With California consuming 1.8 million barrels of oil daily, our clean, regulated production remains vital. Yet lawmakers continue to push policies aimed at eliminating domestic production, making the state more dependent on foreign oil from countries that do not share our political or environmental values. We are fighting back and making a difference for California’s independent crude oil and natural gas producers, royalty owners, and service and supply companies.
The California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan trade association representing approximately 300 independent crude oil and natural gas producers, royalty owners, and service and supply companies operating in California. Our members are small, homegrown oil producers. Since 1976, when the Independent Oil & Gas Producers' Association merged with the California Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association to form CIPA, the association has kept the political, regulatory and public policy interests of independent oil and gas producers at the forefront of its agenda. READ MORE
More than 55,000 people power California’s oil and gas production under the strictest environmental standards in the world, generating $1.7 billion in state and local tax revenues to fund schools, social services, and public safety in the communities where they live and work. READ MORE