Akvamiljø Caspian

Consultancy

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AmC provides environmental consultancy services, such as reporting and interpretation of monitoring studies, environmental impact assessments, environmental sensitivity mapping and waste management consultancy. The laboratory has over 5 years experience of providing environmental services to the Oil and Gas sector in the Caspian region.

Offshore monitoring

11 Dec 2009 04:30:44 GMT

AmC has been providing full life cycle project management for oil and gas offshore environmental baseline and monitoring surveys, since the laboratory’s inception in 1998. This Project Management includes project planning, sampling by a fully trained and experienced survey crew of AmC’s scientists and chemical and biological laboratory analysis of samples.

Based on the analytical results a full data and interpretation report is produced by the consultancy section.

Ground water monitoring

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Air monitoring.

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AmC carries out Air Quality Measurements for environmental and occupational health monitoring. The laboratory specializes in all sorts of pollution of the working environment, indoor air, emissions, outdoor air and soil gas. Most of our air pollution analyses are accredited by the Danish accreditation body DANAK. Ambient Air Monitoring Air quality samples are generally collected for one or more of the following purposes: •To judge compliance with and/or progress made towards meeting ambient air quality standards. •To activate emergency control procedures that prevents or alleviates air pollution episodes. •To observe pollution trends throughout the region, including non-urban areas. •To provide a data base for research evaluation of effects: urban, land-use, and transportation planning; development and evaluation of abatement strategies; and development and validation of diffusion models. With the end use of the air quality samples as a prime consideration, the network should be designed to meet one of four basic monitoring objectives listed below: 1.To determine highest concentrations expected to occur in the area covered by the network; 2.to determine representative concentrations in areas of high population density; 3.to determine the impact on ambient pollution levels of significant sources or source categories; and 4.to determine general background concentration levels. These four objectives indicate the nature of the samples that the monitoring network will collect which must be representative of the spatial area being studied. Ambient air analyses are primarily related to determination of inorganic and few organic gases and vapors for which national or EU authorities have set limits. Sulphur dioxide, nitrous gasses, carbon oxide, and benzene are examples hereof. W use passive and active samplers and automatic analyzers for air quality measurements. Occupational Health AmC perform most analyses relevant for characterizing indoor air. These parameters typically require considerably lower detection limits than those required for occupational health analyses. An identification of the components is usually necessary in these cases, as it is not always the component with the largest content that causes problems. Our services include analysis of solvents, organic gasses and vapors as well as particles. Other analyses include heavy metal contents and other inorganic components, fibers and micro organisms. In connection with all testing, we offer advice on the correct choice of sampling method, and we can also supply you with the necessary sampling equipment, pumps, etc. Most of our occupational health testing is performed as accredited testing. We are extremely flexible with regard to delivery times, and in cases of urgency we are always ready to perform rush analyses. Soil gaseous We perform soil gaseous measurements in the unsaturated zone of soil – i.e. the air between the surface and the groundwater. Soil gas investigations are primarily used as a fast and simple way of tracing and identifying volatile organic pollutants. The investigations are also aimed at measuring the contents of volatile micro pollutants in soil gas, allowing their influence on the indoor climate to be evaluated. AmC offer accredited sampling and analyses of all relevant components such as chlorinated solvents and decomposition products hereof as well as of aromatic hydrocarbons – e.g. benzene, toluene, ethylene, and xylenes. Meteorological data measurements Understanding atmospheric processes and the phenomena that contribute to them requires detailed meteorological measurements, accurate data, and comprehensive analyses. AmC have staff and experience to help the clients in installation of the weather stations with different parameters to meet their meteorological measurements,, data, and analysis need. Our meteorological measurements and services include the following: Field Measurements AmC staff perform surface and upper-air measurements, data processing, and quality control services for use in routine monitoring and research studies. Data Management Experienced data analysts process and quality control data and develop databases for meteorological and air quality analyses. Real Time Data Acquisition AmC perform regularly collecting data from instrument networks and create web-based displays that allow clients and meteorologists to check instrument performance, forecast, and initiate enhanced sampling. Data Analysis AmC staff use surface and upper-air wind and temperature data to characterize atmospheric boundary layer meteorology and its influence on air pollution, dispersion, formation and transport. We use this information to develop conceptual and physical models of the processes that control air quality and to create air quality forecasting tools. Quality Assurance AmC meteorologists conduct system and performance audits of meteorological instruments that adhere to accepted assurance guidelines.

Marine monitoring

11 Dec 2009 04:23:37 GMT

Offshore environmental monitoring

As a part of industrial effluent monitoring programs AmC CEL conducts “in situ” biomonitoring studies using caged bivalve mussels and monitoring of fish populations in the Caspian Sea. These monitoring studies include a range of biomarker analyses applied to detect biological effects of pollutants possibly present in water.

Fish monitoring

Fish monitoring studies are carried out to assess the presence, contamination levels and health status of fish populations found in studied area with the residential fish species serving as “indicator fish”. The analytical parameters are chosen to detect possible exposure to specific organic and inorganic chemical contaminants via a range of biomarkers analyses.

