BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.22
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The developments of 2020, in particular, COVID-19 pandemic have significantly affected the schedule of modernization of Baku Refinery named after Heydar Aliyev, Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, told Trend.
He noted that the renewed schedule of works, which takes into account the impact of COVID-19, is at the final stage of approval with the major contractors.
‘The overall progress as of the end of November is being determined as part of the process of agreeing the new work schedule and is expected to stand at 59 percent,” said Ahmadov.
Baku Refinery is one of the largest oil refineries in the South Caucasus region. It is located in Absheron peninsula.
In 2019, the plant refined 6.230 million tons of crude, including almost 6.190 million tons of oil and 40,800 tons of crude received from outside.
The refinery fulfilled the plans for crude oil processing by 101.4 percent and for the total crude refining by 103.1 percent.
During the reporting period, the Baku Refinery produced 1.161 million tons of gasoline, 246,790 tons of primary refined gasoline fraction (for Azerkimya production union of SOCAR), 591,130 tons of jet fuel, 2.080 million tons of diesel fuel, 351,690 tons of mild phlegm, 10,420 tons of severe phlegm, 126,460 tons of heating oil, 238,440 tons of coke oil, 197,920 tons of liquefied gases, 54,270 tons of purified dry gas (for Azerkimya), 85,380 tons of atmospheric gas oil fraction, 162,910 tons of vacuum gas oil, 32,550 tons of engine fuel, 260,090 tons of bitumen and 22,910 tons of lubricants.
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