BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 18
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Since the beginning of operation the cumulative transshipment volume of Black Sea oil terminal of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR in Georgia's Kulevi port has achieved significant numbers, by receiving 26 861 263 tons and dispatching 26 642 480 tons of oil and oil products, offloaded – 418554 and loaded – 14627 of railway tanks, Trend reports citing the terminal’s website.
“In total 1802 vessels were serviced, including 1592 loaded and offloaded 210 tankers. Various types of industrial-technological operations have been successfully carried out and etc,” said the report.
Kulevi Oil Temrinal is celebrating its 12th Anniversary of commissioning.
Since the time of commissioning, Kulevi oil terminal has ensured implementation of many new projects in the company, increasing and expanding infrastructure, providing the latest level of production and technological processes with equipment and devices, introducing various innovations, which further increases the production efficiency.
Kulevi oil terminal is used for shipment of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, methanol, aviation fuel, propylene, liquid pyrolysis resin, naphtha, isopropyl alcohol, diesel fuel with ultra-low sulfur content, industrial oil, and condensate.
The terminal in the Kulevi port was put into operation in May 2008, and the transshipment of oil products was launched in June. The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million tons of liquid bulk oil cargo per year, including three million tons of oil, three million tons of diesel fuel, and four million tons of fuel oil. The total capacity of the tank farm of the terminal is 402,000 cubic meters.
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