Shell PA Cracker Plant has Another "Emergency" Flaring Episode
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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