crude-oil-assay
Geo Chem Middle East has been offering crude assay for the past twenty years. A service which demands the most up-to-date sophisticated technology and instrumentation coupled with highly experienced and trained personnel, Geo Chem is fully equipped and confident to meet our customer’s expectation in this field of testing. |
A crude assay is essentially a
detailed chemical evaluation of a crude oil feedstock sample conducted by a petroleum testing
laboratory. A crude assay takes the guess work out of the equation by
simulating refinery distillation conditions to help those make informed
decisions regarding what a specific crude oil will yield before it enters the refinery process.
Our industry uses Crude Assay information
in a number of different ways:
·
To
establish the compatibility of a crude oil to that of a particular petroleum
refinery.
·
To
help refiners to make decisions about changes in plant operation, development
of product
·
schedules,
and examination of future processing ventures.
· To anticipate if the crude oil will fulfill the required product yield, quality, and production specs.
· To determine if refining the crude oil will meet national, state and local environmental emission standards.
· To set the price of a newly discovered crude oil reserve and maintain the price of an older one.
· To supply engineering companies with detailed crude oil analyses to help them design their petroleum refining plant processes.
· To help negotiate possible penalties due to impurities and other non-desired properties in purchased crude oil.
The assay test can be limited to
know the various fractions yield or extensive by the
characterization of the whole crude
and its fractions. The various fractions expected from a normal stabilized
crude oil are LPG, Light Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha, Kerosene, Gas Oil and Residual
Fuel Oil. A single distillation may not be sufficient to produce the required
volume to complete the characterization of each commercially interested
fraction. ASTM D 2892 is the standard method employed for the TBP distillation.
