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(ICIS) -- Bayer has received several
inquiries regarding the use of its West Virginia sites for an ethane cracker, a
top company executive said on Thursday. Bayer said in December it was exploring
the idea of potential investors using one of its two sites in West Virginia for
a cracker using ethane derived from Marcellus shale.
“We have had several inquiries,” said Greg Babe, head of Bayer
MaterialScience and CEO of Bayer Corp in the US. Bayer Corp, headquartered in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the US subsidiary of the Bayer group. “Starting in
December of last year, when our offers have hit the news waves, we have had
several inquiries, ongoing discussions, since then,” Babe said.
Shell announced in June it was developing plans for a world-scale cracker
in the Appalachian region of the US, but it has not made a site decision. Babe
said he was open to either leasing or selling land on one of the Bayer sites for
a cracker. An “outspoken supporter of reinvigorating manufacturing in the United
States”, Babe said the rich ethane content of the Marcellus shale gas reserves
makes West Virginia a logical place for an ethane cracker.
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