Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008043
Chunk: 167

Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 167
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 in general or hydraulic fracturing in particular. There have also been certain governmental reviews that focus on deep shale and other formation completion and production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Governments may continue to study hydraulic fracturing. We cannot predict the outcome of future studies, but based on the results of these studies to date, federal and state legislatures and agencies may seek to further regulate or even ban hydraulic fracturing activities. In addition, if existing laws and regulations with regard to hydraulic fracturing are revised or reinterpreted or if new laws and regulations become applicable to our operations through judicial or administrative actions, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected. 

We cannot predict whether additional federal, state or local laws or regulations applicable to hydraulic fracturing will be enacted in the future and, if so, what actions any such laws or regulations would require or prohibit. If additional levels of regulation or permitting requirements were imposed on hydraulic fracturing operations, our business and operations could be subject to delays, increased operating and compliance costs and potential bans. Additional regulation could also lead to greater opposition to hydraulic fracturing, including litigation. 

Climate Change. Continuing political and social attention to the issue of climate change has resulted in legislative, regulatory and other initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane, and incentivizing energy conservation or the use of alternative energy sources. Policy makers at both the federal and state levels have introduced legislation and proposed new regulations designed to quantify and limit the emission of greenhouse gases through inventories, limitations or taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and encourage consumers to the alternative energy sources. The IRA 2022, both imposes new climate related requirements on oil and gas operations and appropriates significant federal funding for renewable energy initiatives. Also, for the first time ever, the law imposes a fee on GHG emissions from certain facilities. The emissions fee and funding provisions of the IRA 2022 could increase our operating costs and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, which could in turn adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial position. On January 26, 2024, the Biden Administration paused approvals for pending and future applications to export liquified natural gas (LNG) on non-FTA countries. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order reversing the pause implemented by the Biden Administration, resuming the processing of export permit applications for new LNG projects. Additionally, in January 2025 President Trump signed executive orders that, among other things, direct federal executive departments and agencies