The Pipeliners Association of Houston celebrated a very special career at its June 5 meeting, honoring long-time ROSEN Group Director Ray Lewis on his 60th anniversary working in the industry with its 2017 Pipeliner of the Year Award. Lewis was introduced to the standing-room-only crowd by his long-time industry friend, Danny Nicholson. He told how Lewis, now 90, broke into pipelining in the late-1950s with Williams Pressure Testing and was doing hydro-testing before there was such a thing as pigging. Lewis, a native of Arkansas who recently retired from ROSEN, was known in his early days as something of a "time-keeper" among a crew of drinkers. A teetotaler, he often found himself responsible for getting the other men back to their rooms so they could work the next day, Nicholson said.
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