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Help to people affected by floods - MERO Raspenava

Help from the MERO company is directed to the town of Raspenava in the Frýdlant region that was seriously hit by the flash flood in August. The employees are personally involved in cleaning works, they bring the most important things with them: Work tools, barrows, shovels, brooms, buckets, rakes, cleaning and disinfecting aids, work clothes, shoes, raincoats, multivitamin and ion drinks. The project of Company Volunteering that MERO has been supporting since 2008 becomes topical and effective. Beside concrete physical and material help, the company management decided that it will also provide financial help to Raspenava.

Jet Mixers - ”a pilot foreign project“

This year, our company managed to carry out the first mixing by Jet Mixers abroad; thus, its vision of obtaining a foreign reference contract has been achieved. Within Europe, this state-of-the-art Canadian technology for mixing crude oil tanks has only been applied at the Central Crude Oil Tank Farm in Nelahozeves by its only proprietor, MERO ČR, a.s.

Thanks to contacts gained by participation at various international associations, conferences and through presentations given between 2002 and 2004, we found a strategic partner for the territory of the Netherlands: Enigma B.V. Netherland.

Together with our foreign partner, we addressed a potential customer, Vopak, which is the largest independent tank operator worldwide; a company operating 74 terminals with a storage capacity of 21.2 mil. m3. Intensive negotiations were introduced in 2005 and included practical demonstrations of the Jet Mixer system during mixing and cleaning at the Central Crude Oil Tank Farm in Nelahozeves.

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Replacing 32 pipes on the Družba crude oil pipeline during 96 hours of shutdown - Purpose of works

In September 2007, an exceptional event occurred that was unique in terms of its extent, required speed, as well as the number of workers and the technology involved. It concerned an intervention at the DN 500 Družba crude oil pipeline in the Klobouky – Moutnice section, which consisted in replacing 32 pipes whose parameters, as determined through an internal inspection, did not meet those required to ensure the future secure operation of the pipeline. These pipes were improperly installed in two locations within about 8 km of the crude oil pipeline, not far from the Klobouky pumping station (PS).

It was necessary to replace the aforementioned number of pipes within just 96 hours of pipeline shutdown. This required a great deployment of capacities to all the work assignments – clearing out the crude oil from the pipes, ensuring a safe environment for welding, assembling the works for cutting out the pipes, installing pipes back into the pipeline, and non-destructive testing (NDT) of the welds. It was necessary to select the most optimal work flow for the entire project, choose reliable contractors for the assembly works, prepare the entire project in technical and organisational terms, and coordinate the activities of the large number of sub-contractors within a relatively small space.

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Extension to the Central Oil Tanking Station Nelahozeves II.

The contract for work with the association of companies Metrostav, a. s., Praha and ČKD Praha DIZ, a. s., was signed based on a public tender.

According to the concluded contract for work and according to the schedule of works, storage tanks and their operational and technical background are supposed to be terminated and put into operation at the latest in 25 months.

Petrol Station Benešovice

Company MERO ČR, a. s. is implementing the construction of the petrol station in Benešovic on the present oil pipeline IKL.

The general contractor of the construction is the company ČKD PRAHA DIZ, which started the construction stage at the beginning of June 2006.

The new premises of the petrol station comprise a switch-room building, a roofed-over building for pumps, a roofed building for pig chambers, a tank for slop residues and other equipment. The construction includes a voltage connection of 22 kV for the petrol station which has been terminated and the building department has issued the approval certificate for the connection.

By these days the switch-room building, steel structures of halls, roofing over the buildings for pumps and for pig chambers, fire reserve and the slop tank have been constructed. Welding of oil piping system has been finished and the pressure test has been implemented. The assembly of electrical equipment in the switch-room building is being terminated.

The real connection to the oil pipeline IKL and the complex tests are planned for spring 2008.