Oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) from the Ekofisk field in Norway are transported by pipeline to ConocoPhillips’ Teeside Terminal. Significant investments have been made in the terminal to reduce the environmental footprint from its activities. The largest investment is the recovery plant for volatile organic compounds (VOC), which will reduce annual discharges by more than 85 percent.

We are currently investing $400 million to expand our Immingham Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. CHP technology enables the production of electricity and steam at higher levels of energy efficiency and with lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than traditional methods of power generation. Due online in 2009, the 450-megawatt expansion – which will raise output to 1.18 gigawatts – will make Immingham CHP one of the world’s largest and most efficient CHP stations, contributing 12 percent towards the UK’s target to achieve 10 gigawatts of low carbon CHP energy by 2010.

Immingham CHP provides steam and electricity to Humber Refinery and steam to another adjacent refinery. It also feeds electricity to the UK national grid and is well placed to supply low carbon energy to a range of local industrial customers. If current studies demonstrate economic feasibility, the enlarged plant could be modified to utilise ConocoPhillips’ E-Gas gasification technology to operate as a ‘clean coal’ facility, with CO2 stored or used for enhanced oil recovery.