ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery — Norway
Refinery in Norway. Approximate location 59.31416, 10.51568.
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ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery is a refinery in Norway. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. It is operated by Exxon Mobil Corp.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144043.
Data status
Known source data
Calculated from the dataset
Not available
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
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PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
In context: how this facility compares
Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.
Operator
Operated by Exxon Mobil Corp. All facilities by this operator →
Local climate
ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 59.3°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Site climate & environmental severity
This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1436 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.10× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
How it compares & nearby sites
Nearby industrial sites
- Borregaard ChemCell · Pulp & Paper Mill · 32,425 t CO₂
- Yara Porsgrunn · Chemical Plant · 630,300 t CO₂
- Eramet Norway AS, Porsgrunn · Metals Plant · 185,000 t CO₂
- ERAMET NORWAY AS, Porsgrunn · Metals Plant · 131,000 t CO₂
- Rhi Normag As · Lime Plant · 138,147 t CO₂
- Brevik Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 257,971 t CO₂
Location
Coordinates 59.31416, 10.51568. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery?
ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery is a refinery in Norway. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Where is ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery located?
ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery is in Norway at approximately 59.31416, 10.51568.
Who operates ExxonMobil Slagen Refinery?
The operator recorded in the open dataset is Exxon Mobil Corp.