More than $200 billion is expected to be invested in the U.S. petrochemical sector as the region becomes an energy exporter, and nearly half of the new projects announced since 2010 are in Texas, an industry trade association told Petrochemical Update. × The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) running tab of 334 announced projects represents a
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A troubling pattern of donations to Sen. Andy Dinniman campaigns raises question of whose special interests he’s representing against Mariner East pipelines. Pennsylvania Senator “Absent” Andy Dinniman is a caricature of the classic politician who pompously talks about the people’s interests. But, is that who he’s really representing
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Michael Wayland Automotive News General Motors Co. General Motors Co. officials said the company expects to move carbon fiber use beyond the new CarbonPro box on the GMC Denali. Fort Wayne, Ind. — General Motors Co.’s new carbon fiber pickup box for the GMC Sierra is the tip
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Agilyx LLC and Americas Styrenics LLC are creating a joint venture to recycle post-consumer polystyrene into new products. The new operation, called Regenyx LLC, aims to use Agilyx’s chemical recycling approach to convert used PS into styrene monomer. Americas Styrenics, which makes both polystyrene and styrene, will work
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Plastics News Europe Corbios/YouTube Corbios is working with major consumer brands as it gears up for its system to recycled PET. Clermont-Ferrand, France — Key global beverage brands including Nestlé, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe, have joined a consortium led by France-based Carbios and L’Oréal SA
Read More...Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC We’re getting to a decision on the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project. A Cuomo pipeline decision will have profound consequences for New York City. While little noticed outside of the energy industry, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is about to make one of the seminal decisions of his tenure. Before
Read More...Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” A new report by the Cleveland State University shows natural gas production is surging in the Appalachian Shale region, with no end in sight. Offshore oil and natural gas drilling has taken place in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico for over 75 years. But drilling for oil in
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Milacron Holdings Corp. Milacron’s Uniloy unit produces blow molding machines for a variety of end markets. It has owned by business for 20 years. Milacron Holdings Corp. is exiting the Uniloy blow molding machinery business, 20 years after buying the operation. Milacron announced the news in its first
Read More...April 30, 2019 Updated 4/30/2019 Email Print Plastics News Europe Belgian urethane foam maker Recticel NV/SA has rejected an unsolicited, non-binding 700 million euro ($791 million) offer from Kingspan Group plc to acquire the company’s insulation and flexible foams divisions. The company’s board unanimously decided to turn down the offer saying in an April 26
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … A report from Pennsylvania’s Auditor General shows why giving severance tax money to Tom Wolf would simply further subsidize Philadelphia buses and trains. Every year Governor Tom Wolf tells his Pennsylvania constituents he needs a severance tax on natural gas. He says he needs it for one thing one
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Marcus Hook refinery complex On Monday Energy Transfer, parent company of Sunoco Logistics Partners, announced a $200 million expansion of its Marcus Hook refinery located in Delaware County, PA, just outside Philadelphia.
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Location of Jefferson County, OH Early in the development of Ohio’s Utica Shale, drillers like Aubrey McClendon (Chesapeake Energy at the time) targeted Ohio counties like Carroll and Columbiana, in the “northern”
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. In the end, it was the right thing to do. Word has leaked out and is now being trumpeted by anti-pipeline “news” outlets (like PBS’ StateImpact Pennsylvania) that Sunoco (i.e. Energy Transfer)
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, along with a couple of radicals from Lancaster County flying under the name Lancaster Against Pipelines (the Clatterbucks), hoped they could convince the U.S. Supreme Court
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. Pennsylvania State Sen. Gene Yaw (Republican from Lycoming County), who serves as Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee, has caved to pressure from five Philadelphia-area Senators (four Democrats, one RINO), to
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