leaders to grapple with a change few could have predicted at the same event a year earlier.
