Shell seeks incentives from State of Louisiana as it weighs MEG project decision. Shell Chemical LP will advance feasibility plans to build a $1.2 billion monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at its Shell Geismar facility in Ascension Parish, La., Shell Chemical and the Louisiana Office of the Governor reported Monday. “The successful completion of the company’s recent alpha olefins project, combined with this potential expansion, demonstrates to the world that Shell has confidence in Louisiana and recognizes our state’s tremendous physical attributes and our outstanding workforce,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a written statement distributed by his office. “Louisiana looks forward to working with Shell Chemical LP to make this investment happen.” As Rigzone reported in January of this year , Shell recently added a 425,000-tonne per year alpha olefins (AO) unit at Geismar to bring the site’s total AO manufacturing capacity to 1.3 million tonnes per annum […]