PETROLEUM GEOCHEMESTRY
Empiria Labs offers an extensive range of petroleum geochemical analyses tailored for exploration and production (E&P) projects. These analyses help identify the source, depositional paleoenvironment, maturity, biodegradation, and migration events in source rocks, crude oils, bituminous extracts from source rocks or sediments, soils, seeps, and other related matrices.
NATURAL GAS ANALYSIS
Gas composition by GC/FID-TCD
d13C & d2H isotope analysis from methane to propane
CONDENSATES / CRUDE OILS
WOGC analysis by GC/FID
SARA fractionation
C15+ Saturate & Aromatic fraction by HRGC/FID
Molecular sieve for branched/cyclic isolation (biomarkers)
n-alkanes removal from molecular sieves after B/C isolation
Aromatic compounds (naphthalenes, phenanthrenes, alkyl-DBT) by GC/MS
Biomarkers (Terpanes & Steranes) by GC/MS and GC/MSMS
High Molecular Weight Hydrocarbons by HTGC/FID (n-C10 to n-C80+)
Diamantoid hydrocarbons by GC/MSMS
CSIA in n-alkanes by GC-IrMS
Bulk stable carbon isotopes analysis in crude, saturate and aromatic fractions
Bulk properties for crude oils by ASTM methods (API, Sulfur, Ni & V)
ROCK AND CUTTINGS
TOC by LECO and Rock-Eval Pyrolysis by Hawk or Vinci-VI
Bitumen Extraction by ASE-350
Occluded gas (C1-C5+) by HS-GC/FID-TCD
d13C isotope analysis by GC-IrMS
PRODUCED AND
FORMATION WATERS
Physicochemical characterization
Mayor and trace metals by ICP/OES or ICP/MS
Modeling using hydrochemical software
HYDRAULIC
FRACTURING
Chemical characterization of fluids
Crude oil or gas characterization after fracking
Water evaluation of flow-back after fracking