SWISS PRESIDENT–LED DELEGATION VISITS SANGACHAL OIL TERMINAL
Visiting delegation of the Swiss Confederation led by President Pascal Couchepin, Sunday, has made a tour of the Sangachal oil terminal near Baku. Accompanied by the first Vive-President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Mr. Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh and leadership of the terminal, members of the Swiss delegation first became acquainted with the Caspian Energy Center, a world-class oil and gas exhibition telling about exploration, production and transportation of oil and gas from the Caspian Sea in accordance with the “Contract of the Century”.
The visitors have learned that the terminal, whose construction began in 2001, has three crude tanks with a storage capacity of nearly 880,000 barrels each, 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.
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