據阿塞拜疆新聞7月24日消息稱，據當地媒體7月22日報道，土耳其競爭委員會已批準SOCAR和英國石油公司成立一家石化行業的合資企業。

此前有報道稱，SOCAR和BP已向土耳其相關機構申請在2020年4月成立一家聯合石化公司，名為水星綜合設施。

回想一下，2018年12月20日，SOCAR和BP簽署了合同原則，以評估在土耳其建立一個世界級的石化綜合設施并建立合資企業以管理該綜合設施的計劃。

新的石化綜合設施的建設預計將使土耳其每年能夠彌補60億美元的經常賬戶赤字。

此外，該項目將使SOCAR在土耳其石化市場的份額提高到35- 40%。

該綜合設施的建設計劃在本年度開始，以便在2023-2025年投入運營。但是，由于低油價和COVID-19大流行，項目的實施推遲到2021年。

水星綜合設施將建在佩金石化廠和阿利亞加地區的STAR煉油廠附近。該企業將生產125萬噸純對苯二甲酸（PTA）、84萬噸對二甲苯（PX）、34萬噸苯。

PTA是聚酯生產中的主要原料，可由其衍生出飲料和食品容器、包裝材料、照片和膠片以及其他消費品和工業產品。

曹海斌 摘譯自 阿塞拜疆新聞

原文如下：

SOCAR, BP to start new petrochemical project in Turkey

The Turkish Competition Council has given permission to SOCAR and BP to establish a joint venture that will operate in the petrochemical sector, local media reported on July 22.

Earlier it was reported that SOCAR and BP applied to the relevant institutions in Turkey to establish a joint petrochemical company, which will be called Mercury complex, in April 2020.

Recall that on December 20, 2018 SOCAR and BP signed contractual principles for evaluation of plans for creation a world-class petrochemical complex in Turkey and establishment of a joint venture to manage it.

The construction of the new petrochemical complex is expected to enable Turkey to cover the current account deficit by $6 billion annually.

Moreover, the project will increase the share of SOCAR in petrochemical market of Turkey to 35-40 percent.

Construction of the complex was planned to begin during the current year in order to put the enterprise into operation in 2023-2025. However, due to low oil prices and to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project implementation has been postponed until 2021.

The Mercury complex will be built near the Petkim petrochemical complex and the STAR refinery in Aliaga region. The enterprise will produce 1.25 million tons of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), 840 thousand tons of paraxylene (PX), 340 thousand tons of benzene.

PTA is the main raw material in the production of polyester from which beverage and food containers, packaging materials, photo and film and other consumer and industrial goods are derived.