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The mighty Shell ethane cracker seems to have “issues” in getting and staying fully up to speed. We've previously reported on a series of emergency flaring episodes at the plant (see Shell PA Cracker Plant has Another “Emergency” Flaring Episode). Over the weekend, Shell announced (via Facebook) it was shutting down part of the cracker

The mighty Shell ethane cracker seems to have "issues" in getting, and staying, fully up to speed. In what has become a pattern, about once a month the cracker plant is forced to use flaring--the burning of hydrocarbons (ethane or natural gas) to safely dispose of said hydrocarbons during an equipment malfunction. It happened a

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The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) early last week to the Shell ethane cracker plant in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, now called the Shell Polymers Monaca facility, for the third time since it officially began operation last November. In a letter dated Feb. 13 (copy below), the DEP

It hasn’t been a problem-free startup for the mighty Shell ethane cracker plant in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, now called the Shell Polymers Monaca facility. We’ve noted some of the more prominent issues as we’ve spotted them in the news. Things like the plant exceeding allowed air emissions (see PA DEP Issues Violation to Shell

Yesterday two radicalized Big Green groups--the Environmental Integrity Project (based in D.C.) and the Clean Air Council (based in Philadelphia)--filed a notice of intent to sue the Shell Polymers Monaca ethane cracker plant near Pittsburgh. The notice, as well as the coming lawsuit, has all the hallmarks of being planned long ago, perhaps years ago,

It hasn't been a problem-free startup for the mighty Shell ethane cracker plant in Monaca (Beaver County), PA, now called the Shell Polymers Monaca facility. We've noted some of the more prominent issues as we've spotted them in the news. Things like the plant exceeding allowed air emissions (see PA DEP Issues Violation to Shell

Residents living in the vicinity of Energy Transfer’s Revolution Pipeline cryogenic plant in Bulger (Washington County), PA, got a nasty “present” on Christmas morning. Around 7:30 am, residents report hearing an explosion, followed by a fire, at the plant used to separate NGLs (natural gas liquids, including ethane, propane, and butane) from the raw gas

The Shell ethane cracker plant near Pittsburgh (now called Shell Polymers Monaca) had an orange glow over it Monday night. The neighbors were not impressed. According to Shell, there was an issue with the steam generator that caused the operators to initiate ground flaring--the burning of hydrocarbons. The flares relieve pressure by burning off hydrocarbons

Wacko leftists, who are driven nearly to insanity because the mighty Shell ethane cracker actually began full operations last week, are still agitating to close it down. They are self-deluded. More than a dozen local and national radicalized environmental groups launched a "to-do list" campaign to "force" Shell to address what the activists say are