A decade ago, Hermosa Beach voters overwhelmingly rejected E&B Natural Resources’ efforts to drill oil in the small coastal community. Measure O failed in March 2015 with 80% of the vote, nixing the ...
Gas lines and quadrupling oil prices freaked out American consumers. But the oil crises also transformed global finance. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, ...
Vernacular authority in the oil field -- Collaborative authority : nineteenth-century foundations of petroleum geology -- Contested knowledge -- Shared authority : practical oil men and professional ...