Take this for whatever its worth - from a dull and relatively uninteresting computer guy - I thoroughly enjoy your content!
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Awesome Thanks for watching.
@joefrederick6471
7 ай бұрын
@@TheZachLifewhat will be the impact to you on the new methane compliance rules the current administration put into place?
@AW-nz5st
8 ай бұрын
This is a polar opposite to what I'm used to. All production piping, vessels and tanks here in Alberta that contain or may contain water are insulated, heat traced and/or heated, in addition methanol is often added to lower the freezing point of the water and limit gas hydrate formation. We had -44 last week and the goal is always to keep everything running because it's virtually impossible to restart equipment once it freezes up.
@desertriderukverun1002
5 ай бұрын
Same in Alaska
@timmilder8313
Ай бұрын
I remember when I started work at a large US oil company about a decade ago. We divested a Canadian shale play because we were spending like $3MM per well to heat the frac water.
@JackyTheNerd
8 ай бұрын
This brings back memories of Dad. He owned and operated several leases back home in Kentucky. He's sold the business to retire and go back to Oklahoma and get married. I would help him pump some wells, move some stuff, and helped with the service rig once or twice a year. I have a little experience pumping two or three wells from my late teens and early 20s. While being outside is nice, oil field life ain't for me. Still, I'll miss the hum of motors, metal bumping together, and cables rubbing against horse heads while enjoying some fresh air and snatching a few sentences in a book watching and waiting for a well pump down. Thanks for helping me learn more about Dad's old job and keeping some of what he taught me fresh.
@entropyachieved750
7 ай бұрын
Only found this channel last night and live it. I live in Australia and have always wondered if it's like the stereotypical Texas oil billionaires with properties full of pump jacks or it's not easy money. Keep the series going I find it fascinating
@scottpollan8135
8 ай бұрын
salt content, water percentage and depth make sense. thanks for the video
@teddysmith457
8 ай бұрын
Like sand through our hoppers, as the rotary turns, so goes the days of our lives
@alphonsotate2982
8 ай бұрын
Than you for your American OIL I can't wait for the time to vote so we can drill drill drill and be independent again 😍😍😄😄😄
@jakesvideos8204
8 ай бұрын
Up here in utah our oil solidifies like a candle at anything below 100 degrees all our oil, (with the exception of condensate from our gas wells) is heated to 150-190 degrees farenheight and loaded on insulated tankers, all oil tanks have a natural gas powered burner tube in the tank, hell our water tanks also have burners. Great job ol’ son!
@midgard8550
8 ай бұрын
I really really really enjoy your content. You are a master fabricator and a well of knowledge. Thank you for the content
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@misterbacon4933
8 ай бұрын
It's good to have you back!
@michaelmcclure8673
8 ай бұрын
Zack thanks for taking the time to make this video. 😊
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@kevinkoepke8311
8 ай бұрын
This is a subject I've thought about. I'm old enough to remember hearing the hit and miss engines running at night while camping in Texas. Thanks Zach!
@garrison3675
8 ай бұрын
Happy New Year !! ... Welcome Back ...
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks
@488ci
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the update, you guys certainly get every kind of weather event down there. At least up here in northern Canada we don't have any snakes or lightning storms that we have to worry about. Super sour high pressure wells Freezing cold mud and wild animals is what we need to worry about. We are only allowed bear spray. So operators do get eaten by bears up here.
@corydriver7634
8 ай бұрын
I was good right up until you said bear…😬
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Haha no bears for me.
@488ci
8 ай бұрын
@@TheZachLife only two legged bears carrying backpacks, yikes 😳 Stay safe and keep your hands out of the PCBs. I never laughed so hard and then you did the follow up on the dangers of that stuff, I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
@ChemSL69
8 ай бұрын
In Canada oil wells run at -40f, we wrap the lines with insulation and use heat tape on everything and use methanol to keep the water from freezing.
@patriotmadness6231
8 ай бұрын
Great video brother.
@kainhall
8 ай бұрын
1600 feet? wow out in montana/ND they are 16,000 feet......
@andygulick6085
8 ай бұрын
love the videos
@smokedog123456789
8 ай бұрын
Yaayyyy a new videooo!!!!!
