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Editor's Letter We started the first issue of 2019 with significant developments in the Turkish lubricant sector. Turkey stands out as a key market with its high volume of consumption, and also as a major manufacturing center that offers both quality and price advantage. Thus, many global lubricant companies are producing and exporting their products to the whole world from this country.

At the same time, there are a large number of Turkish lubricant manufacturers that sell their products in Turkey and export to other countries.

Looking at the size of the sector in Turkey, we can say that the country is taking firm steps forward as a potential lubricants hub. In this regard, we wrote up a sector evaluation, which includes the opinions of the Chairmen of IKMIB (Istanbul Chemicals and Chemical Products Exporters’ Association) and MAPESAD (Lubricants and Petroleum Products Industrialists’ Association).

We interviewed Sezgin Gürsu, Lubricants Director at Petrol Ofisi, leader of Turkish lubricants and chemicals market for 9 consecutive years according to PETDER data. We asked him the secret of this success they continued for 9 years.

Energy efficiency has become an increasingly important determinant in the R&D studies of lubricant producers. Many innovative lubricants have been developed to help consumers achieve both energy saving and productivity gains. Eni took it a step further and developed an energy efficient lubricant for turbomachineries. These lubricants can be used in big machines such as gas and steam turbines, and increase overall machine efficiency by decreasing mechanical power loss.

About energy efficiency, we also spoke with Murat Kalsın, President of Energy Efficiency Association. Murat Kalsın, who carries out researches and studies to increase energy Türkiye madeni yağlar ve kimyasallar efficiency in almost all sectors, underlines how pazarında lider değişmedi lubricants contribute to productivity in industry.

He emphasizes that choosing the right product can make a great contribution both to the Turkey Edition environment and to the factory owner.

In addition, we conducted an interview with Samet Üner, who is one of the most experienced names in the sector and started to share his knowledge with other companies through his consulting firm. We learned many things about operational excellence.

With this issue, we will be at the UNITI Mineral Oil Technology Congress to take place in Stuttgart, Germany; at the Base Oil & Lubes Middle East Conference to take place in Dubai, UAE; and at the Erbil Oil & Gas Fair to take place in Erbil, Iraq. We are also one of the participants of Automechanika Istanbul, which will be held at TUYAP Fair and Congress Center between 4-7 April. We’d like to meet you there!

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PANORAMA WORLDWIDE PANORAMA PRODUCT REVIEW IN-DEPTH ARTICLE ARTICLE INTERVIEW INTERVIEW SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BIOLUBRICANTS TRIBOLOGY APPLICATIONS

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SmartLynx selects NYCO’s turbine oil for its fleet of Airbus A320 N

YCO announces that SmartLynx Airlines, based in Riga, Latvia, recently selected Turbonycoil ® 600, a synthetic standard turbine oil, for use on its fleet of Airbus A320 powered by CFM56-5B and V2500.

The ACMI provider and charter company, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017, is in full growth with annual passengers carried increasing from 1.6 million in 2015 to 2.5 million in 2017. SmartLynx provides ACMI operations to its customers in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia and plans to start holiday charter operations in the Russian market from Q2 2019 with its sister company trading as WeGo Air. “SmartLynx is very pleased to make the switch to the NYCO Engine oil, an oil that has been proven to stand up to the rigors of modern jet engines at a very competitive price. We expect to give added value to our ACMI Customers by passing on a significant saving in Engine Oil direct operating costs.” said John Brady, VP Technical at SmartLynx.

“We are excited to add SmartLynx to our partners. We would like to thank John Brady and Malcom Fitzsimons for their professionalism and trust. Once again, NYCO strengthens its position on the European market, particularly with operators flying with the A320 fleet powered by CFM56 and V2500.” said Hélène Prinet, NYCO Sales & Marketing Manager – Aeronautics.

Approved against demanding specifications, including SAE AS 5780 SPC Class and MIL-PRF-23699 STD Class, Turbonycoil ® 600 has received certification for use by all major engine manufacturers. It has logged more than 30 years of experience in jet engines of military and commercial aircraft.

NYCO is a French company, expert in the development and manufacture of high performance lubricants and synthetic ester bases for Aeronautics, Defence and Industry.

A key partner for Armed Forces, Airlines, OEMs, MROs and Aero derivative Gas Turbines users around the world, NYCO offers a comprehensive products range approved to the most demanding civil and military specifications. Our international network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents has enabled us to expand our presence in more than 100 countries around the world with more than 80 percent of our export sales.

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Cepsa and Cosmo to seek new opportunities in the lubricants market C

epsa and Cosmo signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study new business opportunities in the lubricants market, both in Spain and Japan and internationally. The agreement covers potential synergies in the production of lubricants and coolants, the exchange of technology and formulations, and the search for possible partnerships in the marketing of these products, to increase their efficiency. The alliance also reflects both companies' interest in reaching an agreement to manufacture and supply lubricants and coolants on behalf of the other company, under the Cepsa or Cosmo trademark.

At the signing of this agreement, Pedro Miró, Chief Executive Officer of Cepsa, said: “This new agreement with Cosmo will allow us to continue sharing experience and technology with one of the most important companies in the energy industry in Asia, to achieve complementary strengths that will grow our various business areas.”

For his part, Hiroshi Kiriyama, Chief Executive Officer of Cosmo Energy Holdings, as a witness by signing, emphasized: “On this occasion, it is a great privilege for Cosmo to broaden mutual collaboration through each knowhow and technology. The new agreement will also deliver reliabilities and values to our customer. Cepsa has been an indispensable partner for Cosmo in Europe and then the both companies are keen to take on new challenges.”

Strategic partners Both companies, which form part of the Mubadala portfolio of companies (Cepsa at 100 percent and Cosmo Energy Holdings at 20.8 percent), started analyzing business opportunities in 2014, when they signed an initial agreement focused on studying partnership possibilities in the Exploration and Production business.

This alliance laid the foundations to create the subsidiary Cosmo Abu Dhabi Energy Exploration & Production to operate jointly in the United Arab Emirates. Through this partnership (80 percent Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production, 20 percent Cepsa), both companies operate four oil fields in Abu Dhabi: Hail, Mubarraz, Umm Al-Anbar and Neewat AlGhalan, located in shallow waters to the west of the Emirate.

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ADNOC signs strategic partnership agreements with Eni and OMV T

he Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed two new strategic equity partnerships with Eni and OMV covering both ADNOC Refining and a new trading joint venture, which will be jointly established by the three partners. The signing of the agreements was witnessed by H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, H.E. Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, and H.E. Hartwig Löger, Austria’s Federal Minister of Finance. The agreements were signed by H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO, Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni and Dr. Rainer Seele, Chairman of the OMV Executive Board and CEO. In one of the largest ever refinery transactions, Eni and OMV will acquire 20 percent and 15 percent shares in ADNOC Refining respectively, with ADNOC owning the remaining 65 percent. The agreement values ADNOC Refining, which has a total refining capacity of 922,000 barrels per day, and which operates the fourth largest single site refinery in the world, at an enterprise value of $19.3 billion. As a further part and condition of this agreement, the partners will also establish a trading joint venture, in which Eni and OMV will own 20 percent and 15 percent of the shares respectively. Proceeds to ADNOC from the sale are estimated to be $5.8 billion, subject to completion adjustments. The transaction reflects the scale, quality and growth potential of ADNOC Refining’s assets, coupled with an advantageous location from which to supply markets in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Eni and OMV have strong track records in maximizing value from advanced, complex refinery operations and bring to the partnership extensive operational and project management experience and expertise.

