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 ...

Global emissions of ethane, an air pollutant and greenhouse gas, are on the uptick again, according to a new study. The air samples for the study were collected from more than 40 sites around the ...

Some existing importers such as China are likely to continue to expand their use of ethane as a feedstock, and most of this incremental supply will need to be imported. Looking beyond existing ...

Ethane emissions can lead to ozone pollution. Measurements at 49 sites show that long-declining atmospheric ethane concentrations started rising in 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere, largely due to ...

Shell’s ethane cracker is scheduled to come online soon, producing up to 1.6 million metric tons of plastic pellets a year. The plant will produce this plastic by processing ethane, a component of the ...

U.S. export controls on a key plastic feedstock could hamper the president’s signature plan to increase oil and gas production. President Donald Trump’s latest salvo in his trade war with China is a ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a blue ship with the phrase “SHALE GAS FOR MANUFACTURING” painted on its hull docks at Pennsylvania’s ...

SAN AUGUSTINE — Working in nearly 100-degree heat, sweating through mud-stained coveralls, four roustabouts wrestled with 30-foot sections of pipe that would follow a drill bit plunging some 13,000 ...

SINGAPORE/HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. exporters face potential disruption to their shipments of petrochemical feedstock ethane after the Commerce Department told them to seek licenses to export to top ...

Researchers have discovered a microbe that feeds on ethane at deep-sea hot vents. They also succeeded in cultivating this microbe in the laboratory. What is particularly remarkable is that the ...