Jeebus Krist...that was quick...

Yeah, not my kind of job.

I hope they livestream the asschewing.

Marshall & Moonshine said:

I hope they livestream the asschewing.

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It's not appropriate but I can't help myself.

I hope they livestream the asschewing.

At least we know the ass is cooked.

Marshall & Moonshine said:

I hope they livestream the asschewing.

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Post # 2. Butt stuff.

Was the roof made of straw?

" Remind me, what does 'volatility' mean again? "

Take it from a guy who works in a liquid petroleum factory - that is not a liquid petroleum factory.

Some sort of material handling equipment, in a factory.
Probably a hydraulic failure that caused a big oil leak.
Something hot like part of their manufacturing process (or an electric motor) set it off.

I've seen that somewhere a while back.

Work in a place like that, ya gotta know your escape routes.

What the hell is a liquid petroleum factory?

LPMarshall Hack said:

Was the roof made of straw?

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I kind of wondered that as well, WTF was up there?

In the description of the video, it was a hydraulic piston failure, spraying oil on electrical equipment.
Flash point is 150-300C or 270-540F

KSG_Standard said:

What the hell is a liquid petroleum factory?

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I’m in a natural gas processing plant.
Basically a refinery, but for gas. Not oil.

Gas comes to us from a gazillion wells in the area, crude by definition.
Some light oils are carried with it.

First thing we do is physically separate all the liquids from the gas stream, which includes oil and water.

This leaves behind only trace amounts of liquids still suspended in the gas.

The gas goes up through a contactor column (like those tall, skinny towers you see in refineries) and out the top, while an amine/water mixture is flowing down in the opposite direction.
The amine attracts primarily carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of hydrogen sulfide, and removes it from the gas stream.

Next, the gas goes up through a glycol column that picks up any free water molecules.

The heart of the plant is the cryogenic column, where we take the gas down to -165°F to liquefy everything but the lightest hydrocarbon, which is methane.
Methane is our natural gas product, which is compressed up to 1,100 psi and forced into a network of pipelines.

Ethane, propane, and butane combined come out the bottom of the cryo column in liquid form and are pumped out of the plant into a pipeline at 1,100 psi as our liquid product.
Natural gas liquids, or NGLs it’s called.

Any hydrocarbons heavier than butane, such as isobutane, pentane, and a witches brew of light oils goes into storage tanks and is then sold into a pipeline for another process.

Basically we are a gas plant, but we make a shit-load of very light petroleum liquids.

NGL is where the money is.

FFS it's ass chewing. You don't know the time I wasted trying to figure out how to pronounce asschewing

dc007 said:

FFS it's ass chewing. You don't know the time I wasted trying to figure out how to pronounce asschewing

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Hyphenate it!

Example: ass-chewing

Jeebus Krist...that was quick...​

Well, to be fair, the vid was sped up.

The ensuing inferno actually took 37 seconds to explode.

THDNUT said:

The ensuing inferno actually took 37 seconds to explode.

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With the pressures we operate at, that will not be the case.

One thing I try to impress upon the new guys who start working in the facility, is there probably will not be any running.

If you’re in the wrong place when the unthinkable happens, it should be over pretty quick.

And if you are OK, but your buddy went down? It’s unlikely you will be able to get to him.

Sounds a little harsh, but I want to at least plant that seed in their mind while they learn to understand the risks and the hazards in the facility.