Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma President Brook A. Simmons issued the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s announcement that it would halt permitting for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals in the United States, even as natural gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:

“If Europe were starving and our president used his executive power to limit wheat exports, we’d call him a tyrant. But today, the people of Europe are hungry for clean-burning natural gas from a reliable, freedom-loving partner. We have it; they need it. This is simply another example of the President trying to put U.S. oil and gas workers out of business.”

ABOUT THE PETROLEUM ALLIANCE – The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma is the only trade association in Oklahoma that represents every segment of the oil and natural gas industry, representing more than 1,400 individual and member companies engaged in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the state’s defining industry.