Environmental stewardship
Protecting the environment is one of the most important goals of Sepahan Oil Company that has been explicitly emphasized in the mission statement of the company, SOC tries to avoid environment pollution while attracting customer satisfaction.
- Attempting in production of high quality and multi grade engine oils with maximum life time which means saving in raw material.
- Observing environmental considerations in determining formulation of new products and supervising quality control of production in order to improve the quality of the products compatible with environment.
- Providing technical and specialized training for consumers, attempting to promote the consumption culture and selection of best engine oil by holding training courses is among the measure taken by our company for protecting the environment.
- Using label instructions on the packing of engine oil in order to promote consumption culture for observing environmental concerns.
- Holding different training courses on environmental standards to promote culture and knowledge of SOC staff is among other activities for conserving natural environment.
- Developing green spaces in sepahan refinery to protect the environment.
- Planning and implementing different technical project for benefiting from modern technology to decrease environmental damage.
- Consumption of resources and also reduction of pollutants in refinery that include:
- Modifying and completing the sampling system in furfural and dewaxing operational sections that result preventing waste of resources and environmental pollution.
- Concrete filling on land surrounded oval tanks of additives that result preventing from soil contamination.
- Purchasing of analyzer of exhaust gas of furnace and installation of its accessories in operational sections that result preventing of resource waste and pollution of environment.
- Constructing of oil changing station and draining trucks in the territory of refinery parking that result prevention of soil pollution.
- Changing in measurement system of fluid height in strong tanks that result prevention of resource waste and environmental pollution.
- Installations of different collecting of processing and waste material in operation units in the refinery.
Important plans of SOC to prevent environmental pollution include:
- Execution, maintenance and improvement of environmental management system.
- Confirmation with refinery environmental policy.
- Reporting about environmental management system to improve environmental management systems.
- Determining training requirements of personnel whose jobs may affect the environment.
- Operational control and conformity with short term and long term environmental plans of SOC.
- Periodical evaluation according to environmental rules and regulations.
- Execution of plans for periodic audit of environmental management system.
- Prevention of recycling non sanitary waste.
- Separation of wastes.
- Observing on collecting and digging of wastes.
- Personnel training according to less wastes.
- Separation of paper and plastic training for staff.
- Improving environmental instruction for Personnel by installation of environmental signs.
- Holding environmental competition for informing and persuading of personal.
- Upgrading environmental concerns in company strategic plans.
- Efficient use of material and resources for prevention form environmental pollutions.
- Efficient use of engineering refinery for prevention of pollution.
- Adapting goals and policy of environment and commitment to prevention form pollution.
- Execution of chemical test of water to check the quality of drinking water.
- Preparation of material safety data sheet and collection of all specifications of chemical materials used in different section of refinery and consideration of its effects and influences on environment and people.
- Preparation of a list composed of environmental effects and consequences and also control of environmental aspects regarding to operation and strategic plans and also SOC policy.
- Use of biologic vault to develop green space and prevention from negative influence of chemical vault.
- Purchase of in home plants for offices and building of spahan oil company to reduce the environmental pollution.
- Utilizing energy consumption and reduction of pollutions.
- Measurement of PLT parameters , temperature , color , BOD , COD , grease and oil materials , detergents , CN , HG and MO in industrial wastes.
- Measurement of external pollutants like CO2, CO, NO2, NO and NOX monthly.
- Control of corrosion and sediment in cooling systems.
- Consideration and retrieval possibility of useful materials like furfural.
- Proposing useful solutions to decrease soil pollution.
- Control and prevention from productive leakage in tanks.