Harold Hamm explains why his industry just can’t get any respect. The following is a condensed and edited interview with Harold Hamm, CEO, Continental Resources. Photographer: Jonno Rattman for Bloomberg Businessweek Domestic crude supplies have almost doubled. Do you feel Americans appreciate what your industry has done? It’s hard to miss the benefits of what’s happened as a result of the oil and gas renaissance. A lot of people didn’t expect it—particularly those environmentalists that would stop all fossil fuel production. The industry has been forced to reckon with efficiencies in the face of lower prices. How much more efficient are Continental and its competitors today? When horizontal drilling began in the 1980s, one well would take the place of 18. So one surface location would take the place of 18 locations on the surface—a tremendously more efficient situation. What has given us this energy renaissance in America is […]