Operating Companies
Chemostrat is a high-quality geoscience consultancy, providing specialist correlation and provenance services to the oil and gas industry worldwide. We have offices, laboratories and interpretative resources in the UK, Houston and Perth Australia that can provide a responsive and personal service for our clients. Over the last 30 years, we established chemostratigraphy as a mainstream technique, invented wellsite chemostratigraphy, introduced Raman heavy mineral and established an innovative shale gas evaluation method. More recently, our ethos of innovation, quality and value for money has been extended with an establishment of a multi-disciplinary ‘Service matrix’ which can be adapted to tackle a wide of stratigraphic, provenance, palaeoenvironmental and reservoir quality issues for our clients. Chemostrat has also developed a successful range of regional non-exclusive reports that apply aspects the ‘Service Matrix’ workflow and innovative techniques to provide progressive solutions to projects from the North Sea, Norway, Atlantic margins, Canada and Africa. Chemostrat’s client base continues to increase but our technical competency remains unrivalled in the oil services sector. Visit the Chemostrat website.
X-ray Mineral Services was acquired by the Hafren Scientific Group in 2019 and is a comprehensive geo-materials analysis centre offering services in the natural resources sector. X-ray Mineral Services has established a dedicated multidisciplinary analytical workflow (Minerals Elements Texture and Analytics – META) for the comprehensive characterisation of rocks, minerals, metals, manufactured materials and ‘waste’. X-ray Mineral Services provides data for clients operating in subsurface exploration and storage (oil & gas, geothermal, CCUS, H2 and nuclear storage). The company services the construction industry with the analysis of raw materials (clays, sand, limestone, dolomite granite, basalt) and manufactured products (bricks, tiles, cement, ceramics etc). X-ray Mineral Services has developed innovative META workflows for the characterisation of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) used in the battery mineral sector and has extensive experience of the analysis of Li, Ni, Cu, Co, REEs ores, concentrates and mineral processing stages. The company is very active in the circular economy developing new analytical solutions for characterisation of mine and industrial wastes, black mass, WEEE, PCBs and collaborates with companies offering reprocessing / recycling capability. X-ray Mineral Services is an active researcher sponsoring PhDs and participating in innovative environmental remediation technology with support from the Welsh Government and in collaboration with university partners (Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Durham and Greenwich). This includes the development of a sustainable mine water clean up system being supported by Innovate UK.
The company’s META is based on a multidisciplinary analytical capability which includes a wide range of analytical services including QXRD, ICP, ED-XRF, WD-XRF, HH-XRF, FTIR, LIBS, Raman spectroscopy, LA-ICP-MS, SEM-AMICS, geochronology, EPMA, LECO TOC, VRI, petrography, particle size analysis, organic geochemistry and magnetic susceptibility. X-ray Mineral Services has also developed innovative integrated data visualisation and modelling products and presentations in Spotfire® and has machine learning and AI capability. Visit the website
We have a dedicated team in Finland (X-ray Mineral Services Finland OY) to focus on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), battery mineral science and the entire battery eco-system and value chain (from exploration to recycling). Visit the website
Origin Analytical UK Ltd has its ISO9001:2008 Certification and operates independently from Chemostrat providing high quality geochemical, mineralogical, magnetic, and isotopic data for oil industry operators and service companies alike. With laboratories in the UK, Houston and Perth the company can offer ‘hot shot’ services to support development drilling decisions. Origin Analytical’s services are also offered in the mining sector, metal recycling, for environmental monitoring and for the analysis of artefacts in archaeological studies Visit the Origin Analytical website.
Chemostrat invented wellsite chemostratigraphy in 2000 which lead to a 10 year alliance with Halliburton and the establishment of the LaserStrat service. Chemostrat undertook instrument R&D, provided staff for wellsite deployment, and completed numerous predrill pilot studies for this service. In 2012 Chemostrat emerged from the Halliburton alliance and have now established an independent comprehensive wellsite chemostratigraphy and mineralogy service. Visit the Wellsite website.
Future Geoscience (FGL) is a JV company with PetroStrat Ltd established in 2019. It provides based on the combined expertise of Chemostrat and PetroStrat world leaders in chemostratigraphy and provenance with high quality biostratigraphy, sedimentology and reservoir geology to provide a premium integrated multidisciplinary solution. FGL also provides the only fully combined biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy wellsite service with a global reach founded on 25 years of wellsite experience. Visit the website
