Harold McGowen III, PE — Navidad Energy Advisors

Harold McGowen is a Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer with over 35 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. McGowen is Founder, President and CEO at Navidad Energy Advisors, a company that offers expert witness services and litigation support for cases related to the oil and gas industry.

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.

Areas of Expertise:

• Petroleum Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing
  • Completion Engineering
  • Oil and Gas Reserves Projections
  • Drilling Engineering
  • Production Engineering
  • Squeeze Cementing
  • Horizontal Drilling
  • Underbalanced Drilling Technology
  • Downhole Tools
• Operations Failure
  • Hydraulic Fracturing Issues
• Environmental Damage
• Equipment Failure
• Errors and Omissions
• Patent Analysis
  • Prior Art
  • Obviousness
  • Utility
  • Processes and Machines
• Litigation Support
  • Big Data Forensic Analysis
    • Database Design and Development
    • Categorizing, parsing, analyzing and summarizing large data sets
  • Technical Consulting
  • Third-Party Expert Witness Preparation
  • Computer Animations
  • Technical Exhibits
  • Damages Modeling
    • Valuation
• Restructuring/Turnaround and Bankruptcy Support
  • Determination of Total Enterprise Value
  • Interim Operations Management