Oil and Gas Testing Services

Oil & Gas Testing

IPL offers specialist analytical expertise and testing services for oil and gas from exploration to final product. We understand the value of your operations and offer testing services aimed at optimising your production and protecting your investment.

Sample types include:

- Crude & Condensate

- Pressurised Gases & LPG

- Water

- Amine and Glycol (MEG and TEG)

Plus a lot of weird and wonderful unknowns so ask us how we can assist you with your testing requirements.

Crude Assay

Crude assay is essentially the evaluation of a crude by physical and chemical testing. We can assay the crude to evaluate the boiling range distribution of the cut points or complete a comprehensive characterisation that includes full chemical testing of the various boiling range fractions produced from the distillation.
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Crude oil and Condensate

Detection of trace and ultra trace concentrations of total mercury including crude hydrocarbons, condensates, LPG and gas streams. IPL utilises two methods of quantification to determine mercury to a limit of quantification of 0.2 ppb ug/kg.
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Gas and Pressurised Gas

IPL is the first laboratory in NZ with the capability to perform the required weathering and dispersant testing for oil discharge management plans as regulated by Maritime NZ.
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Produced Water

C1-C9
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Mercury testing

We use a range of techniques to identify and quantify unknowns in liquid and solid hydrocarbon matrices, see our section on specialised contamination and purity analysis.
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Weathering and Dispersant Testing
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Amine and Glycol

Detection of water in liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons between 1ppm and 100% w/w by distillation or Karl Fischer Analysis.
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Composition, sulphur, nitrogen, wax, metals and more
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Trust the analytical testing services of a reputed laboratory. We will work alongside your company to develop cost effective testing solutions for your everyday challenges.

Dedicated to providing quality lab testing services

About IPL

Established in July 1999, Independent Petroleum Laboratory Limited (IPL) is a fully independent laboratory that provides specialist Fuels, Biofuels, Industrial and Environmental laboratory testing services to a wide range of customers throughout New Zealand and the South West Pacific.

Oil & Gas Testing

IPL offers specialist analytical expertise and testing services for oil and gas from exploration to final product. We understand the value of your operations and offer testing services aimed at optimising your production and protecting your investment.

Crude Assay

Crude oil and Condensate

Gas and Pressurised Gas

Produced Water

Mercury testing

Weathering and Dispersant Testing

Amine and Glycol

Composition, sulphur, nitrogen, wax, metals and more

Trust the analytical testing services of a reputed laboratory. We will work alongside your company to develop cost effective testing solutions for your everyday challenges.

Dedicated to providing quality lab testing services

About IPL

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