First Oil From Johan Sverdrup Reaches Mongstad
Oil from the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea has arrived at the Mongstad plant north of Bergen.“This is a great day for Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partnership, consisting of Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total. First oil to Mongstad only a few days after production start confirms that the field is producing well.
Equinor says Effort to Restart Mongstad Refinery Continues
Work to restart Norway's Mongstad oil refinery will continue throughout the evening on Wednesday, following a power outage that shut the facility earlier in the day, operator Equinor said.The unexpected outage happened during routine maintenance on the site's power supply, triggering an evacuation of most workers.Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis
Police Investigate 2016 Hydrogen Leak at Statoil Refinery
Norwegian police have launched an investigation into a hydrogen gas leak at Statoil's Mongstad refinery in October 2016, the company said on Friday. Statoil temporarily shut and evacuated its main refinery on Norway's west coast when a rusted pipe socket ruptured. The firm's own investigation found the resulting leak was caused by insufficient maintenance and a poor understanding of risk.
Statoil Refinery Leak Ends, Unit down
A naphtha leakage at Statoil's Mongstad refinery in western Norway has now ended, but the plant's petrol-making unit remains shut and the company is investigating the causes of the accident, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday. There were no reports of injuries, she added. Reporting by Ole Petter Skonnord
Statoil Moves Key IT Tasks from India Back to Norway
Statoil said on Friday it would move its critical information technology (IT) tasks from Indian provider HCL Technologies back to Norway to improve security. A number of IT-related security incidents in recent years, including one that disrupted oil loading at the Mongstad refinery in 2014, had led the Norwegian energy company to create a task force to assess risks.
Statoil to Close Mongstad Power Plant from 2019
Statoil will shut down its loss-making Mongstad gas-fired heat and power plant in Norway from the start of 2019, it said on Wednesday, as Nordic power prices are set to remain low for a decade. The 270-megawatt (MW) capacity plant supplies power and heat to Statoil's nearby Mongstad refinery, the biggest in the country. The refinery can also get power from the national grid.
Statoil: Mistakes, Lack of Maintenance Led to Accidents
Accidents at Statoil's giant Troll gas field and the Mongstad refinery in October last year were caused by operational mistakes and wrong prioritisation of maintenance, the Norwegian oil major concluded in an investigation on Friday. Statoil said it has decided to intensify the maintenance programme at Mongstad over the next two years and will…
Statoil Shuts Down Mongstad Oil Refinery's Gasoline Production Due Gas Leak
Statoil has shut down the production of gasoline at its Mongstad refinery on Norway's west coast following a hydrogen gas leak on Tuesday, the company said. "We evacuated 600 people from the facility just after 1pm (1100 GMT)," said a company spokesman. It was too early to say when production could resume and at what rate the unit was producing when the incident occurred, he said, adding that the alert was now over.
Norway's Statoil Drops Upgrade of Mongstad Refinery
Norway's Statoil is dropping a planned upgrade at its Mongstad oil refinery in western Norway, it said on Wednesday, in another sign of oil companies cutting costs to cope with lower oil prices and difficult markets. Statoil had been working on a project for two years on how to expand production capacity at Mongstad in order to be able to process oil from the offshore Johan Sverdrup field from 2019.
Valemon Topsides Installed
On Monday, July 28, the topsides were lifted into place on the steel jacket on the Valemon field in the North Sea. Produced by Samsung Heavy Industries this is the first Statoil topsides built in South Korea. The structure sailed from the yard on June 15 this year, and after a quick stop in Åmøyfjorden, Stavanger, last Saturday, it headed out to the field. The transportation to Norway took 40 days.
