Extraction not creation: The history of offshore petroleum in the gulf of Mexico

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-267

  Priest, Tyler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 77955171631     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/khm027     Document Type: Review

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