polyethylene pellets
It's been a looooong time coming. We've waited for this day for more than ten years. In March 2012, MDN told you that Shell had announced selecting a site in Pennsylvania as the future location for an ethane cracker plant (see Shell Announces Location of Ethane Cracker Plant). Ethane crackers use ethane (doh!) as their feedstock to "crack" the ethane and create plastic pellets that are then used by manufacturers to make pretty much everything you touch and use every day. Ethane is one of the NGLs (natural gas liquids) that comes out of the ground along with natural gas (methane) and other NGLs like propane and butane. We have huge amounts of ethane in the Marcellus/Utica. New markets, like the Shell cracker, equal bigger profits for M-U drillers.
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