Editorial Comment

A. Blume, Editor As discussed in the HPI Market Data 2019 report, published in November by Gas Processing & LNG’s sister publication, Hydrocarbon Processing, rising propane and ethane supplies in the US have been enabled by greater production of shale gas. However, this scenario poses infrastructure and market challenges. For example, ethane produced in the Marcellus shale in the US Northeast is presently isolated from petrochemical markets on the US Gulf Coast.  However, India could provide a valuable outlet for US ethane exports. India has an ethylene capacity of approximately 5.7 metric MMt, most of which is naphtha-based and refinery-integrated. The country’s ethane import infrastr