PROFICIENCY TEST CRUDE OIL iis11R012011

Report form for analysis results of sample #11096

Report to:ing. R.J. Starink before November 18, 2011

fax. + 31 181 69 4543 or email:

Determination / Unit / Reference method (**) / Actual method used (**) / Unrounded
result #11096 / result #11096
cfr. used standard
Total Acid Number / mgKOH/g / D664
BSW / %V/V / D4007
Density @ measured temp. / kg/m3 / @ °C
*Density @ 15 °C / kg/m3 / D5002
API Gravity @ measured temp / @ °F
*API Gravity / D287
Light ends
* C1 / %M/M / IP344
* C2 / %M/M / IP344
* C3 / %M/M / IP344
* C4 / %M/M / IP344
* C5 / %M/M / IP344
* C6 / %M/M / IP344
* Total C1 – C6 / %M/M / IP344
Pour Point, Maximum / °C / D5853A
Pour Point,Minimum / °C / D5853B
Salt as NaCl / mg/kg / D3230
Sediment / %M/M / D4807 / D4807
Sediment / %V/V / D473 / D473
Total Sulphur / %M/M / D4294
Total Mercury / µg/kg / UOP 938
Viscosity @ 40ºC / mm2/s / D445
Water / %V/V / D4377

(**) See instructions

Please report the number of bottle you have received here: ______

Name of laboratory:Date of sample receipt:

Coutry:City:

Name of contact person:Date of report:

Instructions to participants for the Crude Oil Round Robin iis11R01

*Please confirm sample receipt as soon as you have received and checked the contents of this package, preferably using the fax form that you receive together with this package. Please complete the form and send it to i.i.s. (faxno. ++ 31 181 694543 or email ). When the bottles have been broken, please do not accept the package from the courier. Please be noticed that we will only send replacement bottlesat our cost when there is proof of the sample being broken upon receipt. This means that the consignee must report a broken bottleimmediately.The consignee should take pictures of how the package and bottleslooked upon arrival. We need these pictures to claim costs from the forwarders. The consignee should always mark any damage (dents, rips, leakage etc.) on the outside of the packages on the consignment note from the courier when it is delivered. Even minor damages should be reported.Please send copies of consignment notes and the pictures via email to

*Please record the date that the sample was received on the report form.

*This interlaboratory study concerns 1 sample of crude oil (1L bottle of sample #11096). Please treat the sample as if it is a routine sample. On request of many participants we were asked to use 1L wide-neck bottles. To shield the crude oil from light, they are packed in red plastic bags. Please store the bottle in the dark prior to and during the analysis.

*Each laboratory is requested to analyse the samples in the way it would normally do in day-to-day circumstances. Furthermore, each laboratory is advised to perform only those analyses it routinely does (but you are allowed to do all analyses if you like). It might be wise to start with those tests which are most important to your laboratory, especially if the supplied sample amount seems to be critical.

*On the report form an extra column is added on request of several participants.

This column is named: ”reference method”. In this column the method is mentioned, which the Institute for Interlaboratory Studies will use for calculating the z-scores. It is of utmost importance to know that the method, which is mentioned, is NOT mandatory.

So when you normally use in day-to-day circumstances an other method than the method prescribed in the ”reference method” column, please use your method and note the actual used method in the ”actual method used” column.

*Report the analytical results using the indicated units on the report form. Report in the last column the analytical results, rounded in accordance with the standard method that was used. Report in the first result column the same analytical results but less rounded (we suggest to report one extra significant figure) in order to give more meaningful statistical calculations.

For example, when you use ASTM D473:95 for the determination of sediment and you found a result of 0.0234 %V/V, we request you to report 0.02 %V/V in accordance with ASTM D473 and 0.023 %V/V as ‘unrounded’ result. If the method you used requires a different way of reporting (e.g. %M/M instead of mg/kg) please report according the report form (for unity in reporting).

*Please report the methods used on the report form.

*Please return the completed report form to the Institute for Interlaboratory Studies in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands, preferably one week after sample receipt, but in any case before the indicated closing date: NOVEMBER 18, 2011 (preferably by email).

*If you have any remarks/questions please contact:

ing. R.J. Starink, Institute for Interlaboratory Studies

P.O. box 200, NL-3200AE Spijkenisse, The Netherlands

tel.no. ++ 31 181 694541

fax.no. ++ 31 181 694543

e-mail:

NBElectronic version of the report form is available on our internet site