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Petroleum Laboratory Services
Accurate and timely analyses of natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids is important to the petroleum and petrochemical industries. SPL’s goal is to help you optimize your oil and gas production, forecast well depletions more accurately, and enable you to make better-informed decisions on all aspects of your petroleum production and investment. Our petroleum lab can provide you with the compositional make-up to determine the accurate market value of the product and how the product should be refined and processed.
As a true One-Source Service Partner, SPL is uniquely qualified to provide you with complete bundled services, one point of contact, streamlined solutions, and unrivaled customer support. Our petroleum lab offers considerable expertise in gas chromatography and our professional staff has analyzed a vast array of samples utilizing up-to-date gas chromatography using both packed and capillary columns.
SPL chemists and technicians utilize an extensive range of testing procedures recognized by ASTM, GPA, API, IP, and UOP. We adhere to stringent internal quality, security, record keeping, and maintenance procedures to deliver well-documented data that withstands legal and professional review.
Analyses in our petroleum lab are performed on a variety of materials including raw and finished products, petroleum, petrochemicals, and water. SPL provides a wide range of petroleum testing that includes:
- Natural Gas
- PNA
- LPG, LNG, Gasoline
- Extended Hydrocarbons Analysis
- Hydrocarbon Liquids
- Inert Gases
- Crude Oils/Liquids
- PCBs
- Refinery Gases
- Sulfur Compounds
- Olefins
- Unknown Compounds
- Petroleum Product Fingerprinting
Tests commonly performed include:
- Compositional Analysis Oil Assays
- Pour and Cloud Points
- Viscosities
- Flash Points
- Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Contents
- Gravities
- Paraffin Wax and Asphaltene Content
- Mineral Pattern
Special test procedures are also available to detect impurities and contaminants in petroleum products, for petroleum product inspections, and for evaluating and determining the quality of petroleum feed stocks, fuels, and solvents.
No matter what your hydrocarbon testing needs are, SPL can provide you with prompt, accurate, and cost-effective results.