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Petroleum and Chemical Laboratory

Chemical Analysis Laboratory in Northern California

The Intertek Caleb Brett Benicia laboratory offers a wide range of chemical, petroleum, fuel and petroleum refined product testing. The Bencia lab is located next to Northern California's petroleum refining region for fast 24/7 inspection and testing services. Analytical tools and expertise for quality control, trace analysis, research, development , method validation, formulation applications and more are available either at the our Benicia laboratory, the CTC, or through Intertek's national and global laboratory network.

Products tested include:

• Naphtha, Gasoline
• Jet Fuel
• Diesel
• Vacuum Gas Oil
• Residual Fuel Oil
• Crude Oil, Petroleum
• Chemicals
• Petrochemicals
• Ethanol, (Denatured)
• Biodiesel
• MTBE (M.T.B.E.)
• Methanol
• Caustic Soda
• Bright Yellow Sulfur
• PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Testing in Fuels

The laboratory benefits from mutual testing support with the Intertek California Technology Center lab (CTC). The two laboratories together provide a diverse range of analytical capabilities to the petroleum, chemical, electronic, consumer, polymer and other industries.

Intertek Laboratory Capabilities:

• Chromatography
  • HPLC
  • GC, GCMS
  • TLC
  • LC/MS
• Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • FTIR
  • Florescence Spectroscopy
  • UV-Visible Spectroscopy
• Other Techniques
• Elemental Analyses
  • Atomic Emission Detection
  • Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
  • ICP, ICP/MS
• X-ray Diffraction
• Optical and Electron Microscopy
  Auger, SIMMS, XPS
• Electrochemistry
• NMR
• Thermal Analysis
• Physical Property Analysis
• ASTM D2879 vapor pressure by Isoteniscope