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@Arnthorg
8 ай бұрын
Nice to see you back Zach
@jim9337
8 ай бұрын
I enjoy your vids, it's nice to see a lease from my computer. All my fields were in North East BC, and northern Alberta. Our water Tks all had built in heaters running on propane, or solution gas. Wax was always a problem, especially if it got cold. In the winter we spent a lot of money on steamers to get us flowing again. It was -38 here the other day, I sure appreciated the fact I am retired. You take care.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@benb8804
7 ай бұрын
Thank you Zack you're a good man
@Welcome_to_Redneckistan
8 ай бұрын
I love your videos
@farmworkMi
8 ай бұрын
I'd like to see a cool clean up video around that well be cool to see a before and after. well done sir I really get into these wells my sister was a tank checker so we would drive from rig to rig and check all the fittings and tanks . Near williston ND thanks
@georgen.8027
8 ай бұрын
Generally speaking, water that is constantly moving won't freeze during short cold spells.
@r7ndom
8 ай бұрын
Great video! Always like seeing them and hearing about the work and fields.
@marktwained
8 ай бұрын
Another KZitemr here. I grew up in sw Oklahoma, and your content really does feel like home country.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Subbed ill check it out thanks for watching.
@SD10s4ever
8 ай бұрын
Fellow pumper here. We just shut ours off over in Garza County. We just decided it wasn’t worth the risk of something icing up or a fitting cracking. Our wells are about 2800-3000ft, high water producers and very salty. Keep the videos coming! I love to learn more about what I’m doing! I would like to get a lease or two of my own.
@scrapperstacker8629
8 ай бұрын
Another great video thanks for sharing
@mikedee1
8 ай бұрын
Worked in a field in northern Alberta with 90% plus water cuts. The water was fairly warm coming out of the well so as long as it’s moving and you have enough insulation and the heat trace is working the no problem. One night we lost power when it was 40 below for 2 hours. At least half the field was frozen and there wasn’t much sleep happening for the next few days.
@clintonmississippi2108
8 ай бұрын
Zach, Thanks for the information. Never considered the water in the oil discharged from the well freezing. That could cause a real mess pretty quickly and cost a lot to repair. Sam
@elbuggo
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for reporting!
@demartin5366
8 ай бұрын
Interesting topic, Zach. I've always wondered about how cold temps effect the flow of oil. You brought up a good point about the salinity. It's amazing how wells can differ, it seems their depth has a lot to do with it as you mentioned. Another great video, so enjoy learning from you. I appreciate the time you take in all kinds of conditions to share your knowledge. Thanks for all you do for us Tubers.
@dennishinkle5010
8 ай бұрын
I am not sure where you are exactly but from the looks of it anywhere from Moran to Coleman to Brownwood. Those shallow wells are common here where I live. The Caddo is about 1600 feet down at Brownwood and the 400 feet are north of Coleman and some in Brownwood also. Is your 1600 foot wells in a sand or limestone. I worked in the oilfield for many years and am curious.
@johnmh7491
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! Always very interesting!!
@natevanlandingham1945
8 ай бұрын
As you were talking at first I was like man those belts are slipping bad!
@jlo7770
8 ай бұрын
From my years of working in northdakota (which is relatively colder it was -62 w/wind chill 2 weeks ago?) The rule of thumb is if its pumping it wont freeze. Water/oils coming from 10k feet is extremely hot. The salt influx is really high, yes production water here will freeze but thats when youre messing around with -10/-20f on the usual, as you said wells produce different amounts of water. But if theyre pumping they wont freeze, if they stop pumping they can freeze. In wyomimg ive worked on gas wells and in that area there is no production water to kill wells with so its all fresh water, everything that comes back is pretty fresh, so with that, all the lines, well heads everything has heat tape and insulation.. if theyre servicing a well the well has to be wrapped with a tarp and they run heaters 24/7 untill theyre done working on the well or the condensation with the gas will freeze the well head. Just trying to expand on this and shed some more light on it from us fools that work in the artic weather lol! Tldr: typically if its a deep oil well it will not freeze as long as its pumping, when the well stops moving fluid/moving fluid slowly thats when it has time to cool down and freeze. Every well is a little different, in my opinion on super cold oil wells in ND if they shut down all the wells at say -30? The issues youd have getting them going when theyre -10 will be vastly increased, better to keep water/oil moving as quickly as possible while its hot. Most bakken wells are like 200 degrees on bottom surface id say 120-150 degrees. You can touch the lines for maybe 2 seconds before it starts to burn your skin
@TahoeRealm
8 ай бұрын
Greetings from Lake Tahoe 🌲Great video. Any video you do is interesting to us. Thank you very much.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@jefferyyoung6836
8 ай бұрын
This is the kind of stuff I want, the actual working of the oil field.
