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Vjosa pollution, Albpetrol tenders 100 thousand euros for the repair of the oil treatment plant in Gorisht!

2025-07-06 14:06:18Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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The company "Albpetrol", which is the state-owned oil exploration and production company, has also indirectly admitted to the pollution of the Vjosa River, which has been declared a National Park along its entire length in the territory of the Republic of Albania.

This company has opened a tender for the regulation of an oil treatment plant in Gorisht, in the Vlora district. This oil field was under concession but was nationalized due to numerous problems of private companies.

According to documents available to VoxNews, "Albpetrol" has recently opened a tender worth 100 thousand euros to repair the plant that was supposed to separate crude oil from water. However, the plant has not been working for many months, causing the canals and streams to fill with crude oil, oil that then went into the Vjosa River.

Vjosa pollution, Albpetrol tenders 100 thousand euros for the repair of the oil
Facsimile: Notice of the opening of the tender by Albpetrol for the regulation of a crude oil treatment plant

The above document, researched by VoxNews, is the opening of the tender by Albpetrol with the object of "purchase of equipment for the crude oil treatment plant in the Gorisht decantation". The limit fund is 10,470,000 lek excluding VAT, while the deadline for its implementation is 60 days.

In the accompanying documents, it is written that the company "Albeptrol" sh.a carries out oil extraction activities in the fields it administers: Kuçovë, Patos, Cakran-Mollaj, Gorisht-Kocul, Amoni?ë and Karbunarë. "The field that bears the main weight of the oil extraction program is the Gorisht-Kocul field with 91 tons of oil per day. This field is in an advanced stage of its exploitation and the amount of fluid extracted from the limestone field is relatively high. Here we have a high percentage of water in the oil-water ratio, where water is 80 to 82%," the document states.

According to him, the separation of water associated with oil is difficult to perform under natural conditions due to the composition of the reservoir fluids. "To achieve the separation of water from oil, plants have been built with fluid heating at temperatures up to 900. We have a heating plant in the Gorisht Decanter. Until 2013, the heating of the oil emulsion for the separation of associated water was carried out by two furnaces that worked with solar energy. From 2011 to 2017, the Gorisht-Kocul reservoir was administered by 'Stream Oil & Gas' within the framework of the hydrocarbon agreement. The concessionaire built an oil heating plant called the Italian Hot Oil Boiler," the state-owned company writes.

Vjosa pollution, Albpetrol tenders 100 thousand euros for the repair of the oil

Vjosa pollution, Albpetrol tenders 100 thousand euros for the repair of the oil
Facsimile: Albpetrol company documents for the Gorisht–Kocul oil field

The state-owned company says that after the nationalization of the field in January 2017 until 2019, oil treatment was done with the Italian Boiler and the old solar furnace. "Since the old furnace collapsed due to depreciation and long use, Albpetrol was forced to invest by installing another hot oil boiler, which started operating in October 2019 and was called the Turkish boiler. This hot oil boiler worked normally until February 20, 2025, when it suffered a defect with its burner, forcing the staff of the Gorisht Oil and Gas Plant to stop the wells due to the lack of storage capacity at the field. The wells were stopped at least until March 9, 2025," Albpetrol writes. So, it admits that there was a defect at that field, which resulted in the storage space being filled. The remains then allegedly went into the Vjosa River.

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