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  Why is Scholastic, the World’s Largest Supplier of Children’s Books, giving a Venue to the “Dark ...
The American Petroleum Institute is not fond of environmental education or data that puts their industry into a negative light.
The NSTA, like Scholastic is aiding and abetting the American Petroleum Institutes’ quest to lead children astray from asking the tough questions about oil and fossil fuel use.
The American Petroleum Institute is not a lightweight and will not surrender easily.
www.commondreams.org /views04/0812-11.htm   (1743 words)

  
  2004 - 03/29/2004 - American Petroleum Institute/National Fire Protection Association Sign Joint Alliance with OSHA
The Alliance unites the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) with OSHA on efforts to ensure workers in the industry are armed with the training, knowledge and guidance to ensure their safety and health.
Key elements of the Alliance are built around promoting safe tank entry, cleaning, maintenance, and rescue operations and work within and around petroleum and petrochemical liquid storage tanks.
Based in Washington, D.C., the American Petroleum Institute is a trade association representing more than 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry.
www.osha.gov /pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=10755   (591 words)

  
  American Petroleum Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the main U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, representing about 400 corporate members involved in all aspects of the industry.
API is involved in lobbying and government liaison on behalf of the American oil and natural gas industries.
The API was also active in public relations efforts that claim that the greenhouse effect and global warming in general will be beneficial to society, and that the scientific consensus on the dangers of global warming are incorrect.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute   (411 words)

  
 Oil: The illusion of plenty | thebulletin.org
Ever-increasing supplies of low-cost petroleum are thought to be vital to the U.S. and world economies, which is why the invasion of Iraq and the belief that controlling its 112-billion-barrel reserve would give the United States a limitless pipeline to cheap oil were so dangerous.
The idea that petroleum resources are finite and that petroleum production might peak in the near future seems to have vanished from all discussions of energy policy in Congress, in the press, and even among public interest groups.
Petroleum deposits are being brought into production on the continental shelves off Texas, Brazil, and West Africa in water up to 8,000 feet deep--areas that were, until recently, inaccessible.
www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf04cavallo   (2466 words)

  
 Chevron - Chevron Speech Archives - By Kenneth T. Derr to The American Petroleum Institute Annual Meeting
American companies have built roads and bridges, dug water wells, and established schools and hospitals where none existed before.
Because, the fact is, the petroleum industry has played a key role in building the powerhouse economy of this great nation.
The petroleum industry has to keep getting this message out, and the API is an important channel to do it.
www.chevron.com /news/archive/chevron_speech/1994/94-11-14.asp   (2022 words)

  
 PR from the American Petroleum Institute
He said that Americans owe it to themselves to examine the facts, reveal the realities obscured by the myths and look objectively at the topic of reinventing energy.
Of the six prevalent "criteria" pollutants measured, levels of five have declined from 1970 to 1993: lead by 98 percent, particulates by 78 percent, sulfur dioxide by 30 percent, ozone by 24 percent and carbon monoxide by 24 percent, according to the EPA.
Americans don't have to give up driving their cars in order to have a cleaner environment.
www.hubbertpeak.com /debate/hubapi.htm   (869 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute - SourceWatch
The Institute's work is member-driven and it offers "companies large and small the opportunity to participate in shaping API programs and policy priorities." API represents more than 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil natural gas industry.
In April 2005, it was reported that API was overseeing a $27 million study on the health effects of benzene, funded by the major oil companies BP, Chevron Texaco, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell Chemical.
"The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's main trade group, paid Timmons and Co. $200,000 to lobby the federal government in the first half of 2007," reported AP in August 2007.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=American_Petroleum_Institute   (734 words)

  
 OTC
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) – AAPG has been a leading organization for the science of geology worldwide.
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) – AIME was founded in 1871 and since grown to include 4 member societies with more than 90,000 members.
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – Founded in 1852, ASCE represents 125,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide, and is America's oldest national engineering society.
www.otcnet.org /otcnet/about_otc/organizations.html   (410 words)

