2010

DOGGR seminar on May 19th

It is Tee Time ...Too Late...SOLD OUT!!! 61st Annual A.P.I. Golf Tournament May 7, 2010.

2010 API Golf Registration Form
(Download form)
(E-Form)

Tee Sponsorship Form
(Due by 4/11/2010)
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(E-Form)

2010 API  61st Credit Card Form
(Download form)
(E-Form)

Time to renew your membership. Membership runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2010. You may access an electronic version of the membership application here or pay online

The 84th Annual Wildcat Hi-Jinks Show
Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
(more)  (Seating Chart)

Photo from the
May Golf Tournament (more)

Scholarship Night at the API Dinner meeting

2009 Chairman, Jodi King, and the 2009 API Scholarship
Recipients (more)

2009

The 84th Annual Wildcat Hi-Jinks Show
Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
(more)  (Seating Chart)

San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Presents
It’s a Silver Celebration
25th Anniversary
Oil Baron’s Ball 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009 (more)

Kelly’s Konquistadores
Announcing
The 2nd Annual MS Fundraising Golf Tournament
October 16, 2009. 12:30 p.m. Shotgun start.
Sundale Country Club.(more)

Fall Fun Shoot
To Benefit the API Scholarship Fund
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009 (more)

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY API CHAPTER PRESENTS
60th ANNUAL A.P.I. GOLF TOURNAMENT
Four Person Scramble - $110 per player

Friday, May 1, 2009
Shotgun Start @ 7:30 AM and 12:30 PM
(Click here for details)

This will be Black Gold’s tenth anniversary show, so they are working up a very special event. There will be six performances of the
show and five scrumptious API dinners prepared by
Bob Moore and the API Cooks. The show dates are: February 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, and 28, 2009. The play is a musical melodrama called Wash Your Troubles
Away. (Click here for flyer)

2008

• The Biennial Oil and Gas Conference is coming up. Attached is a flyer with pertinent information.
  “Meeting the Challenge”
  2008 Oil & Gas Conference
  Thursday, October 30, 2008
  7:30 am – 1:30 pm
  
  (Click here for flyer   Click here for Registration form)

• Adopt-A-Highway
  May 2008 Highway Cleanup Crew
  On Saturday, May 31st, nineteen API members gathered for the semi-annual clean up of our stretch of Enos Lane between Stockdale and Rosedale Highways. They started the day with breakfast at the Golden Bull hosted by John Braun. Next they reviewed the CalTrans safety video and donned their PPE and headed off to do their part in API's community involvement. Because of the large turnout, the two miles of roadway was cleaned up in just an hour. Way to go! That is the way it is supposed to work. (more photos)

• CalTrans has requested as many groups as possible join together on September 20th for highway cleanup.  If you are available to help, please contact John Braun at 633-1451 ext. 104 or via e-mail at jbraun@braunelec.com.  As always, John will provide breakfast at the Golden Bull (Rosedale Highway and Enos Lane) for those helping to do the cleanup.
  
• Scholarship Announcement
  It’s that time of year again! Yep, you guessed it, SCHOLARSHIP TIME! 2008 API scholarship applications are now available. The San Joaquin Valley Chapter of API awards scholarships to local students pursuing a career in the petroleum industry, or a closely related field. The scholarships are awarded to deserving college students and high school seniors. So, it’s time to put on your thinking caps and impress us with those amazing essays. Please contact Mr. James McClard at (661) 330-0597 or james.mcclard@bakeroiltools.com. Click here for the application. The application deadline is THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2008. 
  
• 59th Annual Golf Tournament
  The annual golf tournament is coming up on May 2, 2008, the first Friday in May. Click here for entry form and information flyer with the details.
  
• Black Gold Productions "the Royal Bechelor"
  2/29/2008, 3/1-2/2008 & 3/7-8/2008 (Flyer linked here)
  

2007

• (REDUCED PRICE) Seminar: Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources Annual Information Seminar
  The SPE is pleased to be able to offer this course at a reduced price of $75 due to revised course guidelines. If you have already registered for this class you will be refunded $175 (original class cost was $250). Click here for details and signup information.
   
• API Adopt A Highway
  The next highway clean up will be in October. We encourage all members to participate in this activity that demonstrates API’s community involvement. We have adopted the stretch of Enos Lane between Rosedale and Stockdale, which is much closer to town and much easier to do than our previous adventures on Taft Highway. There is breakfast before we start, drinks along the way, and opportunities for camaraderie, good times, good feelings, and prizes. Please join us in October.
   
