Shell Petroleum Corporation, a forerunner of Shell Oil Company, acquired the Norco Refinery in 1929. Located on three hundred sixty-six acres of sugar cane fields from Good Hope Plantation, the...
In 1941 Chevron discovered oil in south Louisiana at Barataria and Delta Farms. It was soon apparent to the explorationists that favorable conditions for oil accumulation should extend into the...
Native Louisianan, international business leader, tireless champion of humanitarian causes, Lodwrick M. Cook has contributed greatly to the creation of Louisiana's center for political and...