Analytical Services
Locally offered
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC%) determination, Leco instrument.
• Rock-Eval pyrolysis (version II), and SRA (Source Rock Analyzer).
• Headspace Gas (C1-C5 y C6+).
• API gravity and viscosity of oils.
• Sulfur and Nickel-Vanadium contents of oils.
• Kerogen microscopy (organic matter type, TAI, fluorescence, Ro%); organic petrography.
• Coal petrography.
• Organic petrography.
• Quantitative soxhlet extraction of rocks and oil-in-rock.
• MPLC fractionation (saturates, aromatics, NSOs, asphaltenes) of organic extracts and oils.
• Gas chromatography (GC) of organic extracts, hydrocarbon fractions and whole oils.
• Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) of saturate and aromatic hydrocarbons (biomarkers fingerprints).
Via Geochemical Services of Stratum Reservoir (Texas, USA)
• Carbon Isotopic composition of rock-extracts or whole oils and their fractions (saturates, aromatics, NSO compounds, and asphaltenes).
• Very high resolution GCMSMS (VG AutoSpecQ).
• Reservoir gas and mud gas composition (hydrocarbons and non-hydrocarbons) and isotopic composition (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen).
• Kinetic analysis through Rock-Eval 6.
• Various pyrolysis-GC and pyrolysis-GCMS techniques.
• Special analytical techniques.