Offshore Oil and Gas History Project
Scope and Contents
This collection includes over 450 oral history interviews (original audio recordings, summaries, and transcripts) and over 1,000 digital copies of photographs from the historical period. The results of the study were published in 2008 in six volumes (see External Documents link below).
Dates
- 2001-2006
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Historical Note
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), U.S. Department of the Interior, sponsored a study to examine the historical evolution of the offshore oil and gas industry and its effects on Louisiana’s coastal culture, economy, landscape, and society. The study began with a team of researchers from the Center for Energy Studies at Louisiana State University (LSU); The Departments of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH), in collaboration with History International, Inc. (HI); the Program in Public History Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette); and the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona (UA).
Between 2001 and 2006, over 450 interviews were recorded for The Offshore Oil and Gas History Project. Each interview provides a personal experience with the offshore oil and gas industry and its impacts on workers, their families, and their communities. The interviews were conducted between 2001 and 2006 with men and women who lived and/or worked in Southern Louisiana or Houston, TX in the decades that mark the beginning and early development of the offshore petroleum industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Copies
These data are available at university and community archives in Texas and Louisiana, including the Houston History Archives Repository, the Morgan City Archives, South Lafourche Library (Sut Off, La.), the University of Louisiana Lafayette, Terrebonne Parish Library (Houma, La.), the Center for Energy Studies at Louisiana State University, and the Gulf of Mexico Region Public Information Office of the U.S. Department of Interior Minerals Management Service (New Orleans, La.).
Sensitive Materials Statement
This collection may contain material(s) with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Ellender Memorial Library and Nicholls State University assume no responsibility.
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- Offshore Oil and Gas History Project
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- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana; Volume I: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry (Diane E. Austin, Bob Carriker, Tom McGuire, Joseph Pratt, Tyler Priest, Allan G. Pulsipher)
- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana; Volume II: Bayou Lafourche: Oral Histories of the Oil and Gas Industry (Tom McGuire)
- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana. Volume III: Morgan City’s History in the Era of Oil and Gas: Perspectives of Those Who Were There (Diane E. Austin)
- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana. Volume IV: Terrebonne Parish (James L. Sell and Tom McGuire)
- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana. Volume V: Guide to the Interviews (Diane E. Austin)
- History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana. Volume VI: A Collection of Photographs (Diane E. Austin and Justin Gaines)
Repository Details
Part of the Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Ellender Memorial Library
Nicholls State University
906 E 1st St.
Thibodaux Louisiana 70310 USA
985-448-4621
clifton.theriot@nicholls.edu