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
