Interviewer(s): J. Piekielek. Cut Off, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I met Amy Pitre through her neighbor, Joycelyn Renois. Diane had scheduled an interview with Joycelyn and had explained her interest in interviewing women, both workers and wives of workers. Joycelyn said that she thought we would be interested in talking with her neighbor across the street, as both a woman working offshore and as the wife of someone in the oil industry.

Amy Pitre was born in 1959 and raised in Buras. She received her B.A. in business, married Dean Pitre, and moved to Cut Off. In 1989 she began working offshore as an operator assistant on production platforms, first for a contractor and later for Chevron. When she first began offshore work, she was often the only woman on the platform. She currently works in aviation dispatch for Chevron.