Petkim Petrochemical Holding

Star Refinery online by March 2018: Socar Turkey chief

Published by Hurriyet on Tue, 06/16/2015 - 14:02

The Star Refinery, the first oil refinery project in Turkey since 1975, will be online by March 2018, a $5.6 billion investment that will help decrease the country's current account gap by $2.5 billion annually, cutting Turkey's dependence on imported refined oil products, said the SOCAR Turkey CEO and board member of Petkim Petrochemical Holding, Kenan Yavuz. 

SOCAR Turkey plans to open huge Aegean container port in September

Published by Hurriyet on Thu, 06/04/2015 - 14:22

The Turkish branch of Azeri energy giant SOCAR will open the Petlim Container Port in the Aegean Sea this September to become an alternative to Greece's Piraeus Port for container shipments, according to Kenan Yavuz, the head of SOCAR Turkey and a board member of Petkim Petrochemical Holding.