AZERBAIJAN INTENDS TO BUILD OIL REFINERY IN LIBYA
APA
May 14 2012
Azerbaijan
Baku - APA-ECONOMICS. The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Libya Agasalim
Shukurov has met with the country's Oil and Gas Minister Abdulrahman
Ben Yezza.
Briefing the minister on the Azerbaijan's history, the ambassador said
the implementation of giant projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum has an important role in supplying the
country's natural resources to the world market and many Azerbaijani
filling stations under SOCAR brands operated in numerous European
countries, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Gun.Az.
Stressing the importance of forming oil-gas cooperation between
Azerbaijan and Libya, Shukurov was sure that this cooperation would
deepen relations between the two countries and noted that Azerbaijan
had become an investor country as a result of the successful economic
policy conducted by the Azerbaijani government.
The diplomat conveyed the proposal of Azerbaijan to build filling
stations in Libya under the brand of SOCAR and built here an oil
refinery either jointly or at the expense of the Azerbaijan's
investments.
The ambassador said the Libyan minister was invited to the 19th
International Oil and Gas Fair and Conference to run from 5 to 8 June
2012 in Baku.
The minister thanked for the invitation and said he would take part
at the event.
Abdulrahman Ben Yezza in his turn expressed interest in forming oil
and gas cooperation between Libya and Azerbaijan and emphasized the
importance of cooperation in many spheres between the two countries.
At the end of the meeting, the ambassador thanked the minister for
warm welcome and gave him journals about the oil and gas industry of
Azerbaijan, we well as books and discs about the Armenian-Azerbaijani
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and tourism.
APA
May 14 2012
Azerbaijan
Baku - APA-ECONOMICS. The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Libya Agasalim
Shukurov has met with the country's Oil and Gas Minister Abdulrahman
Ben Yezza.
Briefing the minister on the Azerbaijan's history, the ambassador said
the implementation of giant projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum has an important role in supplying the
country's natural resources to the world market and many Azerbaijani
filling stations under SOCAR brands operated in numerous European
countries, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Gun.Az.
Stressing the importance of forming oil-gas cooperation between
Azerbaijan and Libya, Shukurov was sure that this cooperation would
deepen relations between the two countries and noted that Azerbaijan
had become an investor country as a result of the successful economic
policy conducted by the Azerbaijani government.
The diplomat conveyed the proposal of Azerbaijan to build filling
stations in Libya under the brand of SOCAR and built here an oil
refinery either jointly or at the expense of the Azerbaijan's
investments.
The ambassador said the Libyan minister was invited to the 19th
International Oil and Gas Fair and Conference to run from 5 to 8 June
2012 in Baku.
The minister thanked for the invitation and said he would take part
at the event.
Abdulrahman Ben Yezza in his turn expressed interest in forming oil
and gas cooperation between Libya and Azerbaijan and emphasized the
importance of cooperation in many spheres between the two countries.
At the end of the meeting, the ambassador thanked the minister for
warm welcome and gave him journals about the oil and gas industry of
Azerbaijan, we well as books and discs about the Armenian-Azerbaijani
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and tourism.