SOCAR’s Black Sea oil terminal to get new oil depot
Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR’s Kulevi oil terminal on
Georgia’s Black Sea coast wants to build a new facility for
receiving, storing and loading various types of oil products.
The terminal told Trend Jan. 15 that given the development tendency
in regional and international oil and gas market, the Kulevi oil
terminal’s management is constantly reviewing the possibility to
expand the oil cargo transhipment ranges to boost the terminal’s
competitiveness in the region.
At a suggestion from the terminal, SOCAR’s Oil and Gas Research and
Design Institute developed a project to build an additional oil
depot.
The capacity of the complex for receiving, storing and loading
various oil products such as gasoline, naphtha, diesel, jet fuel
and others, stands at 1.5 million metric tons per year.
The project involves the construction of five reservoirs with a
total capacity of 70,000 cubic meters, and includes two-way
railroad overpass for simultaneous loading and unloading of 26 tank
cars.
The terminal said the cargos delivered to the terminal will be
unloaded using a pumping station, which will sport separate pumps
and production lines for receiving various oil products.
The transportation system also includes launchers and receiving
stations that will completely empty the cargo pipelines during
operation or maintenance.
“The project will significantly expand the storage capacity of the
terminal and will provide the opportunities to be more flexible
when responding to requests from the current crude oil market,” the
terminal told Trend.
The Kulevi terminal in Georgia was commissioned in May 2008, and
the transhipment of oil products began in June.
Its total capacity stands at 10 million metric tons of oil cargo
per year, including three million metric tons of oil, three million
metric tons of diesel fuel, and four million metric tons of
mazut.
The total capacity of the tank farm in the terminal stands at
320,000 cubic meters with the possibility of increasing to 380,000
cubic meters.
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