Water Column Biomonitoring

Biomonitoring of water column using “caged” bivalves has been established since 2000. Biomonitoring provides a useful and cost-effective tool for effluent control and environmental management. With biological testing, the organisms respond to any biologically active chemicals present. The method is sufficient to monitor water quality and access changes in surrounding water over time. Responses of exposed mussels reflect an ‘average’ estimate of water quality, and this ensures that their response is in equilibrium with general environmental conditions.

Macrobenthic analyses

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Taxonomy analyses are carried out by means of identification and community analyses of the Caspian benthic fauna. Knowledge of Caspian fauna and the ability to utilise the data in a monitoring context with the aid of various statistical techniques allows us to properly investigate and report the present status of the benthic community within a survey area.

Microbiology:

11 Dec 2009 04:20:11 GMT

AmC CEL offers a range of US EPA improved microbiological testing of drinking and waste water by methodologies routinely used in both the USA and the EU for water analysis. These analyses include detection and enumeration of the sulphate-reducing bacteria, heterotrophic bacteria, total coliforms, temperature resistant coliforms, and E.coli.

Ecotoxicology testing

11 Dec 2009 04:18:36 GMT

Caspian Specific Ecotoxicity Procedures (CSEP) for assessing and regulating chemicals used in drilling, production and associated operations using Caspian Sea species were developed in Akvamiljø Caspian, Caspian Environmental Laboratory in 1998. Since then a large number of toxicity tests have been carried out using different products, chemicals, drilling mud /cuttings, crude oil and dispersants, produced/hydrotest water etc. Design and methods of CSEP follow International guidances. The acute toxicity tests are carried out in accordance with AmC operational quality assurance system following with the Organisation Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) principles for Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). These include tests with zooplankton; phytoplankton; sediment dwelling crustacea, and fish.

Chemical analyses

11 Dec 2009 04:05:45 GMT

Chemical analyses AmC provides a range of chemical analyses in water, soil, sediments, sludge, biota and air. - See parameter list below. - Analyses are conducted according to the ISO 17025 accreditation standard and the laboratory regularly takes part in international inter-calibration excercises.

Contact

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Akvamiljø Caspian AS Caspian Environmental Laboratory Shikh Settlement, Salyan Highway Sabail District, Baku-AZ-1023, Azerbaijan Tel: (99412) 497-47-75, (99412) 497-47-76 Fax: (99412) 497-40-02 E-mail: post@amc.az Web: www.akvamiljo-caspian.az

Scientific group

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Accreditation

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Quality is our core value. AmC Quality has every day since 1998 been developed and refined in interaction with the world’s most competent clients and owners, and has become an integrated part of corporate culture and mindset. The laboratory has for several years been holding the premium international accreditation ISO 17025:2005

By eyes of employers.

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Key staff

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Name: Knut Robøle, MSc NTH, MBA NHH Managing Director & CEO E-mail: knut.robole@amc.az Name: James Mc Nee, MSc Heriot Watt University Offshore Project Manager & Senior Consultant E-mail: james.mcnee@amc.az Name: Aytan Poladova (PhD) Consultant Air Monitoring E-mail: aytan.poladova@amc.az Name: Aliya Akhundova (PhD) Manager Chemistry Laboratory E-mail: aliya.akhundova@amc.az Name: Nargis Garajayeva (PhD) Manager Biology Laboratory E-mail: nargis.garajayeva@amc.az

About As. History

14 Nov 2009 03:51:59 GMT

– Caspian Environmental Laboratory (AmC) began to operate in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1998, on an initiative from Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC). The laboratory offers a comprehensive range of environmental services to the oil and gas sector, including comprehensive offshore surveys, chemical and biological analyses as well as practical environmental monitoring and consultancy. The laboratory is operating according to international standards, and holds the laboratory specific ISO 17025 accreditation. The staff is made up by azerbaijani scientists,technicians,administrative personnel as well as expatriates from UK and Norway. AmC is a Norwegian registered private limited company owned by International Research Institute of Stavanger, Norway, the international laboratory group Eurofins and the Norwegian governmental funding agency Innovation Norway. Akvamiljø Caspian is part of the research centre IRIS-Akvamiljø. In addition to our own services AmC offers a local route to the expertise of our parent organizations for clients in the Caspian region.

Caspian Environmental Laboratory, laboratory in Azerbaijan

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Company Info AmC provides a wide range of environmental laboratory analysis and consultancy services for the oil industry, offering project management, onshore and offshore field sampling, biological and chemical laboratory analysis and data interpretation reporting. Group Info As a member of the group of Eurofins, one of the biggest laboratory concerns of the world, and IRIS, a major environmental research institute of oil related effects , AmC has access to a unique network of industrial laboratory capacity and updated scientific research. Recent activities Offshore environmental survey 2009 successfully carried out for BP as part of their Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program. ISO 17025:2005 From 2006 AmC holds the premium interational laboratory accreditation