By the OGJ Online Staff
LONDON, Jan. 8 -- Statoil ASA reports the terminal at its 200,000 b/d Mongstad refinery now is Europe's second-busiest oil port, after Rotterdam, in terms of volume.
Statoil also said shipping at the four land facilities it operates in Norway and Denmark set records in 2001.
Almost 259 million bbl of crude were shipped from the Mongstad refinery near Bergen, reports port captain Jon Magne Jakobsen. This means that the facility receives, stores and exports more than a third of the oil produced annually by Statoil and the Norwegian state.
Traffic was also high at the Kårstø treatment complex north of Stavanger, with records set for volume of products exported and the number of vessel calls.
According to port manager Per Arne Nilsen, the facility had 600 calls in 2001 compared with 421 the year before.
During 2001, 4.5 million tones of butane, isobutane, naphtha, propane, and ethane were shipped, an increase of 60% from 2000. The 3.3 million tones of condensate exported were on a par with the year before.
This rise in shipments partly reflects deliveries from Statoil's Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea and the start of ethane production at Kårstø.
Almost 850,000 tonnes of methanol were exported from the Tjeldbergodden industrial complex in mid-Norway, an increase of 90,000 tonnes from the previous record in 1999.
At the 106,400-b/d Statoil refinery at Kalundborg near Copenhagen, 854 ship movements were recorded, up 66 from 2000.
