“He just had a mind that would never quit when it came to the design of drilling rigs,” says Mark Laibe, chairman of Laibe Corporation, remembering Carl Back, who passed away on June 9 at age 91. “He was brilliant and nobody will dispute that. The leaders in the drilling industry all recognize Carl Back as the best, really.”
Back was a design engineer whose name holds more than 20 patents for equipment related to the drilling industry.