ResLab has pioneered the commercial development of high capacity storage services for the E & P companies from its facilities in Norway. Within the ResLab storage facility in Stavanger, alone, we handle and store more than 250,000 meters of core for our clients on a day-to-day basis. We have already exported these storage services to the Middle East and Latin America in recent years and we will continue to commit to servicing international markets locally, according to requests from our clients.

To date, the principal driving forces behind the increase in demand and the rapid expansion of storage services across the ResLab group of companies have been:

• the overall logistical efficiencies that ResLab can bring, gained from our considerable experience of handling ditch cuttings, core and reservoir fluids on a day-to-day basis
• our web-based in-house sample tracking software, StoreVisionTM
• ResLab’s acute appreciation of the importance and value of subsurface sample materials to the E & P companies and government petroleum ministries around the world
• And, last but not least, the significant cost savings that can be achieved by our clients, by passing this workload on to ResLab.

Total Sample Handling - from wellsite handling to long-term secure storage at the location of your choice

ResLab has the in-house tools and expertise to assure our clients that subsurface sample materials are being handled and treated in the best possible way. From wellsite core stabilisation services and bottom-hole fluid sampling, to best practice sample transportation from the wellsite to the laboratory. Finally we provide tailored storage and sample handling facilities at the ResLab storage and laboratory facilities around the world.

Secure Storage of Rock and Fluid Sample Materials

The short, medium and long term storage needs of our clients are catered for at ResLab. All of our storage facilities around the world offer the same fundamental services, relieving the client of any concerns about the safety and the ease of access to their valuable subsurface materials.
Those fundamentals of our storage services include:

• Large storage capacity is made available
• Sample handling technicians are fully trained and are available for offshore and onshore operations
• All aspects of sample handling logistics (e.g. sample retrieval at wellsite, safe and secure transportation, boxing / crating, sample splitting, sample lay-out in the laboratory, etc.) are covered by ResLab
• Comprehensive laboratory services are also available, such a score plugging, washing and drying of cuttings, rock & fluid analytical services, etc.

StoreVisionTM - Detailed registration and tracking of rock and fluid sample materials

Driven by our commitment to continually improving our storage services, ResLab has recently made significant investment in its sample tracking software package StoreVisionTM. The software was initially developed in 1996 and has been upgraded to include the flowing key features:

• Web based database
• Microsoft .net tools with sql server
• Unique location code system
• Registration of well header information, sample types and sample depths
• Comprehensive sample tracking system, with registration of all movement in and out of storage
• Broad and narrow sample search possibilities
• Printouts and reports are available on paper, in html & xml and also as Excel files

Storage Consultancy Services

Having gained a high degree of experience of the wide variety of sample storage operations around the world, ResLab is now in a unique position to assist and advise our customers regarding “best practice” for their storage solutions. We are always available to offer the following advice regarding your sample storage solution:

• Storage strategy planning
• Storage facility evaluation and selection
• Implementation team management
• Solution design
• Manpower and day-to day operation

Core viewing, sample inspection and analytical services

At all of the ResLab storage facilities around the world, we ensure that our clients and visitors have the benefit of modern and comfortable facilities in which to view and work on their subsurface materials that are stored with us. In addition, we strive to provide as broad a range of analytical services at each service location, to reduce the need for additional sample transportation and associated beaurochracy. At each of our locations, we aim to provide the following facilities :

• Large capacity and private core viewing and sample lay out areas
• Microscopy and computing facilities
• UV and natural light facilities
• Sampling equipment of the highest quality, to ensure best-practice core preparation and plugging, ditch cuttings sample preparation and fluid sample splitting and maintenance
• Meeting rooms for project discussions