2010 Annual Report - TPAO

In the scope of Occupational Safety and
Environmental Protection, the project of
“Management of Waste Water” resulted by
petroleum and natural gas is carried out with
TÜBİTAK and İTÜ Environmental Engineering
Department.
“Applied Well Control Courses” proper to the
IWCF Certificates was given to the TPAO’s
technical staff coming from national/international
companies by TPAO’s engineers and technicians
in the scope of the related procedure.
16 Applied Well Control Courses were carried out
for 160 personnel consisting of engineers and
technicians. 67 IWCF Well Control Certificates,
151 TPAO Well Control Certificates and 9 TPAO
Certificates of Course Completion were granted
to the successful trainees in 2010.
Totally 377 trainees, from both TPAO and other
companies were given technical trainings on 14
different subjects by these courses.
Research Center Laboratory Services
In the Geology Laboratories, analyses were
performed mostly related with biostratigraphy
(micropaleontology, nanoplankton and
palynology), sedimentology (petrography, clay
mineralogy, scanning electron microscope-
SEM/EDS, lithology, sequence stratigraphy and
reservoir evaluation), geochemistry (gas, oil,
source rock, organic petrography, oil and gas
origins, isotope analyses, kinetic parameters,
oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations, reservoir
geochemistry, mathematical modeling, evidence
analyses, oil systems and potential with informing
samples) subjects.
In drilling, reservoir and production technologies
laboratories studies and analyses related to
drilling fluid and cement program, additives
quality control, rock mechanics-well bore stability
simulation, simulation of hydraulic and acid
fracturing, basic and special core analyses,
reservoir fluids (PVT) analysis and EOR subjects,
corrosion and scale control, injection water
quality, fuel oil analyses, are conducted.
The Accreditation Registration of TPAO Research
Center Laboratories was renewed for four years
in 2010 as a dependable, contemporary arbitrator
laboratory at an international level accordance
with the TS EN/ISO IEC 17025 “General
Requirements for the Competence of Calibration
and Testing Laboratories” standards, total of 34
analyses on the following titles reaccredited;
• Petroleum Product Analyses,
• Water Analyses,
• Drilling Fluids Additives Analyses,
• SEM/EDS and Clay Minerals Analyses,
• Biodiesel Analyses.
As a result, all 2 nd level tests planned for 2010
were accredited for gasoline, diesel and fuel-oil.
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