(8 July 1915 – 14 December 2007) was a pioneer in the Australian oil industry and former World War II RAF Bomber Command pilot with No.
Roy Richter, or "Triple R", as he became known by colleagues and friends, was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1972 for his "pioneering and dynamic contribution to the development of the Australian oil-drilling industry".
[5] Over the years, the Richter name became well known in the oil industry, starting out in the 1940-50s with Australian Petroleum Company in Papua New Guinea; from 1954 with Australian Associated Oil Fields firstly in Roma[6] in outback Queensland, then later in the remote Kimberley (Western Australia).
[10] In 1968, the company, against fierce international competition, also won the contract for the first offshore drilling platform in Australia.
When the country's first offshore blow-out occurred later that year on one of its Bass Strait rigs, the Marlin platform, assistance from internationally renowned Red Adair – the American oil well firefighter – won Roy Richter membership of the "Royal Order of Fire Eaters".