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February 25, 2013 - The American Petroleum Institute (API) submitted these reply comments in response to various comments submitted during the initial comment period and in further support of the expeditious approval of pending LNG export applications by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).  Included with the comments is the Status Report and Preliminary Results: The Economic Impacts of U.S. LNG Exports, prepared by ICF International.

January 24, 2013 - The American Petroleum Institute (API) submitted these comments in support of the expeditious approval of pending LNG export applications by the U.S. Department of Energy.  API fully agrees with the conclusion of the DOE “2012 LNG Export Study” that, across all scenarios, the U.S. stands to gain net economic benefits from allowing LNG exports.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a suite of regulatory requirements designed to reduce air emissions from the oil and natural gas industry. EPA has proposed new standards for several processes associated with oil and gas production that have not previously been subject to federal regulation.

Hydraulic fracturing is an essential well completion technology for the development of unconventional resources, such as natural gas that is trapped in shale rock formations.

Induced seismicity is the phenomenon of human activities, such as large engineering projects, causing energy release in the earth.

The American Petroleum Institute engaged PwC to quantify the direct, indirect, and induced impacts of the US oil and natural gas industry in terms of employment, labor income, and value added.  Here is the full report.

This report examines the employment outlook of African American and Hispanic workers in the upstream oil and gas industry over the period 2010 to 2030.

The United States is at an historic turning point for the country and its energy policies. But many Americans lack a full understanding of the oil and natural gas industry. API has assembled this oil and gasoline primer to encourage a constructive public policy debate that leads to a new fact-based comprehensive energy policy.

The United States and Canada enjoy the largest trading partnership across the longest peaceful border in the world. Getting more U.S. energy from a friendly North American neighbor would reduce U.S. reliance on energy resources from less stable regions, create American jobs, while enhancing domestic energy and national security.

Liquid petroleum pipelines carry crude oil and refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, etc.) across state and even country borders (interstate & international) as well as within states (intrastate). Pipelines are widely acknowledged to be the safest and most efficient way to move energy products overland for long distances; crude oil and natural gas from production areas to processing plants and refineries, and consumer-ready products to markets.