Historic Louisiana

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Frank’s Casing Crew’s riser manufacturing
facility at the Port of Iberia.
HISTORIC LOUISIANA
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While Frank’s had done work in South
America, its first permanent extension into
overseas activity came with the founding of
Frank’s International and its Singapore
operations in 1981. Donald’s son Keith, as CEO
of the International company, grew that company
throughout the Orient and into the North Sea
market. Now the company has sizeable
operations in South America, Africa, and Asia.
Frank Mosing died at the age of eighty-four
in November 1988. His oldest son, Donald,
who had been serving as executive vice
president, became president of Frank’s Casing
Crew. His son Larry still serves that company as
secretary and treasurer. Brent Mosing has
succeeded his late father Billy as a director and
head of marketing of the company. Donald’s
oldest son Keith serves as chief operating officer
of Frank’s Casing Crew, and CEO of the
international company.
The company would move heavily into the
deepwater field, developing techniques and
tools for the fabrication, packaging and
installation of risers and other work for subsea
completions. Frank’s, ever innovative,
pioneered the fabrication of risers for highfatigue
applications. A new facility at the
Port of Iberia supports Frank’s deepwater
operations, with fivty-five hundred feet of
waterfront property designed to service a
fleet of barges.
Today Frank’s manufactures a range of
power units in both air-cooled and oil-cooled
models to handle environments from the
frozen Arctic to the deserts of Arabia. Other
Frank’s products include auto welders, a wide
range of pipe connectors and cementing tools,
fill-up and circulation tools, completion
products and data-tracking systems, plus an
array of items to allow drilling at angles and in
failed wells. In all, the company offers more
than 150 different products and, ever looking
to the future, is perfecting new tools for
automated rigs, checking them with state-ofthe-art
testing equipment.
A long-term workforce, good training, and
technological innovation contribute to Frank’s
impressive safety record. Twenty and 30-year
veterans and three-generation families are
common among Frank’s employees. This
longevity in the workforce contributes to
safety–new employees are matched with
experienced crews and given extra attention.
Frank’s training includes lectures plus work
experience on a drilling rig and test hole at the
Lafayette location. Casing and tubing is tripped
in and out of the hole giving new and
experienced crews hands-on experience to
insure that company procedures are always
followed. Any safety issue is looked at
carefully—and when innovation can solve the
problem; Frank’s is ready to find that solution.
A family company, Frank’s Casing Crew &
Rental Tools, Inc., is holding its own in the
competitive atmosphere of today’s oil and gas
service business. With the third generation on
board, Frank’s looks forward to a future as
interesting and profitable as the past has been.