Production Chemistry Services

Production chemistry analysis ensures control over the performance of your oil and gas reservoirs. Our testing program helps you to understand and minimize the impact of scale, corrosion, acidization and rock-fluid compatibility on the productivity of your reservoir.

Why choose production chemistry services from SGS?

We offer you:

A full suite of testing for optimizing your well performance and minimizing operating expenditure
Experienced staff and our state-of-the-art fixed laboratories for all your analyses
Onsite mobile laboratories, custom-configured through our FluidPro PAL™ program or, for smaller projects, our Rapid Deployment Kit (RDK™)
A proven track record of providing technicians to operate client-owned sampling and analysis equipment that is already in place in a fixed lab or offshore platform

Our production chemistry testing includes the following:

Basic sediment and water (BS&W)
Water content in oil by Karl Fischer titration
Live and dead fluid density
Live and dead fluid viscosity
Rheology
Crude salinity
Brine preservation
Complete water analysis
Water compatibility
High temperature gas chromatography
Solids analysis
Select analyses typical of crude assay suites
Hydrates
Gas dewpoints
Sulfate reducing bacteria
Trace sulfur analysis
Sand content in produced fluids
Mercury in gases or liquids
Radon in gaseous hydrocarbons
Metals in gaseous hydrocarbons
Total Arsenic in gaseous hydrocarbons

In addition, we offer many more tests specific to your production chemistry requirements.

Why SGS?

As a world leading provider of production chemistry, we provide industry-approved methods that meet the highest standards of testing and certification. Our unrivaled experience spans the entire process – from oil and gas exploration and production to certification of oil and gas refined products, enabling us to provide the expertise to meet your production chemistry analysis needs.