TranaTek Limited - Accra, Ghana

1.0 BACKGROUND
Trana-Tek Ghana Limited is a full service company providing Surveying, Engineering and Logistics services to the Mining, Exploration, Drilling, Oil and Gas industries in Ghana and the West African Sub region.
We deliver quality services in areas of civil and building construction, fabrication and structural erection, engineering consultancy services and supply of engineering materials.
Our expertise in Surveying ranges from Directional Downhole surveying, Geophysical Surveying, Engineering Surveying, Topographical Surveying, Hydrographical Surveying and Mining Surveying with strong affiliations to top instrument manufacturers in the industry such as Camteq International –Australia , Coretell Pty –Australia, Stockholm Precision Tools-Sweden, Mount Sopris –USA and  

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a host of other industry leaders.
Our qualified staff, engineers and technologists enable the company to provide one stop multi-discipline solutions to our clients. As a client of Trana-Tek you are assured of an effective and efficient service delivery.
As a professional firm we work within relevant and widely accepted international engineering codes and practices such as British Standard, ASME, SANS etc. We strive to achieve client’s specifications, requirements and procedures that make us unique from other competitors.
1.1 Vision
To be the leading Surveying, Engineering and Logistics service provider to the Mining, Exploration, Drilling, Oil and Gas industry in West Africa.

1.2 Mission
Providing our clients with the finest level service delivery at the most reasonable cost.

1.3 Beliefs
We are in business to serve our client.
We create an inclusive working environment.
We strike a balance between work and leisure to maximize productivity.
1.4 Values
Excellence -We strive for the best.
Integrity -We stand by our promises.
Empowerment -Each individual’s contribution is critical to the overall success of the company.
1.4 Classification
We are duly registered with the Ministry of Water Resources,Works and Housing.

1.5 Our Instrumentation Principals

Coretell Pty Limited ,Australia Camteq International Limited-Australia

www.coretell.com.au www.camteq.com.au


Mount Sopris Instruments Limited –USA Stockholm Precision Tools AB-Sweden


www.stockholmprecisiontools.com www.mountsopris.com


2.0 ENGINEERING DIVISION
2.1 Civil Works
Trana-Tek has the proven experience and resources to provide quality civil engineering and related services.
Trana-Tek is committed to lasting quality, providing leading engineering solutions. Trana-Tek offers a full range of Civil engineering services and is one of the most diversified and highly experienced engineers in the area. The engineering professionals at Trana-Tek have extensive knowledge on projects of complex size , scope ,conceptual Designs ,Final Design and Plans , Geotechnical Design etc.
We are dedicated to the assurance of top-quality and safe engineering. This is why we provide a range of inspection and evaluation services to fully complete every structural and bridge engineering project.
2.2 Building Works
Our building construction services experts provide clients with an extensive range of pre-construction and construction-related services and solutions for projects of varying scope, budget, schedule and complexity.
Along with managing the complexity of each project, our construction services professionals build longstanding relationships with clients and design professionals.
As a project progresses – or increases in complexity – we customize our services to fit each client’s unique needs and requirements. Our suite of services covers every aspect of a client’s project, from design to completion.
Creating innovative and practical building engineering designs, our experts ensure that every project meets and exceeds the expectations of clients and building users.
Combining local market knowledge with technical expertise, our multidisciplinary approach to building design is informed by the client's needs and business case to produce cost-effective, functional, inspiring solutions.
We are known for our creative, sustainable and holistic design approach. Our professionals around strive to delivery visionary buildings that maximize naturally occurring energy and minimize waste. From creation to completion and beyond, we help clients reach the optimum potential of every project.
Collaborating across a wide range of building design skills, and sharing knowledge and a passion for a sustainable built environment through our network of offices, Building Engineering at Trana-Tek creates designs that work for today and tomorrow.
2.3 Engineering Consultancy
Trana-Tek has been providing consultancy as a service to customers for many years, and across many industry sectors. Our Engineering consulting expertise is underpinned by Trana-Tek’s wider engineering and project management expertise, including our front end, technology and other consultancy services.