Further value will be created from the new global trading joint venture, which, once established, will be an international exporter of ADNOC Refining’s products, with export volumes equivalent to approximately 70 percent of throughput. Domestic supply within the UAE will continue to be managed by ADNOC. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2019, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

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Evonik shows the benefits of DYNAVIS® and NUFLUX™ at bauma 2019

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onstruction machine manufacturers will do almost anything to optimize the productivity and service life of their machines, and lubricants are typically not a factor in this process. “That’s wrong!” says Rolf Fianke, Global Brand Manager DYNAVIS ® & NUFLUX ™, technology brands of the business line Oil Additives at Evonik. “The Oil Additives specialists at Evonik will help visitors at bauma see that fluids formulated

with DYNAVIS and NUFLUX ™ technologies are what their machines have been missing.” ®

Evonik, a German specialty chemicals company, presented two of their leading technology solutions at bauma 2019 in Munich: DYNAVIS ® technology optimizes the viscosity of hydraulic fluids; and industrial gear oil formulations based on NUFLUX ™ technology perform as well as synthetic based fluids, at a lower cost.

Higher productivity and a longer service life with DYNAVIS ® technology DYNAVIS ® is a technology for formulating hydraulic fluids, optimizing their viscosity. By changing from a standard

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hydraulic fluid to one formulated with DYNAVIS ® technology generates many benefits, including increases in machine productivity and improved fuel efficiency.

Additional benefits include the machines operating more efficiently, reacting better, needing less frequent service, and suffering less wear and tear, ultimately extending their effective service life. And, this pays off quickly, most notably in extremely demanding applications, while also assuring higher returns, lower energy consumption and reduced CO 2 emissions.

Performance demonstrations show up to 20% or more improved efficiency!

Lubricants formulated with DYNAVIS ® technology typically achieve efficiency gains at a minimum of 5-15 percent, which have been documented through a number of performance demonstrations over the past five years.

This includes not only internal field tests, but in tough, real-world situations globally. Companies who focus on mining, road construction, demolition, or earth-moving have realized increased profits, with peak efficiency gains reaching up to 25 percent.

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George Drewing, Head of Treatment Plant in Sebokeng: “Electricity is our biggest cost factor. We could save 272,000 rand (approx. EUR 17,500) a month. We’re thinking about filling all the aerator gears with NUFLUX ™.”

The conditions of a harsh operating environment and high-performance expectations prove that while conventional gear oils are adequate at fulfilling technical performance requirements, synthetic gear oils provide the advantage of longer service intervals and equipment service life – but at a higher cost. NUFLUX ™, Evonik’s innovative technology, enables lubricant companies to formulate industrial gear oils which not only deliver benefits such as long service life and lower operating temperature, but are also cost efficient.

Oils formulated with NUFLUX ™ technology are largely equivalent to synthetic lubricants, and even surpass them in some respects. In fact, during a recent field trial in a pump gear in South Africa, a higher degree of efficiency was measured that promises to pay off. This made the decision of the Treatment Plant easier to fill 26 of their gears in the water treatment system with NUFLUX ™ formulated oil.

Because fluid formulation plays an important role in equipment productivity and machine life, it shouldn’t only be important to formulators,” Fianke continued. “Fluids formulated with DYNAVIS ® and NUFLUX ™ technologies will demonstrate tangible productivity and efficiency gains in the construction and mining sectors, and the best place to learn about this is at bauma.” bauma is the world's leading gathering for the A current DYNAVIS test project: HITACHI EX1200 crawler excavator in the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia. A hydraulic fluid formulated using DYNAVIS ® technology yielded productivity growth (cbm³/h) in coal extraction measured at 7.9%. ®

construction machinery industry. The world's largest trade fair presents captivating highlights and the latest pioneering innovations.

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Castrol Turkey's first and only plant-based motor oil C

astrol, one of the leading lubricant manufacturers, offered to the market Turkey’s first and only plant-based motor oil Castrol Magnatec Bio-Synthetic as part of its environmental sustainability studies. Castrol Magnatec Bio-Synthetic is formulated with 25 percent renewable plant-based oil that is derived from sugarcane. Therefore, the oil stands out with its carbon neutrality as well. Bringing Castrol Magnatec Bio-Synthetic's entry into the market together with the research results that reveal the ecological sensitivities of the Generation Z, Castrol aims to be the pioneer of the environmental responsibility movement in the motor oil market.

Delivering a speech at the launch event, Aslı Yetkin Karagül, Castrol Turkey, Ukraine and Central Asia Director, indicated that Castrol is one of the pioneers of its sector in terms of environmental sustainability. “Our goal with Castrol Magnatec Bio-Synthetic is to initiate a positive change in the sustainability field in our sector with our environmental responsibility awareness while maintaining our powerful position in the market” said Aslı Yetkin Karagül. She stated that their sustainability studies are not limited to products only, and that they will continue to work in cooperation with employees, suppliers and stakeholders for a better planet and for reducing waste. She announced that they are planning to make the manufacturing plant in Gemlik carbon neutral in this context.

Generation Z forces companies to be green According to the research conducted by Castrol under the leadership of Educational Scientist Dr. Özgür Bolat; 78 percent of the Generation Z is concerned with environmental issues. The Generation Z, which compels companies to be green, has a decisive role for brands to pay attention to environmental sustainability.

“The new generation is more conscious about the environment and sustainability issues. It was highly important to understand if this global trend is also seen among the young people in Turkey. The research conducted for this purpose

by ERA Research Company between December 20 and 25, 2018 shows very clearly that our young people is also very conscious about environment and sustainability. We also see that young people are more decisive about the sustainability of companies” said Dr. Özgür Bolat.

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Total and Elf Lubricants met with mechanics H

aving been active in the manufacture and marketing of lubricants in Turkey for more than 28 years, Total carries on its communication with the mechanics. As one of the leading lubricant manufacturers, Total met with 3,450 mechanics in 22 cities at 28 locations within the scope of the “Together with the Mechanics” activities in 2018.

During the event, the mechanics were informed about the “New Generation Automatic Transmission Technologies” after a brief company introduction. An instructor specialized in this field made an interactive presentation at the event, where theoretical information was given to the participants and experiences were shared. The mechanics who attended the event were granted training certificates. They also received surprise gifts.

Digital transformation and experience The Total Turkey team not only showed how the digital transformation will change the service industry in the near future, but also established various games in the foyer to make the mechanics have a digital experience.

Fırat Dokur, Marketing and Technical Services Manager, indicated that Total reached a significant size in the Turkish lubricants market thanks to the investments and marketing activities. “We aim to reach the mechanics who have an important place in the lubricant sector. As the participants stated, we focused on the subject of “New Generation Transmission Technologies”, which attracted the most interest and is the most needed subject in this event. Thanks to such activities, we aim to make our mechanics, an inevitable part of the sector, use our technology and know-how more. We will definitely continue our training activities and digital loyalty programs for the mechanics in 2019” said Fırat Dokur.

