W.E. Findley, Jr. honored as Distinguished Engineering Graduate
December 9, 2005

W.E. Findley, Jr., B.S.P.E., 1947
CEO and Founder
FESCO, Ltd.
After taking a two-year break from college to serve in World War II as an engineering officer in the U.S. Navy, W.E. Findley Jr. returned to The University of Texas at Austin to earn a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. He began his career as a sales and equipment engineer for oilfield processing equipment, working for two years in Alice, Texas.

In 1949 he founded the Findley Engineering Service Co. in Alice, starting with a portable laboratory in a truck that traveled to gas-condensate well sites and helped determine the best separation conditions for the wells.  Findley provided service, equipment, and personnel to companies in the oil industry. In 1962 the company changed its name to FESCO, Ltd.

Today, as FESCO prepares to celebrate its 56th anniversary with Findley still at the helm, the company employs 470 people encompassing 14 district offices with 12 Texas offices, one Louisiana office, and one in Oklahoma. FESCO offers a variety of petroleum engineering services and laboratory work on oil and gas wells in the petroleum industry. The company advises oil and gas companies in determining the optimum test designs, testing equipment, and the economic feasibility and safety of testing projects. FESCO has more than 1,300 clients including small independent gas and oil companies, as well as global corporations, such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP.

Findley has been a registered professional engineer in Texas for more than 50 years, and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. In his community, Findley currently serves as president of the Alice Water Authority, which changed the name of Lake Alice to Lake Findley in his honor.

Findley has been instrumental in keeping the Longhorn tradition alive and well. He is a life member of Friends of Alec, an alumni group that supports engineering scholarships and programming. In addition, his three children, and his four stepchildren, all attended The University of Texas at Austin.

 

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