BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 17
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
The initial storage capacity of Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR’s Kulevi oil terminal (aka Black Sea Terminal – BST) was increased from 360,000 cubic meters to 402,000 cubic meters, Trend reports via the terminal’s website.
“In order to comply market regional and global requirement and with the requirement of the contractual terms it has been decided to start to increase the terminals capacities. So, was projected and commenced to construct additional 11 tanks -2x20000m3, 2x10000 m3, 2x5000m3, 2x3000m3, 3x2000m3 to handle more products as per clients’ order. This is given to us and the clients to be able to transship more products that is available at the regional resource market in smaller volumes,” reads a message on the terminal’s website.
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.
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