All Discussions Tagged 'Cracker' - GoMarcellusShale.com2024-03-29T06:41:44Zhttps://gomarcellusshale.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Cracker&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLatest Info Belmont County Ohio Proposed Crackertag:gomarcellusshale.com,2016-07-14:2274639:Topic:7417232016-07-14T17:35:07.917Zsearcheronehttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/JanetConn
<h1>Work on Dilles Bottom Cracker Plant Goes On</h1>
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<h1>Work on Dilles Bottom Cracker Plant Goes On</h1>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">DILLES BOTTOM — The skyline alongside the Ohio River will soon change, as contractors plan to demolish the stack of the R.E. Burger Plant by the end of the month to make room for a multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker.</span></p>
<div class="p402_premium"><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Since officials with Royal Dutch Shell confirmed plans to build their giant petrochemical plant near Monaca, Pa., anticipation for the PTT Global America project in Belmont County has continued building. Although PTT executives had hoped to make a final investment determination this year, company spokesman Dan Williamson this week said the final decision will likely occur next year.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">“We are continuing the front-end engineering design process. The site remediation is also in progress. We will have enough information to announce a final investment decision in the first quarter of 2017,” Williamson said.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">As contractors working for FirstEnergy Corp. work to clear the former R.E. Burger Plant for about one-third of the land needed to construct the massive ethane cracker, many of those living to the west of Burger are learning they would need to move if Thailand-based PTT elects to proceed with the project. Company officials maintain it is too early to tell what properties they will need to build the plant, but some residents say officials have been in touch with them about acquiring their land.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Some industry followers believe the lack of underground ethane storage capacity in Ohio, West Virginia or Pennsylvania will make it more difficult to support a cracker in the Marcellus and Utica region. Williamson, however, said the ethane supply is prolific enough to overcome this problem.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">“Ethane storage is something that is good to have, but not a must. Even without the storage, (the) existing pipeline network is reliable enough,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Along with propane, butane and pentane, ethane is one of the liquids prevalent in Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas streams. Earlier this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said domestic ethane production should grow from 1.1 million barrels per day in 2015 to 1.4 million barrels each day in 2017, an increase of 300,000 barrels daily.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Much of the projected increase is due to Marcellus and Utica shale production. Most of region’s ethane, at this point, is either blended into the methane stream for marketing as natural gas, or shipped to other regions for cracking via pipeline.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Williamson said Shell’s decision to build in Pennsylvania will have no impact on PTT’s project, nor will any of the several ethane pipeline projects in the area.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">“There is no concern with the ethane being sent away from the region. Ethane in this region is still sufficient to supply to our project,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Paul Wojciechowski, project director for PTT, recently said plans call for having infrastructure onsite that would “crack” the ethane into ethylene. He said additional infrastructure at the Dilles Bottom site would then transform some of this material into ethylene glycol for antifreeze, while even more onsite machinery would turn the rest of the ethylene into polyethylene for making plastic goods.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">Last year, Belmont County commissioners and officials with Jobs Ohio confirmed they were considering “incentives” to give PTT to proceed, which could include tax discounts or abatements.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: helvetica;">When asked if the plant developers intended to pay property taxes in Ohio, Williamson said, “We are currently in discussion with the state of Ohio and/or Belmont County on this matter.”</span></p>
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<p></p> Monroe County Ohio Cracker on Holdtag:gomarcellusshale.com,2015-10-02:2274639:Topic:6989952015-10-02T17:59:34.214Zsearcheronehttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/JanetConn
<p>This project is not looking good. Article states that the other two crackers are ahead in progress. Plus here is quote from article.</p>
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<p>AR, meanwhile, has begun detailed engineering and might keep that process going. However, it has encountered delays in acquiring a lease for the approximately 50-acre site along the Ohio River that it has targeted for development. Moreover, it has not secured its environmental permits. - See more at:…</p>
<p>This project is not looking good. Article states that the other two crackers are ahead in progress. Plus here is quote from article.</p>
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<p>AR, meanwhile, has begun detailed engineering and might keep that process going. However, it has encountered delays in acquiring a lease for the approximately 50-acre site along the Ohio River that it has targeted for development. Moreover, it has not secured its environmental permits. - See more at: <a href="http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/140743/Ohio_Valley_Labor_Crunch_Puts_Ethane_Cracker_Project_on_Hold#sthash.7T3HyiCe.dpuf">http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/140743/Ohio_Valley_Labor_Crunch_Puts_Ethane_Cracker_Project_on_Hold#sthash.7T3HyiCe.dpuf</a></p> Monroe Co. Ohio Cracker Continues to Progresstag:gomarcellusshale.com,2015-04-15:2274639:Topic:6713452015-04-15T00:26:21.028Zsearcheronehttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/JanetConn
