Reply #2: Engelder lauded as the "go-to industry authority on Marcellus Shale"

[Divernan]

http://www.geosc.psu.edu/-engelder/AFS/InsideAFS/InsideAFSindex.html
"His assessment of the Marcellus reveals that a lot of experimentation will be necessary to properly assess the actual extraction. We will be the guinea pigs in this experiment.
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"Schlumberger's Oilfield Review published an article which I have that concurs with Engelder and states that the industry has a lot to learn about hydraulic fracturing."
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"In the international area, he has worked on exploration and roduction problems with companies including Saudi aramco, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Agip and Petrobras."
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"Engelder holds degrees from Penn State B.S.('68), Yale M.S.(72) and Texas A & M Ph.D. ('73)."
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As a former doctoral student, I find it beyond belief that anyone with a master's degree could enroll in a doctoral program in the hard sciences in a different school and complete the coursework, and write and defend a doctor's thesis in only one year. Granted a school the quality of Texas A&M would accept transfer credits from Yale, but that would only have been 2/3 of the credits required for a Ph.D.. A&M still should have required another year's worth of coursework, along with a thesis. Love to see this guy's transcript & thesis. Perhaps he just recycled his Yale master's thesis.