The natural gas boom has brought the Appalachian state in limelight for fuel production. The U.S. shale drilling revolution is fueling a wave of investment in U.S. petrochemical plants, the facilities that use byproducts from oil and natural gas production to create the building blocks for plastics.
Since 2010, 301 chemical industry projects worth $181 billion have been announced in the United States, according to the American Chemistry Council, a trade group representing U.S. chemical companies.
"It's really a race to capture global share," said Paul Boulier, vice president of industry and innovation at Team NEO, a northeast Ohio economic development organization. "From our little part of the world, we want to get a bigger piece of that pie.
