Regulatory
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June 12, 2025
“We applaud the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for taking bold action to restore American energy leadership," said American Petroleum Institute CEO and President Mike Sommers.
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June 06, 2025
American Petroleum Institute (API) President and CEO Mike Sommers issued a statement following the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule declaring the Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards exceeded the department's authority.
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June 05, 2025
API President and CEO Mike Sommers joined this week’s episode of Veriten’s C.O.B. Tuesday podcast to discuss the state of American energy policy as the Trump administration and Congress continue to make progress on many of the priorities outlined in API's five-point policy roadmap.
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June 04, 2025
Op-Ed: The media are reporting new predictions that oil production in America is in irreversible decline. Apparently, peak oil is back in vogue, like it’s 2005 instead of 2025. As a regulator of the nation’s largest oil and natural gas producing state, I’ve seen these scary headlines many times before, but here’s the good news: they are always wrong.
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June 02, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy is canceling some $3.7 billion allocated for clean energy projects under the Trump administration's orders. Among the canceled awards was $331 million for ExxonMobil to use hydrogen at its Baytown, Texas Olefins plant.
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June 02, 2025
Oil climbed after OPEC+ increased production less than some had feared and geopolitical concerns flared in Ukraine and Iran. WTI neared $63 a barrel after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies met on Saturday.
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June 02, 2025
The Trump administration is moving to repeal Biden-era curbs blocking oil drilling across most of the mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska that’s home to an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
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May 30, 2025
Officials say the supply hikes reflect Saudi Arabia’s desire to punish over-producing members like Kazakhstan and Iraq, recoup market share lost to U.S. shale drillers and other rivals, and satisfy U.S. President Trump’s desire for cheaper oil.
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May 29, 2025
Kazakhstan said it can’t cut oil production and even hopes to increase output beyond planned levels later this year, deepening a stand-off with OPEC+ before the group meets this weekend.
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May 28, 2025
Several delegates said they expect the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners to leave unchanged their longer-term targets for 2025 and 2026, which underpin its current supply restraints.
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May 23, 2025
The Trump administration is preparing to issue a narrowly tailored license to Chevron Corp., allowing the oil producer to conduct minimal maintenance of essential operations in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter.
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May 23, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the UK’s approach to taxing North Sea oil and gas, saying it discouraged drilling and raised energy prices.
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May 22, 2025
TotalEnergies is preparing to begin offshore drilling in South Africa in 2026, pending final regulatory approvals, according to Mike Sangster, the company’s SVP for Africa Exploration & Production, who recently emphasized TotalEnergies' multi-energy strategy at the Invest in African Energy Forum in Paris.
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May 22, 2025
Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracing in the biggest U.S. oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering crude output and harming the environment.
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May 22, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X that a Venezuela oil-export license will expire next Tuesday, defying earlier expectations that it would be extended. The tighter time frame would put pressure on Chevron Corp.’s operations in the sanctioned nation.
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May 22, 2025
Leaders from the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), issued statements today in support of the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the 2025 tax reconciliation bill.
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May 21, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council on Tuesday released a statement applauding the Trump Administration's release of the revised Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico Biological Opinion (BiOp) that ensures regulatory certainty and continuity for offshore oil and gas operations.
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May 20, 2025
Leaders from the American Petroleum Institute and National Ocean Industries Association today voiced their support of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service’s release of a new biological opinion for the Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico.
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May 20, 2025
Law firm Haynes Boone defended The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), now known as Renaissance Africa Energy Company (RAEC), against a $58 million lawsuit, securing a complete dismissal.
