This article was initially published on March 15, 2012.
Shell Oil Co. has chosen a property in Beaver County to possibly locate a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker plant, and it’s not the site most thought it would be.
There’s also a long road ahead before anything will be built, officials cautioned Thursday.
Even though all the talk coming into Thursday’s announcement was that the former J&L steel mill property in Aliquippa was the most likely location in western Pennsylvania, Shell instead signed a land option agreement on the soon-to-be closed 300-acre Horsehead Corp. property in Potter and Center townships.