OREANDA-NEWS. September 07, 2010. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) continues work to provide efficiency and security of work in its Black Sea terminal (BST Ltd) in Georgian port Kulevi.

BST informs, BST Corrosion/Integrity team is establishing the independent NDT (None Destructive Testing) Laboratory to support the Terminal operation and maintenance. Laboratory is supplied with large range of inspection equipments, scanners of ultrasonic flaw detection, X-RAY device and many supporting tools are thoroughly selected and purchased. Very soon it will meet Georgian Centre of Accreditation to have an accreditation audit for monitoring of laboratory development and its personnel competency.

While NDT laboratory is developing, NDT works are being carried out in the Terminal. Almost 70% of existing equipments have been inspected for verification of equipments integrity.

“Development of NDT Laboratory is the part of BST Corrosion/Integrity Strategy to support safe and reliable operation of the facility,” it was informed.