Ep014 – Mr. Carey Crutcher – Oilfield, Pipeline and Rodeo Legend… “The Impossible Pays Better!”

Ep014 – Mr. Carey Crutcher – Oilfield, Pipeline and Rodeo Legend…   “The Impossible Pays Better!”

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Interview of a lifetime with Mr. Crutcher who is 88 years old & started in the Oil Patch   when he was 14…  that’s 68+ w/ years spent in the Oil Industry, and he is still going…

 

He is ‘The Most Interesting Man’… Oilfield Talk has interviewed and the stories he tells are just AMAZING!

 

40+ years professional experience with all facets of pipeline equipment design, fabrication, marketing and sales.

 

2019 Inductee of the All Cowboys & Arena Champions Hall of Fame

http://www.cowboyandarenachampions.com/Linked_Pages/4thInductionMeeting-2019.html

 

Mr. Crutcher and CCI invented the “Automatic Pipe Welding Machine” that revolutionized laying of pipelines and enabled at least four times faster welding of pipeline connections and was used to help build The Alaskan Pipeline and tens of thousands of miles of pipeline both offshore and on land.

 

In the mid 1960's Crutcher-Rolf-Cummings merged with M.J. Crose Manufacturing and operated as CRC-Crose International until sometime in the 70's when they became Crutcher Resources Corp. In the mid 60s Jerry Nelson (who had been the engineer working on the Battelle project) approached CRC with an idea for a new and improved system. He purposed to make a system that would be composed of a bevel facing machine, an internal line-up clamp/welding machine to deposit the root pass and then external welders run on bands clamped to the pipe OD. This was the foundation of the CRC Automatic Welding System and it remains essentially unchanged today.

 

The CRC welding system had some growing pains. Welding parameters were then poorly understood, the operators were not welders and needed to have extensive training and like most new technology, it was not readily accepted in the industry. Finally some trial runs were made and welding parameters were improved and the operators became proficient. In about 1983 CRC Pipeline International broke away from Crutcher Resources Corp and became a privately held operation.

 

Mr. Crutcher and CCI have multiple patents including:

“Size-adjustable internal pipe clamp apparatus”

Patent# US4140262A - Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4140262

 

“Pipe handling apparatus for pipe laying barges”

Patent# US4067450A - Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

 

“Automatic internal pipe line-up clamp”

Patent# US5288005A - Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

 

“Apparatus for brush-cleaning the interiors of pipes”

Patent# US4027349A- Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

 

“Pipe wrapping apparatus”

Patent# US4069088A- Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

 

“Rotary internal pipe bending mandrel”

Patent# US4164135A- Assigned to CAREY CRUTCHER, INC.

 

Many, many more…  see https://patents.google.com/?q=(%22Carey+Crutcher%22)&oq=%22Carey+Crutcher%22

 

 

AUSTRALIAN LAND & CATTLE COMPANY

Australian Land & Cattle Company (ALCCO) was incorporated in Western Australia in 1969 by Jack Miller Fletcher and Carey Crutcher, after extensive research to engage in irrigation farming, ranching, feedlotting of cattle and export marketing.  With property over 6,700 square miles, and comprising of several stations, the heart of its program was the Camballin Irrigation Farm along the Fitzroy River.  

https://slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/mn/mn2501_3000/mn2816.pdf

 

Liveringa

Liveringa or Liveringa Station, often referred to as Upper Liveringa Station, is a pastoral lease in Western Australia that once operated as a sheep station but presently operates as a cattle station.

The Australian Land and Cattle Company was incorporated in 1969 in Western Australia by Jack Miller Fletcher and Carey Crutcher.[8] At its height, the company owned seven prime Kimberley stations covering nearly 20,000 square kilometres (7,722 sq mi) and carrying 100,000 head of cattle.[9] Among the properties acquired were Camballin and Liveringa stations. At Liveringa the company cleared 25,000 hectares (61,776 acres) of land to grow sorghum under flood irrigation; the crop was then used in company feedlots to fatten cattle.[10] In 1972 the last of the sheep were sold off to stations in the Pilbara and the only stock remaining were cattle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liveringa

 

Carey Crutcher

Chairman at Carey Crutcher, Inc.

Chairman at Transgulf Energy Services, Inc. 1982 - Present

Chairman & CEO at Crutcher Resources Corporation 1964 - 1976

The University of Texas at Austin Graduate 1959

 

Linkedin:  linkedin.com/in/carey-crutcher-64493942

Website:  careycrutcherinc.com

 

 

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes  by Bryan Burrough, published in 2009. The book tells the story of four Texas oil men and their families that made large fortunes in the oil industry: Hugh Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt.    Wikipedia

Originally published: January 27, 2009

Author: Bryan Burrough

 

 

Leon (Trae) Faught III - Safety SMS, NR-Paramedic

 

Onshore & Offshore Oilfield Health, Safety, Environmental; Podcaster & Business Owner

 

For the last thirty years, I have worked in the international oil and gas industry specializing primarily in HSE Health, Safety, and Environmental Management.

 

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