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Opet Fuchs - Otokar cooperation in the field of lubricants O

pet Fuchs, one of the leading brands in the lubricants industry, collaborates with Otokar, one of the leading automotive manufacturers in Turkey, to manufacture motor oils, transmission oils, axle oils and antifreeze for Otokar vehicles. Otokar Spectra, launched as a continuation of the two companies’ cooperation in first fill lubricants, was released as the original oil brand with official approval for all Otokar vehicles. R&D works of the products were carried out

by Opet Fuchs engineers.

Otokar Spectra DEO LD DTZ 10W-40 motor oil, which was first tested in 12-meter Kent LF buses used in urban transport, was used for thousands of kilometers in Istanbul, where the traffic is heavy and there are steep slopes. Otokar Spectra DEO LD DTZ 10W-40 was examined in the lubricant laboratory with TURKAK 17025 accreditation certificate, and was approved for extending the oil change interval from 20,000 km to 40,000 km.

‘Our goal is to increase the satisfaction of our customers by creating benefits’ Speaking at the press conference of Otokar Spectra, Otokar Deputy General Manager Ali Rıza Alptekin stated that one of Otokar's top priorities is to increase customer satisfaction and to create benefits for its customers. “Otokar Spectra is our recommended original lubricant brand, which can be used both in commercial and military vehicles. With Otokar Spectra, our users will achieve the highest performance and optimum protection while using the highest quality oil” he further noted.

‘We develop customer-specific products’ Opet Fuchs General Manager Murat Seyhan stated that they have developed 9 motor oils, 11 gear oils and 2 antifreeze products for Otokar. He said, “We continue to increase and enhance our cooperation with OEMs along with the integrations for innovative business models. We receive positive results in our product development goal based on meeting the needs of our customers and understanding their changing expectations. With our ‘customer-specific product’ concept, we develop special products that fully meet their needs. With Otokar Spectra original oils that we developed for the Otokar brand, Otokar vehicle users will achieve longer engine life and higher performance.”

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02.–03. April 2019 in Stuttgart Information about: Fuels and Biofuels Lubricants Additives Base Oils + Get-together

Veranstalter / Organizer: UNITI-Mineralöltechnologie GmbH Jägerstraße 6 · 10117 Berlin · T. (030) 755 414-400 F. (030) 755 414-474 · umt@uniti.de · www.umtf.de

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New energy efficient lubricants for turbomachineries Low Viscosity Oil - Eni OTE GT 15

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Energy saving and efficiency concepts have been a focus for lubricant manufacturers recently. There are many successful products that offer very good efficiency results. And now, Eni offers a low viscosity lubricant for turbomachineries that heralds energy saving for these big machines.

Development & Technical Assistance Industrial Products & Specialties Manager Lubricants & Special Product Business Unit Eni Refining & Marketing

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nvironmental awareness is increasing everywhere in the world and in every sector of human activities; different solutions have been developed to increase the sustainability of products in the fuels field but we can’t say the same thing for lubricants.

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In the lubricants field, more attention has been given to the environmental impact of lubricants due to leakage or total loss lubrication, for this purpose it has been defined the environmentally acceptable lubricants “EAL”, that is readily biodegradable, not bio-accumulative and with low aquatic toxicity.

In these last years, a new approach is emerging that concerns the use of lubricants to improve the efficiency of machinery obtaining a reduction of fuel consumption and thus the greenhouse emissions. This approach has been adopted to develop a new class of hydraulic oils with very high viscosity index for earth moving machine; unfortunately the advantage claimed in this field is difficult to be measured due to the size of machine (low power) and the working conditions (not continuous) as conditioned by the operator’s guide. Instead, in the oil & gas field the energy saving lubricants could play a crucial role to increase the efficiency of turbomachinery where there is a strong commitment of OEMs to increase the efficiency of gas/steam turbines and compressors.

The continued market demand to have more efficient machines has motivated manufacturers to look for improvements even in the area that have never been explored until now -the lubricant- not seen only as an ancillary component but as a vital part of the turbine design. Eni, with years of experience in the turbine oil field based on proprietary technology, accepted the challenge to develop an innovative energy saving product in 2010, and in partnership with Baker Hughes General Electric (BHGE) conceived the idea to work together to increase the efficiency of industrial turbomachinery by reducing the losses due to viscous friction on lubricated parts.

It was commonly known that reducing the oil viscosity increases the fuel efficiency, but this one was the first time that someone was doing it on these machineries.

Since many years the viscosity of lubricating oil for industrial turbomachinery application is a predetermined parameter and basically an industry standard set on two reference values: 32 cSt and 46 cSt at 40°C. After extensive discussions, the decision was taken to approach the study of low viscosity oils, 15 cSt and 22 cSt at 40°C, in order to achieve the following goals: • increase the overall machinery efficiency by reducing the mechanical viscous losses and relevant heat generation, • improve bearings lubrication behavior and minimize pad temperature at very high shaft sliding speed of advanced high-performance turbomachinery, • reduce the oil flow requirement and optimize design of lube oil systems.

Aiming to build a rigorous and reliable process, it was defined a development plan which combined the theoretical and analytical study with an extensive experimental activity based on incremental approach from component to machinery system level.

At the end of this process, after passing all the tests, Eni launched an “energy saving” low viscosity lubricating oil into the market in 2015, Eni OTE GT 15. This has been possible thanks to Eni’s extensive knowledge in the turbine oil field and the collaboration with BHGE. From the beginning of the project, it was clear that to break down the standard technology limits, Eni had to focus on a new additive package Eni MX 5021 with excellent performance in terms of oxidation and deposit control with a strong anti-wear and extreme pressure (EP) property to compensate the lowering of viscosity.

This additive package Eni MX 5021 combined with a blending of synthetic base oils allowed the achievement of the target. The package is produced under Eni technology in Eni’s additive production plant located in Robassomero.

Here Eni produces its own branded Lubricant Additives for all applications: PCMO/HDDO, Marine, Industrial and a wide range of components (PPD, detergents, dispersants,

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The usage of Eni OTE GT 15 on a 30 MW natural gas turbine allows to: •

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Eni OTE GT 15 shows excellent properties: • strong oxidation resistance; • the RPVOT is doubled compared to typical value of ISO VG 32 (Figure 1); • excellent anti-wear properties: despite of its low viscosity: o the load capability is comparable to ISO VG 32 proved by FZG test; o this result is particularly relevant considering that low viscosity could have potentially a negative impact on the anti-scuffing properties; • outstanding air release, (Figure 2): o this means a higher oxidation control, an extended lifetime of the oil charge and higher protection against deposit formation; o in design phase can contribute to the reduction of volume of reservoir.

• reduction of working temperature of bearing: o Eni OTE GT 15 allows an average reduction of 5-6°C of metal bearing temperatures up to 10°C for the hottest, the lower working temperature prolong the life of oil reducing the oxidation and carbon deposit.

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Petrol Ofisi continues its tradition of leadership in the lubricants and chemicals market in 2018 One of the biggest brands in Turkey, Petrol Ofisi continues to be the traditional leader of the lubricants and chemicals market along with the petroleum market. Petrol Ofisi Lubricants has once again been recognized as the market leader in the lubricants and chemicals market of Turkey and gained a 24.7 market share from approximately 90 thousand tons of fuel sales in 2018. Petrol Ofisi, which celebrates its 9th year of market leadership, exports 10,500 tons to 35 countries on 4 continents.

