Eesti Energia Outlines Liquid Fuels Future
National energy giant Eesti Energia plans to be able to produce 20,000 barrels of liquid fuels per day by 2016, including diesel, light heating oil and crude petroleum.
In an April 15 blog entry on the company's website, board member Harri Mikk, the man responsible for development of the organization's fuel production capacity, said that Eesti Energia's long term goal is to expand from producing shale oil to creating more refined fuels that can be sold at filling stations.
Though this production capacity wouldn't make Estonia an oil nation, Mikk wrote that "this amount would satisfy the needs of the Estonian fuel oil market, cars could run on domestic fuel and there would still be enough left for export."
In August 2009, Eesti Energia's largest competitor in the Estonian shale processing business, Viru Keemia Grupp, announced plans to begin producing diesel, but so far has not done so on a commercial scale, rus.err.ee reported.
Steve Roman