We are the majority owner (79%) and operator of the Mongstad refinery in Norway, which has a crude oil distillation capacity of 179 mbbl per day, and sole owner and operator of the Kalundborg refinery in Denmark, which has a crude oil and condensate distillation capacity of 118 mbbl per day.
In addition, we have the rights to 10% of the production capacity at the Shell-operated refinery in Pernis, the Netherlands, which has a crude oil distillation capacity of 400 mbbl per day.
Our methanol operations consist of our 81.7% stake in the gas-based methanol plant at Tjeldbergodden, Norway, which has a design capacity of 0.95 million tonnes per year.
We also operate the Oseberg Transportation System (36.2% stake) including the Sture crude oil terminal. The plant was built to receive crude from the Oseberg field through a 28-inch pipeline, and since 2003 it has also received crude from the Grane field through a 29-inch pipeline. Oseberg blend (after stabilisation), Grane blend and LPG are exported, and condensate is piped to Mongstad.
The following table shows operating characteristics of the plants at Mongstad, Kalundborg and Tjeldbergodden.
| All data for year ended December 31 |
| |
Throughput (1) |
|
Distillation capacity (2) |
|
On stream factor % (3) |
|
Utilization rate % (4) |
Refinery |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
|
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
|
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
|
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
| |
| Mongstad |
10.0 |
10.9 |
11.2 |
|
8.7 |
8.7 |
8.7 |
|
92.2 |
97.8 |
99.1 |
|
88.2 |
93.2 |
97.9 |
| Kalundborg |
5.2 |
4.7 |
4.9 |
|
5.5 |
5.5 |
5.5 |
|
88.3 |
96.4 |
94.7 |
|
90.3 |
91.7 |
91.0 |
| Tjeldbergodden |
0.91 |
0.70 |
0.89 |
|
0.95 |
0.95 |
0.95 |
|
98.9 |
81.7 |
94.6 |
|
96.5 |
97.7 |
95.6 |
(1) Actual throughput of crude oils, condensates, NGL, feed and blendstock, measured in million tonnes. Higher than destillation capacity for Mongstad due to high volumes of fuel oil and NGL not going through the crude destillation unit.
(2) Nominal crude oil and condensate distillation capacity, and methanol production capacity , measured in million tonnes.
(3) Composite reliability factor for all processing units, excluding turnarounds.
(4) Composite utilization rate for all processing units, stream day utilization. |
