MEDIA RELEASE PR36818
Fabrication and Installation Contract for Technology Centre Mongstad Awarded to
Reinertsen AS
PORSGRUNN, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- TCM DA has Awarded Reinertsen AS a Contract for Fabrication and
Installation of Pipe Trenches, Support Systems, Process Module, etc.
The contract will have a value of about EUR 50 million, and is awarded by
TCM DA, the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad. StatoilHydro, as the
project owner for the construction of the centre, has signed the contract on
behalf of the partners in TCM DA, which are Gassnova SF, StatoilHydro ASA and
A/S Norske Shell.
The Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM DA) shall test at least two different
technologies for capturing CO2 from two flue gas sources with respectively
low and high CO2 contents. The contract now being entered into with
Reinertsen AS includes the fabrication and installation of connection systems
to the flue gas sources, pre-processing systems for flue gas, and the
installation of electrical, control and several other, smaller systems.
Reinertsen's main office in Trondheim, Norway, will be in charge of
project management and planning. Pipe trenches and the process module are to
be constructed at Reinertsen's subsidiary in Murmansk. Installation at
Mongstad will be performed by Reinertsen's offshore division.
All of the larger contracts for the construction of the Technology Centre
have now been awarded. The ground work has been completed, and construction
work is now in process. The testing aims to, among other things, qualify
technologies for large-scale capture of CO2 from flue gases, based on
solutions that are as cost-efficient as possible. The development of
technologies for capturing CO2 in connection with energy production is
considered to be a possibly significant contribution to the reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions.
The Technology Centre Mongstad will be the largest demonstration plant of
its kind, with a capacity of processing up to 100,000 t of CO2 annually. The
experiences gained from the operation of the Technology Centre will then be
used to develop the full-scale facilities.
The illustration above shows the entire TCM plant, with connections to
the Mongstad Energy Plant (Energiverk Mongstad, EVM), facing the Mongstad
refinery. Cooling water for pre-processing is pumped from the sea some
distance from the plant. The pre-processing module, the facilities for
testing the two different CO2 capture technologies, a power station and the
administration building will be centrally located on the plant premises.
SOURCE: Gassnova SF
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