Damn operators.

[Wilier]

As you may, or may not, know, I work on an oil refinery. As part of our role as maintenance, we are also the Emergency Response Team. We get maybe 1 or 2 shouts a week.

Today we got called to a hayoooge fire on one of our crude units. Big fire, lots of flames, lots of smoke, lots of contractors running away (understandable). It took approx 20 mins to isolate the fire, which on first estimates has caused roughly £3mill damage, not including lost production of that unit (about £250k an hour).

All this was caused by an operator opening a drain valve on the wrong vessel allowing the fire monster (900 deg F thermal tar at about 450 psi) to spew its guts all over the place.

Operators, I'd sack em all.

 

[old.Kez]

I can't actually imagine £3million damage, what a ridiculously expensive world we live in.

(fnar, shamblee operators)

 

[Testin da Cable]

eep Wilier matey

 

[Summo]

Yikes! :uhoh:

But I question the worth of a valve which allows 900 deg F thermal tar at about 450 psi to spew its guts all over the place.

It may be a point to raise at the next management meeting.

 

[Munkey-]

hey! my dad works as an operator. competent chap.


BHP was testing pipes for leaks. he advised against their methods and suggested using water instead of oil.


they used oil.


oil in liverpool bay. f00ls


he also did the pig run things but he's moved to QP now

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

I was hoping this was a thread about plus and minus signs....

 

[FunGas]

that's gonna be a reet-bastard to get off the carpet Willier

 

[Wilier]

Originally posted by SomeGuy
Yikes! :uhoh:

But I question the worth of a valve which allows 900 deg F thermal tar at about 450 psi to spew its guts all over the place.

It may be a point to raise at the next management meeting.

It was a 1 1/2" drain valve, which allows the contents of the vessel to be drained for maintenance. The product is usually cold when this is done though. Thing is, he had to remove a plug from the end of the valve first.

 

[Testin da Cable]

does kind of make you wonder doesn't it? that bit about plug-removal and all heh. it wasn't sealed with one of those twisty-wire thingys as well was it?

 

[caLLous]

Hehe, I love your technical descriptions.

Like the "up and downy bit" on the Citroen BX.

 

[Wilier]

No m8, in fairness, he was supposed to be draining a different vessel, same duty and everything, but not on-line.

I expect it was a bit of a shock for the stupid twat.

 

[Testin da Cable]

heh I guess so

hopefully peeps have taken note and the 'days since previous accident' counter can get reeeeeeal long

 

[Wilier]

Handily enough, our Safety Incetive scheme only gets a knock if someone is injured.

Dangerous Occurences dont count. So I can keep raking in the safety points. 100 points = £1.

 

[Summo]

Heh heh. Sounds like our 'Server Downtime' measurement process. You'd think that if a server went down it would be measured. Oh, no.

If a server goes down due to power failure I don't record it. Not our fault, see and the server would run if there was power. If any components fail so the server can't do it's job BUT it can still be switched on and booted, it doesn't get recorded because it's still 'available'. Even if the network cards b0rk so nobody can actually connect to it - no matter. The server is still up and running.

Even if, for example, all the Exchange services fail throughout the whole organisation meaning nobody can access their mailboxes, but the servers can still boot, then no problem. They're still 'up'.

This is how businesses can brag 99.999% uptime. It takes a server to catch fire and melt before it counts as downtime.

 

[Testin da Cable]

lol too right


"HEYOURSERVERISDOWNJ00FUCKERS!!!!!"
"I'm sorry Sir, the server is just hunkydory."
"BUTICANTGETTOMYFILESANDIHAVEASMALLPENISANDITSALLYOURFAULT!!!!!!!"
"Of course it is Sir."
"WELL?"
"Sir, it may well be that the application running on the server no longer functions."
"WHEN WILL IT BE FIXED????"
"As soon as you call the appdev people with your helpdesk call number. Before that you will have to call the helpdesk to get a number."
"!@!^*#*^!$!!@#$EFWF@!!!$452!!!!!!!"
"Goodbye."

*watch boss walk into office*

"You were badmouthing a customer again weren't you?"
"No Sir: he was badmouthing me."
"Next time you'll do better won't you?"
"Of course I will Sir."
"Sir? You can report to upper management that our servers were 100% up again this month! Isn't that nice?"
"Well done! Have a halfday off!"

 

[Mellow-]

LMFAO!!!