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he leading brand in the petroleum, lubricants, and chemicals industry, Petrol Ofisi once again has become the leader of the lubricants and chemicals market in 2018. According to data received from Turkish Oil Industry Association (PETDER), Petrol Ofisi has continued its uninterrupted leadership since 2010 and has become the market leader for 9 years in a row in the lubricants and chemicals market with its 24.7 percent market share in 2018. Petrol Ofisi Lubricants makes important contributions to all industries

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and in particular to automotive and machinery industries, and supports their development.

“A team that works together towards a common goal and the right strategy lie behind our success for 9 consecutive years�

An experienced name from the industry, Lubricants Director of Petrol Ofisi Sezgin GĂźrsu emphasized that a team that works together towards a common goal and the

right strategy made it possible to maintain 9 consecutive years of market leadership in the industry and said, "As Petrol Ofisi Lubricants, we have one of the most important and modern plants in Turkey with an annual production capacity of 140,000 tons and a storage capacity of 65,000 tons. However, lubricants business depends on people.

Although our plants and infrastructure have all technical and physical qualifications, it is the people who make a difference in this business. Therefore, our team, which has been advancing with the right strategy and implementing this strategy successfully, plays the major role in our long years of success.”

The most advanced center of Turkey and the region: POTEM “In addition, with the Petrol Ofisi Technology Center - POTEM, we are using a significant R&D and technology power in the most optimal way possible. In our center, a total of 155 different tests can be performed with national and international methods, 84 of which are accredited from TURKAK (Turkish Accreditation Agency). In POTEM, which is one of the most advanced centers of technology in the international arena, we perform 150,000 tests per year on average. Our center does not only provide

services for Petrol Ofisi with its advanced technology and accredited capability. We also offer R&D, quality control, and analysis services to many domestic and foreign companies including public institutions and world giants in particular. With our wide range of products and our advanced technology, we can meet Turkey's needs in this respect under a single roof. We deliver our products to all over our country with a total of 16 thousand sales points including Petrol Ofisi fuel stations, Maxima - Maximus Oil Change Centers and distributors.” he further stated.

Leader of the Turkish market exports to 35 countries on 4 continents With total sales exceeding 100,000 tons in 2018, Petrol Ofisi Lubricants carries its domestic success to the international market. The main markets of Petrol Ofisi Lubricants in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the America continents include Iraq, TRNC, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Russia, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. With exporting to Pakistan and Chile for the first time, Petrol Ofisi proved that it has the power to reach remote markets. The export volume of Petrol Ofisi Lubricants to 35 countries on 4 continents has exceeded 10,000 tons.

Sezgin Gürsu Lubricants Director of Petrol Ofisi

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Turkey to take firm steps towards becoming a lubricants hub Turkey, a large consumer market, is known in the sector also as a key production center with its proximity to raw material sources and export advantages. Turkish origin lubricants and petroleum products are becoming prominent in the market with their quality.

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urkey, thanks to its many favorable characteristics, has an important place among other countries in the world.

Its geographic location and its level of development are at the top of these characteristics. The country’s fertile soil, advanced industry, strong economy and hardworking people take it to a good level in production and trade.

Our export figures are increasing every year with

sustainable and innovative approaches. In 2018, a record was broken with an increase of 7.1 percent in exports, reaching 168.1 billion dollars. Among the sectors that have the highest number of exports, the automotive sector comes first with an export volume of 31.6 billion dollars.

Following the automotive and the ready-made clothing and garment sector, the chemicals and chemical products sector has the third highest export volume with 17.4 billion dollars.

Commenting on the export numbers of the chemical industry in January, Adil Pelister, Chairman of the Executive Board of Istanbul Chemicals and Chemical Products Exporters Association (IKMIB) said; “Our chemical industry has drawn a successful graph in 2018 and took the third place with 17.4 billion dollars of exports, following the automotive and the ready-made clothing and garment sector.

This year we made a good start in our exports as the chemical industry. In January, our sector's exports increased by 13.02 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and realized 1 billion 529 million dollars of exports. In line with our target of having the second highest export volume on an annual basis, we took the second place in January 2019. As IKMIB, we will continue to support our exporters with the participation of the national participation fair organization, sector trade delegation and procurement committee organizations that we plan to carry out in 2019. Knowing our responsibility to meet our 200 billion dollar national target, we will work harder to reach the 20 billion dollar limit by increasing the exports of our sector by 15 percent.”

Ever-increasing performance in chemical exports The export performance of the chemical industry is constantly increasing. According to the IKMIB data, in January 2019, chemical exports increased by 13.02 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and amounted to 1 billion 529 million dollars. The lubricants sector has a significant share in this success.

The lubricants sector, which is an important part of the chemical industry, is among the thriving sectors of the country. The country's high domestic consumption makes it a major market, while the advantages and conveniences that Turkey offers allow it to be referred to as a lubricants hub. As a result of the country’s potential, a high number of global companies are carrying out their production operations in Turkey and export their products to many countries from here. At the same time,

Turkish companies can have competitive power in the global market with their quality and price advantage.

Many lubricant companies have production operations in Turkey, such as Castrol, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total. In addition to this, nearly 110 Turkish lubricant producers are exporting their products to approximately 120 countries each year.

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Tayfun Koçak, Chairman of the Executive Board of Lubricants and Petroleum Products Industrialists' Association (MAPESAD) said; “The Turkish lubricant sector is a very big sector.

Products produced in Turkey draw attention in the world market with their high quality. Turkey's location advantage is a very important factor in this respect.

Most of the additives used in lubricant production come from Europe. In this sense, Turkey's proximity to Europe saves time for producers and it also provides cost advantage thanks to duty-free trade and low logistics costs. The presence of a Group I base oil refinery in the country is also an important factor. In addition to all these, advanced industrial production, highly developed packaging industry and logistics allow a manufacturer, which has a production plant in Turkey, to meet all the needs for the entire production and transport processes in a single location to the very best. Thanks to the intense activities of domestic and foreign manufacturers, today Turkey began to be referred as a lubricants hub and I believe this position will soon gain recognition worldwide.”

Turkish lubricant sector attracts attention with its level of development and size Turkey offers advantages in terms of both raw material and proximity to major consumers. It is possible to bring base oil and additives from Europe, Middle East and Central Asia and produce high quality lubricants with low cost in Turkey, while at the same time, these products can be exported from here to the world.

The fact that Turkey is a growing consumer market in Turkey is another key factor. In Turkey, the number of vehicle registered in traffic by the end of 2018 is 22.9 million and this figure is rising every year. This requires the automotive lubricants and fluids market to be substantial.

Besides, thanks to its advanced industrial sector, the industrial oil consumption is very high in Turkey. The highly developed glass, cement, iron and steel, plastic

activities in the country significantly increase the

and mining industries as well as intensive agricultural

consumption of industrial oils, hydraulic fluids and tractor oils. In addition to these, the construction sector’s being one of the most important sectors in Turkey indicates that there is a high demand for the oils and fluids used in construction machinery.

