The Texas OilTech Laboratories story started in 1985 when two young entrepreneurs recognized the need for a testing laboratory in Houston that would provide rapid turn around time for a variety of testing services required by the crude oil gatherers, toll blenders, and others in the local petroleum and petrochemical section.

As Chemical Engineers, they were able to capitalize on their knowledge and experience to provide top quality service and interpretation of the data. Located in West Houston, we were strategically located between the crude oil gatherers and the refineries. A driver could often drop off samples at the back door and have a cup of coffee while waiting for the analysis of a critical component, such as sulfur content, which might determine which refiner would purchase the load.

Toll blenders also required fast analyses to determine a blend composition of a hydrocarbon containing several components, which might include end of run, twilight material, and recycled products.

With time, the analytical capabilities of TOL continued to increase to meet the need of our clients until today, where we can offer over 700 different test procedures for a whole range of gaseous and liquid fuels, natural and synthetic lubricants, and all types of specialty petroleum products.

TOL recognized the need for analytical testing capabilities at job sites such as power plants and we began to offer this service first locally and eventually world wide. The first contract for overseas work was from Enron (remember them) at the Dabhol Power Project in India.

Today, on-site testing is a major part of our activity as we visit new power plant sites all over the globe. We can simultaneously support three crews for performance testing or plant commissioning or when fuel problems develop in the field.
TOL has also developed a reputation as problem solvers. By combining a number of analytical techniques, we can perform investigative studies on problems related to lubricants, petrochemicals, and fuel steams for gas turbines and diesel engines.

We thank you, our clients, for your loyal support over these years and we look forward to continuing a good working relationship in the years ahead. Your analytical testing needs will continue to drive our business plan.We acknowledge the memory of three of our technical people who have since passed: These include our founder, Mr. Nader Sorurbakhsh, who initiated the laboratory culture that we continue to follow, and two chemists, Wilbert M. Burbank and Gregory Dimataris, who were responsible for the development of many special test procedures for our clients.

Today we also employ people who were not yet born in 1985, but they give the same spirit of attention to detail, strong technical understanding, and good laboratory practice that is still paramount at TOL. And they do this with modern laboratory instrumentation and levels of precision that were not available twenty-five years ago.

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