Blowout Expert Witnesses

Bullard, Texas

Petroleum Engineering, Oil and Gas - Personal Injury, Securities Fraud, Hydraulic Fracturing, Patent, Operations Failure, Equipment Failure, Safety in Design, Environmental, Drilling Operations, Completions Operations, Horizontal Drilling, Trade Secret, Oilfield Operations, Reserves Projections, Safety Engineering, Machine Design, Root Cause Analysis, Blowout , Explosion

Harold E. McGowen, III is a Registered Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. His business background is robust, having started and been a part of building and selling several companies including working with Private Equity. His bent and background is highly technical, and he has worked as an engineer and manager for several organizations, giving him a broad view of the industry. He has been involved in all steps of the oil and gas exploration and production process. Harold has provided expert witness services to assist in patent litigation and inter partes reviews related to down-hole tools, materials/chemicals, horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other oilfield-related technologies. Harold has also provided expert witness services related to hydraulic fracturing "crashing", equipment failures, and operational negligence.

Spring, Texas

Oil and Gas, Petroleum Engineering - well control, well operations, blowout, oilfield accident, petroleum engineering, oil asset valuation, drilling, completions, rig, explosion, refinery, safety, remediation , engineering and operations , oilfield , oil and gas , oil lease , gas lease , gas explosion , rig fire

I graduated with a BS from MIT and have advanced degrees from Texas A&M (Petroleum Engineering) and UMich. I have over 25 years' experience as a leader in the Oil and Gas industry. My certifications include: Licensed Petroleum Engineer (Texas license # 102422) Certified SPE Petroleum Engineer Certified Safety Professional (BCSP) I have performed expert witness and evaluation for both identification of root causes of oilfield accidents and asset valuations. Exploration and production of oil and gas assets and economic analysis of energy assets. Asset portfolio management and reservoir management. Leading BP’s global well control team after the Macondo incident to address the institutional risks that had led to the catastrophe. During my 7-year tenure there was a marked 70% reduction in higher level events Analysis and remediation of oil and gas well accidents- led incident investigations for well control incidents Numerous publications and patents