In 2023, exports of petroleum products from the country's largest oil refinery in Turkmenbashi amounted to 1.3mn tonnes, the newspaper "Neutral Turkmenistan" reports.
The products were delivered by sea and rail to Georgia, Malta, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The growth in exports was made possible by large-scale modernisation, which was carried out thanks to foreign investment.
"A further increase in the production of competitive oil products is a strategic goal of the factory. This will allow to increase exports".
The refinery produces unleaded motor fuel, aviation and technical kerosene, jet and diesel fuel, heating oil, motor oils, polypropylene, heating oil, polypropylene, fuel oil, light gas oil, petroleum electrode coke, liquefied gas, construction and road bitumen.
Experts told Daryo that since 2016, the Turkmenbashi refinery's international trader has been Turkmen Petroleum, which has offices in Dubai (UAE) and Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Eziz Boyarov
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