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Shell's ethane cracker bets Beaver County on plastic
2022
Potter Township, PA
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A township of about 500 people holds the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, the first ethane cracker built outside the Gulf Coast in two decades. It takes gas from Marcellus shale wells and turns it into roughly 1.6 million tons of polyethylene pellets a year. Construction ran four years and thousands of workers, and the plant opened in November 2022 on the site of an old zinc works.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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