Lubrication Services

Oil Analysis

Maintain the serviceability of your machinery and asset portfolio with our Oil Analysis services. With our oil analysis service, you can improve reliability, enhance safety, and reduce the environmental impact of your assets and equipment.

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What is Oil Analysis?

Oil Analysis is a solution that will help you increase your equipment uptime and reduce maintenance costs. Focusing on asset and machinery health, we can help to increase uptime, reduce maintenance costs, and make sure your equipment is still suitable for further servicing with our lubrication services.

We offer a comprehensive oil analysis service, aimed at optimising the reliability and performance of your industrial equipment. Through advanced testing and analysis techniques, we help you monitor the condition of your lubricating oils, identify potential wear issues, and implement proactive maintenance strategies. With our oil analysis service, you can improve reliability, enhance safety, and reduce the environmental impact of your assets and equipment.

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The benefits of our Oil Analysis service

Identify potential failure modes early

Critical fluid analysis allows for the detection of subtle changes which will enable you to identify potential issues before they escalate into major failures.

Identify housekeeping issues

These often go un-noticed and include things such as: poor lubrication practices, filter and breather management and incorrect grade deployment, which are significant contributors to limiting machinery life.

Optimise maintenance practices

By understanding the health of your lubricants, you can optimise maintenance activities, avoiding unnecessary downtime and reducing maintenance costs.

Maintain equipment lifespan

By properly managing lubricating oils, we can help to ensure than you achieve the expected lifespan of your equipment while avoiding the deterioration that will occur if machines are not cared for appropriately.

Achieve optimal reliability

By proactively monitoring fluid condition, you will be able to optimise the reliability of your machinery, eliminate unexpected breakdowns and improve overall operational efficiency.

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BES Group has demonstrated exceptional service, earning our commendation. We extend our appreciation for the meticulous vibration analysis conducted and the invaluable on-board work and advice provided by Simon. Simon’s responsiveness at short notice is particularly noteworthy, and we express our sincere gratitude for the commitment to excellence displayed by the entire BES Group team.

Michael Wilkinson

Vessel Manager

The BES inspectors are way more technically competent and diligent compared to other providers. BES definitely stands out due to their strong technical competence and strong back office support.

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Project Operations Manager

BES is a really disruptive force in the market, they are able to provide a variety of necessary services to their customers and none of the other big players are able to provide that breadth of services.

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Sample types and test suites BES Group offers

At BES Group, our oil laboratory forms part of a focused and passionate group of reliability services, provided by experienced and qualified engineers and technicians. For us, it is about the asset and the assets’ needs. We can deploy the right approach for all situations where oil analysis offers both a planned predictive and proactive maintenance support strategy.

Sample Types	Test Suites
Chiller	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, Water/CKF, Particle Count, TAN.
Compressor	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, Water/VKF, Viscosity at 40 Deg C, TAN
Coolant	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, PH, %Glycol, Density, Conductivity
Engine	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP Water/VKF, Viscosity at 40/100 Deg C, TBN, TAN, TIM and FTIR
Gas Engine	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, Water/VKF, Viscosity and 40/100 Deg C, Viscosity Index, TBN, TAN, TIM and FTIR
Diesel	EN590/BS2859 Specification Testing Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, Water/CKF, Particle Count, Bacteria Analysis
Gearbox	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, Water/VKF, Viscosity at 40 Deg C
Grease	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, Water/CKF
Hydraulic	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, Water/VKF, Particle Count, TAN
Turbine	Visual Inspection, Ferrous Wear, ICP, Water/CKF, Viscosity at 40 Deg C, TAN, FTIR, RPVOT, RULER, MPC Varnish
Transformer Oil Suite(s)	On Request
Forensic Analysis	Wear Debris, Filter Debris Analysis, Ferrography
Extra Tests	Flashpoint : Seta/PMCC/COC, RULER, RPVOT, MPC, Foaming, Water Separability

Interested to learn more about the types of analysis BES Group use?

Fluid Property Analysis
Wear Particle Analysis
Wear and Contamination Analysis
Contamination Analysis
Lubricant Condition Monitoring
Trending and Deeper Analysis

We conduct detailed tests to assess many critical fluid features such as viscosity, acidity, water content, cleanliness, additive retention, performance deterioration and oxidation levels of your lubricating oils. This analysis helps to identify potential oil degradation and contamination issues, but also provide assurances of good management and ongoing reliability.

In the event of unexpected wear, our experts examine oil samples using specialised equipment to identify and analyse wear particles. This analysis of shape, size and quantity, known as morphology, assists in diagnosing wear patterns, wear rates and risks and allows us to identify the root causes, in order to assist you with planning targeted maintenance actions.

As part of the routine suite of tests we measure oil condition, but we also maintain a critical eye on the levels of wear and contamination that may exist. As wear is a normal but manageable aspect of system operation, we look at the materials associated with wear and contaminants and provide an assessment of the current state at every analysis.

We assess samples for the presence of contaminants such as dirt, fuel, coolant, and metal fines. Detecting contaminants early on helps prevent equipment damage and helps you to target improvements in overall system cleanliness.

Our oil analysis services include monitoring the condition of lubricants over time, tracking changes in their properties and identifying trends that may indicate abnormal conditions or impending failures.

With Asset 365 – our online reporting portal, you have access to every report and can generate your own assessments using any test parameters. You will have access to all test data and can build reports from raw data to review your results in any way you like.

Fluid Property Analysis

We conduct detailed tests to assess many critical fluid features such as viscosity, acidity, water content, cleanliness, additive retention, performance deterioration and oxidation levels of your lubricating oils. This analysis helps to identify potential oil degradation and contamination issues, but also provide assurances of good management and ongoing reliability.
Wear Particle Analysis

In the event of unexpected wear, our experts examine oil samples using specialised equipment to identify and analyse wear particles. This analysis of shape, size and quantity, known as morphology, assists in diagnosing wear patterns, wear rates and risks and allows us to identify the root causes, in order to assist you with planning targeted maintenance actions.
Wear and Contamination Analysis

As part of the routine suite of tests we measure oil condition, but we also maintain a critical eye on the levels of wear and contamination that may exist. As wear is a normal but manageable aspect of system operation, we look at the materials associated with wear and contaminants and provide an assessment of the current state at every analysis.
Contamination Analysis

We assess samples for the presence of contaminants such as dirt, fuel, coolant, and metal fines. Detecting contaminants early on helps prevent equipment damage and helps you to target improvements in overall system cleanliness.
Lubricant Condition Monitoring

Our oil analysis services include monitoring the condition of lubricants over time, tracking changes in their properties and identifying trends that may indicate abnormal conditions or impending failures.
Trending and Deeper Analysis

With Asset 365 – our online reporting portal, you have access to every report and can generate your own assessments using any test parameters. You will have access to all test data and can build reports from raw data to review your results in any way you like.