Petrochemicals & Specialty Chemicals Testing

Petrochemicals & Specialty Chemicals Testing

Bureau Veritas offers a ‘one-stop shop’ solution for petrochemicals & specialty chemicals inspection and testing requirements. We offer these capabilities as part of our larger Green Line Services and Solutions, which is dedicated to helping our clients implement, measure, and achieve sustainability strategies with trust and transparency. It is more important than ever today that companies adopt the practices needed to create a greener future, and Bureau Veritas is dedicated to helping our clients do this through specialized testing services. 

The chemicals produced, utilized and stored at a refinery, chemical plant or terminal have to undergo composition assessments, including the identification of potential contaminants, to ensure that they adhere to stipulated quality standards and legislative requirements. 

Bureau Veritas has extensive knowledge and unsurpassed expertise in a vast range of chemical products, including the related inspection, storage and laboratory testing requirements.  Our highly trained sampling and inspection technicians are on hand 24/7 - wherever cargo is being loaded, unloaded or transferred globally.

A client in a large chemical plant in the US Gulf Coast states, “The resources and expertise of Bureau Veritas have helped me to be more efficient and effective at my job; I use them whenever I can.”

Our global state-of-the-art laboratories around the world provide fast turnaround times on chemicals tested to ASTM, ISO, IP, accepted chemical industry standards and protocols, and in-house methods where customized procedures are required. Our chemical testing expertise includes purity & component, trace composition, trace and ultra-trace contamination, quality control, troubleshooting, and other chemical analytical expertise.

Furthermore, our global network of state-of-the-art laboratories staffed by highly skilled chemists is able to provide:

  • R&D analytical services
  • QA / QC services
  • Staffing
  • Full turnkey laboratory services
  • Sampling & Sample Transport Services
  • Special Projects
  • Method Development Services
     

Key capabilities include:

  • Inspections, Testing, Certification and Verification Services
  • Chemical Testing: Basic & industrial chemicals, dyes & detergents, lubricants & greases, petrochemicals, polymers & plastics, and specialty chemicals
  • Petrochemical and Chemical Feedstock: Olefins (Ethane, Propane, Butane) Aromatics (Naphtha), and Natural Gas
  • Intermediate Chemicals and other Chemicals:  Acrylonitrile, Aromatic solvents, Benzene, Butadiene, Caustic, Cumene, Cyclohexane, Ethylene, Hexamoll, Methanol, Propylene, Styrene, Toluene, Vinyl acetate monomer, Xylene, and more

We also provide support across the entire chemicals production supply chain including:

  • Audit, survey & assessment of maintenance, design & engineering of sub-contracted activities
  • Asset integrity management
  • Chemical regulatory services quality system & supply chain management
  • Hazardous area product certification
  • Chemical regulatory services quality system & supply chain management
  • Hazardous area personnel safety
  • Industrial technical inspection services
  • Industrial consulting services
  • Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)
  • REACH certification

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