Coutret and Associates, Inc.

Robert M. McGowen, P. E.

Robert McGowen graduated from Centenary College in Shreveport with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in physics in 1978 and from Texas A & M University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in petroleum engineering that same year.  He was a member of the Pi Epsilon Tau academic petroleum engineering fraternity at Texas A & M.

Robert McGowen has over thirty years experience in petroleum engineering. While in college, he was employed by Gulf Oil Company as a production engineering assistant in West Texas.  He was employed by Sun Production Company after college for two years as a production engineer.   His duties included waterflood construction and maintenance, well completions, and some reservoir and drilling work.  He attended several in-house production and logging seminars.

In 1980 he began at Louisiana Bank and Trust in Shreveport as a petroleum engineer.   Responsibilities included reserves studies, property evaluation, and economic analysis.  Areas worked include North Louisiana, South Arkansas, East Texas, Southern Mississippi, and South Louisiana.

In 1981 he began work with Coutret and Associates, Inc.  Duties include property evaluation, pressure transient analysis, secondary recovery feasibility studies, and expert witness testimony in lawsuits and before regulatory bodies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.  He has testified in many state regulatory hearings as a petroleum engineering expert with particular proficiency in Louisiana.   He has given seminars and lectures on petroleum engineering to the Ark-La-Tex Association of Petroleum Landmen, the Shreveport Geologic Society and the Natural Resources Law Institute sponsored by the Arkansas Bar Association and the American Association of Petroleum Landmen.