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| Title | Sonnier, Claude |
| Creator | UH - Houston History Project
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| Interviewer | Wiltz, Steven
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| Project | University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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| Description | Claude Sonnier was born in 1918 in Scott, Louisiana, into a farming family. He attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI) from 1937-40, earning a degree in electrical engineering. After graduating, he got a surveying job with S and W Construction, but was soon drafted into the Army during World War Two, where he stayed for five years. Upon leaving the military in December 1945, he was immediately hired by Humble Oil Company (now Exxon) and soon made operator. Three years later he was put in charge of his first crew. During his career he worked in many different locations including Florida, Houston, west Texas, east Africa, and the North Sea. In 1978 he retired from Humble after working for them for 32 and a half years. He describes working on a seismic crew in the late '40s, working in the Florida marshes, new technologies (e.g., 3-D instruments), and the various animals he encountered in the field. |
| Date | July 23, 2003 |
| Genre | interviews
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| Subject (Name) | Sonnier, Claude, 1918-
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| Subject.Topical (LCSH) | Energy development
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| Subject (Geographic) | Lafayette, Louisiana
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| Original Collection | Oral Histories – Houston History Project http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=231 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Original Item Location | ID 2006-005, Box 7, HHA 00412 |
| Use and Reproduction | Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner. For more information please see the UH Digital Library Fair Use policy on the "About" page of this website. |
| File name | index.cpd |
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