Theta Oilfield Services

Theta Oilfield Services, Inc. was founded as Theta Enterprises, Inc. in 1989 and has since become the leader in Rod Pumping Optimization software and training. Theta Oilfield Services has developed diagnostic, design, pumping unit balancing, dynamometer data measurement, and smart oilfield automation software that are used by many oil companies, service companies, and rod pumping equipment suppliers. Theta Oilfield Services also provides training courses and consulting services in rod pumping optimization. Theta Enterprises was founded by John G. Svinos. Before starting Theta Enterprises, John was a Senior Research Engineer with Chevron Oil Field Research Company (now Chevron Petroleum Technology Company), where he was project leader of the Artificial Lift Group. He was responsible for research, development, and technology transfer. He field-tested new pumping units, pump off controllers, and downhole equipment, directed development of advanced design and diagnostic analysis computer programs, and taught in-house rod pumping schools. Before Chevron, he worked for Gulf Oil Corporation, also in artificial lift. He holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University. John has served on the API Task Group to revise the API RP 11L, on the Tulsa University Artificial Lift Projects Advisory Board, and as chairman of a 1991 SPE forum on application of expert systems to engineering problems. He has authored several papers on rod pumping technology. Theta became a Dover company in 2007 when it was acquired by Norris Sucker Rods.