Facts:

The plan is for the power station at Mongstad to produce 280 megawatts of electricity and 350 megawatts of heat. The total investment at Mongstad (without the European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre Mongstad) up until 2010 amounts to more than NOK 4 billion, and this also includes a gas pipeline from Kollsnes to Mongstad. The CHP station at Mongstad is scheduled for completion in 2010.

The Norwegian government and Statoil have entered into an agreement to construct a full-scale carbon capture facility at Mongstad. As the first stage of the agreement with the authorities, a partnership was established in June 2007 for the European Carbon Dioxide Test Centre Mongstad (TCM). The partnership consists of Statoil, Shell, Sasol and Gassnova SF.

The goal of the test centre is to further develop and test various technologies relating to carbon capture from exhaust gases from the combined heat and power station, and from emission sources at the refinery. The test centre is scheduled to start up in 2011.

Stage II comprises a full-scale facility that is capable of capturing carbon dioxide from both the combined heat and power station and other relevant emission sources at the refinery.

Plans call for a final decision on the size and type of the full-scale facility to be taken in 2012, and engineering and construction work will start immediately afterwards.

Timing:

Phase 1: Start-up of the cogeneration facility and pilot plant (2010) and Phase 2: operation of full scale plant (2014)

Other Sources and Press Release:

StatoilHydro submits plans to Government (February 2009)
Norwegian Government to invest in Mongstad (July 2008)
Carbon cooperation agreement at Mongstad (June 2007)
An important step towards CO2 capture at Mongstad (June 2007)
Technology development in Norway to reduce CO2 emissions (June 2007)
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Norway [PDF] (April 2007)
The Norwegian government and Statoil to develop a world class environmental power project at Mongstad (October 2006)

• Anne Margrete Blaker, (Gassnova, Vice President Communications)

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