SOCAR's 30th filling station opens in Romania
By Aynur Jafarova
Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR commissioned a new filling station in the Romanian city of Arad located on the border with Hungary.
The number of filling stations operating in Romania under the SOCAR brand reached 30.
The opening ceremony was attended by Head of SOCAR's Romanian office Hamza Karimov, Attaché of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Romania Farid Mammadov, representatives of the Arad city Executive Power and governmental bodies, journalists, and others.
The new filling station will sell gasoline A-95, A-98, diesel Euro 5, and Diesel Super Euro 5.
"In the past three years, we were able to cover Romania's 13 regions by commissioning our 30th filling station in the country," Karimov said in his remarks.
SOCAR plans to increase the number of its filling stations in Romania.
Azerbaijan's energy giant SOCAR entered the Romanian market after buying local filling stations from Romtranspetrol and re-branding them in 2011. To become one of the most important players in fuel distribution in northeast Romania, SOCAR plans to increase the number of its gas stations in Romania to 100.
SOCAR, which is keen on expanding operations in the retail oil products market abroad, is involved in exploring oil and gas fields, producing, processing, and transporting oil, gas, and gas condensate, marketing petroleum and petrochemical products in the domestic and international markets, and supplying natural gas to the industry and public in Azerbaijan.
The company owns some gas stations in Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Georgia, and Ukraine at the moment.
It has representative offices in Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Britain, Iran, Germany, and Ukraine, and trading companies in Switzerland, Singapore, Vietnam, Nigeria, and other countries.