Pöyry awarded Owner's Engineering Services assignment for biocrude production plant in Norway

Pöyry has announced that it has been awarded an Owner's Engineering Services assignment for the pre-engineering phase for a planned biozin® production plant in Norway. Owned by Biozin Holding AS, the new plant will convert biomass to liquid biocrude that will be sold and further processed into transportation fuels in oil refineries. The work is scheduled to be carried out between 2018 and 2020. 

Production of biozin® will be based on the licenced technology IH2® -  licence held by CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company Limited. The IH2® technology is an efficient cost-effective technology to convert woody biomass and forest residues feedstock into renewable, low carbon, clean burning hydrocarbon transportation fuels.

Biozin Holding AS is owned by Biozin AS, a subsidiary of the Norwegian sawmill company Bergene Holm AS. Biozin AS and the Swedish oil company Preem AB have entered into a cooperation agreement with the intention to realise a full scale biozin® production plant located adjacent to the Bergene Holm AS sawmill in Åmli in southern Norway.

A production plant will consume about 700,000m³ of feedstock and produce 120,000m³ biozin®, a biocrude that will be refined into normal transportation fuels. Preem AB will purchase biozin® from the plant, for further processing and distribution. The sustainable by-product biocarbon from biozin® production can be applied in a variety of applications. The project's total cost is expected to be approximately NOK3.5 billion (US$418 million).