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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