Continental Resources' Harold Hamm Leads effort to pursue anti-dumping case against Sudia Arabia, Russia
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The Domestic Energy Producers Alliances is petitioning the United States to pursue an anti-dumping case against Saudi Arabia and Russia for oil price manipulation after a price war erupted between the two countries Friday of last week. 

DEPA is a national collaboration of 34 coalition associations that represents 10,000 individuals and companies engaged in domestic onshore and natural gas exploration and production. Its chairman is Harold Hamm, who is also the Executive Director of Continental Resources, a top producer in the Bakke.

DEPA's anti-dumping petition would seek an anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigation into crude oil price manipulation by Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other involved countries. It will be filed with the United States Department of Commerce and the United States International Trade Commission.

Hamm said the petition is necessary given recent actions by Saudi Arabia and Russia to increase their supply of crude oil at prices below market value, resulting in material injury to the U.S. domestic crude oil industry. 

"This is a direct attack on U.S. oil and gas producers" he said. "They are taking advantage of this coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the world to focus on this industry and to devastate it. These actions warrant the imposition of anit-dumping and/or countervailing duties on crude oil imported to the United States from these countries. Saudi Arabia's and Russia's actions have already, and will continue to harm U.S. domestic crude oil producers and industry."

It's now the second time in five years that Saudi Arabia, an OPEC member, has tried to eliminate oil and gas competitors by keeping global prices very low. In this case, Saudi Arabia announced it would not only cuts its crude oil prices to Europe and Asia - markets of particular importance to Russia - but ramp up its production 2 million barrels per day after Russia refused to agree to production cuts of 1.5 million barrels per day.

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