Exploration and Production

The brief reports linked here will illustrate how the oil and natural gas industry takes many steps to assure that exploration and production operations offshore, onshore or in the Arctic can take place with very little environmental impact.

America needs a balanced energy policy that promotes energy efficiency, conservation and greater supplies of all forms of energy, including domestic oil and natural gas.

API has assembled a primer to show the safety and efficiency of developing America's vast oil and natural gas resources.

More energy, good jobs and increased state revenue can be produced safely in offshore Virginia.

America’s oil and natural gas industry is at the forefront of breakthrough technology that will help deliver the energy that Americans need today and tomorrow while also reducing the environmental impact.

This study by Wood Mackenzie examines the impacts of opening access to key U.S. regions which are currently closed to development, as well as assessing a return to historical levels of development on existing U.S. producing areas (including onshore U.S., the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska). The economic impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline and other potential Canada to U.S. oil pipelines are also considered.