Thiefing a Tank, Part 2

Thiefing a crude oil storage tank is a traditional way to measure the amount of crude oil in a 400 bbl. tank after it has been pumped from the well. After the tank level has been recorded, the amount of water and solids in the crude needs to be measured prior to loading into the tanker truck, aboard which the crude will be hauled to a terminal, railhead or refinery.

[@tschaible2339]

I haven't seen that face for 10 years, brings back old memories 😅

[@justinthejerkoff]

The clearest oil you've ever seen lol
Come to the Permian I'll let you pull some of our Gatorade
Then I'll send you to eastern Ohio and you'll think you're pulling bottled water.

[@KidNormal]

You must have never hauled condensate if that's the clearest oil you've seen

[@ericcasarez1003]

I second that. Pull out of a "drip tank" and it evaporates right in front of you.

[@zacharyseay3089]

That’s all I hauled, the challenges involved were awesome

[@erminiab1045]

There is in 2022 autonomus control oil quality system wi fi internet?

[@brotherem1]

Paperwork???

[@Foot123_-]

Thanks sir I'm fixing to get evaluated by an ashore and I need to be right

[@trey8543]

So what is the maximum BS&W content you will haul? Seems like most buyers will haul my leases as long as they are under 2%, although I average .2-.4% with a 6” tank bottom. I used to have a Shell driver that would haul at 1% no matter what “as long as his tape didn’t have bullshit on it when he reeled it in”

[@ericcasarez1003]

I pull for Shell Trading with numerous operators and our tolerance is 1%, anything over that is a reject or we push back after we are loaded or have vacuum trucks pull bottoms while we hit an alternate tank on the lease.

[@dalemiller5271]

Maybe he did but I didn't see him heat up the sample or use a an approved solvent to help break the water emulsion bond. There was no second centrifuge for repeatability. Too many steps according to API MPMS Ch. 10.4 that were skipped or not illustrated during this sampling and testing.

[@deszmonddewitt9607]

+Dale Miller - Im sure he did, he said it was at 140 degrees when showing the sample, the whole process done correctly in real time as im sure you know would take longer than this six minute video, that's pretty clean oil, must be at a well cause there is no way its from a saltwater disposal.

[@jamesford9635]

@@deszmonddewitt9607 The disposal I operate sells loads at less than 1/10th and over 60 gravity. That's pretty good oil from any tank battery.

[@mohamedjama256]

Crude oil color is black this guy is testing refined product yellow in color.

[@bobdoingstuff4180]

Wrong. This is sweet crude. Looks like a location in the Bakken field. That's crude oil right out of the ground. It's only been heated, separated and stored in a tank. The crude produced here in Colorado is green like mountain dew. I've worked in the oil industry for 7 years now and I've never seen black crude.

[@arlincedon6438]

How

[@Ricardo_C]

@@bobdoingstuff4180 bingo

[@TheDookieMaster]

@@bobdoingstuff4180 we have black crude in parts of the Permian Basin.

[@ericcasarez1003]

Negative sir it clearly came out of a production tank directly off the lease. You must not have ever been on the oil patch. Just saying. Crude are like humans it comes in all colors. I have seen it green, amber, red, clear, yellowish, black like tar. Hydrocarbons have no distinctive color that it has to be. Reddish oil for instance tends to have way more NGLs in it being ethane, propane, butane and what not.