BASF has successfully commissioned the steam cracker at its newly built Verbund site in Zhanjiang in South China as scheduled ...

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — Supervisors of a western Pennsylvania township have granted a conditional use permit for a $6 billion petrochemical, or ethane cracker, plant proposed by Shell Chemicals. A 10-hour ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Royal Dutch Shell announced Monday that it, <a href="http ...

DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (PetroRabigh) said on Sunday it had completed temporary repairs on its ethane cracker unit. The company shut the unit ...

An explosion was reported at Shell’s ethane cracker in Beaver County Wednesday afternoon. A company spokeswoman stated that smoke was seen coming off of a furnace unit at the plant around 2:20 p.m.

US petrochemical producers may have found themselves on the front line of global trade wars, BNEF reports, with China’s dependence on the US for feedstocks (see "Chinese Plastics Factories Face Mass ...