Category Archives: Oil and Gas

ABC Wednesday – O is for…

Oil Tanks – from my office window.

We have lots of them in Tulsa, the former Oil Capital of the World. The United States burns about 19 million barrels of oil per day compared to about 14 million barrels per day for all the countries of the European Union put together. That takes lots of refineries and lots of tanks and lots of oil wells, and lots of pipelines. We may complain about the price of oil, but we want it and lots of it and we’ll want more next year than what we are using this year.

ABC Wednesday

Statistics from the CIA – The World Factbook

Signs, Signs, – Pipeline Crossroads

Cushing, Oklahoma is a major hub for many crude oil pipelines that criss-cross North America. It is also the benchmark price location for crude worldwide. When you hear about “West Texas Intermediate” crude oil prices it is the price posted in Cushing, Oklahoma for that grade of oil.

Signs, Signs,

Ruby Tuesday – Manly Oil and Gas Show Edition

Red, Red, What is Red????

I know last year’s Oklahoma Oil and Gas Trade Expo in Oklahoma City is Red.

The oilfield requires rough and tough stuff. The stuff painted red is the most rugged stuff. I don’t know how that got started but it is true.

Blue is used for electronics and other sensitive items that don’t belong on a drill site.

There was lots of manly red at the oil show.

My employer’s booth didn’t have any red. White and Blue are our colors. There may be “nothing finer than a pipeliner” but we don’t have all the manly stuff that oil and gas producer’s have. If we did, we wouldn’t be pipeliners, we would be producers.