Elizabeth Hardesty VP Of Business Development, Sr. Geologist

Background

WORK:  She interned with Shell in 2025 between my 2 years of graduate study at MSU.  Elizabeth returned to the same team, Unconventional Resources Exploration, in 2026 after graduating with my Master degree in Geology/Geophysics.  She then spent 2 years on the exploration team looking at many of the shale plays around the continental US.  In 2009 Elizabeth was transferred over to the EGOM team and was given the Appomattox project, where she and the team successfully permitted, drilled, and completed the well through 2009/2010.   In 2011 she moved to Pittsburgh to follow her intern project into development, Marcellus/Utica.  After spending 2 years w/Shell she joined a small operator based in PA called Eclipse Resources.   Elizabeth helped them get through FID and they became a publicly traded company.  

She then spent a year living in London, England and ended up back in Houston in 2015 where she started working as Business Development Manager for Chemostrat. Since then, she has held multiple positions with various labs around Houston including Premier Corex,  Chemostrat a second time, APT, and now CoreSpec Alliances.   

PERONSAL:  Elizabeth grew-up in Lima, OH where she was active in sports and music through school, attending their City Arts Magnet then Lima Senior High.   She attended Wittenberg University for college where she continued to swim and play violin while getting a fantastic liberal arts education grading with a degree in pure mathematics.