BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 26
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The total volume of crude oil refining at STAR Refinery of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR in Turkey stood at 4.3 million tons in the first five months of 2020, Murat LeCompte, Chief External Affairs Officer at SOCAR Turkey told Trend.
He pointed out that STAR Refinery, which performed successfully in 2019, indeed, made a good start to 2020 as well.
“However, after detecting the first COVID-19 case in Turkey on March 11 and the subsequent developments, STAR Refinery had to change its production plans. As a result of the rapid fall in jet fuel demand starting from April due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19 pandemic, we converted our jet fuel capacity to diesel,” he noted.
LeCompte added that with this operation, the refinery continued to operate at full capacity without disrupting its production.
The opening ceremony of the Star oil refinery took place on October 19, 2018 in Izmir, Turkey.
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