Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb.12
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) plans to increase the number of its filling stations in Georgia to 117 by late 2015, SOCAR told Trend on Feb.12.
The company said that the number of filling stations operating in Georgia under the brand name of SOCAR was equal to 112 as of Dec.31, 2014.
The company plans to construct five new filling stations and increase their number to 117 in Georgia and reconstruct four operating filling stations. "They will be expanded and refueling with compressed natural gas will be possible there."
It was noted that filling up with fuel is possible at 71 of 112 operating filling stations, refueling with liquefied natural gas is possible in one of them, while refueling with compressed natural gas is possible in five of them.
The company added that 35 filling stations are complex stations (refueling with fuel and liquefied gas is possible in 16 of them, fuel and compressed gas - at 13 filling stations, fuel, liquefied and compressed gas - at six of them).
SOCAR, the only producer of petroleum products in Azerbaijan, has two oil refineries, as well as gas filling stations in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania and Switzerland.
SOCAR exported 1.2 million metric tons of petroleum products from Azerbaijan in 2014, compared to nearly 1.05 million metric tons in 2013.
Edited by SI
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