Helms, Burgum, Trump rail against regulation at oil conference

North Dakota’s top oil and gas regulator offered some advice Thursday for his successor — “get out of the way.”

“Oil and gas needs to make money,” said Lynn Helms, who is retiring at the end of June as the director of the Department of Mineral Resources. He said that if the next director keeps that in mind on a daily basis, they will be successful.

Helms made his comments on Thursday, May 16, the final day of the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck.

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