Galoter Process - Commercial Use

Commercial Use

Two Galoter retorts built in 1980 are used for oil production by the Narva Oil Plant, a subsidiary of the Estonian energy company Eesti Energia. Both retorts process 125 tonnes per hour of oil shale. The annual shale oil production is 135,000 tonnes and oil shale gas production is 40 million cubic metres per annum (1.4 × 109 cu ft/a). The company is building a new plant employing its newer Enefit process with a processing capacity of 2.26 million tonnes of oil shale per year and producing 290,000 tonnes of shale oil and 75 million cubic metres (2.6×10^9 cu ft) of oil shale gas. It is planned to become operational by 2012. In addition, Eesti Energia plans to begin construction of similar Enefit plants in Jordan by 2015 and in USA by 2017.

VKG Oil, a subsidiary of Viru Keemia Grupp, constructed a new Galoter retort (Petroter) at Kohtla-Järve that is similar to the two retorts operating at Narva. The basic engineering of the retort was done by Atomenergoproject of Saint Petersburg. The basic engineering of the condensation and distillation plant was done by Rintekno of Finland. The plant has a processing capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of oil shale per year and it produces 100,000 tonnes of shale oil, 30 million cubic metres (1.1×10^9 cu ft) of oil shale gas, and 150 GWh of steam per year. Operation started in December 2009. The company plans to start construction of the second Petroter plant in 2012.

Saudi Arabian International Corporation for Oil Shale Investment plans to utilize Galoter (UTT-3000) process to build a 30,000 barrels per day (4,800 m3/d) shale oil plant in Jordan.