Kanjor

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CLAIRON PICARD
 
SSOG TO OPEN REFINERY IN TORGES
 

Torges, April 16, 5576: South Seleyan Oil and Gas (SSOG) announced today it will be constructing

an oil refinery near Torges, current home of the SSOG transport fleet which has long been importing

liquefied  natural gas (LNG) from Keymon. Torges is also the home port for Task Force 13 of the

National Navy.

 

In addition to refined petroleum products, SSOG is now importing a great deal of crude oil from

Kafuristan and Dorvik, a little from a Seleyan nation, and some through the open market.  SSOG

believes it makes sense to build its own refinery.  It has contracted with Majatran Refining

Corporation (MRC) to provide engineering and technical assistance to build the refinery with a target

date for completion of four years.

 

The oil refinery is to be a sprawling complex with extensive piping carrying streams of fluids between

chemical processing units including  distillation columns. There will also be storage depots for the

incoming crude oil and for the refined products. Some products can be used once impurities and

contaminants are removed. Others are created by fluid catalytic cracking or hydro catalytic cracking.

Others are formed from intermediate products  by catalytic reforming and by devolatilization.

 

CLAIRON PICARD asked Federation Canrille (FC) Party Chair Constance Berthier if this was a setback to those who wanted a greener Kanjor, and she replied:
 

Not really.  A legitimate question but the answer is no. Why? Our economy is growing again after the stability of the Canrille Union was restored.  But the green budget focus for the foreseeable future will be on expanding our nuclear energy production from around our capital to all of Silliers Province and then to La Tondelle Province.  And then maybe the Mainland.
 
Only then will the government be able to help fund recharging stations for electrical vehicles.  Until then growth of that alternative to petroleum based vehicle fuel will be limited. Not non existent but more limited. Numineux Province will be where privately financed  growth is most likely to be restored.
 
SSOG after many years of being at the mercy of the international oil market with its inherent instability because of political misconduct has secured contracts with stable producers and is now taking a prudent step to control more of  our fuel supply. We will overtime become more green but it will take time, the will to do it and money.