Robert Carruth served as Founder and President of ECL. With 47 years of engineering experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Carruth had attained an extensive measure of accomplishment in regards to platform design and project management for offshore structures and production facilities. He received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Mississippi, where he was a member of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Society and Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society. Mr. Carruth began his professional career with Texaco in 1969, at which time he provided engineering support for the planning of facilities and the design, fabrication and installation of drilling and production facilities for the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Alaska. He later joined J.G.Mackin and Associates in Houston, TX as Engineering Manager for projects such as Shell’s Beta Field C Complex offshore West Coast U.S.A., Chevron’s Ninian Field Central Platform in the North Sea, and Mobil’s Statfjord A platform also located in the North Sea. He then went on to become Vice President and Operations Manager of J.G. Mackin and Associates in Lafayette, LA, where he was responsible for overseeing all engineering activities. In 1982, Mr. Carruth recognized a growing demand for consulting engineering firms within the upstream sector of the petroleum industry. It was at this time that he founded ECL, where he remained President and General Manager until 2025.
ECL was acquired in October 2025 from the Carruth family and is now the Engineering Company of Louisiana, LLC (ECL, LLC). It is owned and will be operated by Timothy Boudreaux and David Judice with the same expert knowledge and attention to detail that Mr. Carruth so passionately provided during his tenure. Tim and David both worked for Mr. Carruth for decades with combined experience of over 60 years and plan to continue his great legacy.