E8 LLC courses are taught by John G. Svinos, the company’s founder and president. He and his previous company (Theta Oilfield Services, Inc.) developed RODSTAR-V, RODSTAR-D, XROD-V, RODDIAG, XDIAG, XSPOC, CBALANCE, XTOOLS, XANIMATE, industry’s most advanced rod pumping optimization computer software programs. Before starting Theta Enterprises (now called Theta Oilfield Services after it was acquired by Norris Sucker Rods in 2007), John was a Senior Research Engineer with Chevron Oil Field Research Company (COFRC). At COFRC 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 courses. 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 entitled “Application of expert systems to engineering problems.” He has authored several papers and taught many courses on rod pumping technology throughout the world.
John has 33 years of experience in Rod Pumping Optimization courses and has been teaching Rod Pumping Optimization courses for over 30 years. John has trained thousands of production engineers, foremen, operators and production managers in the USA, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Indonesia, Australia, Bahrain, Romania, England, and Austria.
John has just completed the industry’s first eBook on rod pumping optimization now available on Apple’s iBooks store titled “Practical Rod Pumping Optimization”.