COUTRET AND ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Robert Latham graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology in 2008 and a Masters in Business Administration from Louisiana State University Shreveport in 2015. Robert is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (Lou-Ark Section)
Robert has been with the firm since October of 2008 and works as an engineering technician. He supports engineers with PHDWin economic software for reserve analysis and runs economics under the direction of a reservoir engineer. He also maintains the internal reserve databases and supports engineers on analyses. Robert's duties mainly consist of the evaluation of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties for purchase or sale, banking, or for financial statement purposes.
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 petroleum engineering honor society 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. He has given seminars and lectures on petroleum engineering to the Ark La Tex Association of Petroleum Landmen, the Natural Resources Law Institute sponsored by the Arkansas Bar Association and the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, the Shreveport Geological Society and North Louisiana chapter of COPAS.
Timothy H. Brown, Jr. graduated from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (Lou-Ark Section) and the American Association of Drilling Engineers. Timothy has participated in internships with Illios Resources and Goodrich Petroleum.
Timothy joined Coutret and Associates Inc. in 2014 and works as a reservoir engineer. His focuses included mineral appraisals, reserve analysis, and evaluating producing and non-producing oil and gas properties.