Oilfield HSE articles
Longer reads for operators, company men and HSE managers: the rules, the numbers and what a crew actually does on location.
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Containment 6 min readSpill Containment Mats: Sizing, Wall Height and Truck Traffic
A spill containment mat is the right tool for short jobs, service trucks and small transfers. Here is how to size one, what wall height buys you, and why a stack of absorbent pads is a different product.
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Containment 8 min readThe Oilfield Tank Battery: Where It Leaks and How to Contain It
A tank battery is where a lease separates, treats, stores and sells its production, and it is where most of the lease's oil sits. Here is where batteries leak and how containment around them is laid out and sized.
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Containment 6 min readProduced Water Spills in the Permian: Why Brine Can Be Worse Than Oil
The Permian moves several barrels of produced water for every barrel of oil, and that water is many times saltier than the sea. A brine spill doesn't biodegrade the way crude does. Here's what that means for containment at transfer points.
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Containment 5 min readHDPE vs PVC Liners for Secondary Containment: Which to Specify
Most HDPE vs PVC articles are about pipe. This one compares the liners themselves for a tank battery or frac pad, adds LLDPE and flexible polypropylene, and ends with which to specify where.
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Containment 6 min readHDPE UV Resistance: How Containment Liners Hold Up in the West Texas Sun
Black HDPE liner is made to sit in the sun, but it doesn't last forever. Here's what the GRI-GM13 specification requires for UV resistance, what testing says about exposed life in hot, dry climates, and what to look for on a liner that's been out on a Permian pad.
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Containment 7 min readSpill Containment Pads for Loading and Transfer Areas on Oil Leases
Most small releases on a lease happen where oil changes hands: the truck load-out, the LACT unit, the chemical tote. Here is what a containment pad there has to do, how big it needs to be, and how to keep rainwater from turning it into a problem.
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Compliance 5 min readWhen to Call the National Response Center After an Oil Spill
The federal trigger for reporting an oil spill isn't a volume. It's a sheen on water. Here's how the National Response Center fits with the separate SPCC report to EPA and the Texas Railroad Commission notice.
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Containment 6 min readSecondary Spill Containment for Oilfield Sites: Types Compared
A side-by-side look at the five containment types you see on Permian leases, which ones can carry a sized SPCC requirement, and what to ask before you buy.
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Cleaning 5 min readHeavy Equipment Cleaning in the Oilfield: Methods, Detergents and Where the Wash Water Goes
Oilfield equipment comes back caked in drilling mud, paraffin and crude, not just dirt. Here's how to match the cleaning method to the contamination, pick a detergent, and keep the wash water out of the ditch.
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Cleaning 6 min readCooling System Maintenance for Heavy Equipment in West Texas Heat and Dust
Car-care advice treats cooling system maintenance as a coolant flush. On a loader or generator working in Permian dust, the outside of the radiator is usually the first thing to fail. Here's how to cover both sides.
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Compliance 8 min readSPCC Plan Requirements for Oil Production Sites: 40 CFR 112.9 in Plain Language
What 40 CFR 112.9 actually asks of an onshore production site, component by component: tank batteries, flow-through vessels, produced water tanks and flowlines, plus a plan-readiness checklist.
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Inspection 5 min readCO2 Corrosion in Permian Basin Tubing: Sweet, Sour and CO2-EOR Wells
The Permian Basin has been injecting CO2 for enhanced oil recovery since the early 1970s. That makes CO2 corrosion a local problem, not a textbook one. Here's how sweet and sour corrosion differ, what they leave in pulled tubing, and how to catch it joint by joint.
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