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Shell’s Pennsylvania Chemicals project reaches 70% completion status

10/14/2020

Shell recently announced that it was making strong progress on a 1.5 million ton per year ethane cracker and polyethylene project underway in Monaca, Pennsylvania.

Hillary Mercer, Shell Global’s Vice President of Pennsylvania Chemicals last week stated that construction had returned to a consistent pace with 6,500 workers back on site. Shell had suspended construction at the site back in mid-March due to the coronavirus lockdown. At its peak construction rate before the mandated lockdown, there were approximately 8,000 workers onsite.

Shell spokesman Curtis Smith added that “As we safely ramp up to a pre-pandemic level of activity, the project remains on schedule to be completed sometime in the early 2020s.”

This cracker project has an estimated cost figure of approximately $6 billion and will utilize lower cost ethane feedstock from the Marcellus and Utica basins in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. This plant is placed near these feedstock suppliers and to be close to its anticipated market of polyethylene customers around the Pittsburgh area.