At Element, we provide tailored oil and gas testing services to ensure the safety, reliability, and compliance of your oil and gas infrastructure. Our comprehensive testing solutions help you meet regulatory standards, reduce downtime, and extend the life of critical assets across upstream, midstream, and downstream markets. With decades of expertise, cutting-edge technology, and global accredited facilities, we partner with you to safeguard your operations in the toughest environments - all while saving you time and money.
What is Oil and Gas testing at Element?
Oil and gas testing addresses the complex challenges of searching for, extracting, and transporting oil and gas reserves in a reliable, efficient, and safe way. At Element, our oil and gas infrastructure testing services include a wide range of solutions that ensure the safety, performance, and longevity of your critical energy infrastructure. From offshore rigs to pipelines and refineries, we provide expert testing in materials durability, corrosion resistance, weld quality, and structural integrity – plus more specialized services, including mechanical testing at cryogenic temperatures and determining the composition of natural gas - helping you optimize your operations while minimizing risks.
What We Offer for Oil and Gas Testing:
Components and materials we test
We specialize in testing a wide variety of materials critical to oil and gas infrastructure, including metals, polymers, elastomers, and composite materials. Our expertise spans everything from rigs and pipelines to refineries and storage tanks, ensuring every part of your infrastructure is tested for optimal safety and reliability.
Methods and solutions offered
Element utilizes advanced testing methods like non-destructive testing (NDT), corrosion testing, mechanical testing, fatigue analysis, and fracture mechanics. Our solutions are designed to address your specific challenges, such as pipeline integrity and offshore drilling, plus prevent downtime, extend asset lifespan, and meet industry-specific regulatory requirements across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
Cutting-edge equipment we use
We employ state-of-the-art equipment including cryogenic testing tools, advanced corrosion analysis instruments, and full-scale pipe testing rigs. This ensures accurate, precise results for testing infrastructure in even the most extreme offshore or deep-sea environments, reducing your operational risks and maximizing the reliability of your assets.
Which Labs we offer this service at
With a global network of ISO-accredited laboratories, Element provides testing services in regions including Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia. Our local expertise and rapid turnaround times, combined with our specialized offshore testing capabilities, ensure that your projects receive the support they need, wherever you operate.
Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream Expertise
Element supports the entire oil and gas infrastructure lifecycle—from upstream to midstream and downstream. Our ability to deliver integrated testing solutions across all sectors ensures that your infrastructure remains reliable, efficient, and compliant at every stage.
Element’s upstream services focus on ensuring reliability in exploration and production infrastructure. Midstream testing supports the longevity and safety of transportation and storage assets. Downstream services enhance the efficiency, performance, and environmental compliance of refineries and petrochemical facilities. By offering tailored solutions for each sector, Element empowers you to optimize operations right across the oil and gas value chain.
Your Challenges, Our Solutions
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Ensuring Safety and Reliability
Element’s rigorous testing and inspection services ensure your materials and infrastructure meet the highest safety and performance standards, reducing risks and enhancing reliability.
Regulatory Compliance
Navigating regulatory requirements can be complex. Element’s expertise in oil and gas testing ensures your assets meet the highest safety and compliance standards, helping you stay ahead of changing regulations across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors.
Minimizing Downtime
Minimizing downtime is critical to your operations. Element’s rapid testing methods, including non-destructive testing (NDT) and failure analysis, help keep your infrastructure running smoothly, even in the most extreme environments, ensuring you maintain uninterrupted operations and avoid costly delays.
Managing Corrosion and Harsh Environments
With expertise in corrosion analysis and testing for extreme environments, we help you protect your pipelines and assets from degradation, extending their lifespan and minimizing maintenance costs.
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Why Choose Element
Local Expertise, Global Scale
Extend your team with our global network of accredited laboratories and industry-leading engineers, technicians, and scientists.
Rapid Turnaround
Save time while getting the highest quality service with our precise insights in best-in-class turnaround times.
Specialized Offshore Testing
Element is uniquely positioned for energy testing in deep-sea and offshore drilling and production.
State-of-the-art Technology
We utilize cutting-edge testing technologies to ensure precision, reliability, and safety, even in the harshest environments.
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Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
Element's NDT services comply with a wide variety of industry standards, government contracts, military specifications and unique customer requirements.
Mechanical & Destructive Testing
Element's mechanical tests are part of our destructive testing services, they show whether a material or part is suitable for its intended mechanical applications.
Fatigue Testing
Find out how Element's fatigue testing labs help companies meet quality requirements and create safer, stronger, more successful parts and products.
Full and small scale pipe testing
Element’s pipe testing services encompass a range of capabilities to assess acceptable flaw sizes and material properties,
Fracture Mechanics Test in Sour Environment
From test results and data from real working conditions, we can carry out Engineering Critical Assessments and Fitness For Service analyses to confirm the capability of a component in sour service environment to provide the expected service even in the presence of flaws.
Coating Testing for Seawater Ballast and Cargo Oil Tanks
Element is accredited to perform the IMO set of testing standards for Protective Coatings of Seawater Ballast Tanks and Cargo Oil Tanks.
Corrosion Testing
As a world leader in corrosion testing services, Element provides effective corrosion testing programs to help you ensure your materials are safe, reliable, and fit for purpose.
Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) Services
Element provides Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) to determine if a flaw in welded structures is safe from brittle fracture, fatigue, or creep.
Fitness For Service (FFS)
Element’s Fitness for Service (FFS) – AP 579/ASME FFS-1 services help determine if your equipment is safe and fit for continued operation to prevent failures, minimize risks and eliminate costly repairs.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Element offers advanced numerical analysis services using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) techniques utilizing industry leading software to predict the long term behavior of material components and products when in service.
Weld Testing for the oil & gas sector
Element offers weld testing services to simulate conditions for welds and offshore components and their behavior in the field, including increased temperatures, higher pressures, corrosive conditions, and deepwater environments.
Failure Analysis in the Oil and Gas Industry
Watch our on-demand webinar with Element’s globally based, international experts will help you to understand and avoid failures in the Oil and Gas industry.
Environmental Impact Assessments
Element’s industry experts provide environmental impact assessments for air quality, noise, and vibration, which must be closely considered through the planning process.