Turkmenistan plans to modernize the Turkmenbashi Oil Processing Complex and the Seydi Oil Refinery (SOR), Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen media. - Trend

The modernization will be carried out through construction of new technological facilities that will bring the depth of oil refining to above 90 percent.

Such facilities include a complex of hydrotreating units for gasoline and diesel fractions, catalytic cracking and coking with a hydrogen production unit; a catalytic cracking unit for heavy residues of refined petroleum products; a unit for the manufacturing of high-quality base technical oils.

Meanwhile, the construction of delayed coking and tar de-asphalting units is nearing completion at the Turkmenbashi Oil Processing Complex.