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Slaanesh69
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At my last company I drilled 4 horizontal wells off a single pad on the side of a valley. At the bottom of the valley was an acid gas disposal well - meaning high concentration H2S and C02. They had a loud siren set up in case of a release, and the emergency exit was immediately up the side of the valley through/past our lease.
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PrimeApe
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When I was 20, I had a job drilling for natural gas offshore. One week we started getting hydrogen sulfide gas coming up out of the well. They assured us that if you can still smell it, it's not at lethal levels...Because if it hits ( I think it was 15 parts per million) it destroys the part of your brain that handles smell.. and then you're dead. But at 11 parts per million you can still smell it and YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE THE HEADACHES IT GIVES YOU... fuuuuuuuck.. Like someone setting fire to old stereo equipment in your skull while giving your brain a good going over with a cheese shredder.... That shit being heavier than air, had a tendency to pool in the lower areas of the hold, so when I had to go fetch stuff for the cook, I tended to hold my breath while down in the hold.
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Slaanesh69
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100 ppm is when it blasts your sense of smell.When I was 20, I had a job drilling for natural gas offshore. One week we started getting hydrogen sulfide gas coming up out of the well. They assured us that if you can still smell it, it's not at lethal levels...Because if it hits ( I think it was 15 parts per million) it destroys the part of your brain that handles smell.. and then you're dead. But at 11 parts per million you can still smell it and YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE THE HEADACHES IT GIVES YOU... fuuuuuuuck.. Like someone setting fire to old stereo equipment in your skull while giving your brain a good going over with a cheese shredder.... That shit being heavier than air, had a tendency to pool in the lower areas of the hold, so when I had to go fetch stuff for the cook, I tended to hold my breath while down in the hold.
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When I first hit the oilpatch I operated for a year, starting in a 4% sour oil field. Used to find dead birds in the meter shacks from just the fugitive emissions from the piping. The doors would slowly rust and bow and be hard to open and close over time. This was in the '90s, mind you, when the regs were a little more relaxed and you would do shit like kick open the valve of the scrubber pot on your solution gas powered engine every morning, spewing the condy to soak into the sand. I counted my stint as an operator as a success just by the sheer fact that I did not die.
Even then, however, we had to wear H2S detectors everywhere, all the time, so I am surprised at your story. There were detectors in all the battery buildings and they went off over 20 ppm (iirc) and we had to don the SCBA and hunt down the leak.
We had a guy just open a tank that had perturbed water containing minor levels of H2S in a cleanout operation and the fumes immediately knocked him down, luckily onto the ground and not into the tank.
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jeydax
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When I was 20, I had a job drilling for natural gas offshore. One week we started getting hydrogen sulfide gas coming up out of the well. They assured us that if you can still smell it, it's not at lethal levels...Because if it hits ( I think it was 15 parts per million) it destroys the part of your brain that handles smell.. and then you're dead. But at 11 parts per million you can still smell it and YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE THE HEADACHES IT GIVES YOU... fuuuuuuuck.. Like someone setting fire to old stereo equipment in your skull while giving your brain a good going over with a cheese shredder.... That shit being heavier than air, had a tendency to pool in the lower areas of the hold, so when I had to go fetch stuff for the cook, I tended to hold my breath while down in the hold.
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Showing off why you're a degenerate like the rest of us on this forum? I'm kind of jealous. You at least have a cool reason. I'm just naturally retarded. Also jesus christ that stuff sounds scary. I appreciate past you help to keep my house warm in the winter.
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This stuff reminds me of the Lake Nyos disaster.
On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock:
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