Mongstad
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Mongstad is an industrial site located in the municipalities of Lindås and Austrheim in Hordaland, Norway. The site features a oil refinery for StatoilHydro and other oil companies, including Shell. At Mongstad StatoilHydro has a crude oil terminal with a capacity of 9,5 million barrels. The port at Mongstad is the largest in Norway, measured in tonnage. The refinery at Mongstad is modern, and highly upgraded. With a capacity of 10 million tonns crude oil a year. The refinery is the largest in Norway, though medium large after European standard. Its owned by Mongstad Refining, were StatoilHydro owns 79% and Shell owns 21%.
All the crude oil that’s refined at Mongstad, comes from the North Sea. The largest production is petrol, diesel, jet fuel and light petroleum products. The heaviest components are used to make petrol coke, that is an important ingredient in anodes for aluminum production.
In 2010 StatoilHydro and DONG Energy plan to open Mongstad power station, a natural gas-fired thermal power plant to provide the site with heat energy and electricity, as well as to the Troll gas field.
[edit] History
The first use of the site was in 1975 when Statoil opened its refinery. At the end of the 1980s the refinery was expanded for NOK 14 billion, resulting in the Mongstad scandal after a NOK 6 billion overexpenditure on the facility, costing several Statoil executives their jobs. In the time of the “Mongstad scandal” as it was called, a “Mong” was used as a term for NOK 6 billons.
Statoil is at the moment building a natural gas fuled thermal power plant at Mongstad. The subject of a power plant has been very controversial, because of CO2.
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