St1 awards ÅF Pöyry with engineering services for its renewable diesel plant in Gothenburg


Type of post: NEWS.

St1 has awarded ÅF Pöyry with engineering assignment for its new renewable fuel production unit. The plant will be built in Gothenburg (Sweden) and is the largest single investment in St1's history. ÅF Pöyry’s services includes all engineering disciplines, procurement and scheduling services.

Figure 1. Petrol station St1 in Jyväskylä (Credits: Tiia Monto)

St1's vision is to be a leading producer and seller of CO2-aware energy. To achieve this vision, the company strives to develop and commercialize functional and environmentally sustainable solutions to replace fossil energy with renewable energy. The objective of its renewable fuels strategy is to meet the ambitious 2030 climate targets in its home markets of Finland, Sweden and Norway. A key area for St1 is significantly reducing the CO2 emissions of transportation fuels from own production.

The St1 Refinery in Gothenburg, which is one of most energy efficient in the world, plays a key role in realizing the aforementioned vision and fulfilling long-term advanced renewable fuels strategy. In this sense, as the Blog reported in September, St1 has decided to construct a hydrogen manufacturing unit with the goal of starting the production of renewable diesel at the refinery.

St1 has licensed the UOP’s Ecofining™ renewable fuels technology to produce 4,000 barrels per day (200,000 tons/year) of diesel and jet fuel. Basic engineering design for the project has already been completed.
Press release: “St1 Nordic Licenses Honeywell Ecofining Technology in Sweden”, 18/9/2019.

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