Shell Cracker Flares Again, Shuts Down Part of Plant for Repairs
The mighty Shell ethane cracker seems to have “issues” in getting and staying fully up to speed. We've previously reported on a series of emergency flaring episodes at the plant (see Shell PA Cracker Plant has Another “Emergency” Flaring Episode). Over the weekend, Shell announced (via Facebook) it was shutting down part of the cracker plant facility "to perform maintenance and conduct repairs on one of our unit systems." The shutdown requires the plant to once again activate its flaring (burning hydrocarbons) for an unspecified amount of time. Here we go again.
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