BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Black Sea oil terminal of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR in Georgia's Kulevi port has transshipped around 890,000 tons of oil products in the first half of 2020, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at SOCAR, told Trend.
He noted that the terminal hasn’t transshipped crude oil during this period.
Ahmadov went on to add that from 2008 through July 1, 2020, Kulevi terminal has transshipped more than 4 million tons of crude oil and over 22.8 million tons of oil products.
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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