Comments on: Deaths & Injuries in the Oil and Gas Industry are Excessive https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/11/01/deaths-injuries-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-are-excessive/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/11/01/deaths-injuries-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-are-excessive/#comment-247269 Mary Wildfire Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:33:47 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=29832#comment-247269 <strong>Why can't I read the one comment it says is already up?</strong> My comment is: I expect they report deaths accurately, serious injuries pretty accurately, avoid reporting minor injuries...but when it comes to ill health from chemical exposure to workers (and others) I'll bet the reporting barely touches the reality. How many workers get cancer, or other conditions, or father children with birth defects, because of this exposure? Who knows -- you can bet neither the industry nor any governmental body wants to look into that. Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV Why can’t I read the one comment it says is already up?

My comment is:

I expect they report deaths accurately, serious injuries pretty accurately, avoid reporting minor injuries…but when it comes to ill health from chemical exposure to workers (and others) I’ll bet the reporting barely touches the reality.

How many workers get cancer, or other conditions, or father children with birth defects, because of this exposure? Who knows — you can bet neither the industry nor any governmental body wants to look into that.

Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV

]]> By: Russian Oil https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/11/01/deaths-injuries-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-are-excessive/#comment-247199 Russian Oil Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:41:04 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=29832#comment-247199 <strong>How Russia contaminated $2.7 billion of oil exports to Europe - Reuters News Service, April 30, 2019</strong> The oil was contaminated with organic chlorides, compounds used in the industry to boost extraction from oilfields by cleaning oil wells and accelerating the flow of crude. The compounds must be removed before oil enters pipelines as they can destroy refining equipment or, at high temperatures, create the poisonous gas chlorine. Tests by Belarus on oil from Druzhba showed organic chloride levels of 150-330 parts per million (ppm) between April 19 and 22, according to Gomeltransneft documents seen by Reuters, well above the maximum 10 ppm allowed by Transneft. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-oil-insight/how-russia-contaminated-27-billion-of-oil-exports-to-europe-idUSKCN1S61YM How Russia contaminated $2.7 billion of oil exports to Europe – Reuters News Service, April 30, 2019

The oil was contaminated with organic chlorides, compounds used in the industry to boost extraction from oilfields by cleaning oil wells and accelerating the flow of crude.

The compounds must be removed before oil enters pipelines as they can destroy refining equipment or, at high temperatures, create the poisonous gas chlorine.

Tests by Belarus on oil from Druzhba showed organic chloride levels of 150-330 parts per million (ppm) between April 19 and 22, according to Gomeltransneft documents seen by Reuters, well above the maximum 10 ppm allowed by Transneft.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-oil-insight/how-russia-contaminated-27-billion-of-oil-exports-to-europe-idUSKCN1S61YM

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