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A lot of contractors in the oilfield are being told they **must sign up for platforms like ISNetworld or Veriforce just to be allowed to work. We’re told it’s about safety. But if you actually read their own material, you’ll see something interesting. @NickJFreitas @Oilfield_Rando @Tejanobrown @TXOGA @HawkDunlap @matlockfortexas ISN publishes ESG white papers that talk about things like environmental reporting, governance metrics, and social policies. Veriforce also markets ESG risk management solutions and discusses DEI under the “social” pillar of ESG. That’s not speculation. It’s on their own sites. So the question is simple: When did contractor safety platforms become ESG tracking systems? Because that’s a pretty big shift from what they were originally sold as. Once the industry centralizes contractor access through a digital compliance platform, whoever controls the platform can decide what gets tracked. Today it’s insurance forms and OSHA logs. Tomorrow it could be anything someone decides belongs under “governance.” But here’s the part people in the field already know: Paperwork doesn’t keep people safe. Safety comes from people who understand their equipment. People who know: •how the system actually works •what failure looks like before it happens •what a bad vibration or pressure swing really means You can have every box checked in the system and still have someone running equipment they don’t truly understand. Anyone who’s worked around compressors, plants, pipelines, or drilling rigs has seen that firsthand. The safest operations I’ve ever seen had one thing in common: The people running the equipment knew the physics of what they were operating. Not just the procedure. The physics. The failure modes. The consequences. But instead of investing in that kind of knowledge, the industry keeps moving toward outsourcing safety to compliance platforms. More subscriptions. More dashboards. More paperwork. Meanwhile the people actually running the equipment often get less real training, not more.That’s backwards. Safety isn’t something you outsource to a software platform. Safety comes from knowledge, responsibility, and ownership of the work. The oilfield was built on that. Maybe it’s time the industry remembered it.

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Why did Doc Pete Chambers throw his name in the hat for Governor? Because he's fought for Texas and this nation in and out of uniform and the situation we all find ourselves in is unsustainable. Texans can't tolerate more of the same old "all optics and no action". Doc understands the problems from actually being on the ground, understands how to wield authority, and he'll lead from the front in executing the plans to fix the neglect from the last 10 years. #TexasNeedsADoc

6” 150 and 6” 300 dry coolers for water engineered for Anschutz Exploration in Wyoming, and a little 125 HP skid we re-built and retrofitted from R22 to natural gas, with engineering done for air cooled oil cooler for Strata Production. Couple of fan cooler engineering projects and skids we were able to be apart of. You would be amazed at how often dry coolers are shorted when engineered.

2 trucks later, 1 hydraulic hose blown on outrigger fixed, and finally have a compressor headed towards Texas! Now I need someone to pick up the mini gas plant in ND…#SGPOWER

Playing fetch with Koda, chicken and turkey puppies @mira62324

Commissioning a couple of older Screw Compressor Skids and its R290 (pure propane) refrigeration system for customer. Motors are 1750Hp coupled to SGC 3515 Frick Screw Compressors. Always like a challenge 🤦‍♂️ can fix anything, coming together finally

Frick 120S Overhaul

Somewhere in New Mexico….

Make more NGLS!

😂😂😂"Rube Goldberg setups." These setups are characterized by an overly elaborate series of contraptions designed to perform a simple task in a convoluted way, inspired by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who was famous for his illustrations of such machines. This was done by contractor for one of the largest oil and gas producers in the world…. Redid the hydraulic system for slide valve actuation on Howden screw compressor…Each of those rotating valves they installed to utilize the pneumatic solenoids on side, they actually don’t do anything and cost thousands of dollars each… what they removed was 1 solenoid and sub plate that may cost $500 at most, on top of that they are using 24VDC to actuate pneumatic valves that then actuate the oil valves. Simple solution is to just use 24VDC solenoid D03 hydraulic valve and eliminate the pneumatics. When you consider these contractors have to be apart of Veriforce or ISNETWORLD and you see they may qualify under “safety” guidelines set forth to be a qualified contractor it makes you wonder how do you define safety? When you outsource safety to these 3rd parties and never consider the exposure that happens by not training people on technical knowledge of the equipment you aren’t safe at all, you are just checking a corporate plausible deniability checkbox for safety. If you understand the “how things work” the common sense of how to work on things safely comes naturally. Instead we see technicians who over complicate troubleshooting and do hard things first exposing themselves to more risky maintenance activities instead of doing the practical less risky things first. Example “ slide valve solenoid doesn’t seem to be working, guys blow down refrigeration skid to change out solenoid, blows down unit too quickly causing Auto-refrigeration and now machine full of 200 gallons of liquid refrigerant, if they solve that problem then they may realize the hydraulic pockets for slide valve can still be pressurized despite skid pressure being 0, more exposure, then once they replace solenoid and put unit back on realize it was only a relay output or fuse or simply the coil that could have been replaced eliminating all of that exposure. I see this kinda stuff everyday and yet they will balk on a $10K training class that would save them millions and increase safety.

When Notre Dame had their first playoff game appearance since 2020 against the University of Indiana they needed to make sure the campus power they generated would be reliable to keep the lights on at the historic game. When an issue arose with a Frick screw compressor that boosts natural gas to the 5MW Solar turbines that make power for the campus who did rely on for troubleshooting, repair, and training? SG INDUSTRIES…

My daughter made this for me… this was pictures from a couple of 1500 HP Frick 355S ammonia Thermosyphon cooled skids converted to air cooled Natural Gas for Strata Production in New Mexico. These skids were originally at a Yale Research Facility and found in a junk yard in Indiana.