Reduced Price
Why Should Your Laboratory Participate?
About Astm International Committee D02 On Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, And Lubricants
Program $1,491.00; Cylinder $2,675.00
Please download the registration form and return to jboone@astm.org; cylinder purchase is required as indicated on registration form.
ASTM’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Proficiency Testing Program provides laboratories with a statistical quality assurance (SQA) tool, enabling them to compare, improve, and maintain, a high level of performance in the use of ASTM methods with other laboratories worldwide. The LPG program will provide a typical mixture of hydrocarbons, principally propane, propene, butanes or a mixture of these materials. The product will be a commercially available LPG that is used as a domestic, commercial or industrial fuel.
Conducted three times annually, this program provides a different commercial sample, electronic report forms, and test instructions for each test cycle. Your laboratory performs the tests that you normally conduct within your own facility using the specified ASTM methods cited in the program. All data and related information generated from the program is coded to maintain lab confidentiality.
Test instructions and data report forms are provided electronically through the portal to each participant on the date samples are distributed. Labs have 8 weeks to submit test data with the final statistical summary report being electronically provided through the portal in approximately 20 business days.
ASTM's Proficiency Test Program provides you with:
Should you have an issue with your published results, please write to ptp@astm.org with your lab number and account number.
Each participating lab will receive a one (1) cylinder of LPG for each of the three test cycles conducted during the year. Labs will not be able to enroll in the 2024 LPG Program if they do not purchase an ASTM cylinder when they register.
D2163 |
Hydrocarbons by GC (compositional testing) |
D3605 |
Trace Metals |
D5504 |
Sulfur by GC and Chemiluminescence |
D5623 |
Sulfur by GC |
D6667 |
Total Volatile Sulfur |
D7423 |
Oxygenates by GC-FID (contaminants testing) |
D7994 |
F, Cl, S by Combustion IC |
NOTE: List of tests subject to change.
Test samples are prepared and distributed for ASTM International by SGS North America Deer Park, TX. Program registration fees include the cost of shipping the test samples to U.S. participants or, for international participants, to a third-party shipping agent located in the U.S.
IMPORTANT for International participants: You have the following options for receipt of samples:
What do you do with the empty cylinder?
Please return empty cylinders to:
ATTN: SAMAN TEAM
SGS North America
1201 West 8th Street
Deer Park, TX 77536
Participation is on an annual fee basis and open to all laboratories. Registration fees must be paid in advance to participate. Testing must be performed within the participant's laboratory facilities. A laboratory does not need to perform all the program tests to participate.(All data and related information generated from the program is coded to maintain lab confidentiality.) All participants are required to purchase a sample cylinder and case from ASTM as part of program participation.
Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants, consisting of approximately 2,500 members and developer of over 814 ASTM International standards, provides the technical direction for the program. Test information generated through the program is utilized by Committee D02 to determine if modifications to ASTM International methods or new methods are warranted and to analytically review program test results.
John Gallagher jgallagher@astm.org - +1-610-832-9646
David de la Garza ddelagarza@astm.org - +1-610-832-9504