Harold Hamm & family
$16.0B
Born
Dec 11, 1945
Age
80
Source of Wealth
Oil & gas
Residence
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Divorced
Children
5
Education
Diploma, High School
- Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm founded and chairs Continental Resources, one of the nation's biggest independent oil companies.
- The 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers, Hamm's earliest memory is picking tomatoes with his bare feet in red Oklahoma dirt.
- He eventually started his own trucking company hauling water to and from oilfields, then in 1971 took out a loan to drill his first well.
- In the 1990s he had the vision to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in North Dakota's Bakken region, transforming the U.S. oil industry.
- Hamm's new oil exploration venture is in Turkey, in partnership with Malone Mitchell at TransAtlantic Petroleum.
- When Hamm divorced his wife of 26 years in late 2014, he wrote her a settlement check for nearly $975 million.
- Hamm took Continental private in a 2022 LBO and divvied up ownership among his children.
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