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From upstream to downstream: GC solutions that power the oil and gas industry
Facing pressures to reduce emissions, improve efficiency, and meet strict regulatory standards? Whether you're monitoring natural gas composition, analyzing LPG and LNG, or optimizing refining processes, get the speed, reliability, and accuracy your operations demand with Thermo Scientific TRACE 1610 GC Analyzers.
Discover precision, compliance, and confidence across the value chain.
| Upstream Exploration and production |
Midstream Transportation, storage and custody transfer |
Downstream Refining, blending, and distribution |
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| Why GC? | GC analyzes natural gas, associated hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, and trace contaminants. | GC plays a critical role in ensuring fuel quality, regulatory compliance, and custody transfer accuracy. | GC is essential for product specification, quality control, regulatory compliance, and process optimization. |
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Key features
Combined with the flexible Thermo Scientific TRACE 1600 Auxiliary Oven, each TRACE 1610 GC Analyzer is delivered ready to run for maximized performance and with a minimized footprint.
Modular and scalable
Tailorable to your process with customizable configurations with multi-valve, multi-detector systems.
ASTM method compliance
Compliant with ASTM and ISO standards for gas and liquid hydrocarbon analysis.
Multi-detector capability
Broad analytical range, capable of up to 4 channels, combining FID, TCD, FPD, PDD, MS, or VUV detectors in a single system.
Flexible auxiliary oven
Expanded capacity with easy access to up to eight diaphragm valves or six rotary valves, multiple columns and IN/OUT connections.
Automation and throughput
Reduce downtime and increase efficiency with streamlined workflows that require minimal manual intervention.
Integrated Software Solutions
Chromeleon Chromatography Data System (CDS) and optional connectivity with SampleManager LIMS provide enhanced data integrity, compliance, centralized data management, and real-time process monitoring across workflows.
Which GC analyzers are right for your oil and gas applications?
Meet the most demanding analytical needs in oil and gas—from exploration to refining and distribution, with TRACE 1610 GC Analyzers that are available in pre-configured, method-compliant packages.
In addition, opt for a complete turnkey, full data traceability solution, with custom reporting packages, LIMS interfaces and GC analyzers that are seamlessly integrated with Thermo Scientific Chromeleon Chromatography Data System (CDS).
Natural gas and natural gas liquid analyzers (NGA & NGL)
Accurate measurement is not just a technical need—it’s a strategic advantage. Help ensure precise determination of natural gas composition, calorific value (BTU), and trace contaminants.
To boost productivity, systems are available in single-channel, dual-channel, or highly flexible combination systems, with single sample injection or dual sample injection.
Natural Gas Analysis (NGA) is essential for accurately characterizing LNG throughout its lifecycle—from liquefaction to regasification and custody transfer.
For LNG, reliable analysis helps ensure compliance, safety, and fair trade by verifying composition, calorific value, and contaminants.
Highlights
- Analyze C1–C6+ /C1-C7+ hydrocarbons, O₂/N₂ separation, He/H₂ inclusion
- Optimize custody transfer and pipeline certification
- Compatible with LNG regasification and liquefaction quality control
Methods compliance
- GPA – 2261, 2177, 2186, 2286
- ASTM – D1945, D1946
- DIN – 51872-5
- ISO 6974
Featured NGA & NGL resources
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and light hydrocarbon analyzers
Help ensure compliance, efficiency, and safety across your gas processing operations. Whether you're analyzing C1 to C5 hydrocarbons, extending up to C9+ components, or detecting trace-level impurities, these systems are optimized for both regulatory testing and refinery gas quality control.
For refineries, natural/biogas production, research on renewable energy, catalyst screening and other fields of application, measuring light hydrocarbons is necessary. Information on concentration and distribution of hydrocarbons is valuable for controlling processes, research and development, and establish market pricing of finished products.
Highlights
- Ideal for refineries, biofuel plants, and petrochemical R&D
- Flexible backflush options to handle heavy-end hydrocarbons
- Optional configurations for high-purity ethylene and propylene streams
Methods compliance
- ASTM D2163, D2712, D8098, D7423
- ISO 7941
Refinery Gas Analyzers (RGA)
Unlock reliable and accurate refinery gas analysis to meet the stringent demands of process control, emissions monitoring, and product recovery in refinery and petrochemical environments.
