ResLab is renowned for it’s tailored approach to laboratory testing across the whole spectrum of our services. Since 1986, our vast experience of core analysis programs around the world has demonstrated the benefits of close liaison with our clients, particular attention to detail during testing and the provision of analytical flexibility at our domestic and international laboratory facilities.

ResLab today provides the full suite of conventional core analysis services to the E & P companies, but significantly, within this suite of services, we do our utmost to provide that little bit extra, which really makes a difference to your test results.

Multidisciplinary testing advice from ResLab:
Early discussions - optimising the test
programme - value for money

Our experienced staff are always available for discussions at project conception, as we strive to design the best analytical programme which will deliver technical answers and the best value for money results. We go beyond one-to-one discussions with the client regarding confirmation of the optimum test programme. ResLab offers the advice from in-house expertise in Formation Damage, SCAL and Rock Mechanics, which will ensure that lithological and petrophysical aspects of the analytical programme are fully accounted for within the project design.

“Total Core Handling” - From core stabilisation at the wellsite, through transportation to the laboratory, to world-class testing and delivery of analytical results

ResLab is the lead company for the development and implementation of core handling and core protection technology. Since our extensive R & D programme in the 1990s, ResLab has clearly demonstrated the logistical and environmental success of their patented Core Gypsum Protection method. This, coupled with our tailored core transportation system and highly experienced core engineers, sets ResLab apart from the “old school” core handling companies. Further details about these techniques are published as additional brochures, or they can be found on our website.

Conventional Core Analysis Services

• Client discussions and test program design
• Wellsite services
  • Gypsum Core Protection
  • ResLab Core Transportation System
  • Gamma logging
  • Tracer analyses (tritium, deuterium or other tracers)
  • Core plugging (lithology specific plugging tools)
• Computer tomography (CT) imaging
• Core Slabbing
• Core plugging (full range of lithology specific plugging tools available)
• Core cleaning by miscible flooding, including critical point drying (used for unconsolidated material and delicate clay structures)
• Core plug cleaning by cool solvent flushing
• Humidity or dry oven drying
• Whole core and core plug sample preservation
• 1” and 1.5 “ coreholders
• Probe permeametry by the steady state technique
• Klinkenberg corrected gas permeability by the steady state technique
• Dean & Stark water saturation
• Oil / water saturation and retort method
• Helium porosity by Boyle’s law technique
• Grain density
• Calcimetry
• Capillary pressure, single point
• Mercury Injection, 0-20,00 psig
• Mercury Injection, 0-60,000 psig
• Thin-section preparation (Astera)
• Standard core photography, white light and UV light
• Digital core photography, white light and UV light
• Integrated digital core photograph system - CORIMAG
• Sponge core analysis
• Thin section preparation using ASTERA
• Sieve analysis (sonic sifting technique)
• Rapid rock mechanics testing, 1” plug samples

Standardised operating procedures, high quality equipment and quality assurance around the world

As ResLab has pushed into new international markets in recent years, the company has maintained its strong sense of commitment to the staff at each of our laboratories. Our philosophy is to retain expertise and experience within the ResLab group of companies, to ensure that our clients are served beyond their expectations.

We have a similar commitment to the quality and maintenance of the equipment used at all of our laboratories. There has always been strong investment in equipment at ResLab, since the start of operations in Norway during the 1980s. The company now continues to invest in state-of-the-art testing equipment at each of the laboratories in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Conventional Core Analysis – The future

Our conventional core analysis projects in recent years have become increasingly unconventional, as our clients move into new E & P frontiers that pose unique technical challenges. ResLab is exceptionally well placed to assist with those new technical challenges, by providing our diverse in-house experience, our unique testing equipment and our exceptional laboratory infrastructure around the world.