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CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES DORVISH AND MAJATRAN HELP BUILDING REFINERY
 
ODERVELD - LEUCHTFEUER
 
Chancellery, November 18, 5659: Chancellor Erica Kleinfelder made the following announcement today:
 

We have been looking to build an oil refinery on Ikradun Island which is jointly owned by Ikradon and the Bundeesrepublik.  We have been making plans with Qat Oil Services, an international company that has operations in Majatra and Seleya.
 
The Chancellor’s Office has also been in contact with the Government of the King and Kaiser about arranging for engineering and technical expertise from Northern Oil, and today we can announce Northern Oil will be assisting in the project with its expertise.
 
Also assisting will be Majaran Refining Company which has interlocking directorships with Qat Oil Services which recommended its help.
 
Inselveredelung, AG (IVAG), will be the owner with all shares initially owned by Importundernehmen der Bundesrepublik (IdB), the Bundesrepublik’s federally owned import corporation, but IVAG shares will be sold on the stock exchange which will have the potential for privatizing the enterprise. If things go well, IdB will be expected to retain about 10% so it could move back in if necessary.
 

The oil refinery will be a sprawling complex with extensive piping carrying streams of fluids between chemical processing units such as distillation columns. It will also have 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.

 
We will be concerned with occupational and environmental safety.  Spills and leaks can catastrophically affect marine life. Safety and protecting the environment are more important than speed or volume.  The Government  will be regulating and inspecting operations to prevent such mishaps and seeing to it that procedures are in place should a mistake occur to contain resultant problems.
 
A second concern is waste from oil refineries. The water will be protected and the waste disposed of properly..  Again the Government will be responsible for regulation and oversight.
 
We will not be doing liquefied natural gas so revaporizing in offshore terminal facilities with an open loop system will not be in play. To avoid threats to marine life when warm seawater is returned after hyper cooling, if production of liquefied natural gas is ever initiated,  a closed loop system would be used.