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OPEC to Trump Adviser: No Chance
Energy adviser wants a favor from a group he just called irrelevant.
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Energy adviser to Donald Trump, CEO of Continental Resources, Harold Hamm has history with OPEC.
Back in 1999, he led a group of independent U.S. oil producers calling on the government to impose duties of as much as 240 percent on crude oil imports from a number of OPEC countries, and Mexico too, for good measure. He claimed the producers were selling their oil in the U.S. at unfairly low prices: WTI crude oil had fallen to as little as $10.35 a barrel in December 1998.