From Reuters Harris County, Texas sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday over pollution from a fire a day earlier at the company’s Baytown Olefins Plant, according to an attorney for the county. The fire was being investigated by federal and state agencies. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) were at
Natural gas liquids production in the Marcellus and Utica formations expected to nearly double in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, drawing petrochemical expansion According to a new study from IHS Markit, the Marcellus and Utica shale formations’ production will increase exponentially in the next two decades, driving petrochemical growth in the region. Natural gas from the tri-state region of Ohio,
Noble Energy, Inc. (ticker: NBL) has signed agreements to sell significant quantities of natural gas from the Leviathan and Tamar fields to Dolphinus Holdings Limited to supply gas in Egypt. These agreements, one for natural gas from Leviathan and one for Tamar, each provide for total contract quantities of 1.15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The natural gas is
Incentives to draw PetroChem developers was Alberta’s royalty credits Inter Pipeline Ltd. (ticker: IPL) is getting help from the Canadian Government to build a world-scale integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) plant with a price tag of $3.5 billion. The facilities will be collectively referred to as the Heartland Petrochemical Complex, the $3.5 billion superstructure is designed to process
First polyethylene shipment from mega-plant is slated for export from Houston in October ExxonMobil (ticker: XOM) Chemical Company started production on the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The full project, part of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project in the Baytown area and ExxonMobil’s broader Growing the Gulf expansion
Royal Dutch Shell announced on June 7, 2016, that the final investment decision has been given for construction of a petrochemical plant in western Pennsylvania. The plant will be located near the Marcellus and Utica shale plays and will collect ethane from the area to make ethylene for use in the manufacturing of plastics. The plant announcement was five years
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