Core Facility
Our mission
To provide a professional partnership between students, faculty and leaders in the energy industry through cooperation, mentorship, research, and education.
About the Facility
The TCU Core Facility (“Core Lab”) initially began as an idea from our TCU Energy Institute’s Advisory Board and various faculty. In 2008, plans came together to have a facility to store Barnett Shale core. EOG Resources and Matador Resources were the first to deposit pallets of core. In 2010, a generous donation from Pioneer Natural Resources provided offices and a climate-controlled viewing area. Over the next five years, the 9,000 square foot facility became home to thousands of feet of core from all over the region. Today, we have a new 15,000 square foot location with additional storage, viewing and classroom space. The Core Lab, as it is widely known, is open for private viewings, tours, and research on the geology, sedimentology, petrophysics and geochemistry of core samples.
Core Facility Donations
The TCU Core Facility is seeking donations of good quality cores for teaching and student research purposes. Although the Core Facility houses numerous proprietary cores from many of the major unconventional and conventional plays, we are looking to expand our library of TCU-owned cores in order to increase our capabilities of holding public core workshops and to provide core for in-house student research as well as collaborative research with other institutions.
If you and your company are looking for a tax write-off, are looking for ways to save money by reducing storage fees, no longer see the benefit of keeping a core proprietary, or need the space for other items, please contact Irene Hernandez. Don’t let your scientifically valuable cores go to waste!