SOCAR’ main profit comes from Azerbaijan’s local market
SOCAR’s account payable to the banks totaled $6.3 billion or 9.4 billion AZN, said Suleyman Gasymov, SOCAR Vice President for Economic Affairs.
He added that SOCAR’s debt to the Azerbaijani banks reached 1,095 billion AZN.
He said that in 2015 SOCAR agreed to borrow 1.2 billion AZN for upgrade of the Heydar Aliyev oil refinery and another 600 million AZN for drilling of gas wells on the Bulla-Deni, Umid and Guneshli fields from the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA).
“These funds will be paid in tranches within five years. In 2015 we received a tranche worth 69 million AZN for upgrade of the oil refinery and 200 million AZN for drilling of the wells,” he added.
Gasymov said that during 2015 SOCAR’s assets totaled 39.9 billion AZN, up 3.1 times against 2008.
He said during 2015 the company’s incomes dropped by 18% against 2014 and totaled 33 billion AZN.
“We received the main income from sale of oil and oil products from the operations of SOCAR Trading and thus, reduction of world oil prices has led to reduction of the company’s incomes,” he added.
He said that right now the main part of SOCAR’s income – about 65% - comes from the local market of Azerbaijan.—0—
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