Six months after the startup of the new refinery Eco-Oil doubles its Fuel sales. The new refinery, in operation since November 2016, incorporates the best technologies available for treatment of fuels. The produced Fuel is cleaner and produces less emissions.
Eco-Oil receives the visit of Euroshore International. Framed by the annual meeting of the Euroshore International, held in Lisbon, Eco-Oil has received in its industrial site an important delegation of well-known European companies dedicated to the management and treatment of MARPOL wastes. The delegation has recognized in Eco-Oil the application of the best available technologies [...]
Following the intense training program for new resources, Eco-Oil starts shifts in May to meet growing fuel production needs.
APEQ has confirmed, at the end of March 2017, the accession of Eco-Oil to the Principles of Responsible Care of CEFIC
In order to strengthen its staff and prepare the team for the start-up operations around the clock, in March, Eco-Oil recruited 5 new employees. The process of integration and training of new colleagues will take place carefully during the months of March and April.
In January, Eco-Oil carried out the cleaning of two Venezuelan tankers for PDV Marina. In this operation, besides the usual teams of service providers, we have the permanent monitoring of a rescue team of the Sapadores de Setúbal, which is an important improvement in the prevention and intervention capacity in case of an accident.
With the start-up of the new units, which incorporate technology with proven results in other sectors, it is possible to offer our customers a fuel with lower gaseous emissions of NOx and SOx, reduction of the cleaning interval of the burner filters and a significant operation and maintenance cost reduction.
Since the beginning of the year, Eco-Oil has launched a desulphurization unit which, in addition to ensuring low sulfur content, also allows for greater fuel homogenization and a significant reduction in asphaltene content.
Eco-Oil concluded in March 2016 the demucking operation in ASPEN SPIRIT, NORDIC SPIRIT and PROTEO, with a total of 380 tons of sludge removed. After the success of the demucking operation of ZEUS in November 2015, in March 2016 Eco-Oil accomplish a similar operation in the sister-vessel PROTEO, which is managed by the same company.
Designed as a last resort unit and positioned after the biological treatment, will reduce the number of retreatment cycles and increase availability. With this investment is improved environmental performance of the treatment and guaranteed an effluent free of contaminants. The advantage is twofold, both the environmental dimension, by improving the quality of the treated effluent, [...]
