Henry C. Coutret, Jr. graduated from Texas A & M University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1956.
He has over fifty-five years experience in petroleum engineering. Following graduation, and after a short tour of duty in the Army, he was employed by the Mobil Oil Corporation as a petroleum engineer. He worked for Mobil until 1968. His first Mobil assignment was as a Junior Petroleum Engineer in the Lake Charles, Louisiana District and was primarily involved with drilling and field operations and development. He was also responsible for reserve studies of a number of fields in the District. His next assignment was as a Production Engineer in the Natchez, Mississippi District. In these assignments his responsibilities were much the same as in the previous assignment but he was more directly involved in planning and supervision of workover and drilling operations, facilities design and other field production activities as well as reserve studies of all fields in the District. His next assignment was as Senior and Supervising Production Engineer in the Shreveport District where he had a variety of project assignments. These included Staff Reservoir Engineer and thermal recovery project engineer where he designed and installed both steam flood and in-situ combustion projects. As a result of some of his work in this field he was granted a patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,572,437) on a particular steam injection process that was employed in one of his projects. Other duties, while in the Shreveport District, involved property appraisals, fieldwide unitization, feasibility studies and project design for pressure maintenance and secondary recovery projects. While with Mobil he attended a number of courses offered by the company at their Field Research Laboratory dealing with Reservoir Engineering, Improved Recovery Operations, Well Stream Production and Processing and he participated in a number of Seminars dealing with various aspects of Thermal Recovery operations. He resigned his position with Mobil in 1968.
He then began a consulting practice in Shreveport as a petroleum reservoir engineer and the firm ultimately became Coutret and Associates, Inc. In the forty-five years the firm has been in business, much of his work has been related to evaluation of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties for purchase or sale, banking, SEC reporting, estate taxation, or financial statement purposes. He has extensive experience in feasibility studies and design of pressure maintenance and secondary recovery projects, most of which were located in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Over the last thirty years he has had some involvement in many of the Smackover formation fields that have been unitized for pressure maintenance or secondary recovery. He has done numerous studies related to brine development for bromine recovery in the Reynolds aquifer in Arkansas. The various projects in which he has been involved have been located in all parts of the country, but most were in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Has qualified and testified as an expert witness in Petroleum Engineering before regulatory agencies of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Energy Agency. He has qualified and testified as an expert witness in Petroleum Engineering in cases before the State Courts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas and Federal Court jurisdictions in Louisiana, Arkansas, New York and Kentucky.
He is a Legion of Honor Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi.
He has over fifty-five years experience in petroleum engineering. Following graduation, and after a short tour of duty in the Army, he was employed by the Mobil Oil Corporation as a petroleum engineer. He worked for Mobil until 1968. His first Mobil assignment was as a Junior Petroleum Engineer in the Lake Charles, Louisiana District and was primarily involved with drilling and field operations and development. He was also responsible for reserve studies of a number of fields in the District. His next assignment was as a Production Engineer in the Natchez, Mississippi District. In these assignments his responsibilities were much the same as in the previous assignment but he was more directly involved in planning and supervision of workover and drilling operations, facilities design and other field production activities as well as reserve studies of all fields in the District. His next assignment was as Senior and Supervising Production Engineer in the Shreveport District where he had a variety of project assignments. These included Staff Reservoir Engineer and thermal recovery project engineer where he designed and installed both steam flood and in-situ combustion projects. As a result of some of his work in this field he was granted a patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,572,437) on a particular steam injection process that was employed in one of his projects. Other duties, while in the Shreveport District, involved property appraisals, fieldwide unitization, feasibility studies and project design for pressure maintenance and secondary recovery projects. While with Mobil he attended a number of courses offered by the company at their Field Research Laboratory dealing with Reservoir Engineering, Improved Recovery Operations, Well Stream Production and Processing and he participated in a number of Seminars dealing with various aspects of Thermal Recovery operations. He resigned his position with Mobil in 1968.
He then began a consulting practice in Shreveport as a petroleum reservoir engineer and the firm ultimately became Coutret and Associates, Inc. In the forty-five years the firm has been in business, much of his work has been related to evaluation of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties for purchase or sale, banking, SEC reporting, estate taxation, or financial statement purposes. He has extensive experience in feasibility studies and design of pressure maintenance and secondary recovery projects, most of which were located in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Over the last thirty years he has had some involvement in many of the Smackover formation fields that have been unitized for pressure maintenance or secondary recovery. He has done numerous studies related to brine development for bromine recovery in the Reynolds aquifer in Arkansas. The various projects in which he has been involved have been located in all parts of the country, but most were in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Has qualified and testified as an expert witness in Petroleum Engineering before regulatory agencies of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Energy Agency. He has qualified and testified as an expert witness in Petroleum Engineering in cases before the State Courts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas and Federal Court jurisdictions in Louisiana, Arkansas, New York and Kentucky.
He is a Legion of Honor Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi.
