Harold Hamm & family

Chairman and CEO, Continental Resources
REAL TIME NET WORTH
$8.7B
as of 8/23/19
  • Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm runs Continental Resources, one of the nation's biggest independent oil companies.
  • The 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers, he picked cotton barefoot as a child and started working at a gas station at age 16 to support his family.
  • 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 US oil industry.
  • Today Continental produces more than 200,000 barrels per day, much of it from North Dakota's Bakken formation.
  • Hamm, who has type-2 diabetes, has donated about $30 million to establish the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at the University of Oklahoma.
Stats
Age73
Source of Wealthoil & gas, Self Made
ResidenceOklahoma City, Oklahoma
CitizenshipUnited States
Marital StatusDivorced
Children5
EducationDiploma, High School
Did you know
When Hamm divorced his wife of 26 years in late 2014, he wrote her a check for nearly $975 million in cash.
Hamm served as an informal energy advisor to Donald Trump during his presidential campaign and spoke on Trump's behalf at the RNC Convention.
Net worth over time
$18.7B
Forbes 400
September 2014
$12.2B
Billionaires
March 2015
$7.4B
Forbes 400
September 2015
$5.1B
Billionaires
March 2016
$13.1B
Forbes 400
October 2016
$13.3B
Billionaires
March 2017
$11B
Forbes 400
October 2017
$14.1B
Billionaires
March 2018
$17.2B
Forbes 400
October 2018
$12.7B
Billionaires
March 2019

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