Turkish Refinery Buying Russian Crude Set for 2-Month Maintenance

The STAR refinery on Turkey’s Aegean coast, which is a major buyer of Russia’s Urals crude, is set to begin planned maintenance in early September for about two months, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the facility’s operations. The STAR refinery of Azerbaijan’s state oil and gas firm SOCAR was commissioned in 2018 in what was the first Azerbaijani-built oil refinery in Turkey. For an estimated $6.3 billion, the STAR refinery on Turkey’s Aegean coast was one of the biggest foreign investment…