oil field safety!!!!!!!?

Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by left lane lonnie, Jun 10, 2014.

  1. JAL1972

    JAL1972 Bobtail Member

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2014
    Messages:
    47
    Thanks Received:
    24
    0
  2. lonewolf4ad

    lonewolf4ad Road Train Member

    Joined:
    Nov 4, 2008
    Messages:
    7,743
    Thanks Received:
    7,773
    Location:
    Displaced to Colorado
    0
    H2S is a concern, but there are adequate safety measures for those who follow P.E.C. or any other guidelines in the field. The problem is you have the arse clowns who wear their meters on top of their hardhat instead of down 6-9 inches below their face. Further, there are idiots who when opening the valves are looking directly at it, which allows for a high concentration to be blown in their face.

    Seriously, if you want to talk shop then at least have some information other than he said/she said. I suppose next you will explain how fracking has led to earthquakes, sinkholes (despite those areas being filled in when the oil is removed), unusual weather patterns, and flammable drinking water.
     
    d o g Thanks this.
  3. JAL1972

    JAL1972 Bobtail Member

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2014
    Messages:
    47
    Thanks Received:
    24
    0
    but, but, its all true!!! I watch on youtube!!!
    (sarcasm-o-tron off)
     
  4. Ben Gunn

    Ben Gunn Medium Load Member

    Joined:
    Oct 30, 2011
    Messages:
    640
    Thanks Received:
    375
    Location:
    Forgotten Coast
    0
    I don't know about OK, but H2S is very common in TX. You can work around it safely with proper training.
     
    lonewolf4ad Thanks this.
  5. lonewolf4ad

    lonewolf4ad Road Train Member

    Joined:
    Nov 4, 2008
    Messages:
    7,743
    Thanks Received:
    7,773
    Location:
    Displaced to Colorado
    0
    So far in Colorado I haven't worked a site with H2S, I make sure I've got my meter on though since things can change
     
  6. Aireal

    Aireal Medium Load Member

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2012
    Messages:
    602
    Thanks Received:
    326
    Location:
    Garden City, TX
    0
    Waite...waite, is that why we had those "not so typical ice storms" this year? Well dang it all.

    Their is one place on FM 33 that you can smell the H2S. It's been worse lately. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say due to the "new" site that they are still horsing around at. But their is a site my husband pick's water up at that he says can get really bad ( when the wind stops blowing....LMAO).

    I've heard of driver's going to the hospital for H2S posioning, generally not from sites that are actively drilling or fracking... but from older sites. I have not heard of anyone that died from H2S in the area recently though. ( last 2 yrs)
     
  7. glenn71

    glenn71 Medium Load Member

    Joined:
    Jul 13, 2013
    Messages:
    658
    Thanks Received:
    294
    0
    Ok something is not right here. You say he smells it all the time. That doesn't make any sense, since one of the first things that h2s does is kill your sense of smell. If its around, you can't smell anything.
     
    JAL1972 Thanks this.
  8. TLeaHeart

    TLeaHeart Road Train Member

    Joined:
    Apr 1, 2008
    Messages:
    4,169
    Thanks Received:
    2,614
    Location:
    casper, wy
    0
    low concentrations of H2S do NOT kill your smell... and there are areas that sulfur is very present, and that is what many people are smelling, the sulfur mixed with water...
     
    lonewolf4ad Thanks this.
  9. lonewolf4ad

    lonewolf4ad Road Train Member

    Joined:
    Nov 4, 2008
    Messages:
    7,743
    Thanks Received:
    7,773
    Location:
    Displaced to Colorado
    0
    Actually T knowing Texas as well as I do there may be H2S present and people being taken to the hospital. One of the reasons I prefer working in Colorado and Wyoming is site safety. UnfortunatelyTexas has too many old hands who refuse to toe the line when it comes to environmental and safety standards.

    This is coming from a displaced Texan.
     
  10. Aireal

    Aireal Medium Load Member

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2012
    Messages:
    602
    Thanks Received:
    326
    Location:
    Garden City, TX
    0
    He doesn't pull water from there everyday, nor do I drive by everyday. This morning when I went in the smell was strong, this afternoon (5 hr's later) the smell was barely their.

    While it does have a sulfur-ie smell, it doesn't smell like the hot spring's I remember, which definetly had a rotten egg smell.