Ångholmen
Ångholmen, est une île dans le landskap Sunnhordland du comté de Vestland. Elle appartient administrativement à Lindås.
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Fensfjorden is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. The 30-kilometre long fjord begins in the North Sea at Holmengrå Lighthouse and flows to the southeast through the municipalities of Austrheim, Gulen, Alver, and Masfjorden. The fjord ends on the Masfjorden-Alver border where it splits into two fjords: Masfjorden and Austfjorden.
The fjord is generally about 3 to 5 kilometres wide. There is only one crossing: a car ferry from Sløvåg in Gulen Municipality to Mongstad in Alver Municipality. The islands of Byrknesøyna, Mjømna, and Sandøyna lie on the northern side of the fjord. The south side of the fjord includes the island of Fosøyna and the Lindås peninsula lie on the south side of the fjord.
There is a lot of ship traffic in the outer part of the Fensfjorden due to the large oil refinery and industrial area at Mongstad on the northern end of the Lindås peninsula. Mongstad is Norway's largest port based on tonnage, and Northern Europe's largest oil port. Roughly 2000 ships port at Mongstad in the Fensfjorden annually.
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Lindås Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lindås. It is one of the three churches for the Lindås parish which is part of the Nordhordland prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden, neo-Gothic church was built in a long church design in 1865 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Syslak. The church seats about 370 people.
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Mongstad Power Station is a natural gas-fired combined power plant and heating plant located at the industrial site of Mongstad in Norway.
The station is owned by a consortium of Equinor and Ørsted A/S, and was operated by the latter, but in 2013 Ørsted divested their share, selling it to Statoil. Construction costs are estimated at NOK 4 billion.
The power station will have an installed effect of 280 MW in electricity production and 350 MW in heat. The energy will be used to operate the Mongstad Refinery as well to supply the Troll Gas Field with power. The plant will use 0.7 billion normal cubic meter of gas per year. Emissions of carbon dioxide will be 1.2 million tonnes.
The power station has been subject to controversy in Norway, based upon the potential increase in emission of greenhouse gases.
The closure of the plant has been postponed several times. The plant was supposed to be closed at the end of 2018, but was still in operation as of 2021.
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Lindås is a village in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the Lindås peninsula, about 25 kilometres north of the village of Knarvik and about 10 kilometres southeast of the Mongstad industrial area. The village of Hundvin lies about 8 kilometres southeast of Lindås. Lindås Church is located in the village.
The 1.07-square-kilometre village has a population of 1,448 and a population density of 1,353 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Mongstad is an industrial site in Vestland county, Norway. The site sits on the border of Alver Municipality and Austrheim Municipality, with most of the site being located within Alver Municipality. The site features an oil refinery for Equinor and other oil companies, including Shell. At Mongstad, Equinor has a crude oil terminal with a capacity of 9.5 million barrels. The port at Mongstad is the largest in Norway, measured in tonnage. The refinery at Mongstad is modern, and has been extensively upgraded, with a capacity of 12 million tonnes of crude oil per year. The refinery is the largest in Norway, though medium-sized by European standards. It is owned by a company called Mongstad Refining, of which Equinor is the sole owner.
All the crude oil refined at Mongstad comes from the North Sea. The largest production is petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and light petroleum products. The heaviest components are used to make petrol coke, an important ingredient in anodes for aluminum production.
In 2010, Equinor and Ørsted opened the Mongstad Power Station, a natural gas-fired thermal power plant, to provide the site with heat energy and electricity, as well as power to the Troll gas field.
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