Start Date
December 2018

Background
This sub-committee has been initiated to:

• Provide a more streamlined path to obtaining samples from CCQTA member companies for CCQTA project work.
  
• Provide guidance to members and industry regarding sampling best practices.
  
• Provide advice to members and industry on sampling practices that are best fit for their testing application.
  
• Sub-committee meetings will be held to coincide with quarterly project meetings. This sub-committee meeting will be scheduled as the last meeting of the week to allow discussion of any sampling needs that may have developed during the course of the project meetings.
  

• Sub-Committee had its first meeting in December 2018.
  
• Currently have authorizations from: Suncor, Flint Hills, Gibson. These three authorizations cover the bulk of the products requested by projects. Authorizations are valid to February 2025.
  

• Current Sampling Projects:
  — PUB project sampling is in progress. KDB and OSP samples have been collected/received. PUBs will be supplied by Cenovus.
  — Light Ends Characterization project will be conducting an interlaboratory study which will require collection of large (18L) sample volumes for homogenization and distribution into pressurized cylinders. The individual samples will be randomized and sent to the three laboratories for GPA 2177 analysis. Sampling is anticipated in late March 2024.