Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 8
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
The Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR's Black Sea oil terminal in Georgia's Kulevi transhipped in Q1, 2015 some 700,000 metric tons of oil and chemical products, or 20 percent more than last year, according to a message from the terminal.
The terminal in Kulevi transhipped in 2008 a total of 18 million metric tons of oil and chemical products.
The message said that out of the total volume of cargo transhipped by the terminal, some 27.85 percent accounted for motor oils, 21.63 percent - for oil, 43.98 percent - for gas oil, 5.03 percent - for diesel fuel with ultra low sulphur content, and 1.51 percent - for products such as jet fuel, propylene and methanol.
The terminal in Georgia's Kulevi was commissioned in May 2008 and the oil transhipment started in June of the same year. The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million metric tons of bulk-oil cargo per year, three million metric tons of oil, three million metric tons of diesel fuel and four million metric tons of fuel oil.
The total capacity of the terminal's tank farm is 320,000 cubic meters with the possibility of reaching 380,000 cubic meters.
Edited by SI
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