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Petroleum and Chemical Laboratory

Intertek Laboratory in Los Angeles and the Southern California Area

The Intertek Los Angeles laboratory offers chemical, petroleum, fuel and petroleum refined product testing. The Signal Hill lab is located next to Southern California's petroleum and chemical refining region for fast 24/7 inspection and testing services. The lab conforms to ASTM, IP and other industry protocols. Analytical tools and expertise for quality control, trace analysis, research, development , method validation, formulation applications and more are available through Intertek's USA 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, Sulfur
• PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Testing in Fuels

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

The Signal Hill laboratory is a participant in the US Coast Guard fuel quality sampling and testing program.

Intertek Laboratory Capabilities:

• Chromatography
  • HPLC
  • GC, GCMS
  • TLC
  • LC/MS
• Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • FTIR
  • Florescence Spectroscopy
  • UV-Visible Spectroscopy
• 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
• Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical LC/MS
• Other Techniques