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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Almost a decade ago, a proposed ethane cracker plant was announced to be built in Belmont County. It was expected to spur economic development like no other for the Ohio Valley, ...

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Supervisors of a western Pennsylvania township have granted a conditional use permit for a $6 billion petrochemical, or ethane cracker, plant proposed by Shell Chemicals. A 10-hour ...

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 ...

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