Shell Cracker Plant in Beaver County expected to be operational next year
CEO of Shell says plant is more than 70% complete Share Updated: 5:02 AM EDT Mar 17, 2021 Nick Matoney
CEO of Shell says plant is more than 70% complete Share Updated: 5:02 AM EDT Mar 17, 2021
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Show Transcript NEW TEMPORARY FACILITIES. KELLY S.: WE KNOW WHEN THE SHELL CRACKER PLANT IN MENACHEM BEAVER COUNTY IS EXPECTED TO BE OPERATIONAL, THAT IS NEXT YEAR. KELLY: THE PETROCHEMICAL PLANT IS NOW MORE THAN 70% COMPLETE AND SHOULD BE FULLY OPERATIONAL SOMETIME IN 2022. THE PLANT WILL BREAK DOWN OR CRACK METHANE MOLECULES TO PRODUCE PELLETS THAT CAN THEN BE USED TO MAKE PLASTICS FOR PRODUCTS RANGING FROM AUTOMOTIVE PARTS TO FOOD PACKAGING. SHELL HAS SAID IT WILL CREATE 600 PERMANENT JOBS ONCE THE
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CP photo: Jared Wickerham A horizontal well for a natural gas drilling site in Butler County On Jan. 24, oil-and-gas giant Energy Transfer shelled out some serious money to re-run one of their commercials during the NFL conference championship games. The commercial implies that oil and natural gas lines are necessary to keep tanker trucks off of roads and tanker train cars off of railways, “just to meet our energy needs.” The commercial posits underground pipelines as bucolic havens, and railroads and highways as dangerous. Highways are dangerous, and pipelines do have far fewer incidents compared to America’s roads. But any notion that pipelines are solely peaceful and perfectly safe comes tumbling down when confronted with reality.