Core Laboratories is an international provider of proprietary and patented laboratory-based oilfield services and testing technologies to the oil and gas industry. Its work centres on core characterization, fluid characterization, reservoir description and asset evaluation - analytical disciplines that turn subsurface rock and fluid samples into usable data about reservoir properties and production potential. The company operates in more than 50 countries across six continents, with a presence in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
The business is organised around several segments and operating units. Reservoir Description covers petroleum services, core and fluid characterization and asset evaluation. Production Enhancement includes operations conducted through Owen Oil Tools, ProTechnics and Stim Lab. Saybolt, established in 1898, provides independent inspection services, including laboratory analyses, field inspection and monitoring of crude oil and petroleum products.
Technical work spans laboratory analyses and testing technologies, reservoir description, production enhancement and field inspection and monitoring services. For engineers and technologists, this places data acquisition, measurement and analytical instrumentation at the centre of the company's operations, applied to the energy sector and to the inspection of crude oil and petroleum products worldwide.
