Shell Pennsylvania Chemicals/Shell Polymers Monaca | Questions and Answers

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www.shell.us/careers. Please enter “Monaca” as the site location.

The facility is located within 700 miles of 70% of our customer base and is close to state and interstate highways, the Ohio River, rail lines and Pittsburgh International Airport.

Shell does not conduct its own economic impact analyses. However we recently commissioned Robert Morris University to perform an economic impact analysis. Shell did not participate in the research. The analysis was performed entirely with publicly available information and could be replicated by others. The complete study may be found here: https://www.rmu.edu/sites/default/files/user_files/Project_Franklin_Economic_Impact_Study_FINAL.pdf

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has a page dedicated to our facility featuring press releases, permit approvals and accompanying information that may be found at: https://www.dep.pa.gov/About/Regional/SouthwestRegion/Community%20Information/Pages/Shell-Petrochemical-Complex-.aspx

A health impact study for the facility was submitted as part of our conditional use application to Potter Township. It is part of the public record, and available upon request from Potter Township.

The plant will be landscaped according to requirements set forth in the Potter Township Conditional Use Agreement for the construction of our facility.

The Falcon Ethane Pipeline is complete and was safely filled with ethane (commissioned) in early October. Once the plant is operational, it will serve as the sole supplier of ethane to Shell Polymers Monaca. The 97-mile pipeline system connects three major ethane source points in Pennsylvania and Ohio (Houston, PA; Scio, OH and Cadiz, OH) with new and reliable infrastructure from the rich gas portions of the Marcellus and Utica shale reservoirs.

Specific information about the Falcon Ethane Pipeline may be found at: https://www.shell.us/business-customers/shell-pipeline/falcon.html

Throughout the summer, we conducted steam blows on piping associated with our Cogen Unit. Steam blowing cleans the piping and prepares it for eventual service. In July, we delivered electricity to the PJM Wholesale grid from each of the Cogen’s three units for the first time. Once the site is fully operational, the Cogen will provide electricity for the facility and export about 1/3 of its power (approx. 80 megawatts) to the grid on a typical operational day.

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You may be noticing a decrease in busing activity now as our volume of workers onsite decreases as we move toward the operation phase from the construction phase of the project.

Ensuring our activities fall within regulatory and safety standards is a top priority for us, and there are a number of measures we undertake to ensure we are meeting or exceeding those standards. The operating noise level is subject to the regulatory limit specified by our home municipality of Potter Township for operational activity. That sound level is equivalent to a household refrigerator. During construction, we have partnered with noise monitoring experts who place equipment within surrounding communities to provide insight and feedback on the efficacy of our noise mitigations on site (such as mufflers on steamblows). To date, we have operated within sound-level thresholds for all activities and will continue to be diligent in our efforts. The plant has no plans for expansion across the river as part of our operating footprint at this time.

While tours of the plant are challenging to schedule and arrange in the midst of construction and in consideration of our site’s COVID-19 protocol, we are currently looking at opportunities to provide virtual tours to the community. If you are interested in participating in a virtual tour, please reach out to our Community Liaison Officer Shannon Debes at shellchemicalsproject@shell.com. With enough interest, we may potentially be able to schedule one in the future.