Turkish origin products, acclaimed worldwide with their quality and preferred for their cost advantages, stand out in the world market; whereas Turkey asserts itself both as a production center for global lubricant manufacturers and as a country that has high potential and offers many opportunities for domestic producers.

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Addressing lubrication and maintenance of wind turbines According to reports published by World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) and Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the overall capacity of all wind turbines installed worldwide by the end of 2017 reached over 539,000 MW, with Asia leading while Africa and the Middle East has just below 5,000 MW. Wind power installation has continued to increase in various regions and countries, such as Denmark whose wind power contributes to over 43 percent of the country’s power share. Other countries where wind power significantly contributes to the power mix include Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay.

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n Africa, installed wind power capacity in 2016 closed at just over 4.4 GW, and saw minimal new capacity enter operations in 2017. South Africa was the only African country to commission wind power projects in 2017, adding about 0.6 GW for a total of 2.1 GW. However, Kenya’s Lake Turkana wind farm (300 MW), was connected to the grid this year 2018, and primed as the largest wind farm project in Africa, while Morocco’s Khalladi wind farm (120 MW), is expected to be connected by the end of 2018. Additionally, 140 African wind farms are in various stages of preparation, totaling over 20 GW of new capacity expected to become operational between by 2020. 1 The significant increase in the reliance of wind power as a source of energy globally and as being experienced in Africa, can be attributed to several factors such as

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significant policy and regulatory changes introduced by countries to drive increased reliance on renewable energy.

Wind energy is a clean source of energy with unlimited supply, whose generation costs have dramatically decreased over the last 25 years due to increased technological innovations. Furthermore, wind energy is less expensive than existing fossil power in a small but growing number of markets. Increased deployment of wind energy has also been driven by wind energy’s costcompetitiveness, its potential environmental and other benefits.

Rapidly falling prices for wind power, both onshore and offshore, have made it the least-cost option for new power generating capacity in a large and growing number 1 GlobalData, 2015. Power Generation Technologies Capacities, Generation and Markets Database, London: GlobalData.

of countries.

However, wind energy is expensive to install and connect to the power grid due to various factors such as remote location accessibility and networking, while it requires comprehensive maintenance to ensure it operates with minimal interruptions in the in deterministic operation environment.

The wind turbine, made up of different components, primarily utilizes the wind’s energy to drive a generator and hence produce electricity. The tower raises and holds the turbine’s assembly above the ground, while the blades spin in the wind to drive the turbine generator. The blade and the hub constitute the rotor, which attaches to the nacelle which is placed on top of the tower. The twofold purposes of the Nacelle are first to provide a pivot considering the shifting wind (kept pointing the wind by the yaw drive) and secondly with a cover for protection, the nacelle houses the gearbox, generator, controller and brake.

A disc brake is employed to stop the rotor while the generator is driven to produce electricity. The controller both protects the turbine from wear and adjusts the turbine to optimize power generation at different wind conditions. Finally, the gears connect the low-speed to the high-speed shaft t increase rotational speeds while coupled to the generator.

Many field-operating failures are a consequence of the mentioned component failure. This type of failure is believed to be directly related to inadequate lubrication and lack of routine or scheduled maintenance. However, maintenance and lubrication of wind turbines face various challenges that require to be addressed to ensure the wind turbine’s functionality and operability.

• Accessibility: Most wind farms are located in remote areas that are not easily accessible, for instance,

deserts and arid areas. Due to an increasing trend of offshore wind turbine applications, the accessibility of the WT for maintenance is becoming complex. Moreover, maintenance personnel are faced with the challenge of working while high up in the air retaining safety risks as well.

• Adverse operating conditions: WT applications are widespread which reflect operating conditions characterized by high to low-temperature conditions and dry to wet environments. The disruptive environmental condition introduces lubrication challenges for instance ingression of salty water (offshore applications) and dust (arid locations) which could drive abrasive wear and contaminate the lubricant in-service hence compromising the reliability of the components considering wear and fatigue failures introduced. Ingression of water drives the selection of hydrolytically stable lubricants, while routine inspection and maintenance could address contamination.

• Different lubricants: The wind turbine lubrication points are diverse, each requiring a different type of lubricant due to their unique operations and lubrication requirements. These points include the gearbox, generator bearings, blade bearings, main shaft bearing, yaw drive and the hydraulic system of the disk brake. The need for different lubricant types exposes the maintenance activities to increased inventory management challenges and risks such as cross-contamination.

• Variable operating conditions: Different components of the wind turbine are exposed to unique conditions when compared to each other, which causes extreme torques, pressures which sometimes counter each other or resonate together when they interact. Massive Gears are often required to not only connect low-speed shaft

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to high-speed shaft but also to increase the rotational speeds to surpass the thresholds required to generate electricity. This increases the ingoing torque significantly.

On the other hand, offshore installations encounter rough seas and disjointed wind patterns that eventually retain a challenge to the turbine operations and efficiency. When the winds are light, the lubricant film breakdown can be experienced due to high load and low-speed conditions exerted, while the bearings are required to carry lower loads but at higher speeds during high winds. The diverse operating conditions place varied demands on both the gearbox and bearings which ultimately affects their performance at different operating conditions.

• The significant cost of maintenance: Any planned or unplanned maintenance of the wind turbines is a costly activity, firstly, due to a remote location,for instance, accessing the desert or mountain locations. Secondly, offshore wind farms demand the use of often chartered helicopters or boats, while for inland turbines, rental specialty cranes are employed significantly increasing the maintenance costs derived from logistics and support.

Furthermore, spares, lubricants and other maintenancerelated components for wind turbines are costly due to the reliability demand while in use.

Both planned and unplanned maintenance incorporating Lubricant condition monitoring (LCM) are applied separately and sometimes together while addressing WT maintenance. Planned maintenance mitigates the time-consuming unplanned maintenance and eventually renews the components to improve the turbine’s availability and reliability. However, due to the unique operational and locational challenges the wind turbines face, proactive maintenance while utilizing LCM is essential. The proactive prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of the lubricant and the components of the wind turbine is vital to mitigate unplanned maintenance caused by component failures. This is accurately implemented using the online monitoring of both the lubricant and components conditions.

The highly popular corrective maintenance strategy, which could apply to test and measuring various lubricant parameters such as viscosity could be utilized for root cause analysis. Various lubricant parameters need to be routinely and frequently checked to confirm the lubricant condition is satisfactory. Monitoring the water levels, viscosity changes, oxidation, wear metals such as silicon and lubricant cleanliness offers insights on the condition of the lubricant and the contamination levels. This can be performed using either conventional (first line tests) or advanced (investigative and classification) statistical approaches as also corroborated in the various reviews 2 as diagnostic and prognostic in nature. Despite the advantages of online LCM, it remains expensive and cannot detect failures outside the components like gearboxes, hence offline LCM is employed concurrently.

The use of hybrid condition monitoring approaches 3 is viewed as an optimal maintenance strategy that harnesses the synergy and different timing of fault detection unique to each approach. For early detection, ultrasonic, vibration, oil analysis, while for later timing

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thermography and visual inspection approaches can be employed.

