BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28. The STAR Refinery, owned by Azerbaijan's State Oil Company SOCAR in Türkiye, produced 590,643 tons of diesel fuel in May 2023, compared to 574,577 tons in the same month of 2022, Trend reports.
Based on data from Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), this represents a 2.8 percent year-on-year increase in diesel fuel production at the refinery.
SOCAR Türkiye plans to process over 12 million tons of oil at its STAR Refinery as of 2023. Crude oil from the Black Sea region, Africa, and several other countries is utilized in the production of petrochemical products.
The STAR Refinery commenced operations in October 2018. It has an annual processing capacity of about 10 million tons and can process 214,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
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