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May 2017 SEE Monthly Update


Chemicals Companies Benefit from More US Gas Production

The huge abundance of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) discovered in Pennsylvania’s, Ohio’s, and West Virginia’s Marcellus and Utica formations and in Louisiana’s Haynesville formation is compounded with the associated (liquids-rich gas) found in West Texas’ Permian and North Dakota’s Bakken formations.  Natural gas (methane or C1H4) and NGLs (especially ethane or C2H6) provide both fuel and feedstock for chemical plants.  Their newfound US abundance has improved the costs of building, expanding, and operating these plants in the US, rather than overseas as has historically been the case.

The diagram below shows how one of the most important petrochemical precursors, ethylene, is produced from ethane.  Ethylene can be made from many different feedstocks including crude oil, so commodity chemical makers, by definition, must choose the least expensive and most available feedstock to keep their products competitively priced.

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