I fear for your safety brother. A couple of things I noticed: (1) No sign of a 4 gas or H2S personal monitor. (at 2000ppm, one breath you're dead) Opened the hatch and stuck your and your camera mans face in it. Many gaugers have been found dead on tank battery catwalks from H2S exposure. (2) No grounding strap on your gauge line. This is a sure way of causing a static spark fire, especially during the winter and fall months. Complacency will get you killed in this business.
Pretty sure these wells are not deep enough to run into any H2S gas. Pretty sure he knows what he’s doing. If the location was out of compliance then they wouldn’t be operating it. There’s DEQ and state commission folks that inspect all these locations periodically and make sure everything is in compliance
@@danaotwell What does well depth have to do with H2S? All crude oil has H2S in it. I've seen surface oil pools oozing out of the ground with high H2S readings. Our industry loses gaugers every year to Hydrogen Sulfide poisoning. I might point out that just because the last time he gauged this tank and perhaps didn't experience and H2S doesn't mean that the next time he opens that tank hatch H2S isn't present enough to kill him. He doesn't have a H2S monitor on him in his breathing zone to alert him. Two types of hand gauging of tanks are innage and ullage. He's performing a ullage gauge. This guy needs more safety training. He's an accident waiting to happen. I've spent my last 20 years working all types of crude oil, gauging all sizes of oil tanks, training and evaluating crude oil terminal operators, etc...
@@slshock I dunno I thought that was what the heater treater was for. But I’ve never seen pumpers wearing gas mask to gauge tanks here in southwest Arkansas
@@danaotwell There are different types of tank battery heater treaters and they have nothing to do with H2S. It really depends on the gaugers company's H2S policy whether or not they are required to don a SCBA for high H2S. Anymore, other methods are used to lower the H2S ppm content. Since wells are an origination source of H2s, most companies have a communication policy to inform all parties who will be coming in contact with the crude. Most personal H2S monitors are set to 5 and 10ppm. The basic rule of thumb working with crude oil, no matter the source, "Always Assume it has H2S in it". Even Canadian sands oil has H2S in it. The take away here is that H2S is nothing to mess with, especially for the untrained person. Like I said before, at 2000ppm of H2s, one breath and you're dead!
Thanks for that information
I fear for your safety brother. A couple of things I noticed: (1) No sign of a 4 gas or H2S personal monitor. (at 2000ppm, one breath you're dead) Opened the hatch and stuck your and your camera mans face in it. Many gaugers have been found dead on tank battery catwalks from H2S exposure. (2) No grounding strap on your gauge line. This is a sure way of causing a static spark fire, especially during the winter and fall months. Complacency will get you killed in this business.
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Pretty sure these wells are not deep enough to run into any H2S gas. Pretty sure he knows what he’s doing. If the location was out of compliance then they wouldn’t be operating it. There’s DEQ and state commission folks that inspect all these locations periodically and make sure everything is in compliance
@@danaotwell What does well depth have to do with H2S? All crude oil has H2S in it. I've seen surface oil pools oozing out of the ground with high H2S readings. Our industry loses gaugers every year to Hydrogen Sulfide poisoning. I might point out that just because the last time he gauged this tank and perhaps didn't experience and H2S doesn't mean that the next time he opens that tank hatch H2S isn't present enough to kill him. He doesn't have a H2S monitor on him in his breathing zone to alert him. Two types of hand gauging of tanks are innage and ullage. He's performing a ullage gauge. This guy needs more safety training. He's an accident waiting to happen. I've spent my last 20 years working all types of crude oil, gauging all sizes of oil tanks, training and evaluating crude oil terminal operators, etc...
@@slshock I dunno I thought that was what the heater treater was for. But I’ve never seen pumpers wearing gas mask to gauge tanks here in southwest Arkansas
@@danaotwell There are different types of tank battery heater treaters and they have nothing to do with H2S. It really depends on the gaugers company's H2S policy whether or not they are required to don a SCBA for high H2S. Anymore, other methods are used to lower the H2S ppm content. Since wells are an origination source of H2s, most companies have a communication policy to inform all parties who will be coming in contact with the crude. Most personal H2S monitors are set to 5 and 10ppm. The basic rule of thumb working with crude oil, no matter the source, "Always Assume it has H2S in it". Even Canadian sands oil has H2S in it. The take away here is that H2S is nothing to mess with, especially for the untrained person. Like I said before, at 2000ppm of H2s, one breath and you're dead!
What part of Tex’s you on? What’s the gravity low 30s high 20s
Good idea if oil is thick
Do you know what it means when someone says they left a kony out in the field. Is it some kind of guaging/monitoring equipment?
Great video, what’s the API gravity on that oil?
15-20
Damn! My produced oil looks just like water and smells amazing haha.
It's called condensate oil
How do you find the formula?