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97614653?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="572" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97614653?profile=original"/></a>The above appeared on Downstreamtoday April 13</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97614653?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="572" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/97614653?profile=original"/></a>The above appeared on Downstreamtoday April 13</p> Shell Applies for Dock & Moorings Permitstag:gomarcellusshale.com,2014-09-13:2274639:Topic:6229322014-09-13T23:31:15.890Zsearcheronehttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/JanetConn
<p>Shell is taking more steps in their decision process to build a cracker.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.plastemart.com/plastic-facts-information.asp?news_id=25931&news=Shell-applies-for-dock-permits-at-proposed-petrochemical-site-in-Ohio">http://www.plastemart.com/plastic-facts-information.asp?news_id=25931&news=Shell-applies-for-dock-permits-at-proposed-petrochemical-site-in-Ohio</a></p>
<p>Shell is taking more steps in their decision process to build a cracker.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.plastemart.com/plastic-facts-information.asp?news_id=25931&news=Shell-applies-for-dock-permits-at-proposed-petrochemical-site-in-Ohio">http://www.plastemart.com/plastic-facts-information.asp?news_id=25931&news=Shell-applies-for-dock-permits-at-proposed-petrochemical-site-in-Ohio</a></p> 2 Cracker Plants ? Beaver AND Trumbull Counties ?tag:gomarcellusshale.com,2013-11-12:2274639:Topic:5166482013-11-12T01:48:06.717ZCharles Randolphhttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/CharlesRandolph
<p><span class="font-size-3">“Whether built by Shell <strong>or anyone else,</strong> a Marcellus cracker should be a strong commercial success,” offers IHS Chemical’s Barrasa. “<strong>In fact</strong>, in terms of security of supply and a lack of significant ethylene storage infrastructure <strong>in the region, you almost need two crackers.</strong>” </span><span class="font-size-3">"You can either build a cracker on site and ship the derivatives, or you can build a pipeline to transport…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">“Whether built by Shell <strong>or anyone else,</strong> a Marcellus cracker should be a strong commercial success,” offers IHS Chemical’s Barrasa. “<strong>In fact</strong>, in terms of security of supply and a lack of significant ethylene storage infrastructure <strong>in the region, you almost need two crackers.</strong>” </span><span class="font-size-3">"You can either build a cracker on site and ship the derivatives, or you can build a pipeline to transport the ethane. Both are viable.”</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">In the case of the Marcellus Shale, and now emerging activity in the wet-gas window of the Utica Shale in Ohio and Pennsylvania, it <strong>looks likely that both options may be played out eventually, Eramo adds."</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.aogr.com/index.php/web-features/exclusive-story/shale-gas-ngls-fuel-large-scale-petrochemical-investments">http://www.aogr.com/index.php/web-features/exclusive-story/shale-gas-ngls-fuel-large-scale-petrochemical-investments</a></span></p> Gulfport to ship ethane to Shell's proposed cracker planttag:gomarcellusshale.com,2013-11-11:2274639:Topic:5164732013-11-11T06:17:57.619ZCharles Randolphhttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/CharlesRandolph
<p><span class="font-size-3">The company has signed an agreement to provide its ethane from the Utica Shale to Royal Dutch Shell's proposed multi-billion cracker plant in Beaver County, Pa., if that plant gets built.…</span><br></br></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The company has signed an agreement to provide its ethane from the Utica Shale to Royal Dutch Shell's proposed multi-billion cracker plant in Beaver County, Pa., if that plant gets built.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.ohio.com/blogs/drilling/ohio-utica-shale-1.291290/gulfport-to-ship-ethane-to-shell-s-proposed-cracker-plant-1.442718">http://www.ohio.com/blogs/drilling/ohio-utica-shale-1.291290/gulfport-to-ship-ethane-to-shell-s-proposed-cracker-plant-1.442718</a></span></p>
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<div id="dc_vk_code" style="display: none;"></div> Governor Corbett Hits a Grand Slam With Shell Cracker Plant Incentive Packagetag:gomarcellusshale.com,2012-06-25:2274639:Topic:3070812012-06-25T16:36:17.533ZMike Knapphttps://gomarcellusshale.com/profile/MikeKnapp
<p>It's rare to find an issue, especially one that has to do with shale gas drilling, that has widespread acceptance. Governor Corbett managed to do it with his fantastic, no cost to taxpayers deal to bring Shell's cracker plant to PA:</p>
<p>This is a great way to assess everyone that is just against shale drilling for political or other B.S. reasons. </p>
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<p>It's rare to find an issue, especially one that has to do with shale gas drilling, that has widespread acceptance. Governor Corbett managed to do it with his fantastic, no cost to taxpayers deal to bring Shell's cracker plant to PA:</p>
<p>This is a great way to assess everyone that is just against shale drilling for political or other B.S. reasons. </p>
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<p><a href="http://knappap.blogspot.com/2012/06/corbett-hits-grand-slam-with-cracker.html" target="_blank">http://knappap.blogspot.com/2012/06/corbett-hits-grand-slam-with-cracker.html</a></p>
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