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Originally Posted by Ray
I didn't start this thread in the Premium section cause I wanted everyone to see the show. It is about Louisiana. This is predominantly a Louisiana forum.
My biggest gripe about the show is all the people saying they got sick from the smell of the oil slick on Grand Isle.
I have worked in 100% pure crude over half my life and never got any sickness over it. I smell it, I have been covered in it, I have tasted it(not on purpose), I have had it get on cuts and even in my eyes and it never made me sick. How can a sheen or slick miles away make people sick???
How come people who work in refineries, barges, tanker ships, ect., don't get these same sicknesses?
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If you ever get some crude oil that has any
hydrogen sulfide in it....that stuff is BAD. I was out in the refiener checking for which heat exchanger had a leaking tube [Cooling Tower water was getting messed up]. I found one sample point the had just a little "gas" come out when I opened up the line. Got a whiff of H2SO4....then nothing. I went on to check several more exchangers. Then I went back to check the suspected exchanger.....but smelled nothing this time.
Well.....my nose was "killed" when I got the first whiff. In the next 30 minutes, I had the worst headache ever and felt really bad. I felt very bad for the next 6 or 8 hours.