SUGAR LAND--January 11, 2013--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Oil & Gas Industry has come a long way in a short time. Looking forward, the industry could go even further and faster if the federal government collaborates more effectively with it. At least that's what Jack Gerard, president and chief executive of the American Petroleum Institute (API) (Washington, D.C.), said as he delivered the organization's "State of American Energy Industry 2013" address this week before several hundred people in Washington, D.C.