BS and Light Bulbs.

[@þþþþþþþþþ]

You are one smart dude buddy. Your explanations show just how well you understand the topics you talk about, from machining to oil processing to welding to whatever it seems like.

[@demartin5366]

Really enjoyed this Zach, thank you for taking us along. Interesting how the emulsifier works on the BS, neat to see the whole process of it all. Your light bulb idea is so neat, what a great idea. I learn something new from each of your videos. Thanks so much for taking the time and creating such detailed videos. You do a terrific job, just like being there with you. Just wish I could smell that Texas crude oil! Keep up the great work...much appreciated!

[@TheZachLife]

Haha Thanks.

[@drivingmylifeaway7149]

Love these videos. Learn quite a bit. Just started leasing! So looking forward to these

[@nitrometh42]

Different way of doing things. Cool video. I worked a salt water pumping truck....when not hauling salt water or regular water for drilling mud or cement jobs, cleaning tanks and hauling BS .

[@derb_]

I wish I had a dedicated BS tank haha. Loving your videos mate, thanks for posting. G'Day from Australia!

[@dale5898]

You remind me of Dan Blocker (Hoss,from the 1960 tv show Bonanza)

[@pattyeverett2826]

Good video. If what goes down the disposal well is salt water, I completely understand your concern. There are areas near where I grew up that were doused with salt water from oil wells in the 1930s. To this day, nothing grows there-and the area gets 30+ inches of rain a year.

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Thanks for sharing this.. its very interesting. It be interesting to be able just to take a day and go for a ride along.

[@clintonmississippi2108]

I really enjoy listening and watching you manage your oil wells. I was wondering do any of your wells produce natural gas which would allow you to use an old hit and miss engine to power the pump? That would be very interesting to see. You could use an automobile alternator to produce 12V to power your alarms and other indications. Sam Allen

[@hodwooker5584]

I worked for a tire manufacturer and i noticed that those people who retired seemed to die of cancer or heart disease within 4or5 years. They told us that it took 2500 plus chemicals to make a tire. And a lot of them were carcinogens.

[@paulcoulter7181]

Man I wish I had come across your videos years ago. Really love how you explain everything so in the debt.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks.

[@ananda_miaoyin]

Love to see a P/L on oil leases, especially with the huge price swings. I had a fracking co startup with sweet patented tech back in the aughts before the oil price took a huge shit and put us out of business.

[@TheZachLife]

It's about got all of us several times.

[@topnotchtreeservice5542]

Cool watching your videos working on oil and gas wells was my first job from time I was 13 to 19. Learned a lot

[@jeffrogers8314]

been on both sides of that sword, hauled crude for a lot of years& ran a hot oiler in the panhandle of tx .got to not git bit on a bad load or get your tank broke out and make sure it sells

[@waswestkan]

Before a brain injury, took away half of my productive years, I work for independent KS oil producers. Generally a jack of all trades. Been out of it sice 1994. I'm wondering to what degree, to what the IOT made indodes. Where aleats are sent to to smart phone.. The area around a tank battery can be as corrosive as an ocean shore line. unless explosive environment electrical construction is employed, corrosion will find it's way in. Mt last employer had three Floods, that USed LACTs, to sell the oil down the pipeline.. They had red rotating beacons

[@felipejimenez3630]

Now l know(thanks to your efforts)l love to see those lights in the distance and wonder about them alsois kind of relaxing and nostalgic😎”stay safe amigo”🙏🏻

[@goatsinker347]

Cool stuff. Back when i lived in Florida i would take my truck off road, and just go exploring. Often i would find these places with similar tanks set up in the middle of nowhere. I always wondered what they were for. I thought it had to do with orange groves irrigation. But now i have my doubts; maybe at some point in the past there was oil being pumped.

[@TechOne7671]

Interesting videos mate. If you have a gsm signal at your wells you could get a gsm sms alarm transmitter. Using fail safe circuits for high integrity, you could receive fault messages direct to your mobile 24/7. All the best.