• The Second Annual API Fall Fun Shoot is coming Friday,

  October 5, 2007 at the Five Dogs Shooting Range. Sign up and eat breakfast at 8:00 AM and start shooting at 9:00 AM. There will be prizes for the shooters, raffle prizes, lunch, and a special $1,000 gift certificate raffle. The event is to raise money for the API Scholarship Fund and to provide all of you shooters with a good sporting clay shoot. The field will be limited to thirty teams so that everyone can finish at the same time and enjoy the lunch, raffles, and awards together. More details and the registration entry form were sent out earlier this month in a special flyer. Get your team together and send in that entry form quickly, because this event sold out last year. You can FAX your entry form to Jim Roberts at (661) 831-6562. If you would like to become a sponsor of this event, contact Jim Roberts at (661) 805-5766.
   

• The Oil Baron's Ball
  
  Oil Baron's Ball will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at the Doubletree Hotel. The event co-chairs, Weldon Sons and Teri Seely promise another beautiful event and will be looking for theme ideas in the near future. So, put on your creative thinking caps and come up with a theme. The best idea will be worth a night on the town at the Petroleum Club. Theme entries need to be submitted no later than September 30, 2007. The committee is also looking for nominations for the Oil Baron and Baroness. Submit nominations and theme ideas to Weldon Sons at Weldon@imagetec.org or call him at (661) 619-5415.

• August’s API general meeting was attended by 154 members and guests to hear Mr. Steve Grayson (Schlumberger-Ventura) discuss "Detecting natural fractures in case hole using shear wave anisotropy" during the technical session. Our guest speaker for the evening was Mr. Gene Cotton with Flying J/Big West who discussed their ongoing expansion plans for the Bakersfield Refinery on Rosedale Highway. This was one of the largest numbers of attendees for a general meeting dinner and it would be great to see this level of attendance more often.   For more information on this, and other industry focused events, visit our website at: http://www.apibakersfield.org where you will find our August newsletter and other API related information.    See you all next month!

• Gleaners 'Oil Can Do It' Food Drive - July 16-20, 2007
     Gleaners "Oil Can Do It" Food Drive Results
  At our July 17 meeting, we collected $923 in cash and checks and over 270 pounds of food. This is another great example of the giving spirit and community involvement of the API. The Golden Empire Gleaners has already sent a letter to the chapter thanking us for the generous donation. The San Joaquin Valley Chapter thanks you, all of our members, for contributing to this food drive to help those less fortunate than us.
  
     Each year the API and its members have stepped up and supported the Golden Empire Gleaners in their effort to assist those in need. It is time, once again, to honor this commitment and help those who are less fortunate within our community.
     For those of you who are unfamiliar with this organization, their mission is to help alleviate hunger and provide food for needy persons of all ages.
     They accomplish this by collecting and distributing food and agricultural products that might otherwise go to waste. Through the help of referring agencies, the Gleaners are able to distribute food to needy children, senior citizens, families in crisis and people who are ill, disabled, homeless or Unemployed. The Gleaners have been serving our community for over twenty years and is supported by generous local businesses and individuals who share their goal of eliminating hunger in our community.
      We will be telling you more about this food drive as the event nears, so watch your API newsletter for more information. We will be collecting food and/or cash donations during our July general meeting if you wish to participate in this worthwhile event. Thank you in advance for your assistance. James McClard 2007 API Chairman

• RM Pyles Boys Camp 2007 Work Parties
  Men’s Only Weekend – May 18-20, 2007
  Couple’s Weekend – June 1-3, 2007 (Work Parties flyer)

• Scholarship Announcement
  It’s that time of year again! Yep, you guessed it, SCHOLARSHIP TIME! 2007 API scholarship applications are now available. The San Joaquin Valley Chapter of API awards scholarships to local students pursuing a career in the petroleum industry, or a closely related field. The scholarships are awarded to deserving college students and high school seniors. So, it’s time to put on your thinking caps and impress us with those amazing essays. Please contact Amy Galanski at (661) 496-1711 or sgalanski@bak.rr.com questions. Click here for the application. The application deadline is THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2007. 
• API Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup
  The next API Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup will be held on Saturday, May 19th. (Click here for details)
• 58th ANNUAL A.P.I. GOLF TOURNAMENT & BBQ
  FOUR MAN SCRAMBLE May 4, 2007 (API Golf flyer)(Golf Registration form)

2006

• The San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute awards scholarships to young men and women who wish to pursue a career in the petroleum industry, or a closely related field. API Scholarship Application 2006 Due by May 12, 2006

• 2006 Membership Renewal (Application linked here)

• Golf Tournament and BBQ- Friday, May 5th

• Adopt a Highway- Saturday, May 20th (NEW STRETCH OF HIGHWAY TO CLEAN)

• Oil Baron's Ball- Saturday, November 11th at the Doubletree Hotel

• Black Gold Productions "Who Dun It"
  2/16-18/2006, 2/23-25/2006 (Flyer linked here)
• Energy & Clean Air Business Exposition
  January 19, 2006
• The Oil Barons Ball November 12, 2005.
• Fall Fun Night October 8, 2005
  Photos from event.