Mongstad

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title: "Mongstad" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["oil-refineries-in-norway", "ports-and-harbours-of-norway", "equinor", "norsk-hydro", "alver-municipality", "austrheim", "oil-terminals"] description: "Industrial complex in Norway" topic_path: "geography/norway" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongstad" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Industrial complex in Norway ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Mongstad
settlement_type	Industrial site
image_skyline	Mongstad.1.jpg
image_caption	View of the site
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	11
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Norway
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Western Norway
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Vestland
subdivision_type3	District
subdivision_name3	Nordhordland
subdivision_type4	Municipality
subdivision_name4	Austrheim Municipality
Alver Municipality
timezone1	CET
utc_offset1	+01:00
timezone1_DST	CEST
utc_offset1_DST	+02:00
postal_code_type	Post Code
postal_code	5954 Mongstad
coordinates
elevation_m	15
elevation_footnotes
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Mongstad is an industrial site in Vestland county, Norway. The site sits on the border of Alver Municipality and Austrheim Municipality, with most of the site being located within Alver Municipality. The site features an oil refinery for Equinor and other oil companies, including Shell. At Mongstad, Equinor has a crude oil terminal with a capacity of 9.5 Moilbbl. The port at Mongstad is the largest in Norway, measured in tonnage. The refinery at Mongstad is modern, and has been extensively upgraded, with a capacity of 12 million tonnes of crude oil per year (230,000 barrels per day). The refinery is the largest in Norway, though medium-sized by European standards. It is owned by a company called Mongstad Refining, of which Equinor is the sole owner (since 2012).

All the crude oil refined at Mongstad comes from the North Sea. The largest production is petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and light petroleum products. The heaviest components are used to make petrol coke, an important ingredient in anodes for aluminum production.

In 2010, Equinor and Ørsted opened the Mongstad Power Station, a natural gas-fired thermal power plant, to provide the site with heat energy and electricity, as well as power to the Troll gas field.

History

The first use of the site was in 1975, when Statoil opened its refinery. At the end of the 1980s, the refinery was expanded to the tune of , resulting in the Mongstad scandal after a overexpenditure on the facility, costing several Statoil executives their jobs. In the time of the "Mongstad scandal" as it was called, a "Mong" was colloquially used as a term to represent the amount of .

Statoil built a natural gas-fired thermal power plant at Mongstad in 2010. The carbon dioxide emissions that were predicted to result aroused public controversy as the project was being built.

References

References

1. "Mongstad, Alver". [[yr.no]].
2. "Informasjon om stadnamn". [[Norwegian Mapping Authority.
3. "Mongstad Facilities".
4. Cecilie Langum Becker. (2013-09-17). "Slakter milliardsluket på Mongstad". [[Dagens Næringsliv]].

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