Azerbaijan`s state oil company SOCAR is preparing to commission a new filling station in Ukraine, the Ukrainian media reported April 15.

SOCAR`s new filling station is to be located on the Dnepr embankment in Kyiv and will be the Azerbaijani company`s eighth filling station in that city.

SOCAR is the sole producer of oil products in Azerbaijan. The company also has filling stations in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania and Switzerland.

SOCAR exported 225,350 tons of oil products in January-February 2016 as compared to 197,880 tons exported in the same period 2015.

The company exported 1.23 million tons of oil products in 2015 versus 1.2 million tons exported in 2014.