Anep 91 European Petroleum Yearbook

First published in 1981 as the Offshore Information Guide this guide to information sources has been hailed internationally as an indispensable handbook for the oil, gas and marine industries.

"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.

"The United States of America and Canada"; beginning with 1983, Western Europe also covered, in vols. 4-5;

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