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Laboratories in the chemical, petrochemical, and biofuels industries are essential for ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency. With increasingly complex testing requirements, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and the constant need to innovate, labs in these sectors face unique challenges. LabLynx LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) offers a comprehensive solution designed specifically to streamline lab operations, ensure data integrity, and…

Does your oil exploration laboratory need a client portal and why? For most of us, including oil testing labs, clients are the most important part of our laboratory’s business, whether they are external or internal. Let’s consider this: how easy, convenient, and fast is the sample submission and tracking process for your customers? Do clients have to fill out lengthy…

In May of 2021, Colonial Pipeline, a prominent operator of a fuel pipeline network in the United States, became the target of a ransomware attack.1 This incident prompted a temporary pipeline shutdown. This caused disruptions to the fuel supply from Texas to the East Coast. The attack focused on operational control systems rather than laboratory data that is within a…

The American architect, inventor, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” We no longer write with quills and ink, instead using a ballpoint pen. When we need to find the phone number for the bakery down the street, we use…

Oil and natural gas are fossil fuels, formed underground from the remains of plants and animals. Since the mid-1800s, the United States has been drilling wells and extracting oil and gas. The oil is refined into gasoline and diesel for vehicle and jet fuels, and distillates are extracted as petrochemicals used for a range of manufacturing products. Natural gas is…

Download PDF When I was younger, we had black and white TV (three channels!) and were told that oil came from dinosaurs; it said so in the TV commercials. Now we have color displays and different ideas about where oil comes from (or how much is left). There are different theories about oil’s origins. The prevailing theory has oil coming…