• Climate change
• Air emissions
• Water management
• Waste management and spills
• Remediation
• Biodiversity
• HSE Penalties

 

Air emissions

Air emissions (excluding GHG) – compared to 2008 recalculated data – dropped by 36.3% compared to the previous year thanks on the one hand to the outsourcing of the Slovnaft power plant and on the other hand to a series of projects aimed at decreasing our environmental impacts.
At Exploration and Production, a sulphur recovery unit was commissioned at the Sávoly south east gathering station, enabling the use of all the associated gases produced from the field in the boiler without creation of air pollution. We aim to continue with more boiler modifications and energy efficiency improvements in coming years.
At Refining, we focus on basic pollutant emission reductions. We have installed low NO_X burners and an air preheater at Slovnaft for the Vacuum gasoil hydrocracker furnaces. The Leakage Detection And Repair (LDAR) program at the Slovnaft refinery for VOC reduction has been operational for several years. In the future we will continue in our efforts to reduce air emissions. We have started project preparation at the Danube Refinery Central Gas Unit to reduce the H₂S content of flue gas and we have prepared a study aimed at reducing odours in the vicinity of the Zala Refinery.
In Petchem (Slovnaft Petrochemicals), the steam cracker furnaces reconstruction project (ECO VISION) continued during 2009 with significant environmental benefits such as reduction of NO_X emissions and energy consumption. Further, reduction of NO_X emissions was achieved through replacement of old-fashioned burners at three SPC cracking furnaces.
Compared to Refining or Petchem divisions, Logistics and Retail divisions are not so significant in terms of air emissions, but we have not forgotten about these either. With the aim of VOC reduction in mind we exchanged the Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) at Szajol base logistics depot and installed a dry-technology VRU at Százhalombatta Railway Loading. Similar improvements are planned at our Komárom base depot. We also installed a bottom loading system at some of our MOL Austria logistics depots.