BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 26
By Anastasia Savchenko - Trend:
Higher production volumes at the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery can be achieved in 2025, when the modernization project of the refinery is completed, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of public relations and events department at Azerbaijani State Oil Company SOCAR, told Trend.
According to Ahmadov, the refinery will be able to process up to 7.5 million tons of oil instead of the current capacity six million tons.
"A new bitumen plant and a terminal for the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) were commissioned in October 2018. This was the completion of the first phase of the refinery's modernization," Ahmadov said.
He added that the second and third phases envisage the production of diesel according to the EURO-5 standard.
"In general, the modernization project of the Heydar Aliyev Refinery is divided into two packages. The first of them envisages the construction of new plants, while the second one is about the repair and modernization of existing ones," Ahmadov said.
The deputy head of public relations and events department added that according to preliminary data for the current year, overall progress in the first work package of the refinery's modernization is over 60 percent.
"In the current year, by the end of November, concrete structures totaling 45,000 cubic meters and metal structures weighing more than 7,000 tons were built, and about 3,302 meters of aboveground pipes were welded," he noted.
In conclusion, Ibrahim Ahmadov said that the overall progress on the second work package of the refinery's modernization is completed by 12 percent to date.
The Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery, located on the Absheron Peninsula, is one of the largest oil refineries in the South Caucasus.
The annual capacity of the refinery varies from four to six million tons, with the prospect of increasing to 10 million tons.
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