Applied Microbiology

Our microbiology laboratories provide comprehensive functions for probing and controlling organisms in resource production (including oil wells, crop collections and storage, and natural materials harvesting), industrial cultures, and special applications such as BT surrogates dispersions, cultures, and cell counting. Advanced methods and assays allow us to deliver efficient measurements and solutions for industry and government.

Oilfield Microbiology

• Biocide and chemical testing
• Microbiological surveys of oil and gas systems
• Microbiology induced corrosion investigation
• Bacterial screening of diesel fuel
• Biocide and chemical testing
• Reservoir souring investigation (sulfate reducing bacteria)
• Water microbiology testing
• Total viable organisms
• Coliform, E.coli, enterococci and pseudomones identification
• Bacterial enumeration using MPN method
• PCR, qPCR

Environmental Microbiology Testing

• Fungal identification
• Environmental sampling and microbe identification
• Spore trap analysis
• Surface and bulk sample analyses
• Impactor sample analyses – culture testing

Food Microbiology

• Rapid method screening
• Aerobic and anaerobic plate counts
• Shelf life testing

Specialized Microbiology Testing

• Tissue culture
• Virus culture
• Molecular biology techniques
• Enzyme-limited sorbent assay
• PCR, RT-PCR, qPCR
• Western blot identification
• SDS-PAGE – protein separations (Sodium dodecyl sulfate acrylamide gel electtrophoresis)