America's natural gas boom has also made it the world's biggest exporter of ethane. It's a building block for plastics, and U.S. gas is helping fuel the global plastics industry.

Converting carbon dioxide into methane or ethane selectively. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 08 / 180813100246.htm ...

Measuring ethane in the atmosphere shows that the amounts of methane going into the atmosphere from oil and gas wells and contributing to greenhouse warming is higher than suggested by the U.S ...