Luanda - Angolan state-owned Sonangol and Italian oil company ENI on Thursday signed a memorandum of cooperation for studies of a biorefinery - an industrial unit that includes equipment and processes for converting biomass to produce fuel, electricity, heat and refined derivatives.
The memorandum was signed before the inauguration of the new gasoline production complex at the Luanda Refinery, which will increase the refinery's production capacity four times over, from 395,000 litres per day to 1.580 million litres.
At the time, the chairperson of the board of Sonangol, Sebastião Martins, said that studies would begin and estimates of the real value of the biorefinery would be made, at a time when preliminary work was being carried out.
In relation to the new Gasoline Production Complex at the Luanda Refinery, Sebastião Martins noted the fact that it would reduce gas emissions, in terms of responsibility for the environment and transition
"We incorporated initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thus we reduced by 70% the use of fuel oil in the furnaces for steam production instead of naphtha to generate 10 megawatts of electricity and we started using part of the hydrogen produced at the refinery, as well as increasing LPG production for our internal consumption," he explained.
