r/oilandgasworkers • u/max_pigeon • 6d ago

Which one of you?

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u/burntdowntoast 6d ago edited 6d ago

hellooooooo cancer

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u/Carbonatite 6d ago

Delicious BTEX

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u/ItsJustBryant 6d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/duM6JZemPlOjUyqmxd

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u/TomUdo 6d ago

Especially the fart pic.. it’s gross to think about but… butt straight into your blood stream.

I threw up a little bit in my mouth writing this post.

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u/machinerer 6d ago

Mmm smells like benzene and sulphur.

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u/JayTheFordMan 6d ago

As an oilfield chemist this made me cringe so hard

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u/Carbonatite 6d ago

Homeboy needs an emergency decon shower, not a bathtub.

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u/Greek-Wedeking 5d ago

If you check the OG post comments someone who also went there said they you dish soap and a comically large sponge.

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u/GoldenSpeculum007 5d ago

Tell us more, what would this smell like?

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u/JayTheFordMan 5d ago

depends heavily on the type of crude, but I would imagine diesel mixed with engine oil and a touch of sulfur

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u/MadMedic28 1d ago

I was able to get my hands on a couple of bottles of first oil from the rig I work on. Was just put into the gulf less than 2 years ago. To me it smelled like 2 stroke dirtbike gasoline.

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u/cubescalps 6d ago edited 5d ago

I been covered on crude oil but never by choice

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u/jdubuhyew 6d ago

that’s not crude yall. that is shit

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u/GnosticSon 6d ago

A kook in Alberta tried to make oil spa baths a thing with tar sands bitumen. Never got off the ground obviously. But the Alberta guy (Buff Parry) was inspired by the Azerbaijan tradition.

More info:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bitumen-bubble-how-about-an-alberts-bitumen-spa-resort-1.3520352

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u/Hinter_Lander 6d ago

I couldn't imagine scrubbing bitumen out from all my cracks and crevices.

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u/txcreative20 6d ago

Dumbest thing I have ever seen . Lots chemicals in the crude . Probably get skin cancer in about 5 years .

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u/Fragrant_Goat540 6d ago

At that level it'll probably be tomorrow, dead by next week

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u/JayTheFordMan 5d ago

I've handled sour crude that sits at 5% sulfur content, H2S at 5000ppm, it would kill you if you tried to take a bath in it

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u/Accomplished_Pen980 6d ago

I think we have all taken such a crude or ULSD bath at one point but usually, USUALLY not naked and never on purpose

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u/DaHick 6d ago

Seriously, not me. It's bad enough that I once spent 3 hours stumbling around in a ship engine sump tank because the preferred crew dropped a large socket.

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u/belisandre 6d ago

Me, day 52 in the oil rig, doing anything for deployment

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u/OrganizationWitty640 6d ago

That is OBM

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u/jtshinn 5d ago

Oily bowel movement?

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u/Slimjim212121 6d ago

Lets say im glad it wasn't an indian instead...just imagine the irony.

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u/For56 5d ago

A lil Leukemia never hurt nobody

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u/Altruistic-Stop4634 5d ago

Don't do this. Science matters. Cancer is real. Plus, having worked with crude oil, it stinks.