@jamesbarber3854
8 ай бұрын
Had gun sight wells in North Central Texas. The rod string would quit moving when the flow line froze. Non potable fresh water.
@richardlincoln8438
8 ай бұрын
Thanks Zach. I am looking forward to the upcoming content. Best Wishes.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@TexasStormChaser
8 ай бұрын
What city you around? I'm in Austin and I'm tired of this cold. Bring the 100s!!!
@13donstalos
7 ай бұрын
I love this stuff
@peterhodgkins6985
8 ай бұрын
Your videos are ALWAYS interesting! Thanks, as always!
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@rongrose3746
8 ай бұрын
Very interesting!
@kc033056
8 ай бұрын
Welcome back!! Can’t wait for rv/trailer news.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks. I've been working a little on it.
@badencraig7778
8 ай бұрын
You should do a equipment tour
@walkercustoms
8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@dennismartin6304
8 ай бұрын
I've worked in the Austin Chalk, and the Barnett Shale , and Booneville Bend and the Wilson sand , and have struggled during cold weather operations, it all depended on the water salinity and volume as to how much trouble it was in Subzero Temps
@mississippioutpost2895
8 ай бұрын
Thanks Mr Zach, Little Johnny.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@stovebolt448
8 ай бұрын
Hi Zach thanks for the video, hey how is the small block chevy well doing?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
It's still running great. its yet to fall off lol.
@stovebolt448
8 ай бұрын
@@TheZachLife Zach I was born and raised on the small block chevy....so that's my favorite well.🙂Hey have a Great Day!
@ericparrish1515
7 ай бұрын
In the contrast...
@crystalsheep1434
8 ай бұрын
Interesting
@jdbas71
8 ай бұрын
What sucks is when a well or lease goes down, trying to get it thawed out. Hot water can work wonders. We're lucky here, we have 2 reclaimers close by that usually always have hot water for us in the winter.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
I've never considered that. Nice Chevrolet you've got there.
@jdbas71
8 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@jdbas71
8 ай бұрын
@TheZachLife Hot water works pretty good. Sometimes ya gotta put pressure to it, release it, pressure it, release it, and so on. Seems to work good most of the time. I'm in central Kansas and our wells range from 2800ish to 3900. Seems like kansas city water around here has a higher salt content.
@TheQwik512
8 ай бұрын
Hi Zack. Do you have to deal with paraffin much? I worked on hot oil units and swabbing units back in the day down around the Austin chalk fields.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
I really don't. The oklahoma jack lease is the worse.
@markymark21105
6 ай бұрын
i find the answer to most quedtions is it depends :)
@richarddecker9515
8 ай бұрын
Thanks, you answered my question that I didn’t ask, I was wondering why the water was not used in farming if it’s crystal clear, salt, is why. I would think that the belts would get adjusted to stop the slippage
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
They could probably be tightened but the problem is that they are worn and no longer wide enough to fit the shive properly.
@Asta-wl8jz
8 ай бұрын
We are just south of you and shut all of our production in a couple of days ago.
@robertpeters9438
8 ай бұрын
It seems you could use a universal remote well monitoring system: acoustic, video, temp sensors for motors fluid level, and gear boxes, etc. Satellite, phone, or modem. Or, what prompts you to check on a well?
@LyonsHunter-m2j
8 ай бұрын
Great videos! Never thought TX would get that cold. Have you ever drilled a new well?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
We haven't in a long time. I'm going to talk about this in the future.
@skliros9235
8 ай бұрын
Hi Zach!
@glitter_fart
8 ай бұрын
Watching the video now. the freeze a few years ago, i watched guys pulling into sites with " no smoking " signs at the gates, with trailer sized turbo heaters/ blow torches. -10 maybe -15, and blasting the lines and stacks with an open flame. Pretty sure the sites are mostly NG not oil. But still. Watching them having a 3 foot wide flame feet away from gas lines .... Anyway....
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Haha wow
@steveladner4346
8 ай бұрын
I ran SL/EL offshore for many years and one time tried I explaining to a company man (ignorant brother in-law of the boss) how we need glocol to test the lubricator. He didn't understand until an ice plug shut down his operation and we couldn't shut the well in.
