| Last October, Geocomp Corporation’s Lab Systems Director traveled across Russia to install equipment, present training, conduct a seminar, and represent the company at an international forum. Destinations included Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Moscow.
Dr. Rachid Hankour’s first stop was the new Tyumen Soils Laboratory, located in Siberia, about 330 km. from Yekaterinburg. This modern laboratory, which supports one of the largest gas and energy companies in Siberia, acquired three of Geocomp’s LoadTrac-II systems for fully automated consolidation and
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unconfined compression testing and a direct/residual shear system to conduct research on frozen soils.
A specially constructed environmental chamber houses the testing systems. The temperature inside the chamber ranges from –5° C to +5° C (23° F to 41° F), and allows the laboratory to simulate prevailing field conditions: a first of its kind testing environment for Geocomp equipment.
In Yekaterinburg, Hankour held a one-day seminar for about 20 attendees from government institutions, universities, and private companies.
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| This seminar gave the audience an opportunity to learn about Geocomp’s many products and services.
Hankour also visited The Engineering Center of Power of Urals Mountains Engineering -- Geocomp’s first customer in Russia. In 2005, Geocomp filled a large order for fully automated consolidation, direct shear, triaxial, and permeability systems for The Engineering Center of Urals Energy. This company has more than 2000 employees and its Geocomp lab systems inside the Tyumen Soils Laboratory’s survey division has 120 staff
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members. The center is involved with a number of key energy construction projects in Russia. For example,
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