Experience fast, repeatable, and regulation-compliant results, enabling operators to monitor complex gas streams in real time and optimize performance across the plant. Whether you’re analyzing fuel gas or conducting flare gas monitoring, our GC for refinery gas provides:
- High sensitivity and repeatability at low ppm levels
- Meet site-specific process and emission requirements with modular configurations
- Support for continuous process control, emissions tracking, and gas recovery systems
- Fast RGA configuration available with run time less than 9 minutes
Highlights
- Permanent gases: H₂, N₂, O₂, CO, CO₂
- Light hydrocarbons: C1 to C8, including ethylene, propane, butenes, 1,3-butadiene
- Sulfur compounds: H₂S and mercaptans, where applicable
- Trace-level CO/CO₂ with methanizer-FID
Methods compliance
- ASTM D1946, D7833, D6228
- UOP 539
Featured RGA resource
Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis (DHA), PIONA & Simulated Distillation (SIMDIS)
Gain deep insight into petroleum streams with TRACE 1610 GC Analyzers purpose-built for Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis (DHA), PIONA group-type analysis, and Simulated Distillation (SIMDIS).
These analyzers deliver the precision, resolution, and compliance your refinery or petrochemical lab needs to certify product quality and meet global standards.
Highlights
- Suitable for crude oil assay, jet fuel, diesel, and reformates
- Multi-channel capability for combining DHA and SIMDIS on the same platform
Methods compliance
- ASTM D6730, D6729, D6550, D7900
- ASTM D2887, D7169, D6352
GC-VUV analyzer for fuels and petrochemicals
Elevate your gas chromatography detection capabilities with vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy through dedicated GC-VUV analyzers for fuels. Experience excellent sensitivity, selectivity, and ease of use, to meet your fuel characterization needs.
- PIONA analysis: Accurately classify paraffins, isomers, olefins, naphthenes, and aromatics with automated deconvolution for fast, confident hydrocarbon speciation and group type analysis in complex fuels.
- Fuel quality control: Help ensure compliant, efficient fuel characterization using VUV’s spectral fingerprints, delivering fast, automated analysis for gasoline and other fuel blends.
- Sulfur & nitrogen speciation: Detect and speciate sulfur and nitrogen compounds at trace levels in fuels, helping to ensure regulatory compliance and protecting product quality.
Highlights
- Single-run PIONA with full group-type profiling and isomer resolution
- Multiple methods on a single platform
- Game-changing technique for Pyrolysis Oil speciation
Methods compliance
- ASTM D8071
Featured GC-VUV resource
Oxygenates and aromatics in fuels analyzers
For fast, reproducible, and regulation-ready data to ensure fuel quality, streamline the analysis of aromatics (BTEX) and oxygenates in automotive and aviation fuels with dedicated TRACE 1610 GC Analyzers. Dedicated or dual-channel configurations analyze aromatics and oxygenates in one setup.
The multidimensional GC design and automated backflush help ensure high robustness and accurate results, even in complex gasoline and refinery streams.
Highlights
- Dual-channel configurations for combined BTEX and oxygenate detection
- Automated backflush protects analytical columns for extended uptime
- Optional configurations for low-level oxygenates in LPG and refinery feedstock
Methods compliance
- ASTM D4815, D5580, D3606, D7423, D7754
Featured oxygenates and aromatics in fuels analyzers resource
Permanent gas (PGA) and high purity gas analyzers
For accurate and trace-level gas analysis across the energy, chemical, and semiconductor industries, dedicated analyzers for permanent gas and high-purity gas applications, enable precise detection of trace impurities, down to ppb–ppt levels, with industry-leading sensitivity and reliability.
Highlights
- Permanent gases in a wide variety of gas streams, used in gas production and purification processes
- PDD detector for trace levels impurities in Helium, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Argon, Oxygen and noble gases
Methods compliance
- ASTM D1946 D7833 D6228
- ASTM D8098, D5273, D6159
Featured PGA and high purity gas analyzer resource
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