Oil Shale Competence Center

The area of the Laboratory of Fuels Technology activity is solid and liquid fuels analyses and thermal processing investigations. The laboratory has got Accreditation Certificate no L059 in the field of liquid and solid fuels analyses.

Standardization Technical Committee EVS/TC 57 „Processing oil shale and oil shale product“ was registered up to Estonian Centre for Standardization in 2015. The activities of the Technical Committee are supervised and managed by the Oil Shale Competence Center to develop sectoral standards.

The Center offers services in the field of Intellectual Property such as sectoral patent retrieval, monitoring of technology, firm search and monitoring of competitors etc.

Business incubator of the senter is the only center in Estonia, renting out modern chemical laboratories equipped with basic laboratory engineering.

The Center arranges Oil shale conferences in Ida-Virmaa each year to convene different parties - scientists, businessmen, policy makers, representatives of local authorities, engineers etc for joint discussing of oil shale sector actual themes. Conferences have been arranged since 2009.

Oil shale industry Yearbook combines data of the economic year on the point of Estonian oil shale industry role in economy, oil shale value chain from mining to finished product (including the outputs of mining, liquid fuels, electricity, heat, fine chemical), relationship with natural environment and contribution to society.