Oil well drilling rigs -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Louis J. Roussel, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-00088
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information primarily pertaining to Roussel's new drilling barge, "Mr. Louie," including correspondence, notes, programs, newspaper clippings, receipts, ephemera, printed matter, and photographs. It also includes a few invitations to christenings of other barges, miscellaneous ribbons, Roussel's ancestor chart, obituaries for Roussel and his wife, and two volumes of his autobiography, "Friends, Enemies, & Victims." The collection also contains a model of...
Dates:
1955-2002