Huge løftejobb by Norway's largest oil refinery – bytes out 500 tonnes of heavy money maker

Norway's largest oil refinery at Mongstad has in these days shut down parts of the production in order to drive the maintenance.

It is a job that is not done in a handvending. Vedlikehaldet will take 30 days to complete and cost 750 million in materials and equipment.

2000 people participate in the work. A overnattingsleir is rigged for the country, and an oil rig is brought into Fensfjorden, to accommodate all the people. 400.000 hours are laid down in the planned turnaround.

– This is one of the largest stengingane we have had. In any case, this reaktorløftet a great thing, " says kommunikasjonsansvarleg Henning neverdal, norway in Equinor.

They've planned the mellombelse stenginga in two years.

SOME OUT: Here is the old krakkeren from 1989 taken up out of the oil refinery. Photo: Equinor. You need javascript to see the video.

SOME OUT: Here is the old krakkeren from 1989 taken up out of the oil refinery. Photo: Equinor.

Lønnsam part of the refinery

the Reactor neverdal, norway talks about, is a so-called stools. The road to 500 tonnes and can the memory of a chubby rocket.

Thursday was one of the new and better stools brought in to the part of the plant to stand on, and taken up into place using the huge crane assemblies especially.

the Border of the krakkeren is the most arbeidskrevjande part of this year's audit shutdown, a scheduled shutdown happens about every fifth year.

In 1989 was the previous krakkaren ready. It got great betyding for the Mongstad plant.

the oil refinery will break up crude oil into gasoline, diesel and flydiesel. In the process gather a thick layer on the bottom – residual oil.

It is so thick that it can't be used other than to make coke. But driving a this through krakkaren, oljemolekyla broken up between anna with the help of the press.

Out comes gasoline, which Equinor can sell.

Krakkeren do that Mongstad can squeeze out more of the own oil, and Equinor import also oljerestar from other krakkerlause refinery.

– Without krakkeren had not the Plant been competitive in the market, determine neverdal, norway.

2000 PEOPLE: There are a great many men at the Plant during the planned turnaround. 2000 people visit the facility, and they have the 1640 beds in camp and on the floating or connected hotels.

Photo: Cato Heldal Kristensen / NRK Lieutenant

Krakkeren stands for the largest enkeltutsleppet of CO₂ at the refinery, according to a impact studies of the work in 2005 (external link to it).

The new krakkeren will be bigger and better, according to neverdal, norway.

– It will get a little more capacity, in addition to top modern management. It's about controlling every detail, running it according to how the market is, and hit the spesifikasjonar that people around the world will have, " he says.

READY FOR the EDGE: IN the course of a few hours has the crew been krakkeren in an upright position. The løftast into the correct place in the refinery.

Photo: Cato Heldal Kristensen / NRK

GREAT WORK: the planned turnaround is one of the larger they have had, " says Henning Fosse, project manager at Equinor. The shutdown has been planned for two years.

Photo: Cato Heldal Kristensen / NRK Date Of Update: 03 October 2019, 18:00