Lab Services

Our Lab is unique because we do the unusual analytical projects that routine labs will not tackle. We discuss thoroughly with our clients the goals and objectives of studies after which we design the appropriate sampling strategies that will help realise those objectives.

We keep abreast of regulatory compliance requirements, QA/QC, sampling methods and data interpretation in order to produce sound reports.

Testing Undertaken

  1. Water Analysis In The Following Areas

    • Potability
    • Waste water discharges
    • Compatibility of formation water for injection purpose
    • Toxicology Test
    • Benthic Studies
  2. Products, lubricants and Fossil Fuels Testing/Analysis

    • Crude Oil Characterisation
    • Flash Point of Petroleum Products
    • Pour Point of Petroleum Products
    • API Gravity of Crude Petroleum
    • Vapour Pressure of Petroleum Products
    • Kinematic Viscosity of Transparent and Opaque Liquids
    • Acid and Base Number
    • ASTM Colour of Petroleum Products
    • Sediment in Crude Oils and Fuel Oils
    • Salts in Crude Oil
    • FTIR analysis
    • Compositional Analysis of Gas
    • Finger Printing of Crude Oil
  3. Soil Analysis/Testing

    • Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon
    • Carbonate Test
    • Particle Size Analysis
    • Organic Matter
    • Lime Requirement of Acid Soils
    • Cation Exchange Determinations
    • Micronutrients
  4. Plant and Animal Feed Products Analysis

    • Nutritional and Calorific values, fats, oil protein, ash crude fibre. etc
  5. Mud Engineering and Drilling Chemicals Testing/Analysis

    • Evaluation of drilling chemicals for suitability in drilling operations
    • Chemical constituents of drilling chemicals
  6. Transformer Oil Analysis

    • Dissipation factor (Dielectric constant)
    • Water in Insulating Liquids
    • Gas content of Insulating Oils (Dissolved Gases)
    • Analysis of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) in Insulating Liquids, such as in Transformers
  7. Air Quality Monitoring

    • NOX, SOX, H2S, NH4, CO, VOC, CxHY
    • Suspended Particulate Matter
    • Wind Speed/Direction