Natural gas-based processes could be alternative for ethane crackers, oil refineries, California-based technology developer tells DownstreamToday. A California-based company claims that it has found a ...

Shell says its brand new plastics plant near Pittsburgh is now in operation. The $6 billion plant, known as an ethane cracker, will take ethane, a component of natural gas, from fracking operations in ...

A new ethane cracker now is operational in Port Arthur and soon will be creating supplies for the expanding Baystar Polymers polyethylene plant in Pasadena. Registered under the name Bayport Polymer, ...

POTTER TWP. − After a decade of political hype and five years of construction, Beaver County’s ethane cracker plant is online. Shell Polymers Senior Vice President Hilary Mercer announced the facility ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A surge in production of associated and non-associated natural gas from U.S. shale gas and tight oil plays, combined with a wave of new petrochemical steam-crackers coming ...

Port Arthur’s newest ethane cracker has been delayed, but it appears poised to start up sometime next week. Baystar Polymers told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that it plans to begin ...

These facilities, known as ethane crackers, apply intense pressure and heat — around 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit —to break the bonds of the ethane molecules. That “cracks” the ethane into a gas called ...

DOHA, Qatar--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global software and engineering leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar ...

An ethane breakout from the Marcellus Shale sets up a potential showdown duel between Appalachia and the heart of the U.S. petrochemical industry along the U.S. Gulf Coast. "Rich, rich, rich, rich." ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) (ISIN:NL0014559478) has been awarded a contract(1) for the supply of proprietary cracking furnaces for the 2,000 kta(2) ethane cracker for the ...