Oil refinery

A Turkish Petroleum Refineries Company (TÜPRA?) refinery in the Aegean province of ?zmir caught on fire, with a 160-liter oil tank lying along its production stream, Do?an News Agency reported on July 17.

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. 

Kazakhstan on Thursday temporarily banned imports of cheap Russian diesel fuel and petrol to avert surplus and keep its own oil refineries running.

According to Deputy Minister for Energy Magzum Mirzagaliyev, the ban will be in force for the next 45 days.

The Turkish oil refining company Tüpraş opened a new $3 billion fuel-oil recycling facility at its refinery in the northwestern province of İzmit on Dec. 15.

A third night of U.S.-led air strikes late targeted ISIL-controlled oil refineries in eastern Syria as ISIL fighters have accelerated their campaign to capture Kobane

Turkey will meet northern Iraq’s additional 4,000 tons of processed oil demand, the Turkish energy minister has said, but warned of border gate restraints amid fuel scarcity in the region after the shutdown of Iraq’s biggest refinery.

Iraq has requested to fill its gasoline gap with fuel from Turkey after the shutdown of the country’s biggest oil refinery amid clashes with armed insurgents, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has said.

Iraqi government forces regained full control Thursday of the country's biggest oil refinery after heavy fighting with Sunni militants attempting to seize it, officials said.
      

SOCAR Turkey, the Azerbaijani energy giant’s Turkish venture, has signed a $3.3 billion credit deal for its STAR refinery project, marking Turkey’s largest and longest-term financing deal for its first privately built oil refinery.