Sunday, July 5, 2026

Location, Tax Breaks Key to Shell’s Pennsylvania Cracker Approval

From Petrochemical Update The market will have absorbed the additional supply of polyethylene from the first wave of U.S. Gulf Coast petrochemical projects by the time Shell Chemicals’ ethane and derivatives complex in Beaver County, Pennsylvania comes on stream in the early 2020s, according to Ate Visser, vice president of Shell’s Pennsylvania Chemicals Project. Image credit: Royal Dutch Shell Speaking