  'Cracker' options are limited  August 5, 2013 By MIKE MYER ( ,
The Intelligencer  "So, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was
the play?" The sarcastic line, sometimes a reaction to a person
with a long list of misfortunes, comes to mind when I hear talk
about West Virginia landing an ethane "cracker" plant.  Why?
Because other than a plentiful supply of natural gas to provide
ethane for a cracker, the chips seem to be stacked against us.
Members of the Wheeling Rotary Club had as their guest speaker
this week Bob Orndorff, an official of Dominion, the big energy
company that just built a natural gas fractionation plant at
Natrium, in Marshall County.  It is a massive undertaking,
processing about 200 million cubic feet of gas a day. The plant
produces about 36,000 barrels of natural gas liquids a day.
And, it turns out enough ethane to supply "a world-class
cracker" plant, Orndorff noted.  So that means someone will be
eager to construct a cracker near the Dominion plant? Nope. Not
enough flat land is ava