Any oilfield guys here, H2S safety?

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Aug 24, 2012 | 02:23 PM

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ak2007r6

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Originally Posted by mhotrodscooter

Next time I'll tell the H2S safety guy it's to dangerous to take pictures

Flammable gas, device that can create a spark...yup what the **** was I thinking.

Carry on.

Aug 26, 2012 | 12:10 AM

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Couple of pics of me and my crew having to work in it. Had to get back in the hole so we could get the rotating head back on.

H2S was around 100ppm on this day. The most I've seen out here was 1200ppm at the shakers.

That looks like it was a fun day. Those are the same 5 min packs we use also.

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Originally Posted by silver-mod-o

Glad you're liking it so far, just don't let your guard down. At that concentration you won't even know what happened until you're shaking hands with St Peter

we have H2S training Monday. Weve got more and more of our locations with it showing up on our meters where it didn't before.

I still get a little nervous pulling the tubes at the oil tanks and i double check everything and take my time doing it. The wells are like that here too. They're starting to put out more h2s also, one is to the point where they're thinking about cementing it in and drilling deeper because its so bad.

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Originally Posted by ak2007r6

With that high of a concentration I am not sure I would be using a non intrinsically safe device (camera).

I just had to get onto a guy about having his phone on him while he was strapping tanks, he was jamming to his tunes like it wasnt a big deal.