BASF has successfully commissioned the steam cracker at its newly built Verbund site in Zhanjiang in South China as scheduled ...

The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. (Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed) This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that ...

COLUMBUS – Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes PTT Global Chemical is on third base and heading for home in terms of building its $5.7 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County. The Thailand-based firm on ...

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Years in the works, a massive petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania fed by the vast natural gas reservoir underneath Appalachia became fully operational Tuesday, oil and ...

Shell's final decision on whether to build the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/morning-edition/2012/04/is-pa-on-cusp-of-manufacturing-revival.html ...

Shell could be exploring the sale of its chemical plants, including its recently constructed Beaver County ethane cracker. The plant, which makes polyethylene, a common plastic, is among those that ...

A Beaver County man is suing Shell in federal court claiming the company’s ethane cracker plant “released substantial and unreasonable noxious odors, fugitive dust and light emissions” that caused ...

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 ...

Allegheny Conference CEO says protecting environment, growing manufacturing are both possible; electricity supplier plans to hire; pipeline company launches binding open season; and Westinghouse ...

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries tipped to be the builder for two 100,000-cbm ethane carriers For ads that aren’t ...