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Offshore Oil and Gas History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MS-00222

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.

Title
Offshore Oil and Gas History Project
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Repository Details

Part of the Nicholls State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Ellender Memorial Library
Nicholls State University
906 E 1st St.
Thibodaux Louisiana 70310 USA
985-448-4621