(Plastemart) -- Royal Dutch
Shell has planned to build a new world-scale ethylene cracker in the Appalachia
region of US as the vast area of natural gas implanted in the Marcellus Shale
are changing region's fortunes by encouraging global energy. The three locations
Shell is eyeing for the crackers are Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Shell
owns the natural gas rights for about 700,000 gross acres in the Marcellus,
mostly in Pennsylvania, as per icis.com. According to a company official US
natural gas is "abundant and affordable," and the company has the know-how to
develop this crucial energy resource, along with its associated product
polyethylene (PE), for the domestic market.
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