Eesti Energia AS, Estonia’s largest utility, will delay the start of the world’s biggest shale oil plant to next year due to technological problems, Chief Executive Officer Sandor Liive said.
The Enefit280 plant in Auvere, northeastern Estonia, is about six months behind the initial plan of starting in September, Liive said in an interview today in the capital, Tallinn. The plant, due to process 280 tons of oil shale an hour, would exceed the capacity of peers in Brazil and China, the only other shale oil producers, and double Eesti Energia’s oil output to 10,000 barrels a day, Liive said.
