Parris, M.

has 35 years of oil and gas experience. Mr. Parris began his career as a plant engineer in Shell’s refinery in Deer Park, Texas, in 1980. In 1984, he moved to the Shell Anacortes, Washington, refinery as the rotating equipment engineer and maintenance supervisor. From 1998 to 2004, he worked as a maintenance manager in the Motiva Delaware City, Delaware, refinery. From 2004 until 2007, he was the rotating equipment lead for CNOOC Shell Petrochemicals Company’s large grassroots chemical plant in China. From 2007 until 2009, he was the regional manager for Shell Global Solutions Rotating Equipment in Bangalore, India, where he performed reliability audits for third-party plants in the Middle East and Africa. Since 2009, he has worked for Shell as a principal engineer in major upstream projects in Kazakhstan, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. Mr. Parris holds a BS degree in nuclear engineering from Pennsylvania State University.