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                                                                    Exhibit 24.1


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints Mikel D. Faulkner, Bruce N. Huff, Larry E. Cummings and Gregory S.
Porter, or any of them (with full power of each of them to act alone), his true
and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him
and on his behalf and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities,
to sign, execute and file a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any or all amendments (including
without limitation, post-effective amendments and any amendment or amendments
increasing the amount of securities for which registration is being sought),
with all exhibits and any and all documents required to be filed with respect
thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or any regulatory
authority relating to the registration of 900,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.01
par value, of Harken Energy Corporation and such additional shares of Common
Stock as the holders of "piggy-back" registration rights may request to be
included in such registration statement, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully and to all intents and
purposes as he himself might or could do of personally present, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that the said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any
of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been signed by the following
persons in the capacities indicated as of the 9th day of May, 1997.




NAME                                                CAPACITIES
                                                 
/s/ Mikel D. Faulkner                               Chairman of the Board, Director and
- --------------------------------------              Chief Executive Officer      
Mikel D. Faulkner                                   (Principal Executive Officer)
                                                                                 

/s/ Bruce N. Huff                                   Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
- --------------------------------------              Officer and Director                        
Bruce N. Huff                                       (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
                                                                                                

/s/  Richard H. Schroeder                           President, Chief Operating Officer
- --------------------------------------              and Director
Richard H. Schroeder                                            




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/s/ Michael M. Ameen, Jr.                           Director
- --------------------------------------
Michael M. Ameen, Jr.

                                                    Director
- --------------------------------------
Michael R. Eisenson

                                                    Director
- --------------------------------------
Hobart A. Smith

/s/ Donald W. Raymond                               Director
- --------------------------------------
Donald W. Raymond

/s/ Gary B. Wood                                    Director
- --------------------------------------
Gary B. Wood