Preparing Documentary on Shale Gas, Ukrainian Film Crew Visits ETEC

Published 08.08.2014

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from left, Mykola Avdeenko, cameraman; Ihor Chayka, producer;  Thomas Murphy, Penn State Extension educator and co-director of Penn State’s Marcellus Center of Outreach and Research; and Vadym Storozhev, audio technician.John F. Strittmatter, director of ShaleNet's U.S. regional hub, is interviewed alongside student Amy L. Gallagher, of Linden.A documentary crew from the Ukraine visited Penn College’s Energy Technology Education Center on July 29 to explore how training is provided for natural gas industry jobs. The documentary will explore shale development  in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The American Embassy in Kiev provided a grant to one of Ukraine’s leading documentary producers, Ihor Chayka, to make a film on the U.S. experience with shale gas production. The documentary will be broadcast by a leading independent channel, ZIK TV, based in Lviv, Ukraine.
Photos by Greg Franklin