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Ellington & Associates offers "hot shot" XRD service - fast, high quality analysis of your samples.  

Mineralogy: X-ray Diffraction

Superior Results at Superior Speed


 

Ellington & Associates offers superior and timely results. For over 20 years, we have excelled in "hot shot" sample analysis.  Whether it's the weekend, a holiday or at night, we understand your need for timely, critical, and accurate results from your cores and cuttings.  

To meet our clients' requirements for quality and speed, we offer Bruker's state-of-the-art D4 diffractometer in combination with the LynxEye detector.  Now the diffractogram is available in a fraction of the time with superior quality.  Within minutes, our experienced mineralogist can begin translating the analysis into fast, precise results.

 

 

Oil & Gas Applications

Petrophysics: 

  • Identify silica-rich zones in shale formations – a major factor in control of and response to fracture stimulation

  • Pinpoint producing zones in formations where chlorite causes resistivity suppression

  • Recognize reservoir quality sands when high K-feldspar content causes the gamma-ray measurements in those sands to be comparable to surrounding shales

  • Improve porosity evaluation with calculated formation-specific grain density values rather than generalized book values

Provenance and clay diagenesis: 
  • Determine the type and relative abundance of feldspars

  • Measure the amount of carbonates

  • Identify polytypes of illite/mica and the expandability of interstratified illite/smectite

 

Well completion & pipelines: 
  • Recognize pore-throat plugging derivatives of zeolite minerals and Fe-rich carbonates

  • Locate siderite and other problematic scaling minerals

 

 

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