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AzerNews: Azerbaijan, Ukraine to strengthen cooperation

Published May 28, 2018 at 12:21 pm

Azerbaijan's State Petrol Company SOCAR's president, Rovnag Abdullayev, (L) confers with Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister, Natig Aliyev (R), during a joint press statement of the Shah Deniz II consortium in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on June 28, 2013. The Shah Deniz II consortium of Britain's BP, Azerbaijan's SOCAR, Norway's Statoil and France's Total developing an immense new Azeri gas field, part of European efforts to reduce dependence on Russia, said today it had chosen the shorter, cheaper Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) over the rival Nabucco project.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev discussed prospects of expanding cooperation in the sphere of high-quality aviation fuel supply and its possible production in Ukraine.

The parties discussed the “Turkish projects” of the company, the involvement of Ukraine in them and the prospects for the further development of the oil refining complex of the Ukrainian state.