Mongstad
Mongstad is an industrial site in
barrels per day). The refinery is the largest in Norway, though medium-sized by European standards. It is owned by a company called Mongstad Refining, in which Equinor has whole ownership (since 2012).[1]
All the crude oil refined at Mongstad comes from the
aluminum
production.
In 2010, Equinor and
thermal power plant, to provide the site with heat energy and electricity, as well as power to the Troll gas field
.
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 to the tune of 14 billion kr, resulting in the Mongstad scandal
after a 6 billion kr overexpenditure on the facility, costing several Statoil executives their jobs. In the time of the "Mongstad scandal" as it was called, a "Mong" was colloquially used as a term to represent the amount of 6 billion kr.
Statoil built a natural gas-fired thermal power plant at Mongstad in 2010. The carbon dioxide emissions that were predicted to result aroused public controversy as the project was being built.
External links
- Cecilie Langum Becker (2013-09-17). "Slakter milliardsluket på Mongstad" [Slamming the drain-of-billions at Mongstad]. Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian).
References
60°48′48.34″N 5°1′45.21″E / 60.8134278°N 5.0292250°E
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