ESTONIAN PRESIDENT VISITS SANGACHAL OIL TERMINAL
Baku, January 14 (AZERTAC). Visiting Azerbaijan, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and his accompanying delegation have made a tour of the Sangachal Oil Terminal.
Accompanied by the first Vice-President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Khoshbakht Yusifzade and leadership of the terminal, members of the Estonian delegation first became acquainted with the Caspian Energy Center.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves viewed rich exhibits reflecting creation of energy resources, their exploration, production, transportation and refining, as well as got full information about Azerbaijan`s oil and gas industry and watched slide show on global energy projects.
The visitors have learned that the terminal, construction of which began in 2001, has three crude tanks with a storage capacity of nearly 880,000 barrels each, the oil and gas processing trains, main power generators and pumps and a central control room. The terminal is connected with oil and gas fields 187 km offshore by underwater pipelines.
The Estonian President has also familiarized himself with ongoing technological processes at the terminal, and working system of control management station, which allows observing all processes of Azerbaijan part of the Baku-Novorossiysk, Baku-Supsa and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipelines and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline.
The Head of Estonian Republic was presented a keepsake.
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