Open a bag of frozen shrimp from Walmart. Toss the packaging in the trash. Two routine tasks, but they represent final commercial destinations for ethane molecules freed from Texas shale, a journey ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Ethane traders Satellite Chemical USA and Vinmar International have received U.S. government letters allowing them to load ethane on vessels destined for China but prohibiting ...
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A surge in production of associated and non-associated natural gas from U.S. shale gas and tight oil plays, combined with a wave of new petrochemical steam-crackers coming ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Despite a growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, China's ethane imports from the U.S. are set to surge this year as big petrochemical producers battling shrinking ...
Chinese purchases of U.S. ethane, a key petrochemical feedstock, face fresh uncertainty after the Commerce Department told exporters to seek licences to export to China, according to trade sources and ...
LyondellBasell faces a structurally changed petrochemical market, driven by ethane proliferation and global capacity shifts, prompting a revised SELL rating. LYB's Q3 performance was strong, with high ...
America's natural gas boom has also made it the world's biggest exporter of ethane. It's a building block for plastics, and U.S. gas is helping fuel the global plastics industry. A boom in one ...
An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. The material, a metal-organic framework, can extract ethylene, the key ingredient in the most common ...
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