PTS Laboratories has a proven track record of providing core analysis for domestic and international energy companies since 1965. For over four decades the professional staff at PTS has contributed many of the industry standard techniques in use today. Services offered by PTS include Basic Core Analysis, Special Core Analysis, and custom project design using current technologies.

Wellsite Core Handling

• Conventional Core Stabilization
• Sidewall Core Stabilization

Routine Core Analysis

• Core Plugging & Stabbing
• Basic Properties
• Sidewall Core Analysis
• CT & X-ray Scanning
• Fluoroscopy

Digital Imaging

• Virtual Layout Room
• Enhanced Imagery Suite
  • TEN-EX
  • HD Cuttings
  • HD Plugs
  • MicroPics

Special Core Analysis

• Relative Permeability
• NMR Analysis
• Electrical Properties
• Capillary Pressure
• Wettability Testing
• Pore Volume Compressibility

Reservoir Characterization

• Geological and Geophysical Services
• Petrophysical Modeling
• Production Engineering
• Reservoir Engineering and Simulation
• Technical Training
• EOR
  • Sensitivity Completion Fluids Testing
  • Improved Recovery Tests
  • Thermal Recovery - Field Monitoring
  • Hot Water Drive End Point
  • Steam Flood Endpoint
• Oil Fingerprinting Services Chromatography

Petrographic Analysis

• Thin Section
• X-Ray Diffraction Analysis
• SEM
• Integrated Rock/Log Model Development
• Integrated Field Studies
• Regional and Basin Studies
• GPAC Analysis
• Pore Attribute Characterization

Geomechanical Analysis

• Compressional and Shear Wave Velocities
• Pore Volume and Bulk Compressibility
• Permeability and Electrical Resistivity
• Fracture Strength Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
• Tensile Strength
• Magnetic Susceptibility
• Specialized Loading Histories
• Pore Structure Modeling