BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.6
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
STAR Refinery, which aims to become a reliable, innovative and sensitive to life and nature company, has implemented a number of projects in the sphere of digitalization, Head of the SOCAR Turkey Refinery and Petrochemicals Business Unit and General Manager of Petkim Anar Mammadov told Trend.
“SAP S/4 HANA and IRIS are among them. The STAR SAP S / 4 HANA system includes the procurement, planning, production, sales, maintenance, finance and cost management in line with the STAR Refinery's operational needs, as well as the IS-OIL module, which includes best industry practices developed for refineries,” said Mammadov.
He pointed out that the SAP system prepared for STAR Refinery is the first greenfield refinery installation in Europe operating on the S / 4 HANA platform.
“As a matter of fact, the STAR Refinery's SAP S / 4 HANA IS-OIL project was chosen as an exemplary project at the SAP S-KOM meeting held in Frankfurt with the participation of more than 3,000 projects from more than 50 countries.
The consumption of natural gas used as fuel in the refinery decreased by 6 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, while carbon emission was reduced by 178,000 tons and 406,000 tons of water was saved a year.
Being aware of its responsibilities towards today's world and future generations, we integrate the vision of being sensitive to life and nature into all our business processes in STAR Refinery, which operates based on the principle of sustainability awareness in operation and production,” he added.
Star Refinery, with investment value of $6.3 billion came on stream in October 2018. Around $3.3 billion of the project’s cost was covered by loans. The total investment in Star Refinery is expected to stand at $7 billion.
The annual processing capacity of Star Refinery stood at 10 million tons. It meets around 25 percent of Turkey’s refined oil products. The refinery is able to process 214,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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