Neste Oil Corporation Stock Exchange Release
6 February 2007 at 2:00 p.m. EET
NESTE OIL'S BIODIESEL PROJECT IN FRANCE DISCONTINUED
Neste Oil and Total have decided to discontinue their project to
build a plant to produce diesel fuel from renewable raw materials
at a Total refinery in France. Feasibility studies on the project,
which was announced in summer 2005, have shown that building the
plant at Dunkirk would have proved too expensive. Neste Oil's
other biodiesel projects continue as planned.
Neste Oil has a similar plant in the final stage of construction
at its Porvoo refinery in Finland and due to come on stream in the
first half of this year. Recently the company decided to build a
second identical plant at the same site due to be commissioned
towards the end of 2008. The two plants at Porvoo will have a
combined output of some 340,000 t/a and are projected to cost a
total of approximately EUR 200 million. In addition, Neste Oil is
working on plans with OMV to build a biodiesel plant based on
NExBTL technology at a site near Vienna, Austria.
Neste Oils biodiesel plants are based on the companys
proprietary NExBTL technology, which enables premium-quality
diesel fuel to be produced from a wide range of vegetable oil and
animal fat.
Rapidly growing diesel production capacity based on renewables is
an important priority for us, and we have committed ourselves to
investing substantially in the field. Our technology is clearly
ahead of what is currently available, as it provides refiners with
the widest range of possible raw material inputs and results in
the highest-quality output. Given the accelerated public
discussion around climate change, and the potential biofuels offer
for helping here, I believe that we will move ahead on a number of
NExBTL projects over the next few years," says Risto Rinne, Neste
Oil's President & CEO.
Neste Oil Corporation
Osmo Kammonen
Senior Vice President, Communications
For further information, please contact:
Kimmo Rahkamo, EVP, Biodiesel, on +358 (0)10 458 4247
Petri Pentti, CFO, on +358 (0)10 458 4490
Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company focused
on advanced, clean traffic fuels, with a strategy that prioritizes
growing its refining and premium-quality biodiesel businesses.
Neste Oil's refineries are located in Porvoo and Naantali in
Finland, and have a total refining capacity of approx. 250,000
bbl/d. The company employs around 4,700 people. Neste Oil is
listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. For further information,
see www.nesteoil.com.