Core Lab has the experience, technology, personnel and equipment to assure your core is processed, stabilized, packaged, shipped and analyzed using the best practices the core industry has to offer. Core Lab can send a team of expert core handlers to practically any well location, world-wide. Unconsolidated formations require special equipment and techniques for safe, reliable acquisition and transportation of undamaged core. Remote Locations Core Lab has extensive experience processing cores in very difficult and remote locations. From the jungles of Peru to offshore Brunei or China, Core Lab can provide an extensive and unique array of core processing and wellsite core characterization

Sample Selection & Preparation
Spectral core gamma, CT scanning and mineralogy screening are routinely employed to optimize sample selection.

Poro-Perm
Porosity, gas permeability (Ka) and Klinkenberg-corrected permeability are provided routinely at confining stresses up to 10,000 psi using unsteady-state or steady-state methods.

Resination
To preserve core integrity after slabbing, a "biscuit" cut is set in clear resin in labeled trays. This also increases ease of handling and storage.

Sw/Sor From Core
Mud tracing techniques such as deuterium, ionic tracers and quantitative GC fingerprinting enable the determination of reservoir saturation and residual oil saturation direct from core.

Unsteady-State Profile Permeametry
This technique provides rapid, quantitative determination of detailed permeability variations across the core surface either as a single-track or as a two-dimensional permeability map.

Profile Acoustic
This unique service provides detailed acoustic shear and compressional wave velocities along the core which can be correlated with porosity. Derived classical elastic moduli are used to investigate formation sanding potential and in evaluating borehole stability models. CORE

Photography
Photographs of the core surface are taken under white light to record sedimentary detail and ultraviolet light to reveal fluorescing hydrocarbons and minerals.

High Resolution Digital Core Imaging
High quality, high-resolution digital core images are captured directly through a state-of-the-art, computer-controlled, digital camera image acquisition system. These directly digitized images exhibit superior quality and resolution compared to images created by digitizing conventional core photographs. This digital imaging system can provide detailed sedimentary information by acquiring continuous images of the entire core at resolutions up to 300 dots per inch (dpi) at the core surface. At selected positions, an area over 10mm by 7mm and up to 5,000 dpi can be produced to provide highly detailed textural information.