@ganon602
8 ай бұрын
Where is your guys water table? Seems like a producing zone
@Asta-wl8jz
8 ай бұрын
In this part of north texas there is no fresh water.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
No fresh water under 60' here.
@toma5153
7 ай бұрын
Zach: I haven't found info about how you go about selling oil. Who are the middlemen? Is there much competition from these guys who are interested in driving tankers to remote locations to pick up small quantities? How is the sale price determined? Does oil quality vary enough between wells that it merits a price adjustment? I'm sure there are other factors. I didn't find what I'm looking for in a search of older videos.
@bigdog2024
8 ай бұрын
Looks like you are up near the Red River as I see red dirt and mesquite there and here just South of Dallas it’s black dirt. It gets colder up there than here and teens aren’t uncommon but single digits are. One question is does the oil in your tanks get too viscous to be pumped out if it’s this cold for several days? The salt water produced is constantly moving thru the tanks and being reinjected but the oil stays in the tanks until the truck comes to get it. Maybe the inflow of new warm oil is enough heat to not get too viscous or oil is very light. Is your injection well just to get rid of water or is the water injected into the formation for pushing oil to the pumps ?
@laserflexr6321
8 ай бұрын
The term West Texas Intermediate Crude comes to mind.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Generally no. Sometimes if its super cold it will get like a thin milk shake but it doesn't usually cause problems.
@laserflexr6321
8 ай бұрын
There's hot coffee on the stove, have at it. Now youre not a NEXT DOOR, next door neighbor, but you aint plumb off over yonder neither, so I'm just curious about what phrase yall use when it is unseasonably cold? Giggle giggle nod, nod, wink, wink, keep it PG. My dad told some interesting stories about drip gas in the wintertime. Almost died one time down in a hole draining drip gas into a bucket. They used it for fuel in gasoline cars, not a good idea, and you really had to adjust the mixture on the carb or it could burn out the valves pretty quick. Other issues like pinging too, but he was young and didnt know. All depends on what condensate the wells on that line are making, and it is not necessarily always the same stuff, entirely dependent on temperature in that stretch of line. He was figuring it out, and there was a prime time, temperature wise, to collect when the mixture was best. Normally they would just blow it out on the ground and it would evaporate pretty quick, talking about 1940's, nobody cared if a poor boy ran his tractor off it, nuiscance waste product that somebody had to get rid of to keep from having liquid plugs causing flow surges. He blended what he collected to try to mitigate the variance. Normally the fumes that came off it would dissipate but when it was cold like that the fumes would sink into that hole and fill it up. If his buddy hadnt recognized he was drunk and almost passed out and drug him out before it got him too they might both have suffocated. There is still a place where they lived where there is a whole bunch of ceramic shards, the remnants of a whole barn full of big pickle making crocks. He filled up all his mother's pickle crocks she had collected over decades with drip gas, ruined them all. She's gone, dad's gone but everybody still talks about those pickle crocks. Pickles were a nice bit of income then so it was a pretty big deal. Who knows, I might have been a pickle magnate today if it hadna been for drip gas.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha what a story.
@laserflexr6321
8 ай бұрын
@@TheZachLife Glad you liked it and proud to return the favor.
@jonnojamwood
8 ай бұрын
Good stuff
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks
@ruben_balea
8 ай бұрын
*Cool* 😉
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks
@kennardjohnson7875
6 ай бұрын
I figure you are in the Strawn field? Aren't their deeper formation in that field?
@natevanlandingham1945
8 ай бұрын
Water freezing with 15% salt at 10- 15°F or whatever would also be water standing still, yours is moving
@david9192
8 ай бұрын
No the deeper the well the warmer it gets down there
@tugboat2739
8 ай бұрын
Howdy Zach
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Howdy.
@victoryfirst2878
7 ай бұрын
What is done with the water that is pumped from the well Zach ?? How toxic is the water from the well fella ???
@whathasxgottodowithit3919.
8 ай бұрын
Dare I say you are more likely to get ice in the well due to pressure differential than cold surface temps, (Think of the frost on a Propane Bottle) we had wire line tools stuck in a well due to ice when the day time surface temp is 50c
@tysonw1031
8 ай бұрын
How’s about showing us the separation/and ultimately the sale process of your oil wells Z? I work in the oilfield but really dig your videos buddy
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
There is a separator video in in the oilfield 101 play list and i will.
@northface484
8 ай бұрын
The real question is...At what temp does ink Freeze and T-Shirt production stop...???
