Pétrole

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).

Cet article souhaite aborder quelques enjeux méthodologiques de la recherche historique sur le passé industriel de l’éclairage au gaz et ses sources.

Le travail humain et les savoirs ont été des atouts essentiels pour les entreprises et les États dans le domaine de l’extraction et de la production d’énergie.

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.

Cet article éclaire l’arrivée du pétrole en France, et plus particulièrement en Côte-d’Or. Alors que les premiers fûts sont importés en 1861 sur les côtes normandes, la première trace d’un dépôt de pétrole dans ce département rural organisé autour de la ville de Dijon n’apparaît pas avant 1877.