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Azerbaijan increased production of oil products in 2005

Oil&Gas Materials 21 January 2006 14:52 (UTC +04:00)

In 2005 Baku-based oil refinery plants, including the cOil Refinery Plant and Azerneftyag (former Azerneftyanacag, the independent exporter) of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) produced 7.3m of different oil products against 6.25m tons in 2004.

In particular, gasoline production went up by 6.4%, jet kerosene -15.5%, fuel mazut 21%, diesel mazut 17.6%, oil bitumen 24.1%, naphta - 16.6%, the State Statistics Committee told Trend. Only production of the lubrications decreased by 4.3%.

The production of the oil products in Azerbaijan in 2005 is as follows:

1,000 tons

2005

2004 in %

Stock 01.01.06

Gasoline

906,6

106,4

40

Jet kerosene

746,2

115,5

18,9

Fuel mazut

3025,2

121

36

Diesel fuel

2098,4

117,6

45,9

Oil bitumen

128,4

124,1

1

Oil coke

Lubricating oil

46,6

95,7

14,6

Naphta

349,9

116,6

0,4

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