It's Wyoming. Nobody even lives within 4 miles of anything. They literally have a county there that is 4x the size of Rhode Island but only has 1k people that live there.
After driving through the oil fields of Wyoming the next door neighbors are probably 20+ miles away... And yet I bet they probably still could hear that damn thing lol
I could listen to this all night sleep great .... it just sounds like your average 6.2 chevrolet trying to make it up a 4% grade .. with 300 pound girlfriend lmao 🤣
I remember hearing one when I was a kid. My grandparents had a deer lease with one of these on it. It was a long ways away from the campsite but will never forget that sound.
NOT a Hit N Miss! Looks like a Ajax. It's just a big single cylinder engine. Used all over the oilfield for decades. Hit n Miss have way more external moving parts. Governor, valves, valve springs, push rods, cams and no radiator to my knowledge.
Well designers: ''So, what are we going to do about a muffler system? we obviously can't jsut straight pipe this.'' Some guy with 2 oil drums and a welder: ''Hold my beer."
Little Ajax pumping engine Maybe a C-30 or C-42 The Ajaxs are a LOT quieter than the old Fairbanks engines or Continentals for damn sure, and a hell of a lot more reliable. They need to check the rod packing and or make sure the scavenge sump isnt full of oil, or the lubricator pump isn’t wide open. it’s got a LOT of oil in the exhaust.
I'm back here for like the 40th time cause I love the sound of this, I never heard one in real life, but I hope I will and find one that sounds as thumpy as this
There are Ajax powered pumpjacks all around Lake St John, near Ferriday LA. All of them have huge silencers on them. I'd guess they're about 8 feet long,and 3 feet in diameter. All you can hear,is the cooling fan running.
Now that sounds impressive, but why so loud? So they can tell if it's working from a distance, or something? That "muffler" seems deliberately engineered to do the polar opposite of muffling.
The weight is off. It needs more counterbalance for the pile (the length of joined rods down to the pump) It's having to work to hard when pulling the pile up.
It's more of a hit engine. Not a lot of misses there.. That aside awesome seeing these engines doing some work instead of running in some shed turning nothing.
Curious question: Are they running straight off the crude oil they are pumping or do they need diesel? Btw. what makes you certain this is this a hit-and-miss engine, looks like a governed engine?
Alot of wells even abondon wells produce methane aka natural gas one of the many hydrocarbons found in the deposit, the methane is then used to power the h&m engine
It’s running on natural gas from the wellhead… The tank next to the engine is feeding it motor oil to keep it lubed without adding oil by hand every single day. I work with these types of engines and it’s not uncommon for them to hold 4-6 gallons of oil and to burn/leak a few gallons a week. You can see where this one has been leaking when he shows the puddle by the muffler.. most operators will buy lots of oil before they start making repairs as parts are scarce and a mechanic for this runs $100/hr+. And you are correct- it’s not a true hit or miss, they are mechanically governed but still same basic design.
My in laws lived near Durango, CO by the BP gas plant they had bunch of those low RPM engines made that sound all night long you hear them at night going to sleep RPM must not have been more then 100 RPM.
@Jack Fisher if you don't know, just say so. I would maybe assume a tank, but what, does a truck come every day to pick up the oil? How am I supposed to know what the situation is at this specific well?
The oil is typically in a water suspension. The stuff the pump jack brings up is stored in a holding tank where it is collected and taken to the refinery. It can also be piped directly to the refinery via pipeline.
It's basically the pipe radius x 3.14 x 2 x the length of stroke. So say it's a 6" pipe, and a 6' stroke, it would be 3x3.14x2x72" which would be 1357 cubic inches or 5.8 gallons. I don't know if that's close to the pipe diameter or the stroke length but that's how it works.
Too much ignorance for people to understand that, and hating on oil is the cool thing to do. Forget electricity or petroleum products. Most of us would probably not even be alive if it wasn't for oil.
That's not a hit miss engine. It is a counter weight governed engine... And by its struggling I say it needs more counter weight..... In any event. I couldn't imagine living any where near tgat thing. That huge muffler sure don't seem to be doing much MUFFLING... BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
It's obviously struggling, isn't it? If you look down the page, you'll see other people have pointed out that it needs more counterweight. It doesn't sound too healthy to me - unless those wierd harmonics are normal.
I dont much if anything about oil wells. But the engine sounds fine to me. I suppose the oil well is set up wrong? And its not loaded correctly for the whole cycle? I really don't know? It does come on hard then coast. The spark arrestor makes it sound a bit different than just an open exhaust hit/miss engine. I actually like the sound this engine produces when its working hard. Big Single cylinder hit/miss engines when under load are a pretty cool sound. But I do not know how the well should be preforming for a full cycle.
Hmmm. I guess you could be right. Just reminds me of what a hit/miss sounds like. Never thought it was a normal throttle gov engine. I'm not around them enough to know.
Dont look at anything human related. You may faint. One airplane flying over head probably creates a larger pollution footprint in one day than this oil well motor in 10 years.
