Ezeddine Hamida
Petroleum Training and Qualifying Institute, Libya
Title: Measuring the NORM in the oil fields & oil ports in Libya
Biography
Biography: Ezeddine Hamida
Abstract
This paper is the second part of a comprehensive research, its goal is to create a database about the existence of the NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) in petroleum fields, terminals & gas export stations across Libya, the NORM was measured in two oil ports (Al-Hariqa Port Tobruk, east of the country, and Zawia Port, west of the country) where oil is exported there from, which is coming from two oilfields in which a relatively high proportion of radiation in scales’ samples was recorded (the first part of the research, which was presented in -RANC2016- Budapest) in order to try to track the spread of pollution resulting of the Scales’ NORM and make sure the possibility of arriving at the ports. From the results, it is clear that the NORM levels in oil ports and commercial ones are within the allowed limits (Exemption level). Samples were of 1.5 litres of water taken from the ports’ basins where the oil tankers are shipped in shipping oil ports at the shipping & discharge basins into the commercial ports. Gamma Ray which was emitted from the samples was measured by High pure Germanium Detector –HPGe at the Radiation Prevention Department in Tajura Nuclear Research Center-Tripoli, Libya.