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DILLES BOTTOM At the outset of 2020, it appeared the Ohio Valley might finally receive the news that PTT Global Chemical America was ready to commit to building an ethane cracker plant in southern Belmont County.
For more than five years, the company has been investing in property, permitting, engineering and design work, and site development for the proposed petrochemical complex, and all signs pointed to an official announcement being made in July. However, as it became clear that COVID-19 would become a major pandemic and PTTGCA’s partner, Daelim Chemical USA, withdrew from the project, its future became less certain.
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File Photo â Local leaders and national Energy Department officials tour the site of a proposed ethane cracker plant at Dilles Bottom in August.
DILLES BOTTOM At the outset of 2020, it appeared the Ohio Valley might finally receive the news that PTT Global Chemical America was ready to commit to building an ethane cracker plant in southern Belmont County.
For more than five years, the company has been investing in property, permitting, engineering and design work, and site development for the proposed petrochemical complex, and all signs pointed to an official announcement being made in July.
However, as it became clear that COVID-19 would become a major pandemic and PTTGCA’s partner, Daelim Chemical USA, withdrew from the project, its future became less certain.