OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2010. OJSC Tatneft jointly with TatIntek Management Company has organized a number of specialized educational and research laboratories with advanced equipment produced by the world's leading manufacturers of automated process control systems (APCS) and instrumentation and automation equipment for oil/gas producing and oil/gas refining industry on the basis of the Research and Educational Center, reported the press-centre of Tatneft.

Specialized laboratory facilities have been established by the Company for the Department of Automation and Information Technology (AIT) of Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute. Information stands of the systems "Protok (Flow)", "CD-110", "Mega", as well as elements of "Intelligent Well" have been set up here based on the corporate network of TATNEFT, which allows getting the information about the oil production facilities operation in the on-line mode. Yokogawa, HP, Roxar, Honeywell, Samson, Lufkin Automation, National Instruments and Rockwell Automation companies have actively participated in the project of establishing specialized educational and research laboratories.

Performance of laboratory and practical lessons with students in the established laboratories enables already at an early stage of professionals' training to develop their professional knowledge and skills that allows to significantly improve the quality of their training in the field of maintenance of the automation systems of the oil industry.

Workshops are arranged in the laboratories of the Research and Educational Center on the following subjects: basics of ACS; industrial controllers programming; emergency prevention of operating procedures; theory of measurement processes; instrumentation and automation and metrology.

Information Reference.
The Research and Educational Center was established in early 2009 on the basis of Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute. It pursues the aim of strengthening practical orientation of training professionals through implementation of the advanced achievements of science, engineering, technology and best practices in the field of oil production, refining, automation and information technology into the educational process, as well as of initiating research activities among students/post graduates and teaching staff of AGNI (Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute) .

Regular training seminars and refresher courses are arranged and methodological support is developed and improved in all major areas of the Research and Educational Center activity. More than 80 instrumentation professionals and engineering employees of TATNEFT attended the refresher courses in the field of instrumentation and automation equipment in the oil industry in 2009 on the basis of the Research and Educational Center. Representatives of "Albatross", "Emerson", "Lufkin Automation", "Stahl", etc., participated in the training. Currently, training of TatIntek specialists is performed for the needs of TANECO Company under Yokogawa education programs.