Louisiana remembers early offshore industryMinerals Management Service documents birth of offshore oil and gas following World War II with interviews of more than 500 pioneers Cain Burdeau Associated Press Writer
The Oil Patch is getting old, so old it’s become history.
It wasn’t long ago — just over a half century — when the Oil Patch was the newest thing going.
Young couples from all over the South boogied down to the Bayou State to get good-paying oil job as roustabouts, drillers, welders, surveyors and....
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Early days being documented MMS interviewing pioneers Hard times hit in ‘80s Cajuns pioneered offshore
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