Showing consideration for the environment also includes the handling and development of lubricants.
Showing consideration for the environment also includes the handling and development of lubricants. In a research project carried out with Luleå Tekniske Høgskole, Statoil Lubricants in Sweden has studied which base oils result in the lowest energy losses in turbine bearings.
StatoilHydro's specially selected synthetic ester (a chemical mixture of fatty acids and alcohols) produced the best result. The results of product development include the turbine oil TurbWay SE, which uses this base oil. We are therefore able to supply a high-performance product that is energy-saving, biologically degradable and based on renewable raw materials.
A ship's propeller shaft can leak up to 25 litres of lubricant a day, which is clearly detrimental to the environment. We have therefore developed the lubricant SternWay Bio 100 in order to be able to offer the maritime industry a product that is renewable and ecologically degradable.
This green product is one of the first environmentally adapted lubricants on the market, and it has attracted a lot of positive attention externally. Statoil Lubricants is one of very few players to offer environmentally adapted products to the shipping industry. The product has performed well in quality tests at sea. It has been on the market since 2007.
SternWay Bio 100 was nominated for a prize for innovation at the NorFishing international fisheries trade fair in Norway in 2006. When the ministers of the environment from the countries around the North Sea met in Gothenburg in May 2006 to discuss international shipping, SternWay Bio 100 was given a warm reception by the participants.
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