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KSBJ President's Council

ALLEN HOWARD

Posted 3 months ago - Jun 27, 2024

Chairman & Founder Solid Rock Energy

Allen is acknowledged by Oil and Gas Financial Journal as “one of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas reservoirs.” He has identified unconventional oil and gas reservoirs in multiple worldwide sequences, as well as new reservoir targets in other trends like the Eagle Ford Shale, leading to discoveries including the Apache-operated “Alpine High” play and the Chesapeake-operated LaSalle County Eagle Ford. These are currently being developed as Tier-1 resource projects.Allen’s energy experience spans more than 40 years, most significantly as a successive and successful entrepreneur founding five energy-related companies across three decades: Solid Rock, established in 2019; Throne Petroleum Resources, an E&P company launched in 2013; Tri-Tech Energy Partners, founded in 2008 and through a partnership with Chesapeake, created an asset value of $2+B; NuTech Energy Alliance, founded in 1998, that became the recognized industry leader in unconventional reservoir intelligence; and NUMAR, as a member of the 1991 founding team, where he led the development of proprietary petrophysical evaluation technology, an IPO and listing on NASDAQ, and ultimately the sale to Halliburton for $360MM. He also served a decade in senior positions for Schlumberger and Halliburton. Allen has taken coursework toward an MBA from the University of Texas, Permian. He earned a BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Texas Tech University; he has been honored by the school and is active with the university’s engineering college and foundation board and now serves as a National Board of Directors for Texas Tech Alumni. He formed Autumn’s Dawn in 2010 to help transition young adults with Autism coming out of high school who were dealing with careers and education as they move into adulthood. He and his wife Linnie further formed an alliance with Texas Tech autism research to further study the neurological relationships these kids deal with as individuals . Allen is an active member of First Baptist Church Houston Cypress campus teaching Adult Bible Study.