Continental chief Harold Hamm tipped for energy secretary role as country takes stock of result.
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The US oil and gas industry is preparing to navigate uncharted waters after Republican candidate Donald Trump won an upset victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election earlier this week. Experts predict a period of uncertainty as the new administration’s policies are tightened and provided to federal agencies. “There is surely uncertainty for our country,” Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio said on a Baker Hostetler webinar Wednesday morning. “We’ll see what Donald Trump does to reassure people.

We don’t know much about his appointments, we don’t know much about what he means to his new party.” In the immediate aftermath of his crushing victory, Trump, who at press time appeared to have won 279 electoral college votes, against the 270 needed, sought to allay fears surrounding the division and unpredictability that has marked his campaign.

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