Türkiye: possibility for sustainable aviation fuel production

SOCAR Türkiye is the Turkish subsidiary of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is Türkiye's largest integrated industrial group and has activities in several sectors, primarily petrochemicals, refining, natural gas, trade, transmission and distribution.

Within this group, the activities are carried out at numerous locations and production facilities such as Petkim, "STAR" Refinery, SOCAR Storage, SOCAR Trade and Petkim RES, which fall under the Refinery & Petrochemicals Business Unit.

At the moment, the group is exploring the potential for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at the STAR Refinery location, according to the Head of SOCAR Türkiye's Oil Refining and Petrochemical Unit. Th