Contract drillers and causal histories along the Gulf of Mexico

Human Organization

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 218-228

  McGuire, Thomas R ^a   Gardner, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of events; Corporate behavior; Global economies; Louisiana; Occupational change; Oil industry

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; GAS INDUSTRY; MERGER; OIL INDUSTRY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0042035250     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.62.3.d987pnfb2b51ytha     Document Type: Article

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