[@TheZachLife]

We did some this in the past. The problem we had was when you need a error message the power was usually off. (what caused the problem) and so had to have battery backup, and if set up to give message when the power goes off you get message every time the power blinks. It could be refined but we just gave up on it.

[@ketas]

if you could have actual mobile internet there too (gprs minimum) instead of stupid gsm sms, you wouldn't need to battery backup it, if it goes offline, it got lightning strike, power outage or similar outage, which you could receive in daytime if you wish

[@FishFind3000]

@@TheZachLife you could try to add a delay for the power blinks. Or just make your own system from the ground up and do whatever you what to your hearts content.

[@HDDynalowrider]

Very interesting. I learned alot about how oil is pumped

[@7null]

You mentioned a truck load is picked up. What how much do they pay per barrel. Would love to see a video on the economics of a well since you have been discussing production numbers.

[@TheZachLife]

So if you will hang on a month or two and I'm going to put together a series to try and explain this in detail.

[@GavCritchley]

Absolutely fascinating to see this end of the Oil and Gas industry!

[@JimNichols]

I love this man!!! Nothing at all wrong with "oil field maintenance" if it is stupid and it works then it ain't stupid at all. I would love to do that with someone like yourself, I know a little bit about maintenance and making shit work out of two rocks and a pepsi can, and I kinda miss this work man, being retired is a great thing but after 5 years it is boring as hell....

[@TheZachLife]

Haha thanks. I heard that, I've got to stay busy with something.

[@rocksandoil2241]

Anyone thinks that the oil field is about the EZ path to the big bucks...well, they ought to watch your vids. Most of us who worked (past tense for me for the most part now) the patch just made a living...not a killing.

[@horatioyen256]

6:34 why didn't you skim the good oil off the top of the tank with the high bottom and then just pump the bs into one tank rather then mixing them?

[@wadericker4795]

Call Maclaskey Oil Field Services of Weatherford, Texas. I worked for them 3 years. I was employed out of the Eldorado, Kansas yard. They specialize in hauling junk. I've hauled off stuff that was 10% water. They'll mix it with good oil and with enough good oil mixed with it, it'll go through a lack unit. They'll dock you some, but you also aren't spending any money on chemicals.

[@TheZachLife]

I'll look into it.

[@codyfoster7981]

The best permanent solution to a problem is a temporary fix that works

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha I agree.

[@stovebolt448]

Good Grief at the price of oil these days you should make some good money. Thanks for the video, learned something new again today.

[@TheZachLife]

Hopefully we will have a good year.

[@gaildimick1831]

I can remember when crude oil a year ago was in the “negative”. It was tough making a stripper well lease work. Anyway in Kansas

[@TheZachLife]

@@gaildimick1831 That was a interesting time for sure.

[@MrEric_API]

Great video Zach !! BS&W..... the bane of upstream everywhere!!!!. Not certain which emulsifier you are using, we used to use heat and caustic to encourage the asphalt/bitumen and paraffins to separate and settle. Do you have any well gas from these leases to run a firetubed separator? Probably not enough oil to mess with the equipment, unless you put them on a skid to be able to move from one lease to another. Anyway, love the work videos!! 'Tis the season to transfer tanks.... that what I'm spending this week doing.... I'll post a video about it when I'm done.....

[@TheZachLife]

Im actually not sure what demulsifier that is. I just use what the chemical guys deliver to us. Unfortunately the formation that I mostly produce makes almost no gas, certainly not enough to run a heater. I'm actually working on an electric tank bottom heater design i'm going to try to get together this year.

[@MrEric_API]

@@TheZachLife electric is an option for sites without sufficient gas volume. Site the equipment with a raised elevation from grade, even a single foot will help protect the underside from soilside corrosion. Consider choosing a coating to protect the internal surfaces. And look into log style anodes, large ones #30 x2-3 depending upon size of the equipment. Lots of low tech, diy level things that could be done that are effective. I look forward to seeing what you put together.

