O. Lynn Rowlan

About O. Lynn Rowlan

Beginning in September 2019 Mr. Rowlan retired from full time employment and now works as a consultant. Prior to retiring Mr. Rowlan held the position of Vice-president of Engineering for Echometer Company in Wichita Falls, Texas. Prior to August he held the position of Artificial Lift Consultant for Amerada Hess Corporation in Houston, Texas. O. Lynn Rowlan education includes a Bachelor and Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering graduating in 1976 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater Oklahoma. Mr. Rowlan was the recipient of the J.C. Slonneger Award bestowed by the, SWPSC, SW Petroleum Short Course Association, Inc; the recipient of the 2010 SPE Distinguished Production Operations Award; the 2011 Crawford Service Award from the SWPSC; the SPE 2020 Legend of Artificial Lift Award; and the recipient of the 2024 James N. McCoy Lifetime Contribution Award from the SWPSC. During the last 25 years Mr. Rowlan has taught or coordinated more than 40 SWPSC day-1 or day-2 1-day Short Courses. During the 43 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry he has authored more than ninety research works/papers for the SWPSC, the Solution Mining Research Institute, the Artificial Lift Research and Development Counsel, the Russian Oil & Gas Technologies Magazine, the Canadian Petroleum Society and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He has presented hundreds of seminars and talks on the efficient operation, optimization, and troubleshooting of oil and gas wells. He co-authored a book for gas well production optimization “Gas Well Deliquification”. He also holds a US Patent # 6,634,426 on Plunger Lift Analysis.Since 2009 his Advanced Dynamometer Analysis on-line training class has been available on webpage. In 2020 during quarantine from COVID he participated in creating 23 on-line Ask Echometer 2-hour technical talks on various Artificial Lift topics, currently available on YouTube. He provides training and consultation in performing well analysis to increase oil and gas production and reduce operating cost. His primary interest is to advance the technology of using the Echometer Portable Well Analyzer to analyze and optimize the operation of all artificial lift production systems.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Echometer Company

   Aug 2000 — Present

Education

• Oklahome State University

  Bachelor and Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering

  1971 — 1976