AMPLIFIED GEOCHEMICAL IMAGING, LLC
Conroe, Texas, United States
AMPLIFIED GEOCHEMICAL IMAGING, LLC
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Provider of expert detection and mapping survey services for the oil & gas, environmental, and mineral industries.
About AMPLIFIED GEOCHEMICAL IMAGING, LLC
For over 20 years, Amplified Geochemical Imaging LLC (AGI) has provided expert detection and mapping survey services for the oil & gas, environmental, and mineral industries. Our technology has been proven in more than 70 countries, used in all terrains, geographies and climates.
Our passive gas sampling technology was first developed by Dr. Ronald W. Klusman at the Colorado School of Mines and purchased by W.L. GORE & Associates, Inc. W.L. GORE invested the time and money necessary to take the surface detection system to ultrasensitive levels. In 2013 Amplified Geochemical Imaging purchased the technology rights from W.L. GORE & Associates, Inc. and used their exploration and environmental experience to expand the technology applications to include Downhole Geochemical Logging.
Amplified Geochemical Imaging is currently the industry leader in ultrasensitive surface detection and mapping. Amplified Geochemical Imaging Surveys identify, measure, and map volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in soil gas, water, air, and sediment. Our technology uses passive samplers at the surface to adsorb part-per-billion (ppb) concentration levels of various organic constituents and then thermally desorbs those compounds to be quantified by mass spectrometry. This technology is often times 1,000-times more sensitive than traditional methods and is used to detect thermogenic hydrocarbons for the Oil & Gas industry, environmental contaminants for the Environmental industry, and minerals (i.e. mineral ligands) for the Mining industry.
The AGI Sampler is flexible, easy to use, cost effective and provides accurate and reliable results. Our laboratory is DoD ELAP and ISO 17025 accredited, ensuring the highest quality control available in the industry (refer to our scope of accreditation, A2LA Testing certificate 3062.01, for additional details on methods and analytes associated with our accreditation).
Description of Services
Our Technology
In 2013, Amplified Geochemical Imaging LLC (AGI) acquired the GORE® Survey Products Group, maker of the GORE-Sorber. The AGI Sampler (formerly the GORE-Sorber) is a proprietary adsorbent that collects volatile and semi-volatile compounds present in air, soil gas, and water. The adsorbents are sealed inside a tube of microporous expanded polytetraflouoethlene (ePTFE), more commonly known as the membrane.
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. supplies AGI specialized quality material used in the manufacturing of our AGI Passive Samplers. The unique membrane is water repellent but allows for the free diffusion of gases to penetrate the sampler and collect on the adsorbent material. This ability to protect sample integrity from contact with soil, water, and organic material makes it easy to use in virtually any site condition.
AGI’s Passive Sampler detects more than 100 compounds, ranging from C2 to C20. It is easily deployed and retrieved with minimal disruption to client property. Samplers are analyzed using custom thermal desorption GC/MS instrumentation with measurement sensitivity in the parts-per-billion range. This capability represents three orders of magnitude greater sensitivity than best alternative methods. Our laboratory is DoD ELAP and ISO 17025 accredited, ensuring the highest quality control available in the industry.
This technology, combined with our individually-designed passive gas surveys, provides cost-effective surveys for the oil & gas, environmental, and mining industries.
What we do
Advantages of the AGI Method:
- it is a direct hydrocarbon measurement method (thus it is not subject to interferences or false positives from near-surface soil conditions
as are indirect methods), - 1,000 times more sensitive than other methods,
- measures over 100 compounds from C2-C20, providing a unique ability to clearly define and differentiate multiple gas, gas condensate, and oil
signatures, - has a >90% success rate at predicting dry hole, thus reducing exploration risk and drilling costs,
- can clearly differentiate between multiple gas, condensate, and oil signatures,
- can identify stacked pay and multiple petroleum systems.
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Oil & Gas Applications
- Shale Plays
- Downhole Geochemical Logging
- Stacked Pay
- Thrust Belts
- Onshore Field Development
- Offshore Field Development
- Onshore Frontier
- Channel Sands
- Thick Salt Sequences
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Mapping Sweet Spots
