- Kårstø
Kårstø is an industrial facility located in
Tysvær ,Norway . The site features a number of natural gas processing plants to refinenatural gas and condensate from the fields in the northern parts of theNorth Sea , including Åsgard, Mikkel and Sleipner. The site is dominated byStatoilHydro .Operation
The plant opened on
July 25 1985 and exported the first gas toGermany onOctober 15 . Gas is transported from the North Sea viaStatpipe andÅsgard Transport . Condensate is received from the Sleipner field and stabilised and fractionated in a separate plant that started operation in1993 . About four million tonn stabilised condensate are each year exported from Kårstø by ship.Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) are separated from the rest of the gass and split intopropane ,butane ,isobutane ,naphtha andethane . The propane is stored in two large mountain halls with a total capacity of 90,000 tonnes. The rest of the refined products are stored in tanks. The facility is the third largest export port forLiquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the world and exported all around the globe. In 2002 575 shiploads of LPG, ethane, nafta and stabilised condensate were sent. The ethane production is 950,000 tonnes annually, and are sold on long term agreements to the companiesBorealis ,I/S Noretyl andNorsk Hydro .Dry gas is exported viaEuropipe II toDornum in Germany and viaStatpipe andNorpipe toEmden . The pipes are owned byGassled and operated byGassco .The company
Naturkraft (owned byStatkraft and StatoilHydro) operatesKårstø power station , anatural gas -firedthermal power plant at Kårstø.
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