Oil

In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life.

From 1966 to 2012, oil companies operated a massive refinery on the Island of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (USVI).

This article, as its title suggests, wishes to discuss some methodological issues of historical research on the industrial past of gas lighting and its sources.

Human labor and knowledge has been central to the ability of companies and states to extract and produce energy. Workers, engineers, technocrats, and managers have played a central role in the development of the hydrocarbon industry.

This paper analyses employee needs in the Romanian oil industry during the interwar period. Three distinct periods will be explored: the aftermath of the First World War, the economic crisis of 1929-1933, and the outbreak of the Second World War.

The oil and gas industry is generally imagined as a prototypical ‘men’s world’, with the multifaceted work women have performed largely invisible. This is being rectified by growing research on women workers in the industry.

The Iranian oil nationalisation crisis, which ended in the coup that overthrew nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, is well known.

Economics was a major field of struggle for anti-imperialist oil experts and activists.

Emerging in the midst of a painful war of independence and deeply intertwined with the contested claims to territorial and economic sovereignty, the Algerian oil industry, and its labour force, occupied a unique place at the forefront of the Algerian decolonisation process.

This article sheds light on the arrival of petroleum in France, and more specifically in the Côte-d’Or department.