Affiliation: University of Arizona

Mike Boudreau heard about the oil history project through the news special on KATC3 Lafayette. He emailed and scheduled an interview at the Petroleum Club.

Mike Boudreau’s father was in the oil industry and was transferred from to Lafayette from Houston in the 1960s. Mike attended high school and college in Lafayette. He initially went to work for service companies in Lafayette. In 1978 he started working at Exxon, retiring in his 37th year in February of 2015. He worked 28 years offshore, and 8 years in Angola. At the time of the interview, Mike had been married to his wife, a Lafayette native for 36 years.