BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 31. Azerbaijan’s refinery throughput stood at around 131,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2022, as compared to 143,000 barrels per day in 2021, Trend reports.
OPEC estimates that the country’s refinery throughput has decreased by 8.5 percent year-on-year.
As for the previous years, this figure stood at 116,000 b/d, 130,000 b/d and 123,000 b/d in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively.
As such, Azerbaijan’s refinery throughput has increased by 12.9 percent as compared to 2018.
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR carries out its oil processing operations at the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery, which is presently undergoing a modernization and reconstruction project. The refinery currently boasts an impressive product range, including liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, industrial fuel oil, household fuel oil, petroleum coke, bitumen, lubricants, as well as liquefied gas fractions, naphtha, and dry gas. Notably, up to 10 percent of all products are exported.
Starting from the second quarter of 2023, the refinery commenced production of Euro-5 standard diesel fuel. Furthermore, the production of Euro-5 standard gasoline is planned to commence from the first quarter of 2024.
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