The Statoil Mongstad environmental investment project will involve building a new and more effective sulphur recycling facility to replace the older of the two existing ones. In addition, a new sour water stripper tower will also be constructed. Statoil added that the refinery’s amine facilities will also be rebuilt into more contained and environmentally safe systems.
In a press release, Statoil said that the new technology would ensure more environmentally effective operations at the Mongstad refinery and would also make the facility more robust.
Bernt Vagstad, head of production control and business development at Mongstad, said: In the event of problems in critical common facilities, we will be able to avoid shutting down the entire refinery. Instead, we can isolate and improve the relevant area while unaffected processes can continue as normal. We can’t do this with the current solution.
