Oiling the Archives: A report from the 10th Annual Conference of the European Oil and Gas Archives N
StartFragment I have just attended the 10th Annual Conference of the European Oil and Gas Archives Network (EOGAN), in Castel Gandolfo,...
JEHRHE #1 - For a history of energy
The Journal of Energy History / Revue d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRHE) is an online and open access academic journal dedicated to all...
Toward a History of OPEC
Few international organizations have seen their reputations change as dramatically over the last several decades as the Organization of...
Oil before the 'resource curse': the parable of black gold and global inequality
Original post for the Inequality and History Network at the University of Cambridge We are used to think of oil in relation to war,...
On Enrico Mattei - Il testamento di Enrico Mattei [in Italian]
Article for the Italian online journal "404 - File Not Found" Gira molto materiale online, su Facebook e altro, riguardo al fondatore...
Book Review: "Myths of the oil boom" by Steven A. Yetiv
Few resources in history have been surrounded by as many myths as oil; only the obsession for gold in the mercantile era can perhaps be...
The 'pipeline-ization' of Europe
By end of the 1950s, the petroleum industry came to be characterised by an overcapacity to produce. The most significant factor causing...