A Message from API President Red Cavaney
We who work in the energy industry live in a time of dramatic and dynamic global change. As the major trade association for the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, API keeps abreast of the forces driving that change to help us ensure our members have the information they need to thrive in a turbulent world market.
API members come from all segments of the industry, including small independent producers and companies that provide diverse services to larger producers and refiners.
Because of that diversity, we are very conscious of the importance of communicating freely with our hundreds of member companies and responding to their needs.
API is working hard in Washington to eliminate or reduce the spider web of regulatory barriers that frustrate efforts by oil and natural gas companies to deliver energy to consumers at reasonable cost while still protecting the environment.
We also spend a great deal of time explaining to the American public and important industry stakeholders high gasoline prices and other developments related to the interplay at public policy and markets.
Even as we employ the technological marvels that make possible exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas in previously inaccessible parts of the world, we are also fostering the research that will produce new sources of energy that will come into play when the market is ready.
If you are interested in joining API and would like to see and hear more about us, please contact us for more information about how you can be part of the API team.
Thank you for your interest.
Red Cavaney
President & CEO
1220 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-682-8176
Founded in 1919, the American Petroleum Institute is the primary trade association for over 300 corporations associated with the petroluem industry.
Based in Washington DC, API has offices in 33 capital cities and works with regional and state oil and gas associations in over a dozen more. Through publications and press releases, the association promotes deregulation of environmental standards impacting the industry. API claims that “burdensome” regulations cost billions, but do not provide any benefits. API argues environmental regulations are based upon faulty science or are the result of scare tactics advanced by the environmental community. API is a member of the National Wetlands Coalition and has provided funding to the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy and other organizations that oppose regulations aimed to prevent global warming.