BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 20. Azerbaijan purchased 6,838 tons of aviation fuel from Turkmenistan from January through April 2023, Trend reports.
Based on the information provided by the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, the cost of importing aviation fuel for jet engines from Turkmenistan exceeded $3.24 million.
Azerbaijan imported from Turkmenistan more than 36,300 tons of aviation fuel worth over $39.2 million in 2022, which is 4.2 times more than in the same period of 2021.
At the same time, in the first five months of this year, Azerbaijan also purchased 9,194 tons of gasoil from Turkmenistan for a total amount of $5.49 million.
Fuel production in Turkmenistan is of strategic importance for the country's energy sector. Due to its vast reserves of natural gas and oil, Turkmenistan occupies an important place among producers and exporters of energy resources.
Meanwhile, the Turkmenbashi Oil Processing Complex, located in the Balkan region in the west of Turkmenistan, produced more than 426,100 tons of aviation fuel in 2022.