3.0 SUPPLY CHAIN DIVISION
Trana-Tek has an efficient and effective supply chain management system that sources the highest quality of products for its clients. We have the right tools and know-how to help you get the job done and done right. .
There is never a need to go anywhere else. We feel that our customer service is the most important part of our business. Our goal is to supply you with quality products at the right time and at a reasonable price. Just let us know what your needs are.
We specialize in supply to the following industries:
• Mining
• Drilling
• Exploration
• Civil Engineering
• Building Construction
• Oil and Gas
• Government Agencies
• Private Individuals
• Manufacturing
• ETC.
We provide advice, support and assurance to help our customers to realize the maximum value from their assets. Our experts have been working at the heart of industry for many years in some of the most technically-challenging areas
Having worked with a customer to identify, define and understand key issues, our Engineering Consulting services offers recommendations, strategies and solutions which are specific to each customer’s needs and issues.

4.0 SALES & RENTALS DIVISION
Trana-Tek offers a comprehensive range of sales and rental products including Downhole Survey instruments,Core orientation instrument, Winches and Geophysical instruments
Our technical expertise when it comes to directional surveying equipment means we can help you select the right equipment for the job.
Trana-Tek provides equipment back-up and technical support with all rental equipment, and we have dedicated
Technical Support & Training Officers on hand to make certain the tools are performing to spec and all operators are adequately trained before use.
Selecting Trana-Tek as your rental survey equipment supplier ensures you and your team can achieve absolute precision on your next project.


OriShot Core Oreintation Instrument Proshot Magnectic Downhole Survey Instrument

GyroTracer Directional™ North Seeking, high-speed continuous gyro.

5.0 SURVEY DIVISION
Our survey division is a total surveying department with experienced professionals and it comprise of the following survey services:
5.1 Construction & Roadwork Surveys
Trana-Tek delivers key functions to the building process and supports engineering projects from the initial earth works to final completion. The key functions for our construction surveyors is the establishment of accurate Primary Survey Control, reliable Setting Out, factual As-Built information and producing clear legible AutoCAD drawings..
We have developed our own brand of construction surveying offering our clients a comprehensive service at all stages of the construction process, with our wealth of experience we can offer our clients advice at tender stage or at the preliminary phases of the project as to how the survey control package should be approached, with fixed price solutions provided, our clients can be satisfied that cost overruns will not occur.
Our attention to detail at all levels of our company from providing technically proficient in-house staff, our Health and Safety procedures, project coordination and our detailed cost management allows our client to be reassured that at all times the most professional service has been procured.
Our Surveyors use the latest GPS and Total Station technology combined with the powerful Surveying and Civil Engineering software along with Autocad to deliver unprecedented efficiency and fast and practical solutions to civil, road works and bridgeworks projects of any size. Our staffs are one of our greatest assets and have the inter-personal skills, qualifications and experience to meet the demands of any project. Trana-Tek also has considerable backup support enabling sharing of expert knowledge and creating team flexibility. .
We are able to provide:
• Road set-out and design also if required
• Bridgeworks setout
• Instant verification surveys at any location for various road or pavement layers
• Digital Terrain Models (DTMs)
• Volumes calculations
• Accurate and clear as-built information and quality assurance reports
• Cross-section and long-section plots
• Services set out, location and plots
• Sewerage and mains water as-built that comply with United Water specifications.
• Survey data in almost any digital format.

5.2 Hydrographic Surveys
Trana-Tek uses GPS and total stations in primarily marine construction projects. Previous surveys have employed these systems in conjunction with sonar to produce sub-surface profiling. We are able to provide:
• Piling set out
• Dredging control
• Shipping berth set out
• Marine construction surveys
• Marina development
• Marine habitat mapping
• Nautical charting
• Volume computations
• Harbour and channel surveys
• Sub-bottom profiling
• Cable and pipeline as-builts

