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Prokon Türkiye receives safety excellence award from Tüpraş

19.04.2023

Prokon Makina, Insaat, Imalat, Montaj, Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd (Prokon Türkiye) is proud to announce that it has received a safety excellence award from Tüpraş, Türkiye’s leading energy company. 

The Employee Health and Safety League award underscores the Prokon Türkiye's ongoing efforts to create a safe and secure workplace for its employees and partners, and outstanding commitment to overall HSE expectations of Tüpraş.   

During 2022, Prokon successfully delivered critical maintenance and repair (M&R) works in Tüpraş’s Izmit Refinery ensuring the safety and reliability of the works. Following this success, on February 2023 the company was awarded another important scope for providing M&R works for company’s Kirikkale Refinery, which carries annual 5.4 million ton crude oil processing capacity. 

Prokon Türkiye has a strong track record of safety excellence, with a comprehensive safety program that includes extensive employee training, regular safety audits, and strict adherence to industry best practices. The company regularly invests in safety technology and equipment, including advanced safety harnesses, fall protection systems, and personal protective equipment.

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Prokon is entrusted new critical maintenance and repair scopes in Türkiye

 

  • Maintenance and repair (M&R) works for Tüpraş’s Kirikkale Refinery, with Türkiye’s largest road tanker filling capacity
  • Two new challenging contracts to underscore Prokon as a reliable solution partner

 

Prokon Makina, Insaat, Imalat, Montaj, Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd (Prokon Türkiye), Prokon’s subsidiary, is pleased to announce that it has signed two new contracts with Türkiye Petrol Rafinerileri A.S. (Tüpraş) to provide maintenance, repair and replacement works at the Kirikkale Refinery.

Within the framework of the contracts, Prokon Türkiye will provide the maintenance and repair works of the static equipment, and replacement works of the column and the blowdown chimney during the planned shutdown period, which started on early February, and is planned to be completed before the end of March, 2023.

Vugar Samadli, Chief Executive Officer, Nobel Energy said: “Prokon has successfully delivered previous critical M&R works for Tüpraş’s Izmit Refinery. Now, trusting us crucial works packages of Turkish downstream giant’s another refinery – Kirikkale, underscores Prokon as a reliable solution partner. 

This project is a significant success for Prokon Türkiye’s portfolio, as the Kirikkale Refinery has annual 5.4 million ton crude oil processing capacity, which holds the status of Türkiye’s largest road tanker filling capacity and a strategic place for the regional energy security. I am confident that Prokon will continue its partnership with Tüpraş in its existing and future undertakings”.

Note to editors 

Established in 2012, as a full service construction company subsidiary of Nobel Energy Group, Prokon specializes in management of integrated infrastructure, industrial plants and facilities construction processes from design adaptation to procurement and construction. Nobel Energy is part of NEQSOL Holding, an international group of companies operating in eight countries across the energy, telecommunications, hi-tech, and construction industries. 

Further information about Prokon: www.prokon.az

Tüpraş is a Türkiye-based company specialized in the refining of crude oil and petroleum products. It operates four refineries in Izmir, Izmit, Kirikkale and Batman that are processing 33.2 million ton crude oil per year, and producing various petroleum products.

 

20.02.2023