Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration releases more details about its investigation into issues with Shell’s Falcon pipeline, which travels through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, according to Farm and Dairy.
The administration stated that it looked at photos of two pieces of pipe, in a letter to FracTracker Alliance, but could not substantiate a whistleblower’s claims that the pipeline had been built with a defective corrosion coating.
The 98-mile Falcon pipeline was built to feed Shell’s Beaver County ethane cracker plant, which is still being built. The plant, expected to be operational sometime in 2022, will process ethane, a component of natural gas, into plastics.
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