  
 Energy industry experts - Touch Oil And Gas.com
He is Immediate Past Chairman of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and of the Associations Division of the US Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education and the Alliance for Consumer Education.
Bryan Cronin is Professor in the Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen.
He was appointed AGIP Lecturer in Petroleum Geology in early 2000, having moved to Aberdeen University in 1996 as a postdoctoral research fellow, working on deepwater petroleum reservoirs.
www.touchoilandgas.com /advisory.cfm   (1804 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute ready to assist government
The American Petroleum Institute (API) said today that the oil and natural gas industry is ready to assist the U.S. government in this time of national crisis.
The group said it has been in communication with the government to assure them that it is ready to assist in any way it can.
The American Automobile Association said the statewide average for self-serve regular in Oklahoma yesterday was $1.548 a gallon.
fleetowner.com /news/fleet_american_petroleum_institute   (360 words)

  
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B. Oil-Bearing Wastewaters In petroleum refining, impurities are removed and usable hydrocarbon fractions are isolated from crude oil feedstock.
Clark refers to "petroleum related organic chemicals," but he does not suggest the current or imminent presence of specific chemicals found in UGSTS waste, such as benzene, and none of Clark's statements refer to specific wastes generated from unleaded gasoline storage tanks.
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 American Petroleum Institute, National Fire Protection Association...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Alliance unites the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) with OSHA on efforts to ensure workers in the industry are armed with the training, knowledge and guidance to ensure their safety and health.
Key elements of the Alliance are built around promoting safe tank entry, cleaning, maintenance, and rescue operations and work within and around petroleum and petrochemical liquid storage tanks.
Based in Washington, D.C., the American Petroleum Institute is a trade association representing more than 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=107-03292004   (571 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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The history of insurance organizations and american petroleum institute dating back to the pension context, and key regulatory draw important lessons for a few weeks during the changeover.
And Americans are living longer than ever before, which means they draw benefits longer, taxing the system.
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 American Petroleum Institute
API is the major national trade association representing the entire petroleum industry: exploration and production, transportation, refining, and marketing.
With headquarters in Washington, D.C., and petroleum councils in 33 states, it is a forum for all parts of the oil and natural gas industry to pursue priority public policy objectives and advance the interests of the industry in a legally appropriate manner.
API's members determine the petroleum industry's positions on public policy as well as the standards that govern its day-to-day operations the world over.
www.oilandgasonline.com /storefronts/apinstitute.html   (221 words)

  
 Patrick Dodd and Small Revolutions - Patrick Dodd's Musical Sounds of Resistance - NEWS YOU CAN USE
The administration is adamant that it has the constitutional authority to snoop on international terrorists—and though the Eugene eco-sabotage case appears to be an entirely domestic matter, investigators have made a point of alleging that ELF has international connections.
For the people of Nicaragua there must be a sense of déjà vu, coupled with a deep feeling of foreboding that they are again under the harsh spotlight of a Republican US administration.
One of these four, the International Republican Institute (IRI) was involved in helping organise opponents of Haiti's former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the nation's democratically elected leader, who was forced from office in 2004.
www.patrickdodd.com /news.html   (5079 words)

  
 Chevron - Chevron Speech Archives - Kenneth T. Derr At The American Petroleum Institute's Annual Meeting, November 1995
Which is that government regulations will cost David and his family, the typical American family, nearly $6,000 every year.
The other perception is that the petroleum industry lacks a unified vision of its future.
The U.S. petroleum industry is one of the strongest, most diverse and most competitive industries in the world today.
www.chevron.com /news/archive/chevron_speech/1995/95-11-13.asp   (1949 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "American Petroleum Institute": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Other associated wastes combined contribute a few tenths of a percent to the total waste volume (American Petroleum Institute, 1987).
However, the American Petroleum Institute (API) conducted a survey indicating there are about 700,000 petroleum storage tanks.
In the United States, petroleum tests are carefully specified and documented by the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM), the American Petroleum Institute Table 2-11 Tests for Potential Components or Properties of Crude Petroleum Streams Gravity: ASTM D 287.
www.amazon.com /phrase/American-Petroleum-Institute   (388 words)

  
 Foes of global warming theory have energy ties
The institute, which takes the position that climate change threatens the global environment, promotes international cooperation to address the issue.
The research was underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute, the trade association of the world's largest oil companies.
The organization, the George T. Marshall Institute, is headed by William O'Keefe, a former executive of the American Petroleum Institute.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/124642_warming02.html   (1325 words)

  
 ExxonSecrets Factsheet: American Petroleum Institute
Founded in 1919, the American Petroleum Institute is the primary trade association for over 300 corporations associated with the petroluem industry.
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.
Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry.
www.exxonsecrets.org /html/orgfactsheet.php?id=11   (2815 words)

