US hopes for energy independence through fracking are vulnerable to supply decisions made in Saudi Arabia and now Iran
He’d spent years touting his vision that America would one day dominate one of the world’s most powerful markets. And when Harold Hamm, a pioneer in discovering vast reserves of shale oil under American soil, took the stage in front of several hundred oil luminaries, he never acknowledged that the narrative was in doubt.
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