StatoilHydro Shuts Mongstad Oil Refinery After Fire

(Bloomberg) — StatoilHydro ASA, Norway’s biggest oil company, shut its Mongstad refinery following a fire in a gasoline unit.

Personnel were evacuated and the fire has been put out, said Orjan Heradstveit, a public affairs spokesman for StatoilHydro, in a telephone interview.


The refinery, located north of Bergen on the west coast of Norway, is the country’s largest. It can process 10 million tons of crude oil a year or about 200,000 barrels a day.

The facilities at the Mongstad complex have been in operation since the mid-1970s and comprise a refinery, the Vestprosess NGL fractionation plant and a crude-oil terminal.