Stephen A. Holditch is the Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. The Department has 30 faculty and research positions and 16 staff positions. There are over 450 undergraduate students and 200 graduate students enrolled in Petroleum Engineering in College Station, Texas. There are another 50 students in Doha, Qatar. 

Dr. Holditch joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1976 and has been on the faculty continuously since that time. He has taught 94 courses, has served on the committees of 131 graduate students, and has been the chairman of 61 of those graduate student committees since 1976. Dr. Holditch has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses and is serving on 9 graduate committees, of which he is the chairman for 8 students.

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Holditch, Stephen A.: “Stimulation of Tight Gas Reservoirs Worldwide”, OTC 20267-PP presented at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, TX, 4-7 May 2009.

Wang, John Yilin, Holditch, Stephen A., and McVay, Duane A.: “Modeling Fracture Fluid Cleanup in Tight Gas Wells”, SPE 119624 presented at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference in The Woodlands, TX, 19-21 January 2009.

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Holditch, Stephen A. and Chianelli, Russell R.: “Factors That Will Influence Oil and Gas Supply and Demand in the 21st Century”, MRS Bulletin, Volume 33, April 2008, Harnessing Materials for Energy.

Holditch, S. A.: “Tight Gas Reservoirs”, Distinguish Author Article, Journal of Petroleum Technology, (May 2006)

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