Also in attendance at the press conference to announce the ATA's program: Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the voice in Washington for oil and gas companies, and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) President John Engler.

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In early October, the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and the National Foreign Trade Council challenged the rule in court.

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According to the American Petroleum Institute, the United States had derived about 32 percent of its energy from foreign sources in 1983.

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Indeed, Petrobras' accident rate is higher than the average of 1.6 accidents per million man-hours reported by the American Petroleum Institute.

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The American Petroleum Institute has announced that for the week ending April 15th, US combined stocks of crude, gasoline and distillates fell by 4.53 million barrels.

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The utter predictability of it all is becoming comical, so comical in fact that the American Petroleum Institute (API) responded to this budget proposal filled with stale, debunked and retreaded energy-related proposals by retreading the same statement it had issued in response to the proposed budget submitted by President Obama last year.

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" The group, led by Diane Knippers of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and Nina Shea of Freedom House, urged him to bar "the China National Petroleum Corp. and others who are investing with the genocidal regime in Khartoum from U.S. capital markets.

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