The Sture terminal
The Sture terminal in the Municipality of Øygarden in Vestland is a major tanker port for crude oil.
Oseberg Transportation System (OTS) is a comprehensive system that started up in 1988 for transport of Oseberg crude oil to the Sture terminal for further handling and offloading into crude oil tankers.
Today the terminal receives crude oil and condensate via pipelines from the Oseberg area and from the Edvard Grieg and Grane areas. The terminal handles both stable and unstable crude oil. The unstable crude oil is stabilised to sales quality while the natural gas liquids (NGLs) are fractionated further and mainly piped to Vestprosess at Mongstad for further processing to propane and butane.
The plant has two jetty facilities which can accommodate oil tankers up to 320,000 dead weight tonnes (dwt), five crude oil caverns with a capacity of one million cubic metres, a 60,000 cubic metres LPG cavern and a 200,000 cubic metres ballast water cavern.
The crude oil sales qualities Oseberg Blend and Grane Blend are exported from the Sture terminal.
The Sture terminal receives oil and condensate through the following pipelines:
OTS (oil and condensate)
- Oseberg
- Tune
- Brage
- Veslefrikk
Grane Oil Pipeline (211 km) from Grane platform to Sture terminal (oil)
- Grane
- Svalin
- Edvard Grieg
- Ivar Aasen
- Solveig and Rolvsnes are planned to commence production in 2021
PRODUCTS FROM THE STURE TERMINAL
- Oseberg Blend crude oil – from crudes in the OTS pipeline
- LPGmix—mixture of propane and butane.
- Naphtha—made up of pentanes and hexanes. Used together with crude oil in refineries.
- Fuel gas—methane and ethane, used for heating the process at the terminal.
- Grane Blend crude oil—from crudes in Grane Oil Pipeline.
Owners:
Equinor Energy AS (operator) 36.24%
Petoro AS 48.38%
Total E&P Norge AS 12.98%
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS 2.40%