  
 A Primer On Gasoline Prices
Additionally, increased demand for gasoline and other petroleum products in the United States and the rest of the world is also exerting upward pressure on prices.
In 2005, a number of petroleum companies announced their intent to stop using MTBE in their gasoline in 2006.
It is expected that reformulated gasoline areas on the East Coast, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, will experience the most trouble obtaining ethanol supplies in a timely fashion due to logistical challenges of getting ethanol to and from terminals further inland by rail car.
www.eia.doe.gov /pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/primer_on_gasoline_prices/html/petbro.html   (2464 words)

  
 2005 American Petroleum Institute Awards for Excellence in Fuels Management Navy Supply Corps Newsletter - Find Articles
The awards identify the superior contributions of Navy and Marine Corps "fuelies" to the fuel operations and fleet fuel support mission.
The awards are presented annually under the sponsorship of the American Petroleum Institute (API), an international petroleum trade organization, to recognize activities and personnel that made the most significant contributions to the Department of the Navy fuel operations, petroleum supply chain management and fleet fuel support.
During the Supply Management Assessment (SMA) in February 2004, the NAS Whidbey Island Fuel Department was rated "outstanding" by the senior inspector.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NQS/is_6_68/ai_n15882977   (800 words)

  
 content management customer success stories -American Petroleum Institute
The oil and natural gas industry provides the fuel for American life, warming our homes, powering our businesses and giving us the mobility to enjoy this great land.
As the primary trade association of that industry, API represents more than 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry.
API's association draws on the experience and expertise of their members and staff to support a strong and viable oil and natural gas industry.
www.paperthin.com /customers/American-Petroleum-Institute.cfm   (85 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute in Energy Matters -- Associations Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
API is the major national trade association representing the entire petroleum industry: exploration and production, transportation, refining, and marketing.
With headquarters in Washington, D.C., and petroleum councils in 33 states, it is a forum for all parts of the oil and natural gas industry to pursue priority public policy objectives and advance the interests of the industry in a legally appropriate manner.
The on-line directories are provided as a service to our subscribing members.
www.thinkenergy.com /assn/te000742.html   (91 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute information and related industry information from Hoover's
American Petroleum Institute information and related industry information from Hoover's
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is a trade association for the oil and natural gas industries.
The organization's members come from several segments of the petroleum industry, including upstream (exploration and production), downstream (refining and marketing), marine (tanker, terminal, and shipyard operators), pipeline, and general (oil field service companies and others). The API was founded in 1919.
www.hoovers.com /api/--ID__129875--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (253 words)

  
 Nightly Business Report . The Outlook On Energy From John Felmy Chief Economist Of The American Petroleum Institute | ...
The Outlook On Energy From John Felmy Chief Economist Of The American Petroleum Institute
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said today that President Bush has authorized the sale of 30 million barrels of crude from the strategic petroleum reserve on top of the nine million barrels previously loaned to several oil companies.
He`s chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute.
www.pbs.org /nbr/site/onair/transcripts/050902_felmy   (874 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Destination Earth
Through the American Petroleum Institute and its Oil Industry Information Committee, a steady flow of booklets, brochures, speeches, press releases, planted news articles, "public service" advertisements and films made the case for oligopolistic ownership and marketing of petroleum.
I soon found out that though petroleum products are easily found anywhere, petroleum itself is a very elusive substance.
In winter, fuel oil made from petroleum brings warmth and comfort to millions of homes.
www.archive.org /details/Destinat1956   (3302 words)

  
 American Petroleum Institute (SMEALSearch) - Pal,Rangaswamy,Giles,Debnath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
All values reflect employment for the civilian noninstitutional population.
The profit rates in Figure 3 are for major oil companies' domestic petroleum operations.
0.3: The Institute Of Petroleum Report Of 'workshop On Human..
smealsearch2.psu.edu /43606.html   (234 words)

  
 API - American Petroleum Institute Standards
API standards address several key aspects of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, fire protection and safety, petroleum measurement and marine transportation.
API Research Reports American Petroleum Institute (185+ documents)
Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards - Updated and revised periodically, this publication contains information about tank calibration, tank gauging, tank provers, metering, metering assemblies, temperature and density determination, sampling, sediment and water, calculation of petroleum quantities, natural gas applications, liquefied petroleum gas measurement, measurement of hydrocarbon fluids and more.
engineers.ihs.com /collections/api/index.jsp   (609 words)

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