@realemonful
8 ай бұрын
Google it!
@irvingalantrevinogarza5916
8 ай бұрын
Cool video, Sir, I have a question, you are the owner of the wells?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Thanks Yes.
@camus83489
8 ай бұрын
it gets cold in texas?
@robertchall8576
8 ай бұрын
It never gets to hot or cold or rains in the oilfeild.
@lonesonestarcattlecompanyj408
8 ай бұрын
Or a battlefield
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@RobertCiampa9112
8 ай бұрын
The water is being heated by Geothermal energy
@captainjohnh9405
8 ай бұрын
That noise isn't the belts. I is a grumpy, old mule you have put to work.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@FishFind3000
8 ай бұрын
Have you thought about installing temperature sensors to automatically throw the switch when temps drop and turn back on when they warm up? Or make it remotely controlled like your oil battery’s?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
I actual have most set up so that i can shut them down remotely.
@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm420
8 ай бұрын
I Googled which countries still use Fahrenheit for temperature. Does the US have something going on with Liberia which justifies their keeping it?
@Chubspumpin
8 ай бұрын
Most of my wells froze up here in central Oklahoma 😐
@bigdaddyww1
8 ай бұрын
Ours are at 4500 to 5000 feet still freeze and pop flowlines. All the wells we have without a flowline transducer or Murphy switch we gotta shut in or they will just pop flowlines
@yzrider3101
7 ай бұрын
Zach I know it’s off topic but how do they covert a oil well to water well and why
@SFZ6hp
8 ай бұрын
How deep is your deepest well ?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Around 4000' and i'm partners in some that are about 6000'
@play4dayzproductions347
8 ай бұрын
You trying to hire a hand?
@thomasfx3190
8 ай бұрын
IT guy here, I don't know anything about petrochemical things! Do all of these oil well leases sit on a single piece of your land? Are they far from your home? Ford or Chevy? 😅
@TheZachLife
7 ай бұрын
I'm not the land owner. Most are relatively close. Chevrolet
@460faceplant
6 ай бұрын
How do you keep your cold shut down lines from freezing and breaking?
@TheZachLife
6 ай бұрын
the salt water turned into a slushy but doesn't break stuff.
@alexb.1320
8 ай бұрын
4m31s How much is a new pump? Or, maybe the question should be, how much would a properly machined used pump typically cost?
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
A new 59-t is about $40.
@alexb.1320
8 ай бұрын
@@TheZachLife Thanks. Puts it into perspective.
@JS-oy6nn
8 ай бұрын
A big slug of methanol will fix everything in the winter. I’ve welded on hundreds of 2” hot taps on the bottoms of gathering and midstream lines so they can drain the water to get their flow back. If it has water in it, it’ll freeze I promise you.
@tapiolankiira1968
8 ай бұрын
Hi, I know nothing about what You do, but half an century ago, some one told Me that there was habit to pump salt water in to well. Maybe for the increase oil supply? Does the oil float or something. I just wonder if You have empty well and one that produce warm saltwater like 97% , would it be viable to try to pump some of that water to bad well and see if oil comes up. At any case it would be way to rid of excess water maybe. Sorry for My ignorance
@TheZachLife
7 ай бұрын
Yes the water is put back down injection wells. sometimes this can be used to help some wells.
@lonesonestarcattlecompanyj408
8 ай бұрын
Believe or not, I use a Cat 2530 for 10gpm 650psi. Cheaper then the Wheatly I replaced.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Intersting
@canadianexplorer3916
8 ай бұрын
Interesting....., although not quite as interesting as when your loading up your tools singing "off to do some sketchy shit, do da, do da, hope I get away with it do da do da day" ..... But still interesting 👍
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha i'm sure there will be more of that to come.
@daleolson3506
8 ай бұрын
Did you act in the movie men in black?
@toad_of_the_sky
8 ай бұрын
I don't think so, lol
@jerva245
8 ай бұрын
Wanna fill us in on what you're talking about? He doesn't resemble any of the cast that I can see..
@hela8693
8 ай бұрын
Which character does he look like?
@gordonrichardson2972
8 ай бұрын
@@hela8693 A bit like Edgar, played by Vincent D'Onofrio.
@TheZachLife
8 ай бұрын
Hahahaha negative.
@scrotiemcboogerballs1981
8 ай бұрын
Great to see you buddy keep warm thanks for sharing
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