I am pleased to announce that we have hired Mr. Chris Norris to work for Theta
Enterprises, Inc. in Kingwood Texas.
Chris Norris graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1977 with a B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering. But instead of building cars like a normal engineer
from Ohio, he joined Shell Oil Company and retrained as a production engineer.
He spent 14 years in various onshore U.S. assignments in Michigan, Montana,
West Texas, and California. He spent the next 11 years in the Middle East doing
lead technical work on Petroleum Development Oman’s extensive Rod Pumping,
Progressive Cavity Pump and ESP operations.
Chris was Shell’s representative on API Committee 11 before moving to the Middle East. He is a 25 year active SPE member, and a former JPT technical review editor.
I have known Chris since he was with Shell and have a great respect for his engineering abilities. His contributions to Theta Enterprises will become obvious soon. Chris is working on development and testing of the new Deviated RODSTAR, a new Utilities program for belt and sheave sizing, gas anchor design, tubing anchor calculations, and more. He is also designing and helping us develop a failure tracking database application.