Our Team

Bryan McDowell

Founder | Managing Partner

Bryan McDowell is a geologist/reservoir engineer specialized in integrating geologic and petroleum engineering datasets for multi-disciplinary assessments in oil & gas reservoirs. He was an engineering/geoscience technical advisor for asset development at Discovery Natural Resources before starting Sabata in 2020.

Bryan received his B.Sc., Geology at Texas A&M University in 2010 and his M.Sc., Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines in 2018. He is finishing his Ph.D., Geology at Colorado School of Mines and has worked in the oilfield since 2011.

Alan Yoelin

Engineering Advisor

Alan has over thirty years upstream experience in engineering and management roles supporting organizations ranging from small independents to majors. His areas of expertise include Reservoir Evaluation, Operations, Acquisitions and Divestments and Project Evaluations.

Alan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Petroleum Engineering and has an MBA from the University of Houston. He is also a member of SPEE.