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Fees for services from the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education at É«É«À² Michigan University are noted below.

Core Fees

To examine samples, data, and well records and discuss them with our personnel

$250 per eight hour day or $50 per hour, if less.

Core examination and layout

$2 per core foot; minimum charge of $75 per well.  If the cores are sealed in plastic and need to be removed from and returned to plastic bags, the cost is $4 per core foot, and a minimum of $100 per well.

Slabbing core (at your request)

$15 per linear foot.

Core sample fees

• $10 per sample for small samples for geochemical or X-ray diffraction analysis (typically 4-5 gm).
• $20 per sample for chips cut for normal sized thin sections (~ 20mm x 30mm).
• $30 per sample for oversized thin section samples.
• $40 per plug for one-inch drilled core plugs for analysis (available only if all tests are non-destructive and plugs are returned to MGRRE).

Core sample fees for larger samples used for other types of analyses—$15 for each additional 10 grams, for example

• $30 FIS and Crush Iso samples (typically 15-20 gm).
• $35 RE-TOC/Win/Extract samples (typically 25-30 gm).
• $40 smaller Crush MS/TEGC/KIN (typically 35-40 gm).
• $50 larger Crush MS/TEGC/KIN (typically 45-50 gm).

Note: Destructive testing may be authorized on a case-by-case basis and only if there is a sufficient amount of sample available.

Photocopy Fees

Photocopies of non-data archive material such as publications

$0.10 per copy.

Digital or photocopies of all or any portion of mudlogs, wireline logs, core analyses, core gammas, drillers' reports, Drill Stem Tests or other archival data

$25 per record.

Digital Core Photograph Fees

Photographs you make yourself

No charge.

Photographs by MGRRE staff (We usually make two photographs of each core box; there are about three to ten feet of core per box. One photo shows the core dry and one shows it wet)

$10 per JPEG.
Note: When requested to photograph core for which we have no previous photographs, we also charge the core lay-out fee to cover our time for laying the core out.

Drill Cuttings Examination and Sampling Fees

For retrieving and re-shelving cuttings boxes for examination

$25 per well plus $10 per box.

Cuttings samples provided to you

• $10 per sample from original sampled footage.
• $20 per sample provided to you from more than one sampled footage (comingled footages).

Digital Logs and Core Analyses Fees

Wireline logs and mudlogs

• $25 per log (TIFF).
• $1 per 100 feet of manual wireline log digitization.  For logs that are already digitized, it is $1/100 feet with a minimum of $10/LAS file.

Core analyses (permeability and porosity data)

$25 per well (spreadsheet).

Invoices and Payment

We will provide you with a W-9 form and an invoice for services rendered. Payment can be made by a check payable to "É«É«À² Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences" and mailed to:
Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education
É«É«À² Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5241 USA