Without U.S. shale gas, a lot of Europeans would have frozen to death last winter after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, says America's richest oil man.
, America’s richest oil man, started life as the youngest of 13 siblings, picked cotton barefoot on an Oklahoma farm, and became obsessed with prospecting for black gold after writing a high school term paper on oil. Over the next six decades, Hamm, 77, built up Continental Resources into what is now the largest privately owned oil and gas operation in the U.S., making Hamm and his family worth $17 billion.
Hamm sat down to talk about it with Forbes senior editor Chris Helman at his Oklahoma City headquarters.
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