Germany's Drager will handle maintenance at SOCAR-owned refinery in Turkey
BAKU. April 21 (Interfax) - SOCAR Turkiye Enerji (the Turkish division of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic or SOCAR) has engaged Drager (Germany) to carry out maintenance and equipment replacement work at the STAR oil refinery in Izmir.
"SOCAR Turkiye Enerji and Drager Turkiye signed a contract for the maintenance and replacement of stationary gas analyzers at the STAR refinery for a period of five years. The document was signed on Monday by Canan Mirzayev, the general director of Petkim and the head of the refining and petrochemicals division of SOCAR Turkiye (on behalf of STAR Refinery), and Zafer Kasikara, the general director of Drager Turkiye," Drager Turkiye said on the LinkedIn social network.
The agreement is of an important and strategic nature, the company said.
"This cooperation, aimed at ensuring sustainable industrial safety, operational excellence, and long-term partnership, reflects our vision. We will continue to deliver technologies for life to industrial facilities and contribute to safe production," it said.
The value of the contract was not disclosed.
SOCAR Turkiye Enerji owns a controlling stake (51%) in Petkim Petrokimya Holding, Turkey's largest petrochemical complex. The company has also built the STAR refinery, a container terminal and a power plant, and supplies gas to the domestic market and petroleum products to aircraft refueling points at airports in several major Turkish cities.
The STAR refinery was commissioned on October 19, 2018, and is designed to process Azeri Light, Kirkuk and Urals crude oils. It supplies raw materials to the Petkim petrochemical complex and creates conditions for SOCAR to enter the Mediterranean market with its diesel fuel, jet fuel, and raw materials for the chemical industry. The plant covers 18% of Turkey's demand for petroleum products.
SOCAR has invested approximately $7 billion in constructing and developing the STAR refinery.
Drager specializes in the production of medical equipment, occupational safety equipment, and industrial safety technology. The company was founded in Lubeck in 1889 and is a family-owned enterprise, currently represented in more than 190 countries, with service centers located in 50 countries. In 2025, sales revenue amounted to 3.5 billion euros.
