BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.20
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Kulevi oil terminal of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has transshipped 4.02 million tons of crude oil and 24.1 million tons of oil products since the date of commissioning on May 16, 2008, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at SOCAR, told Trend.
He noted that the terminal’s transshipment as of Q1 2021 stood at 424,500 tons.
The 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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