quote:MfBarnes?
Was it this thread where a guy started his own pipeline compliance company? Need his info asap.
quote:Hmm, must've lost quite a bit of weight! Saw the CEO of Aramco in Houston today and he was much thinner (and much more Arab)... Sure he isn't running Shell??
No he now runs Aramco
quote:Haha I'm sure he is proud of you.
Damn. I just got compared to the hardest working man in energy.
quote:Is that a State change or will this affect the entire US?
On the pipeline front, there are a number of changes that may be coming our way soon. PHMSA (DoT, for those of you unfamiliar) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in April that may greatly affect gathering lines. If you work for an E&P and own some gathering lines incidental to your operations, you may want to pay close attention to these proposed changes. Among the proposed changes is the repeal of API RP80. This will extend PHMSA jurisdiction to those certain Type A Class One gathering lines. For those keeping track at home, those are rural gas gathering lines with a diameter of 8 inches and operating at an MAOP greater than or equal to 20%...or operating at 125psi for nonmetallic lines. There will also be a newly defined Moderate Consequence Area that will bring along its own integrity management rules with it.
If you're in the gathering line business, feel free to reach out to me and I'll be happy to send you info. I'm even willing to come home and meet with you about this. I've been finding a number of E&Ps here in Appalachia needing some help with these.
quote:quote:Is that a State change or will this affect the entire US?
On the pipeline front, there are a number of changes that may be coming our way soon. PHMSA (DoT, for those of you unfamiliar) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in April that may greatly affect gathering lines. If you work for an E&P and own some gathering lines incidental to your operations, you may want to pay close attention to these proposed changes. Among the proposed changes is the repeal of API RP80. This will extend PHMSA jurisdiction to those certain Type A Class One gathering lines. For those keeping track at home, those are rural gas gathering lines with a diameter of 8 inches and operating at an MAOP greater than or equal to 20%...or operating at 125psi for nonmetallic lines. There will also be a newly defined Moderate Consequence Area that will bring along its own integrity management rules with it.
If you're in the gathering line business, feel free to reach out to me and I'll be happy to send you info. I'm even willing to come home and meet with you about this. I've been finding a number of E&Ps here in Appalachia needing some help with these.
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Will affect drug testing programs too, I believe.
Need to be clear on what is a "control room" versus a "observation center" too from what I understand. I think how you define these has different requirements.
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I was reminded of this recently when I was talking to a young engineer who in turn had been talking to what laughably gets called his Career Manager. He was being put under considerable pressure to take a position which was, in short, ****: it was a crap role in a dodgy location and would have put substantial strain on his family. Even the monetary uplift wasn't that great. One of the levers his management was using to encourage him was the promise that if he took the position better opportunities "might" open up for him "later", and the company would look upon his decision to go favourably and hinted he would be rewarded in some unspecified manner in the future. Perhaps because he knew I am the most cynical person in the entire oil industry, he came to me for advice.
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If a farmer receives a call from a neighbor that one of his sheep has escaped and is standing in the road, he will go out, fetch the sheep, and put it back in the field where it belongs. Most likely the farmer will then make a tour of the hedgerows and fences to see where the sheep got out, and close up the hole when he finds it. Certainly, if he gets two such calls about his sheep standing in the road he will make damned sure he finds the hole in the fence.
That's because farmers are sensible folk. Oil and gas managers? Less so. If you approach any random manager in a modern oil and gas organisation let's say a Procurement Manager and tell him a purchase order for a vital spare part has been stuck in his department for the past 6 weeks without going anywhere, he will probably ask you for a few details, find the purchase order himself, and then get it issued. And then he'll sit back and enjoy the warm glow of satisfaction he gets from a job well done, a problem solved, and make a mental note to include this episode in the weekly report under the heading "Achievements". If he does this often enough, it might even warrant a mention on his CV.
What the Procurement Manager will rarely do is find out why this PO was stuck in the system for 6 weeks and take steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. In other words, he'll keep letting the sheep escape onto the road and only see the problem as being this one sheep on the road right now. You can probably imagine what the farmer's neighbor will think of him after the third phone call. It will be much the same opinion that an engineer will have of the Procurement Manager.
The Procurement Manager will not solve the root cause of the problem for one of two reasons:
1. He knows what the problem is, but lacks the knowledge, authority, or courage to solve it. Usually this takes the form of a possibly useless subordinate who is not being managed properly, but who enjoys continued employment in the role.
2. He doesn't realise that managing a process for the purpose of achieving a desirable outcome is his reason for being employed.
quote:Comfirmed no one hurt at this time. Fire was in a heavy crude unit, no explosion thankfully. Not sure of the cause just yet, but lightning is a possibility.
damn that looks bad. sounds like no one was hurt.
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I've worked in procurement and supply chain across almost all aspects and the amount I see this is ridiculous. It's amazing how little most companies put into optimizing the supply chain and let themselves get boxed into rules that they created.
That being said: I'm still trying to find work in supply chain if any one wants to help a brotha out.
