The volume of Azeri Light oil delivered to the refinery stood at 80,000 tons.
Zaur Gahramanov, the head of SOCAR Turkey Enerji (the Turkish subsidiary of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR) said that the delivery of the first batch of crude for the refinery is "an important event". The refinery is expected to start operating in the fourth quarter of 2018.
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