| Date: Tuesday July 15, 2008 Time: 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $35.00 Members ($40.00 at door) $40.00 Guests ($45.00 at door and after deadline)
Location: The Petroleum Club - Main Dining Room
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Speaker: Terry Engelder
Professor of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Topic: "The Marcellus: A Texas-sized Resource Play Right Under North America's Largest Winter Market" |
Terry Engelder, a leading authority on the recent Marcellus gas shale play, holds degrees from Penn State B.S. (’68), Yale M.S. (’72) and Texas A&M, Ph.D. (‘73). He is currently a Professor of Geosciences at Penn State and has previously served on the staffs of the US Geological Survey, Texaco, and Columbia University. Other academic distinctions include appointments as Visiting Professor at Graz University in Austria and Visiting Professor at the University of Perugia in Italy. He has held a Fulbright Senior Fellowship in Australia. During the years of the Nixon-Brezhnev dêtente, he was an early member of a US earth science delegation working in the Soviet Union. While in the field in Italy with Walter Alvarez, he helped collect the samples that led to the famous theory for dinosaur extinction by large meteorite impact. He has written 150 research papers and the book, 'Stress Regimes in the Lithosphere'. In the international arena, he has worked on exploration and production problems with companies including Saudi Aramco, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Agip, and Petrobras.
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