KIEV, Nov. 17 – Ukrtransnafta is in talks with Azerbaijan's SOCAR on a time credit for a trial batch of crude oil, which is to be bought and supplied to the Kralupy oil refinery in the Czech Republic, according to Roman Sidorak, the head of Ukrtransnafta's tariff policy department.

The trial consignment of up to 300,000 tons of oil is to be shipped to the Czech Republic early in 2012, he said during a meeting of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission.