Jerry Dumas, chief executive of Flotek Industries Inc., Houston, (NYSE: FTK) has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Award in the Energy Products category in the Houston and Gulf Coast Area.

“It is a tribute to the Flotek family’s performance to receive this prestigious award. No one can achieve any accolade without support,” Dumas says. “With the strength of my faith, my family and my Flotek family we have endured the challenges of building an organization and I am extremely proud of Flotek as a company and for the opportunity it affords employees, including myself, to learn and grow professionally.”

The awards program is in its 22^nd year.

“Ernst & Young is pleased to honor outstanding business leaders such as Jerry Dumas,” says Doug Bogart, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program director for the Houston and Gulf Coast area. “Winners…build leading businesses and contribute a great deal to the communities around them. Their success helps our area grow stronger.”

Dumas will be a candidate now for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 national program. Award winners will be announced in Palm Springs, Calif., on Nov. 15.