primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . august 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message tracerco type subsidiary industry oil and gas founded in 1958 headquarters billingham england uk products instrumentation and services number of employees 250 parent johnson matthey 1 website http www.tracerco.com 2 tracerco is the oil and gas services subsidiary of british chemical company and conglomerate johnson matthey . 3 contents 1 history 2 business operations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1958 imperial chemical industries ici established a division to research the use of ionizing radiation within chemical processes . they found it was not possible to use it as a catalyst but found it could be used to assess diagnose within the chemical process typically ahead of plant turnarounds . in the 1960s the division was named physics and radioisotope services performing flow studies heat exchanger leakage tests and column scans on a chemical plant in the uk . to support the work being done in hazardous areas a range of intrinsically safe radiation monitors were developed . most of this early work was later recorded by peter jackson . 4 in 1967 the first nuclear gauge was developed to measure the level within a vessel at billingham chemical works . the specialist measurement instruments section was established with a range of level trip and nuclear density gauges typical application of which is slug catchers and separation vessels . a general atomics triga 250 kw mark 1 nuclear reactor was operated from 1971 to 1998 . this was used to create short half life radioisotopes for use in chemical plant diagnostics sample analysis and forensic work . in the 1970s the business supported development north sea oil industry selling a range of services and nucleonic gauges . in the 1980s bases were established in aberdeen houston sarnia and edmonton . subsea gauges were developed for grout monitoring . subsea nucleonic gauge level system was developed for texaco highlander slug catcher tartan tieback . as well as techniques to assess and diagnose fluidised catalytic cracking units . in the 1990s a range of flooded member inspection and pipeline inspection gauge tracking services used in pipeline pigging campaigns . as well as methods to characterise the flow from oil and gas reservoirs were developed . the tracerco profiler entered the market in 2000 this nuclear density gauge allows customers to see into their separator . this product received the queen s award for innovation . imperial chemical industries sold the group to johnson matthey in 2002 . 5 tracerco bought the process diagnostics division of questtrutec in 2006 to become the largest supplier of nucleionic diagnostic services currently in operation . 6 business operations edit the company has 7 business units instrumentation provides a full range of nucleonic measurement solutions including level density and interface measurement which are certified for installation in hazardous areas 7 and subsea . process diagnostics can diagnose a wide range of production problems using sophisticated tracer and advanced measurement technology . radiation monitors offers a range of intrinsically safe and non intrinsically safe radiation monitors which can be used to measure radiation dose rate or characterise process and environmental contaminants . radiation protect advice and radiation protection supervisor training provide a range of services to ensure client operational safety and compliance with national and international radiological legislation . reservoir characterisation enable customers to optimise the recovery of hydrocarbons from both new and mature reservoirs . analytical services offer a range of standard and bespoke analytical and diagnostic techniques . fuel tagging provides a range of unique covert molecular markers which are tailored to suit the application . see also edit list of oilfield service companies references edit johnson matthey website . website . johnson matthey structure . jackson peter 2004 . radioisotope gauges for industrial process measurements . chichester john wiley & sons ltd. isbn 0 471 48999 9 . master sale and purchase agreement . trutec purchase . iii . tracerco instruments . tracerco . external links edit tracerco s official homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tracerco & oldid 727126172 categories companies of the united kingdomhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from august 2009all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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