[@whitesapphire5865]

That was very interesting, thank you! A lot of what you talked about, helps make sense of a disused Furnace Fuel Oil (FFO) depot which is a particular interest of mine. There is a scale of several magnitudes, but the oil storage problems remain the same. FFO was a waste product of the refining industry, but became a very useful fuel oil for warships until around 1993, when its regular use was phased out throughout the NATO alliance. The Portsdown depot alone held (from memory) about 24'000 tons per tank, and comprised eight tanks. The oil was contaminated with water and sediment which had to be settled out before the oil could be used. The tanks were made of poured concrete, but with a glass smooth finish. Each tank had a tapered bottom, with an incline from head end to foot end. The sediment and water settled to the bottom where it could be tapped off. My assumption is that once the contamination had reduced to a predetermined limit, the oil was then tapped off above the water/sediment level and used to fuel the warships. The depot at Inchindown was heated to aid in the precipitation process. I can imagine the process of cleaning out cathedral sized oil tanks would be a major challenge at the best of times, but aided no doubt by the glass smooth cement walls and floors. Your video makes sense now of the inspection lofts above each tank, and the equipment rooms where I'd assume they'd have kept a similar 'plumb line' sampler to drop into the oil to test the quality, and test the bottom sediment and water levels to determine when to tap off the tank bottoms. This is all fascinating stuff. God knows what brought me to looking at oil wells and storage tanks, but I'm glad I did because I find it just absolutely absorbing to watch. Thank you 💕

[@TheZachLife]

Pretty interesting.

[@whitesapphire5865]

@@TheZachLife There were three such naval depots, Portsdown Hill, Inchindown, and Lyness. They were built at the outbreak of WW2, and were kept in service through the cold war years. 1993 saw the withdrawal of the last remaining oil fired steam driven ships, and the closure of the fuel depots. FFO was used to fuel warships since before the start of WW1 and was a good and reliable source of power which was cheap and plentiful. Interestingly, too much water in the oil would cause the burners to sputter and the flame to burn too hot, damaging the ship's boilers. Oil is a very interesting subject when you look into it, but only recently, and having found your channel, can I say I have more of an overview of the story from oil well to ship's boiler. It really is fascinating.

[@jdjd7127]

New sub... love ur content I wish I had ur skills thanks for sharing ur knowledge... much love from the northeast

[@TheZachLife]

Awesome, hope you enjoy, and thanks.

[@jdjd7127]

@@TheZachLife I so enjoy I'm learning so much... not just about oil wells and the oil business but electrical etc... I wish I had a man like you in my life your wife is a lucky lady...

[@TheZachLife]

@@jdjd7127 Thanks you. :)

[@GMBiorn]

The BS is the residual remaining in the tank and the basic sediment cannot exceed one foot in depth or it is rejected. Where does the paraffin come from as part of the emulsion?

[@harolddalesr8365]

Paraffin ? It,s heated in your centrifuge. To at least 140 f degrees. If it clear , go to go. If not , it's considered as BS & W . Mean,s crap

[@randacnam7321]

Oil and water mix is called an emulsion. For the indicator light, you need a NEMA 3R box and an outdoor PAR38 lampholder to keep water out of the electricals. Also, have multiple different color lights that go out under different conditions so you know in advance if it's a full tank vs. an electrical problem.

[@sc1338]

Thinking the same thing. Wouldn’t be expensive either. Also a mobile internet alert system would be even better. we have one in our waste water department.

[@RangieNZ]

It sounds like the light is an indication of everything functioning properly/ within limits. If the light is off, then you have a problem.

[@randacnam7321]

@@RangieNZ Yes. I mean have multiple lights that mean problems if they are out, such as one which runs direct from the 120V control transformer. If out, no angry pixies at all.

[@georgearnold488]

Be careful out there! Enjoyed the video. Miss the patch.

[@TheZachLife]

Thank you. Will do.

[@victoryfirst2878]

Where are you located Zach ?? The land is so flat like a pancake off the griddle.

[@TheZachLife]

North central texas.

