These efforts promote a professional and civic minded industry image in chapter communities. To avoid inadvertent conflicts, the chapters do not independently develop or promote positions on public issues, but often provide forums for discussion of such issues. There are more than 30 active API chapters with 9,412 members in 12 states. Most meet monthly or quarterly. Chapter Membership and organization.
Membership is open to anyone engaged in the petroleum or an allied industry.
Many chapters also offer associate membership to anyone having interest in these industries. Chapter membership does not require or constitute national API corporate or individual membership, and there are no national dues. Each chapter is a separate and totally self supporting legal entity, elects its own officers and establishes its own programs and dues consistent with its local Constitution and Bylaws, and applicable API policies and federal, state and local laws. Most programs stress practical field applications of industry technology, practices, trends, and issues. Most chapters emphasize scholarships.