Hey boss man it’s always good to see a fellow Gemini driver showing how things work on the other end of the process. I am a Gemini petroleum driver out of Washington. Good job buddy.
Then you get out to Eagleford and 95% of the operating companies have a zero tolerance for climbing up on the catwalk and gauging or thieving the tanks. Our Mission Petroleum trucks had to be set up with a sample arm that comes out of our 3" load line (the iron nipple) under the frame of our truck. Essentially we are not allowed now to use a gauge line or a thief. We catch samples from truck loading and we drop our hydrometers in a graduated cylinder and tank level data is directly from an automated system. Crazy but all the new guys in the oilfields have never seen a gauge line even the water haulers don't believe me when I tell them we worked tanks from the top.
I catch you walking over my firewalls your boss is going to be called. All the leases I build have a " Use stairs to cross firewalls" at the unloading locations. Your company will get a repair bill. Cost about $2200 a pop to fix it and your company will pay. Some care less, but my company does not!
This video should be used in all crude oil haul. Pretty good educated video for anyone that's coming into the crude oil haul first time or refresh course
How many driving experience it is need to do it . I am a class A dry van drive but have for more than a year the tanker and hazmat endorsement but have never used it ?
I have been hauling crude oil for over ten years. After we hookup to the header we open the trailer up the start the pump to draw a vacuum on the load line then open the header valve to check the load line for leaks. I have had leaks in the load line before if you open the oil tank first you might have an oil spill if 5he load line is bad. After checking for leaks (You can hear the vacuum hissing in the load line) you open the tank slowly. Remember SAFETY FIRST.
Urfan Malik thank you!! I think I treated him right. T had fun, but being filmed was not his favorite hahah!! Thank you for watching and for the feedback.
@David Stevens it's not easy to include sampling ports on or in the tanks. They will plug up with paraffin and other debris and add an additional point of failure for the tank. We've been using a thief for over a hundred years because that's the best way to do it. Oil haulers are supposed to be doing it and the only reason they don't is pure laziness.
Great video! I've been curious just how samples were taken and other aspects of the crude pick up process! I assume all the crude tanks in the battery are connected? So sampling one, single tank gives accurate results for the battery as a whole? Or am I mistaken, and this pick up is only from one tank of the battery? Thank you!
Jeffery Wilmoth that can be tough, but not impossible. It really comes down to your overall experience, your openness to different shifts and working where you’re needed. West TX is likely the best place to get on with an oil hauling company and get into the industry. You can check out some jobs here. Jobs.loves.com - put “crude” as the job title search
great video , Thanks Andy. I noticed that you mentionned the grounding wire while using the doing the tank level measurement but you did not talked about the one between the truck & the tank? which very important. am i right? i am trying to use your video from some training purpose, thanks a lot.
Corey J yes with water you’re just worried about measurement and volume. With crude oil you’re actually make a purchase and the tests we do determine the value of the load. All the steps are very important to the process and our customer service.
Thanks for this video, recently there was a murder case in Colorado where the husband used tanks similar to these to hide the bodies of his children. :( :(
Devon has kiosk that tells you how many barrels are tank , how much water on bottom . Temp . It's all been checked out and sold before you get there . All you have to do is gravity check it . They already know what it is. There's no surprises.
and he opened hatch to fast too if there's air in the tank a greater risk of explosion static electricity and did not check sock for which direction wind blowing and its to sunny day to pull oil wait for lightning to pull oil and 1 inch of rain per 30mins for the whole shift 12-14 hour shift. and loading point no strap on around ears clamps I've seen many drivers spill oil cause it came loose at loading point many mistakes there's many more can't mention them all bucket under pump
MattW it depends on where you go. Some older stations still require you to pump it off with the truck pump just like loading. More and more locations now use pumps and meters on site to unload the truck though. These meters will test the oil to make sure that the driver tested everything correctly. If the oil is “bad” then the pump won’t unload your truck. I can’t film at the offloads we utilize so that’s why it’s not shown in my videos. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching.
Do it wrong and put 150 BBLs of water in the unload facility and you can loose your job. And if you wind up shutting the facility down and the pipeline company locks you out, you WILL get run off. You are writing a big clucking check to the producer. 150 BBLs is $9,000 dollars at $60 per BBL. You dern well better be doing per API.
@@curtisstewart9594 not only can you lose your job, our entire company got banned from a lact. Because one of our drivers unloaded over 150 barrels of water into a 4 tank battery at a lact in Montana. The cut meter was between the tanks and pipe pumping out. When it set off the density alarm, he had 150 barrels offloaded and still had water in the truck!
Did you get trained API everything is done in 5 minute intervals you only take 2 samples lol and the wood back is only 5 minutes nice video but your procedures are wrong
Driver should be run off lease. He failed to chock his wheels to secure the tractor, then he failed to hook up his ground cable first before hooking up his hose before opening the enviro-box valve and engaging his pump! He obviously never heard about static electricity while transferring fluids, duh? He wouldn't have a job up here in Canada, he'd be fired most likely.
Thank you for the interest and comment, but for the sake of time on the video many parts were edited out. This is not in any way an in-depth training video. This is an overview for people outside the industry or in the office handling paperwork. All safety procedures were followed while filming this video.
Arturo Villatoro it can vary a lot between the different fields, but generally you should be in the ~$80K+ area once you know the job and the area. Many guys easily make 6 figures but you really have to be efficient and focused.
William Calimese it depends on the company and the business, but we typically run most drivers on a 5/2 or 6/1 schedule and we usually do 3 weeks working and then a week home. Some drivers choose to stay out longer depending on how long the trip home takes. We have drivers in WTX from Florida to Oregon and everyone where in between.
Ahmed Abdulaziz it really comes down to where you are. West TX is probably the easiest place to get into hauling crude oil because few people live there and there is a lot of work.
The First Emperor I’m not sure since I don’t work with any own ops. We’re entirely company trucks and drivers here Gemini. Our crude drivers can average anywhere from $1500 to $2000+ depending on the market they work in and how efficient they are.
You just talked me out of wanting to haul crude oil. I hauled more than my share of refined product but that seems like a lot of extra work for not a lot of extra pay.
Excellent video but a few minor changes are being practiced in the field. 1. Before going up on a tank always make sure that the tank you are supposed to pull is not in production and that it's sealed (some sites don't utilize seals but that is normally announced ahead of time). 2. While API standards were mostly followed in this video, it is good practice to make sure that there is enough oil in the tank to begin with. 3. Not all thieves are structured the same - Bottom petcock should be at 12" of the tank bottom as load lines are at that level. 4. This is a MUST - Always gound and bond prior to hooking up the hose to the Getty box. Awesome video and very informative. Thanks for sharing!
