Company: NINE
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001532286-25-000008
Chunk: 26

Company: Nine Energy Service, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 26
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 oil and gas sources that commenced construction, modification, or reconstruction after December 6, 2022, including standards focusing on certain source types that have never been regulated under the CAA (including intermittent vent pneumatic controllers, associated gas, and liquids unloading facilities). The new rule phases out 

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flaring through Subpart OOOOb, which prohibits routine flaring from new oil wells after the phase-in period, and through a new Subpart OOOOc, which prohibits flaring absent a showing of technical infeasibility for existing wells with documented methane emissions of 40 tons per year or more. In addition, the final rule establishes “Emissions Guidelines” in Subpart OOOOc, which requires states to develop plans to reduce methane emissions from existing sources that must be at least as effective as presumptive standards set by EPA. The final rule gives states, along with federal tribes that wish to regulate existing sources, until March 2026 to develop and submit their plans for reducing methane emissions from existing sources. The final emissions guidelines under Subpart OOOOc provide until 2029 for existing sources (i.e., sources constructed prior to December 6, 2022) to comply. The final rule is subject to ongoing litigation but remains in effect. However, in January 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing the heads of all federal agencies to identify and begin the processes to suspend, revise, or rescind all agency actions that are unduly burdensome on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources. Consequently, future implementation and enforcement of the final rule remains uncertain at this time.

Although there may be an adverse financial impact (including compliance costs, potential permitting delays and increased regulatory requirements) associated with these regulatory changes, the extent and magnitude of impacts cannot be reliably or accurately estimated due to the present uncertainty regarding any additional measures and how they will be implemented. Any new regulations implementing stricter permitting requirements could delay or impair our or our customers’ ability to obtain air emission permits, and result in increased expenditures for pollution control equipment, the costs of which could be significant. Federal and state regulatory agencies can impose administrative, civil, and criminal penalties, as well as injunctive relief, for non-compliance with air permits or other requirements of the CAA and associated state laws and regulations.

Climate Change

Numerous reports from scientific and governmental bodies, such as the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have expressed heightened concerns about the impacts of human activity