Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that Sakhalin Energy has selected its Samplemanager laboratory information system (Lims) for use in the Sakhalin II integrated oil and gas project.
The Sakhalin II project includes a partnership incorporating the recovery, production and transportation of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Sakhalin Energy has standardised on Samplemanager Lims for use in its main laboratory located at its LNG plant/oil export terminal (OET), as well as in upstream satellite laboratories across Sakhalin Energy.
The decision to invest in a new Lims to manage the sampling process from upstream through to sample report was imperative for Sakhalin Energy's new laboratory.
Sunil Pandya, head of laboratory for Sakhalin Energy, said: 'Our laboratory has well-defined procedures for essential quality control work, for scheduling samples, to manage resources and reporting on samples.
'To manage the workload and integrate with the instrumentation, we selected Thermo Scientific Samplemanager Lims for the laboratory.
'Samplemanager is implemented in our main laboratory; in the upstream satellite laboratories; as well as for data management of environmental monitoring throughout Sakhalin Energy operations.
'Any data required by the business is automatically available from the Lims with sophisticated automatic data transfer.
'Samplemanager Lims is used to interface with critical IT systems including Sakhalin Energy's corporate Energy Components package and process information (PI) system for efficient reporting and documentation support.'
The laboratory at Sakhalin II has to operate according to GLP/OECD guidelines and uses Samplemanager to demonstrate its procedural conformity.
Sakhalin Energy staff use Samplemanager Lims 24/7 to help manage the data from the thousands of samples that are required throughout the sampling stages on Sakhalin Island.
Plans call for some instruments to be connected into the Lims so that reports can be accessed centrally and instruments can be scheduled for calibration from within the Lims.
The data from the facility's equipment, including all instrumentation, is all directly transferred into the Lims.
Samplemanager is tasked with storing and tracking data processed in the laboratory.
The Lims is also used for data trending and analysis, to identify when product is moving out of specification.
