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Drilling in Louisiana’s marshes and shallow waters is as old as anyone there can remember, and – for better or worse – the expanding presence of the oil and gas industry has changed everyone’s lives. An oral history1 captures the richness and complexity of interactions between people and the technology that invaded the small fishing and shrimping communities. Here is but one short excerpt.
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McGuire, T. 2004. History of the offshore oil and gas industry in southern Louisiana: Interim Report; Volume II: Bayou Lafourche – An Oral History of the Development of the Oil and Gas Industry. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, LA. OCS Study MMS 2004-050. 148 pp.
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This design would place cement up to 500 feet above the uppermost hydrocarbon zone, violating BP’s own rule of sealing at least 1,000 feet of annular space above the uppermost hydrocarbon zone.
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Tainter, J.A., Patzek, T.W. (2012). Offshore Drilling and Production: A Short History. In: Drilling Down. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7677-2_4
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