Cracker plant for WV

Looks like WV is getting a cracker plant to be placed in Wood County. Here is a link:

http://marcellusdrilling.com/2013/11/big-news-west-virginia-is-gett...

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Permalink Reply by Hal Whitlatch on November 16, 2013 at 3:52am

Jim,

All I can say is it is just 9 miles from my home and they have already told the SABIC empolyees that they are closing the plant in May of 2015

Permalink Reply by Jim White on November 16, 2013 at 6:02am

Hal

I don't understand. SABIC is a plastics plant. Why would they close it. Also, was wondering just how much gas a cracker plant can use per day/month etc. I didn't know what a cracker plant was until Friday. Still a bit vague.

Permalink Reply by Jim White on November 16, 2013 at 6:19am

Check that Hal. I just read the article in the Parkersburg paper. Apparently they are selling their 500 acres to the company that will own/run the cracker. However, how much does a cracker plant/s change the need to produce more gas or does it, which goes back to my question of how much natural gas do they/can they utilize. What's the payoff for the oil and gas drillers? Below is a link to the SABIC story.

http://newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/580238/SABIC-set-...

Permalink Reply by Hal Whitlatch on November 16, 2013 at 8:02am

Jim,

The cracker plant produces products used on the polymer industry(plastics). The SABIC plant is old and needs rebuilt for this particular cracker plant.

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on November 16, 2013 at 10:38am

Jim White; A cracker plant uses ethane. Dry nat gas is methane. Methane = CH4  Ethane, CH6, is found in wet gas.  A cracker plant, through a complex system that I don't understand, takes out two H atoms and it produces ethylene, which is CH4.  Ethylene is the building block or poly ethylene, a very common plastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene


The plant may use some methane for heat and generating electricity but not much. So companies that drill into wet gas shales will want the plant built so it has a market for the ethane they extract form the gas. It doesn't help a company that drills into dry gas shales very much.

Permalink Reply by searcherone on November 16, 2013 at 4:56am

Gary Evans of Magnum Hunter. is quoted as saying yesterday at the DUG East Conference in Pittsburgh that "the Utica and Marcellus is on both sides of the Ohio River."

When I  read that it says to me that there is plenty of product that will  be available for a cracker in Wood County.  And to think that there is only going to be one cracker in this Utica/Marcellus play in the Appalachian Basin I believe is a bit short sighted.

To use a comparison to an infant:  this baby hasn't begun to crawl yet and it will be a long time before it is  running at full speed.

All IMHO

Permalink Reply by jerry lee nichols on November 19, 2013 at 7:13am

I just hope that they utilize the local building trades workforce to build the damn thing,and not like that Texan non union built piece of junk Racer Plant that has already blown up once.fortunatly nobody was killed.

Permalink Reply by Jim White on November 19, 2013 at 12:04pm

I got a message today from one of the "higher ups" in one of the big oil and gas companies who said that everyone he has spoken with has acted like it's a "done deal", but not to believe anything until you see the smoke rising.

Permalink Reply by Hal Whitlatch on November 19, 2013 at 12:21pm

Jim all I can say it has been in process for a couple of years so far that I am aware of.

Permalink Reply by Trapper on November 19, 2013 at 12:47pm

I just got off the phone with Henry Kissinger and Yassar Arafat's widows (conference call) and they both assured me it is a done deal. You can take that to the bank! :-,)

Permalink Reply by Jim White on November 19, 2013 at 2:02pm

In any event, it would be nice to see some/more pipelines running through Pleasants and surrounding areas. Pleasants looks to be a straight shot although it looks like Ritchie would also be in line with a 90 degree bend. Probably/maybe both.

Permalink Reply by Hal Whitlatch on November 19, 2013 at 2:41pm

Jim,

I will email you an update on that

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