Letters and Comments

Dear Secretary Zinke: The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) submits the following comments in response to the Department of Interior’s (DOI’s) request for public comment on ways to improve implementation of regulatory reform initiatives, policies, and identify regulations for r...

The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) submits the following comments in support of the expeditious review and approval of the Department of Environmental Quality’s 401 Water Quality Certification for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. IPAA submits that the final Environmental ...

The American Petroleum Institute (API), National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), U.S. Oil and Gas Association (USOGA), American Exploration & Production Council (AXPC), International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), Internation...

Dear Administrator Pruitt: The Independent Producers have participated individually or through IPAA in most, if not all, of the rulemakings and associated litigation since the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to revise the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the Oil and Natural...

Dear Ambassador Lighthizer, Secretaries Ross, Tillerson and Mnuchin and Director Cohn: As associations representing millions of small, medium and large companies across every major sector of the U.S. economy employing tens of millions of U.S. workers, we urge that robust market access commitments an...

The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) submits the following comments on the June 2017 Independent Alternatives Analysis of Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipelines, conducted by Dynamic Risk Assessment Systems (Analysis) for the State of Michigan. IPAA represents the companies that drill ...

Dear Leader McConnell and Leader Schumer, As associations representing businesses of all industries, forms, and sizes in all 50 states, we urge the Senate to take expeditious steps to ensure the timely confirmation of qualified pending nominees to administration positions. The slow pace of confirma...

Dear Senator Lankford and Representative Jenkins: We, the undersigned organizations, wish to express our full support for the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act (THERA) of 2017. This important bill builds upon the Trump administration’s Executive Order 13783, which implemented crit...

To whom it may concern: The American Petroleum Institute (API), National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC), and the Off...

In June 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced that it intended to initiate a preliminary investigation regarding EPA’s estimation of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas production sector. … IPAA’s member companies are s...