[@alkennedy1124]

What the heck is on that tank , or is it the tank made out of fiberglass or steel lol nice thanks BigAl California

[@TheZachLife]

The water tank is fiberglass.

[@trey8543]

The worst part of playing with emulsion breaker is getting that one tiny drop on the tip of your boot that you have to smell every time you get back in the truck…It’s like huffing fumes from a rancid pickle jar lol

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha I hate being around that stuff.

[@kc033056]

THANKS for the ride along!! Being from NY and no oil wells, I’m trying to understand the whole lease, land, oil well ownership thing. You said you just got these 2 leases? I hope all those wells aren’t getting in the way of the motor home and stacker trailer!! Kc

[@TheZachLife]

I'll have to do a video soon because its little complicated. I've been doing little to the RV and am going to try to get a video up this weekend.

[@dcata251]

God bless you.

[@thedopplereffect00]

What do you think about adding level and pressure sensors with wireless monitoring? I'm really amazed how simple everything is. I guess high tech would not be cost effective with low volume here.

[@obfuscated3090]

What's the best lightning-resistant wireless tech? I'm pretty geeky but never studied that subject. It would require long-distance radio links in an appropriate band and would have to be quite robust to be better than current methods which also "coerce" periodic visual inspection. Sensors etc would be easy but given the high motor mortality rate I'd worry about anything more delicate.

[@TheWittyGeek]

​@@obfuscated3090LoRA for wireless and his lightning problems could be solved with some investment in proper lightning mitigation equipment.

[@sc1338]

Why don’t you use some 25 micron filter bags to remove large contaminates? Too much trouble or money?

[@joehead1294]

"Every chemical guy I ever dealt with has died of cancer." Truer words have never been spoken. You might want to take that under advisement. The finger tips are where my problems started, I get steroids injected in them. I think greasy hands were the cause.

[@Vile-Flesh]

This is why I wear gloves as much as possible and rarely get any oil/grease/fluids on my hands and fingers and also always wear long sleeves. I have enough problems with joints and tendons and I've lost count of the steroid shots in both arms over the last 7 years.

[@noah8877]

What you know bout ron dana

[@noah8877]

Hes immune

[@dannywilsher4165]

Another good one Zack, thanks!!!

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks.

[@andrewalexander9492]

So, how big an area are your leases spread across? Just a ballpark guess, are you driving 10 miles or 100 miles to get to your farther leases?

[@TheZachLife]

Everything is with in about a 10 mi radius of my house. I have sold off the stuff that was farther for that reason.

[@andrewalexander9492]

@@TheZachLife Thanks for the reply. I was just trying to get an idea of what it was like making your rounds.

[@brianmorris2704]

i enjoy your videos very learning,keep the videos coming,do you pull your own wells?

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks. I've got an old junky rig that I will sometimes put on a well, but for the most part I contract it out.

[@lincolnworsham1085]

" There is no longer term than the temporary... "

[@curtissmith5875]

I figured you would have a little bobtail truck.

[@TheZachLife]

I've though about picking one up.

[@natevanlandingham1945]

"This is the emulsifier...I hate messing with this stuff, every chemical guy I have ever delt with has died of cancer"!! Then proceeds to move his chemical in an open topped gas jug that you know was dispensed from a larger bulk container, without any PPE.🤣🤣🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂🤣🤣

[@TheZachLife]

Send it. Its supposedly real bad to get on your skin and I made sure not to.

[@danielson101]

so what percentage is oil and water going in tanker picking up?

[@DE24RIP]

What state are you in ?

[@Wingnut_Stickman]

The first commenter again? Good video, no BS!

[@TheZachLife]

haha thanks.

[@groenekever]

Lol that light..,

[@nomehdrider]

this was interesting, thanks

[@Petrochemtester]

Ever use dry ice to roll the tanks? Works great on higher gravity oil - 15-20 lbs will roll for an hour or more

[@TheZachLife]

I do. This tank several feet of tank bottoms and I wanted to get it stirred up as good as possible.

