Coutret and Associates, Inc.

Henry Coutret was graduated from Texas A & M University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in petroleum engineering in 1956. He has over 50 years experience in petroleum engineering.

In 1956, he was hired by Mobil Oil Corporation and worked there for twelve years. His first assignment at Mobil was as a Junior Petroleum Engineer in the Lake Charles District. There his work was primarily drilling and field operations. He studied development of fields in the area and estimated reserves for several fields in the district.

He was assigned to the Natchez, Mississippi District as a Production Engineer with much the same responsibilities, but he was more involved in planning and supervising workover, drilling, and other field production activities. He was responsible for all reserve studies of all fields in the district. He also helped design some facilities.

He was then assigned as a Senior and Supervising Production Engineer in the Shreveport Division. In eight years in Shreveport, he had several assignments including staff reservoir engineer and thermal recovery project engineer where he designed and installed both steam flood and in situ combustion projects. He acquired several thermal recovery patents. Other duties involved property appraisals, unitization and secondary recovery studies. He also was Supervising Reservoir Engineer. He attended Mobil Corporation schools on reservoir engineering, well stream processing and improved recovery operations. He attended and participated in thermal recovery seminars.

In 1968 be began his consulting practice and the firm ultimately became Coutret and Associates, Inc. As a consulting engineer much of his work has been evaluation of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties for purchase or sale, for banking, or for financial statement purposes. He has extensive experience in feasibility studies and design of pressure maintenance and secondary recovery projects in North Louisiana, East Texas, and Arkansas. In the last twenty-five years he has been involved in most unitizations of Smackover Fields. He has many studies regarding brine development for bromine recovery from the Reynolds Aquifer. The firm also manages producing properties for which he is responsible.