Rationalization of the different lubricants used in wind turbines necessitates the need for highly adaptive lubricant. The lubricant for instance used in the gearbox should be able to withstand high thermal stresses while providing high extreme pressure protection simultaneously. Similarly, the lubricant design should address wear of both the bearing and cages, environmentally induced corrosive micro-pitting and or hydrolysis. 3 Improved maintenance processes and procedures, address not only the lubricants draining and charging during preventive maintenance (PM) activities, but also the sampling, testing and analysis of the lubricant samples. Identifying the critical lubricant parameters is vital and should be addressed by the OEM and turbine operator corroboratively.

Well documented and followed sampling, sample handling and processing procedures should be adhered to ensure sample integrity, which if compromised, the test analysis results offer sub-optimal decision support.

To address the challenge of the location of the WT, specifically offshore applications, the development of biodegradable lubricants that will not adversely affect the water systems come in handy.

The use of long drain lubricants such as synthetic based similarly addresses not only the challenge of extended preventive maintenance, but also extreme conditions applications demanding high performance and reliability, while the introduction of new generation lubricants ultimately extends the PM intervals.

However, the tradeoff between the drain interval and the equipment reliability require to be approached cautiously and considered while deriving the optimal preventive maintenance schedule interval.

Due to the accessibility and maintenance scheduling challenges, opportunistic maintenance constituting lubrication and repair/replacement of components not causing a stoppage, by taking advantage of stoppages caused by other factors, becomes a strategic policy while dealing with wind turbines.

Lastly, the collaboration of the stakeholders, in this case the various wind turbine builders (complete or components level), the lubrication companies, researchers and the end users, will undoubtedly develop important solutions to the lubrication and maintenance of wind turbines.

Such collaborations already exist, for instance, research for multipurpose lubricants to enhance rationalization of lubricants employed in the WT lubrication and maintenance. * This article, authored by James Wakiru, was published in the 27 th edition of Lubezine Magazine.

Wakiru,J., Pintelon, L., Muchiri,P Chemweno,P. A review on lubricant condition monitoring information analysis for maintenance decision support. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 118:108–132.doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2018.08.039.

3 Martino, Justin. 2013. “Wind Turbine Lubrication and Maintenance: Protecting Investments in Renewable Energy.”

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Energy efficiency and lubricants Murat Kalsın, President of the Energy Efficiency Association, indicates that lubricants are key elements that contribute to energy efficiency. He underlines that an investment in hydraulic oils produced for energy efficiency in a machine or engine is undoubtedly the correct commercial investment.

We would like to get to know Murat Kalsın, President of the Energy Efficiency Association, one of Turkey’s most important non-governmental organizations. Can you please tell us about yourself and the secret of your successful works?

I was born in 1966 in Muş. I graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Architecture. I continued my education in the US. I studied Business Administration and English at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Since 1983, I have worked in various sectors, in the fields of trade and industry in the US, Europe and Turkey. Today, I have company partnerships and investments in construction, real estate, architecture and energy sectors. I continue my career as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, GMK Group Project Investment Inc. In March 2018, I was elected as the President of the Energy Efficiency Association. At the same time, I hold office as the Vice Chairman of DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Board) Turkey - Qatar Business Council, and a Member of the Board of Directors of GYODER (Association of Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Companies). In addition, I am a Council Member at ICOC (Istanbul Chamber

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of Commerce), a Member of the Yıldız Technical University Alumni Association, Founding Member of MUŞVAK (Muş Education and Development Foundation), and a Member of the Congress of BJK (Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club).

I tried to do my best in the tasks I have assumed in my business life and in Non-Governmental Organizations.

I always attached importance to team work. With humility and sincerity, I made efforts to succeed without regard to the nature of the task.

Energy is one of the most important cost items in the industry. Thus, energy efficiency studies are of particular importance for the industry. Can you please tell us what the Energy Efficiency Association does in this regard?

Energy consumption is one of the challenging costs for our industrialists. Energy efficiency means the reduction of energy consumption per unit or per product without leading to a decrease in production quality and quantity in the manufacturing industry. Approximately 35 percent of the energy consumed in our country is used in industry. We all know that our country is not rich in energy sources and we are all aware of the impact of the amount we pay for energy imports on the current account

deficit. We live in a region where politically the balances gas turbines of natural gas conversion and thermal are fragile and volatile. Our country’s energy demand, power plants; gear oils are used in gearboxes of cooling which is increasing in parallel with its economic growth towers; hydraulic oils are used in boiler feed water and accordingly its energy consumption, is met mainly pumps and condensate recirculation pumps. In addition, from external resources rather than domestic resources. air compressors, fans and electric motors are among This keeps the energy supply security issue constantly on other equipment that must be lubricated with the right the agenda. The importance of energy efficiency policies product. The ideal oil type and method of use also affect has increased in order to reach our sustainable the protection of machinery and equipment systems development goals. as well as maintenance and parts replacement In order to reduce the dependency on costs. Energy losses occur due to churning foreign energy sources and decrease when mechanical parts move in the oil. the current account deficit, we It is observed that the oils with lower should increase the ratio of local traction coefficients have better sources in production, promote behavior under high pressure. the diversity of resources This also increases productivity. by focusing on renewable energy sources, and ensure These benefits of efficiency in energy lubricants are either not consumption stages. adequately known or are It is possible to save ignored considering that up to 40 percent in the they would not be costmanufacturing industry. effective. However, the right Referring to this issue oil provides a significant cost in our Efficient Industry advantage in the short and project, we have gathered medium term and extends efficiency studies in 16 titles the maintenance intervals. so as to include all sectors.

This is a huge gain for industrial Murat KalsÄąn Some of these titles are enterprises. Can we collaborate President related to the efficiency studies with industry representatives Energy Efficiency Association in furnace, boiler, pump, steam, under the umbrella of ENVER to motor, heating and air conditioning disseminate the right information and systems. We have prepared detailed raise awareness in this regard? reports about how to work in these areas.

There is a wide variety of oils offered We conducted training activities in our industrial in the industry and transportation sectors. The zones by carrying out joint studies with the Supreme investment in a hydraulic oil produced for energy efficiency Board of Organized Industrial Zones (OSBĂœK). We continue in the machinery or engine is undoubtedly the correct these activities. We have supported these trainings with commercial investment. The correct viscosity ratio and educational films and public service ads. As a result of proper concentration of the oil used for the most efficient our consultations with the Ministry of Energy and the transfer of power in hydraulic systems is highly important Ministry of Economy, we have ensured that the necessary in ensuring efficiency. When the viscosity ratio is too low, legal arrangements are made for the companies that will the risk of abrasion in parts increases. When it is too high, invest in energy efficiency to benefit from the incentives more energy is consumed for the movement of parts. The for Region 5 regardless of their region. use of an oil produced with the correct additive formulation in your machine affects the oxidation process and provides In industry, lubricants can make a significant protection against excessive wear. In this way, you extend contribution to energy efficiency. Especially in hydraulic the periodic maintenance interval and service life of your systems, it is possible to save up to 10 percent energy by machine. You also get a nominal benefit by reducing your using the right oil. What can you say about it? energy consumption. We continue to work to raise the We care about every element that contributes to awareness of our industrialists. Reducing energy costs energy efficiency. Lubricants have an important place also means increasing competitiveness. More production in this respect. The benefits of lubricants used at the with less energy means more employment. We are ready energy consumption stage are significant for the energy to cooperate with all segments on this issue which is of production stage. Turbine oils are used in steam and vital importance for our country.

