Establishment
Murzuk Exploration Company (MEC) is a new company in the Libyan market of Geophysical Exploration. It is a branch of Adhan Murzuk Oilfield Group. MEC is based in Libya.
The Company is headed by a General Manager reporting to a Board of Directors (Organization Chart). The Company’s Tripoli Offices are the headquarters of the Operations, Finance and Accounting and Personnel Departments with a Warehouse Section and a Central Workshop. Essuani Road, km 25, P.O. Box 71041, Tripoli.
Personnel and equipment
At the present time, MEC employs nationals from Libya, United Kingdom, Algeria and others African countries. All our key personal have been exposed to many years in the development of seismic industry, offering a diverse range of ideas and solutions, in which we can provide our customers with a service driven by expertise.
At the present time, the company is renting one fully equipped 3D deep desert seismic crew. The Seismic Crew M017-1 is the first one to be launched in the field operations at this time by the Company and its organization follows the standard management. The main offices of the crew are in Tripoli and located at : Essuani Road, 2nd Km, Tripoli
M017-1 crew is equipped with 4000 field channels SERCEL 408UL and 1000 field channels SERCEL 428XL telemetric recording systems with corresponding line equipments.
The crew is equipped with ten (10) 62000 lb peak force SERCEL NOMAD 65 vibrators. All vibrators are equipped with SERCEL electronics VE-432
Field surveying operations are carried out using Leica 1230 GPS receivers. The crew is equipped with seven rovers and also equipped with the most update processing, mapping and imaging software.
Up-hole drilling operations are carried out with two URB 2A-2D mounted on KAMAZ 4313-15 vehicles. Top Drive hydraulic air/water drills, 1000 feet capability. Each drill unit comes with one 6,000 liters 4X4 water trucks.
One SmartSeis 24 digital recorder (Geometrix) is used to record and save up-hole data on diskettes.
The crew has a QC Office trailer equipped with a version of OMEGA 2D/3D full processing and OMNI QC software for planning and design
Our HSE is a standard oilfield model based on the OGP guidelines. The crew has its own HSE department with a fully equipped clinic, trained doctor and a fully equipped 4x4 Ambulance.
The crew is equipped with a large number of light 4x4 vehicles; ten 4x4 cable trucks, four 4x4 personnel carrier trucks and twelve 6x6 trucks and tractors. The trailers of the crew are in a good shape. One 400 KVA twin camp generator trailer with electrical distribution systems.
Field to Field and field to Tripoli communications are maintained using V-Sat systems with possibility of e-mail, VOIP, and modern VHF radios. All field vehicles are fitted with new Motorola VHF radios for speaking as well as data transmission between recorder and vibrators. All crew vehicles are fitted with GPS based vehicle tracking systems monitored via satellite by the crew and by Tripoli base.
Technical and Logistic support
Murzuk Exploration Company operates a well stocked and organized and fully computerized warehouse adequately staffed with competent spare parts personal.
MEC cargo and freezer trucks keep the field crew well supplied with spare parts, dry goods, meat and fresh vegetables. Our fuel and water tankers transport for the required amounts of diesel and drinking water to the crew camp sites.
In addition to the workshop department on the seismic crew, the Company has a Central Mechanical Workshop in Tripoli which undertakes the rebuilding of engines and major truck refurbishing works.