An ethane breakout from the Marcellus Shale sets up a potential showdown duel between Appalachia and the heart of the U.S. petrochemical industry along the U.S. Gulf Coast. "Rich, rich, rich, rich." ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce sent letters to Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE:EPD) and Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) telling the companies they could load ethane onto vessels destined for China but ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- In Asia's petrochemical industry, ethane is attracting growing attention as an alternative to naphtha thanks to its lower cost, with major players in Thailand and South Korea accelerating ...

Measuring ethane in the atmosphere shows that the amounts of methane going into the atmosphere from oil and gas wells and contributing to greenhouse warming is higher than suggested by the U.S.

Hot vents in the deep sea are home to microbes that feed on ethane. Now researchers have succeeded in finding an important component in the microbial conversion of the gas. They were able to decode ...

Mont Belvieu ethane prices rose 12.6% to $0.179 per gallon in the week ending March 11, 2016. Ethane prices jumped by 13.4% to $0.159 per gallon in the previous week. However, ethane prices have ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. sent letters to Enterprise Products and Energy Transfer on Wednesday informing the companies they could load ethane on vessels destined for China but could not unload the ethane in ...

The Trump administration is moving to block millions of barrels of US ethane exports to China, a critical blow to the global petrochemical supply chain and a direct response to Beijing's tightening ...

Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) disclosed Wednesday it received a letter from the U.S. Commerce Department requiring a license to export ethane to China, and that it will file for an emergency authorization ...