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An award-winning journey to operational excellence Samet Üner, a person that worked in Mobil for over 33 years and crowned his career with several awards... Having played a major role in the Serviburnu Plant’s winning the Presidential Award, Üner is now sharing his vast knowledge and experience with other players in the industry.

You were a part of the ExxonMobil family in most of your career. Please tell us about yourself and how you became a part of this family.

After graduating from METU Mechanical Engineering Department in 1982, I started my military service after a short internship period. In 1984, while I was a reserve officer, I applied to Mobil Oil Türk A.Ş. and I entered the petroleum world as Operation Chief at Mobil’s Iskenderun Plant after completing my military duty. In 1986, I was appointed to set up a Computerized Production Planning Department at Mobil’s Lubricant Production Plant in Beykoz, Istanbul. In those years, maybe I developed Turkey's first computerized MRP program. After this successful work, I was appointed as the Engineering Director of the Facilities as the person in charge of projects

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and investments at Mobil Headquarters in 1988. In early 1992, I became the Manager of the Serviburnu Plant, which was a target for me for many years.

In 1997, as a result of the partnership between Mobil and BP, the Serviburnu Plant was developed as a MobilBP joint plant and its capacity was increased to 100,000 tons. I started to work as Mobil-BP Partnership Logistics Director in that year and I was entitled to the membership of the Board of Directors of the partnership.

In 2001, the Mobil-BP partnership ended with the merger of Mobil and Exxon. Following this merger, Mobil handed over all the fuel business to BP and decided to specialize in lubricants and aviation fuels in Turkey. We continued to work as ExxonMobil with this decision.

After serving as Director of Operations at ExxonMobil

with great pleasure for many years, I retired in 2017.

What have you learned by working under the same corporate culture for many years? Can you tell us about your achievements and the awards you received?

It was a privilege to work with the world’s most wellestablished companies -Mobil, BP and ExxonMobil- for 33 years. From 2001 to 2018, it was a pleasure to be a part of ExxonMobil's corporate culture. I was deemed worthy of received many awards throughout my professional life and I will mention two awards that are most meaningful for me.

After the merger of Mobil and Exxon in 2001, we developed all the systems until 2004. As ExxonMobil, we upgraded the plant so successfully that we reached the highest score in audits and received the Presidential Award. I was also granted the “Reaching Beyond” award personally.

services to share my knowledge and experience on operational excellence and management with Turkish companies and to assist these companies in operational excellence and management.

In this context, I offer management consultancy services to enterprises, and I also provide training and coaching for managers to help them attain operational excellence and gain leadership behavior. Since lubricant operations is my area of expertise, I support the companies in this sector in terms of operations.

Well, what does operational excellence mean? Can you please explain?

Let me briefly describe operational excellence in this way: ■ Carrying out activities that will raise the awareness of employees to create a culture by minimizing accidents and undesired behaviors in the workplace.

ExxonMobil's Serviburnu Plant is a very 0 Creating an Effective beautiful campus with a Caring culture Samet Üner Management Consultant Bosphorus view in Istanbul. How 0 Establishing a culture of Üner Consultancy has it been possible to protect such self-risk analysis a campus while even the waterfront 0 Risk analysis, training and residences face many problems monitoring of critical tasks related to the license, etc.?

0 Reporting and investigating accidents and The Serviburnu Plant was established in the 1910s near miss events, conducting a root cause analysis as a storage and filling plant for petroleum products. It had a historic value and there was a lot of work to do. I ■ Business risk management: Comprehensive immediately started to work. Our first projects were the (strategic) risk analysis, risk analysis of hazardous and waste water treatment units of the facility, the new steam critical tasks and taking mitigation measures. and energy center, and the infrastructure works for the ■ Business and employee performance satisfaction of the employees. The project works were management: Productivity enhancing activities such carried out to renew the operating license, which was as Workplace Performance Score Card, Performance old-dated and in Ottoman Turkish. In 1966, the project Contract, Organization, Job Description. was approved and the first-rate non-sanitary enterprise ■ Business data flow, control and management: certificate was issued by the Metropolitan Municipality.

Reporting, planning and inventory, timely production, When you fully implement the Operational Excellence quality and customer service level, performance criteria, you have an excellent and environment-friendly measurement. facility that complies with the laws and regulations. If you ■ Establishing and implementing development do not harm the environment and comply with the laws/ policies for corporate identity (business ethics, regulations, the location of your campus does not matter. occupational safety, environment, quality, employee rights, etc.)

You are currently providing consultancy services ■ Vision, objectives, long-term development plans, with your many years of experience and extensive supervision, participation, appreciation, training programs knowledge. Let’s talk about these services.

■ Compliance with laws and regulations, After working as a Director of Operations in management of changes, critical task/personnel/ ExxonMobil for long years, I am now providing consultancy equipment management.

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Prof. Dr. Filiz Karaosmanoğlu Academic Member of ITU Chemical Engineering Department President of Sustainable Production and Consumption Association filiz@itu.edu.tr

Climate Action 100+

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he 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) was held in Katowice, Poland on December 2-14, 2018. At the Conference, the Paris Agreement Work Programme (Paris Rulebook) was adopted to be implemented in 2020. The “Climate Action 100+” initiative, which is established with the aim of decreasing greenhouse gases, strengthening the transition to clean energy and climate finance and which has successful investment programmes in order to meet the Paris Agreement goals, uses the “Global Investors Driving Business Transition” slogan. The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), Ceres, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) form the structure of this initiative.

The first list of 100 focus companies that cause two thirds of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions was determined in 2017 according to the data of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which focuses on the long term welfare and aims to decrease the impacts of climate change and to protect the resources of the earth by changing the operation of the business world. These companies were selected on the basis of the Major Global Index (MCI ASWI) data, which represents 85 percent of globally investable equities. 33.5 percent of the focus companies is located in North America, while 34.8 percent is located in Europe. Among them, oil and gas corporations have 24.8 percent share, whereas the utilities and power production sector represents 19.3 percent. Member oil companies of the "Climate Action 100+" initiative include

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BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Imperial Oil, Lukoil, OMW, Repsol, Shell, Statoil, and Total.

During the COP24, Shell made a joint statement on December 3 with a group of institutional investors on behalf of “Climate Action 100+”. The company indicated that meeting the challenge of tackling climate change requires unprecedented collaboration and underlined the importance of the Paris Agreement. Shell said they are aiming to cut the company’s net carbon footprint by 20 percent until 2035, and by 50 percent until 2050 in order to meet the Paris Agreement goals.

Noting that they are taking major steps to turn short term targets into reality, achieving development and positioning themselves well, Shell has broken new ground in the world.

Shell became the first international oil and gas company that set a goal to reduce its net carbon footprint in 2017. Likewise, Shell Turkey was the first petroleum company that won the SPCA 2017 Low Carbon Heroes Award. Designers of Shell’s logo were inspired from the blue nature and the sea. The first logo, which was designed in 1900, was a black-and-white mussel.

It then transformed into a black-and-white scallop, and in the following years it became more symmetrical and gained its final colors and energetic form that represents the global stance of the company.

