Midstream & Transport Monitor - August 19, 2011

Royal Dutch Shell Plc fraced half of the Marcellus wet-gas conundrum at press time, announcing it will build a 60,000- to 80,000-barrel-a-day ethane cracker. And, no big transportation deal is necessary: It will build it right there in Appalachia, in the midst of hundreds, and soon to be thousands, of 1,400-plus Btu wells.