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Statoil brings black rain to Hammerfest
Photo: Finnmark Dagblad
-It is unacceptable that people in Hammerfest have to breathe the soot from Statoil’s plant at Melkøya, says Marius Holm from Bellona. He is not sure whether the dust could be harmful to humans.
According to Statoil, the reason for the black soot is too low temperatures in parts of the processing facilities.
The Melkøya LNG plant, Europe's first export facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG), will be in full operation this fall. The plant last week received the first gas from the “Snøhvit” field in the Barents Sea.
The Snohvit field has 193 billion cubic metres of natural gas reserves and is the first hydrocarbon field in operation in the Barents Sea.
Photo: Finnmark Dagblad
