Pennsylvania Natural Gas Development Leading to Reverse Brain Drain
Times Online (Pennsylvania): Matt Curry moved to Texas for work but kept his treasured Steelers season tickets in the hope he might return someday to western Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Penn State with a degree in petroleum engineering, Curry didn’t have much of a choice but to leave. He got a job that required him to travel and “bounced around the United States for a few years,” the 43-year-old said recently.
“I eventually settled in Dallas, working for multiple oil and gas companies during my time there,” he said. “Around 2008, I began hearing more and more about Marcellus and Range Resources, and I saw the opportunity to move home.”
Curry is director of business development at Range Resources in Cecil Township, Washington County. He and his wife, Heather, have three children, ranging in age from 4 months to 5 years old — “all born in Pittsburgh,” said Curry, who is from Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County.
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By Mary Leschper
Originally posted August 26, 2014
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