[@jdjd7127]

@@TheZachLife ohh I wanna see this sounds very interesting

[@markmaker2488]

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.

[@CraftedChannel]

Is it against the law or unethical to use alcohol to absorb the water into a component of the oil rather than have to discard it from the BS?

[@sc1338]

Is water always mixed in with the oil when you get it directly from the well? Or are some locations better and have no water mixed in?

[@TheZachLife]

It almost always will have at least some water.

[@sc1338]

@@TheZachLife Aw ok interesting thx

[@JJ-jv1gu]

Have u heard of Red Adair?

[@dannywilsher4165]

@@JJ-jv1gu I have some good stories about Red Adair if anyone cares to hear them...

[@JJ-jv1gu]

@@dannywilsher4165 Yes, let’s hear them

[@stevensaxon8888]

Zach, what state are you located in? How can I invest in a lease even if I live out of state?

[@TheZachLife]

I'm in Texas. We are a family business and don't have any investors. There are inverter owned oil companies but be carful it seems to me most are crooks.

[@jerrykates4601]

Where I come from

[@cmh2111]

Good video.

[@TheZachLife]

Thanks!

[@rudysaldivar4228]

If every chemical guy you know has died of cancer. Why aren’t you wearing protective clothing, gloves and a respirator?? You’re a hard working man. My respect for what you do. Queue the anti-safety morons in 3-2-1

[@TheZachLife]

My understanding is that its bad if it soaks into your skin. I'm carful not to get any on me.

[@bobbyjacobsmd]

@@TheZachLife I believe that. My brothers wifes former husband before being widowed was a petroleum engineer out of Tulsa. Leukemia took him in the mid 90s and it took him quick

[@coryike2631]

If you ever want to really stir up a tank drop ya a couple blocks of dry ice in with your chemical.

[@gaildimick1831]

Red light is a good deal.

[@ThumperKJFK]

😊👍👍👍😄

[@dale5898]

Buck Fiden! How about that!!!!

[@TheZachLife]

Hahaha

[@gillescollin54]

You’ve got a water leak on a top transfer line which can be clearly seen 30 sec before end of your video.

[@joedoakes8307]

Can't you haul your own oil to the refinery ?

[@TheZachLife]

No, it's got to be hauled by a "gatherer".

[@RangieNZ]

@@TheZachLife Any particular reason? Or is it all just BS rules, to take some of your profit? Can you get qualified(?) as a gatherer?

[@scottlawless8854]

@@RangieNZ No BS, it's for a very valid reason. The term is called Custody Transfer (commonly referred to as Chain of Custody). Without it, Zach could steal oil from a neighbor's tanks overnight and sell it off as his own as though he had a profitable well, which would then get him a higher price if he sold the well. Even with that, drip and crude theft still happens from time to time.

[@timmilder8313]

@@RangieNZ Additionally to what Scott said, its not like we want every yahoo on earth just rolling around thousands of gallons of highly volatile explosive liquid on the highway to save a buck. No offense to Zach lol. Hes not a yahoo, but theres a damn lot of them in the oilfield.

[@matthewprather7386]

The realities of “artisanal” oil production…

[@davidschwartz5127]

Kind of like all the Farmers I knew die of cancer also.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

I haven't seen or heard one thing that isn't cool or interesting yet . Your a deffinet natural borne oil and mechanical man. My long passed away Freind Don Stark worked at Salt Lake City's Original Refinery. It's now Monarc. It's been said if Don could build a minature Refinery in his patio he would. I asked his old Car Racing buddy if they Doctered their personal Hot rod fuel 😁😁😁 he winking said Maybe 😁😂🤣

[@TheZachLife]

Haha Thanks.

[@horatioyen256]

Nar that light is a good thing it's fail safe

[@obfuscated3090]

"Every chemical guy I dealt with has died of cancer". Ugh!

[@johnjablonski2155]

Audio on the first part sucked, You have a window down or something ?

[@elonmust7470]

DANG I miss your videos!