In the fight against climate change, Shell follows a path that fits its logo. The carbon management strategies of Shell and leading oil and gas companies are highly important for our blue planet; because wherever there is a hydrocarbon, there must be the best carbon management and producer responsibility.

TRIBOLOGY APPLICATIONS

Prof. Dr. ErtuÄ&#x;rul Durak SĂźleyman Demirel University Mechanical Engineering Department Academic Member ertugruldurak@sdu.edu.tr

Plant-oil-based lubricants - II

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echnical terms such as biodegradable, bio-based, environment-friendly, recyclable, renewable, non-toxic, green, etc. are frequently used in the industry as well as in our daily lives. These terms are becoming a key sales tool and sales criteria for lubricant manufacturers and marketers like in all other sectors, and their importance is increasing day by day.

Production and use of environment-friendly lubricants is increasing in parallel with the rising environmental awareness, the increasing demand for environment-friendly products, and the developing environment-friendly product range. Plant-oil and animal-fat-based lubricants are preferred in mechanical systems as they are environment friendly and produced by farmers, some of the vegetable oils cannot be used in the food industry due to their harmful effects on human health, vegetable oils can be re-used as waste oil and they have high biodegradability in the nature.

Bio-based industrial products are getting more and more important in every part of our lives. Preferring environmentfriendly bio-products is becoming an inevitable solution for more raitonal investments. A major part of industrial lubricants are spilled as used oil in our living areas intentionally or accidentally and disposed of irresponsibly. In the last years, this problem has turned into a critical environmental concern that requires immediate action. As the environmental consciousness is developing, practices that are harmful for the nature threaten the entire humanity, the concepts such as energy efficiency and sustainability are becoming prominent, and the importance and cost of recycling industrial waste is gaining ground; bio-based products are becoming inevitable and gaining more importance with advanced technology. In this case, recovery of waste oils can help eliminate environmental problems, and waste oils can be regained in the industrial economy by developing new lubricant solutions.

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to environmental safety linked with lubricants. The first one is the effort to develop alternative solutions to prevent disposing of lubricating products in the nature. The second one is the preference of the use of environmentally safe products in environmental-friendly applications such as agriculture, forestry, municipalities, mining, maritime, freshwater bodies, etc.

Vegetable oils are triglycerides that have different degrees of unsaturation and fatty acids with different straight long chain molecule structures. These fatty acids have very weak thermos-oxidative stability. There are two practical ways to improve this negative characteristic. The first one is the chemical modification of triglyceride molecules in order to develop their thermal stability and mechanical characteristics. The second one is the improvement of the lubricant’s performance by means of additives. As is known, certain additives can be added to finished products with the aim of improving and extending its performance in accordance with the environment that the lubricant will be used. It is obvious that using multi-functional additives in plant-oil-based lubricants or their derivatives offers a high potential for opening up new research horizons in lubricant technology.

Lastly; adhesive lubricants used in two-stroke engines (motorcycle engines, boat engines, engines that are used in various agricultural machinery, etc.), blade chains in chainsaws and trimming machines, conveyors, conduction and lifting machines; chain lubricants used in construction, mining equipment and marine vessels; lubricants used in railroad rails and construction concrete molds; greases for agriculture, construction and various open system production machines; rope and pulley lubricants; lubricants in hydraulic and pneumatic systems; processing and cutting lubricants used in machine tools can be given as examples for the fields of application of environment-friendly plant-oil-based lubricants.

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Held in Conjunction with MIDDLE EAST PETROLEUM & GAS WEEK EVENTS 2019

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THE EIGHTH

BASE OIL & LUBES MIDDLE EAST 2019

10 – 11 April 2019, Dubai, UAE

The 8th Annual Base Oil and Lubes Middle East Conference (BLM 2019) is organized by Conference Connection in Dubai, UAE on 10-11 April 2019. BLM 2019 will continue to provide a good spread of topics, high calibre speakers, quality presentations and premium networking opportunities for the base oil and lubricant industry. Leveraging on strong NOC-MPGC relationships, BLM has enjoyed the patronage and support of the Bahrain National Oil Company (BLM 2012), Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (BLM 2013, 2015, 2016 & 2018) and Emirates National Oil Company (BLM 2014, 2017) and in 2019, BLM will be supported by the Emirates National Oil Company. Continuing its focus on the global base oil business, BLM provides both knowledge sharing and networking opportunities, with participation from leading producers, suppliers, manufacturers, re-refiners, traders and end-users from twenty-five countries.

WITH EARLY PARTICIPATION FROM • Mr. Mohammed El Sadek, Director – Lubricants Marketing, ENOC Lubricant, ENOC International Sales LLC, UAE • Ms. Geeta Agashe, President, Geeta Agashe & Associates, LLC, USA • Dr. H E Henderson, President, K & E Petroleum Consulting, LLC, USA • Mr. Milind Phadke, Director, Energy Practice, Kline & Company, USA

• Ms. June Manoharan, Managing Director, LUKOIL Marine Lubricants, UAE • Mr. Daniel Colover, Market Engagement Manager, Middle East, S&P Global Platts, UAE • Mr. Thangavel Rathina Kumar, Senior Technical Support Manager, Lubricant Division, ADNOC Distribution, UAE • Mr. Eduard Gracia, Principal, A.T. Kearney Middle East, LLC

(This is only a partial list of speakers. Please visit www.baseoillubes.com for updates)

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SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES WORLDWIDE BRAND VISIBILITY Held in conjunction with the Middle East Petroleum & Gas Week Events 2019, BLM 2019 promises outstanding opportunities for achieving worldwide visibility, building of brand image, lead generation and forging new alliances.

For details on registration, speaking, sponsorship & exhibition opportunities and benefits, please contact: Ms Alycia Wee at (65) 6338 0064 or email alycia@cconnection.org / blm@cconnection.org Media Sponsors: Find us on:

Engine oil user guide VISCOSITY GRADE:

is the main feature of an engine oil and is important for product selection

Signification of grades

xx W- yy xx refers to viscosity when cold

yy refers to viscosity when hot

(measured at different temperatures)

(measured at 100 °C)

The lower the viscosity when cold, the more fluid the oil is at low temperatures and the more easily it can be pumped.

The higher the viscosity when hot, the more viscous the oil is.

For example, a 0W-20 or 5W-30 oil will make start-ups easier and will protect engines during trips to cold regions.

These high technology “fluid” oils will meet the requirements of recent engines.

For example, a 15W-40 or 20W-50 oil has been developed for use in hot countries, and their “viscous” nature makes them suitable for older engines.

POINTS TO REMEMBER New-generation engine oils and those currently being developed by TOTAL are of increasingly fluid grades: 0W-20, 5W-20, 0W-30 and 0W-16.

How to read a product label for product selection?

Large packaging:

Small packaging: Front

Brands

Description

Back Performance icons Product name

Product name

Description of main performance Product name Volume of can

Viscosity grade Oil quality Quantity

International standards and manufacturers’ approvals

The 6th ICIS & ELGI Industrial Lubricants Conference 18 - 19 June 2019 // Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Leading event specifically in industrial lubricants Full value chain representation from base oil producer to enduser Base oil market dynamics and its effect on industrial lubricants Extensive networking time included within the programme

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