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With the new vessel, Braskem now has two dedicated ethane carriers – the Brave Future and the Brilliant Future. In 2026, BT&S ...

While US inventories of ethane — essentially a byproduct of shale production in West Texas — climbed, expensive ships purpose-built to carry the fuel have been forced to idle or sail to new ...

Federal energy forecasters slashed their outlook for ethane exports and production for this year and next after the Trump administration restricted exports of the plastic-making ingredient to China.

Enterprise faces potential export disruption as the United States moves to block 2.2M barrels of ethane cargoes bound for China.

Now China’s ethane cracking plants — like those in Lianyungang and Tianjin — are suddenly looking at dry feedstock taps. SP Chemicals, which leans heavily on U.S. supply, could be staring at ...

Note: This article was updated on June 11 to reflect the outcomes of negotiations in London on June 10. Over the last two days, senior U.S. and Chinese officials engaged in trade negotiations in ...

Ethane and propane—important ingredients in making plastic—have become major U.S. exports in recent years, flowing from oil wells in West Texas and Appalachian gas fields alike. China has ...

Around half of all U.S. ethane exports head to China, and the halt in flows has pushed ethane prices lower on worries of domestic oversupply and is likely to cut into profits of top ethane producers.

The US is using its dominance of a niche petroleum gas as a bargaining chip in its trade war with China. America supplies China with almost all of its ethane, a product of the shale boom that’s ...