BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 28. The STAR oil refinery owned by Azerbaijan's state oil company (SOCAR) in Türkiye produced 561,219 tons of diesel in June 2023, compared to 494,853 tons year-on-year, Trend reports.
Thus, according to Türkiye's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), diesel production at refineries rose 13 percent year-on-year.
SOCAR Türkiye plans to refine more than 12 million tons of crude oil at the STAR Refinery in 2023. Crude oil from the Black Sea region, Africa, and a number of other countries is used in the production of petrochemical products.
STAR was commissioned in October 2018.
The annual refining capacity of the STAR Refinery is about 10 million tons. The refinery is capable of processing 214,000 barrels of crude oil per day.