Harold Hamm’s Continental Expands Push Into Vaca Muerta (2)

Billionaire Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources reached an agreement to buy assets in Argentina from Pan American Energy, expanding its push into the Vaca Muerta shale basin.

The Oklahoma City-based company agreed to buy non-operating interests in four blocks from Pan American, according to a statement Monday. Terms were not disclosed.

Hamm, a significant donor to President Donald Trump, was one of the earliest champions of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing that led to the US shale revolution. Those same techniques are key to developing Vaca Muerta. In November, Continental signed a deal to buy assets in the Vaca Muerta ...