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A sad end to the hope that Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin America (headquartered in Brazil), is going to build an ethane cracker in Wood County, WV, near Parkersburg. We hasten to add Braskem leaving doesn't mean someone else won't will build a cracker plant there--it just won't be Braskem. News is leaking

Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin America (headquartered in Brazil), and its parent company Odebrecht were, at one time, hot-to-trot to build a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker near Parkersburg, WV. Back in 2015, Braskem purchased the 374-acre site that was formerly the SABIC/GE property from Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise for $10.9 million. Then things

What's this? The all-but-dead ethane cracker project planned for West Virginia has new life! (Perhaps the Shell announcement has something to do with it?) Brazilian company Odebrecht has pulled out of the Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise (ASCENT) project previously announced for the Parkersburg, WV area (see Odebrecht Pushes the Pause Button on WV Ethane Cracker).

Two weeks ago, MDN editor Jim Willis offered the opinion that PTT Global Chemical is not going to build an ethane cracker plant in Belmont County (see Facing Reality – PTT Ohio Cracker Plant Project is Dead). He backed up his opinion with observations and facts to support it. On Tuesday, the Belmont County Township

We'll say aloud what no one else appears ready or willing to say: The long-ballyhooed PTT ethane cracker plant project in Belmont County, Ohio, announced eight years ago, is dead. That's our humble opinion. We periodically look for signs of life in the project, and it has been a flat line for YEARS. Nothing. A

We're off to the races! M2X Energy, based in Florida, announced the company's first modular gas-to-methanol plant reached a key milestone and produced its first methanol at the Richard Childress Racing campus in Welcome, N.C. Richard Childress Racing is a motorsports organization with a long history in NASCAR racing and engine development. M2X uses methane

Although Shell maintains flaring and accidental emissions from its new multi-billion-dollar ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, have not violated state and federal air standards, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) says they have--on numerous occasions. Shell didn’t argue the point, and in May, the company agreed to pay nearly $10 million in fines

A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has advised President Bola Tinubu to urgently implement the Green Imperative

Yesterday around 30-40 environmental activists (anti-fossil fuelers), along with a handful of local residents, rallied in Beaver, PA, before showing up for the Beaver County Commission regular meeting. The protesters, who want the Shell ethane cracker plant shut down, vented their concerns about the plant to county commissioners. The three county commissioners listened while antis

In March, Shell said its Pennsylvania ethane cracker facility had not--using new, more accurate methods of measuring emissions--violated emissions limits at any point during the facility's somewhat troubled startup (see Shell Claims PA Cracker Plant Did Not Exceed Air Emissions Limits). However, the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) says it did exceed emissions limits,