5.3 Topographical Surveying
At Trana-Tek land surveyors carry out surveys for large and small developments, from topographic surveys of greenfield sites using GPS and relating the survey data to ordnance Survey to carrying out internal building surveys of residential properties for refurbishment.
Trana-Tek produces highly accurate and detailed topographical surveys, from green field sites to urban environments. We believe our strength is our understanding of our clients' needs and requirements, which enables us to deliver a high quality service.
Our experienced team has worked throughout Ghana and internationally, from large scale projects to more densely situated sites, Trana-Tek is able to undertake many types of topographic surveys and produce AutoCAD drawings to scale or data exchange format files.
Aided by the latest Total Stations, GPS & 3D scanning technology Trana-Tek provides our clients with a cost effective way to Survey, Draft and Issue the Final Drawings. From conventional survey techniques using Total Stations, to satellite technology GPS, to High Definition 3D Scanning.
Trana-Tek has the latest technology at our disposal and our highly skilled staff have skills to match. All of our equipment is supplied by leaders in the industry.
Our surveys cover;
• Full feature survey - A complete survey of the terrain to record the position of the street furniture, road lines, buildings, services, contours, embankments, vegetation etc.
• Boundary verification - Basic outline of a projects periphery.
• Ground levels - A grid of levels or volumetric calculations.
• Services - Surface features such as high level electrical cables and telecoms to sub-surface buried comm's cables, water pipes etc.
5.4 Mining Surveys
Trana-Tek provide clients in the mining industry with a complete set of surveying services tailored for all project stages including geological exploration, modeling, design, top soil stripping, drilling, blasting, pre-strip activities, dragline operations, and rehabilitation. We employ effective and innovative surveying technology in addition to our proven surveying experience to ensure the success and proper management any open-cut or underground mining project. Our Services include:
• Establishment of project survey control monument network and baselines
• Topographic measurements using conventional or 3d laser scanning techniques
• Volume calculation for stock piles, queries, and earth material movement
• Terrain modeling
• Survey and update site layout plans
• Road and ramp stakeout
• High wall surveying
• Stock pile monitoring and volume computation surveys
• Machine control stakeout surveys
• Blast Control stakeout surveys
• Safety accident investigation surveys Surveying for construction of pads for plants and machinery, processing plants, conveyor lines, crushers, processing tank, structures and utilities during mine construction
• Surveying of pit designs (pit outlines, ramps, berms, sumps).
• Monthly pit, stockpile and tailings dam volume computations.
• Surveying of pit slope and monitoring for pit slope failures.
• Surveying of waste dump designs and rehabilitation of waste dump slopes.
• Detailing and surveying of concession boundary.
• Monthly, quarterly and yearly surveying of pits, waste dumps, tails dumps, mine access and other utilities and preparation of their situation plans.


5.5 Downhole Surveying
We provides Directional Downhole surveying services on sites of our clients during their drilling programs
In non-magnetic ground, an electronic multishot is utilised surveying every 5m to produce high quality spatial positioning of the drill hole. If downhole magnetics are suspected a Gyro is utilised.
Our highly skilled and trained survey engineers ensure every survey conducted meets and exceeds our QA standards.
Key features
• Service quality complies to standards
• Utilising the latest EMS and Gyro technology
• Backup equipment provided onsite
• Standard Operating Procedures SOP’s
• High volume rapid surveying method
• High resolution survey data, improves accuracy
• Reliable, repeatable and accurate data
Only the best directional surveying instruments are sourced for open hole surveying where absolute precision is required, Trana-Tek currently utilises the following directional surveying tools.
For non-magnetic ground:
• Proshot Multishot – high precision electronic multishot, for use in open holes
• Backup equipment is supplied on every job and a pre and post job calibration check is performed. In addition on calibration checks are routinely conducted
Magnetically affected ground:
• Gyro Tracer Directional - A North Seeking tool ideal for all gyroscopic surveys.
• Backup equipment is supplied on every job and a pre and post job calibration check is performed. In addition on calibration checks are routinely conducted.
5.6 Geophysical Surveying
Our range of Geophysical Surveying services include:
5.6.1Acoustic Televiewer
The Acoustic Borehole Televiewer Survey is the ideal solution for customers requiring:
• Fracture and stratigraphy imaging and characterization
• Lithology characterization
• Caliper measurements
• Casing investigations
• All Survey results are Quality Controlled and reported via our Geophysicist ensuring the integrity of the data.
5.6.2 Borehole Optical Televiewer
The OPTV probe provides a continuous, detailed and orientated 360º image of the borehole walls using a unique optical imaging system. This can be rapidly interpreted to obtain a complete feature analysis that includes dip, strike, frequency and fracture aperture. One popular visual data display option is the projection of features onto an imaginary core that can be rotated and viewed from any orientation. In fact, an OPTV survey can often replace expensive coring with its associated problems of incomplete core recovery and offers much greater flexibility and convenience for data interpretation than a conventional borehole television survey.
DIP interpretation software is available for detailed analysis of the displayed features and includes conventional arrow (tadpole) plots, stereograms of feature orientations and synthetic core images.
The following probes are also part of our Geophysical Surveying Services
• Borehole Video Inspection Systems
• Density Gamma (Trisonde)
• Sidewall Density and Density/Guard
• Small-Source Density
• Neutron
• Dual Neutron
• Natural Gamma Spectroscopy
• Electric Log
• Focussed Electric (Guard Log)
• Microresistivity
• Focussed Induction
• Dual Focussed Induction
• Ultra-slim Focussed Induction
• Magnetic Susceptibility