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Well, who currently works in the Petroleum Industry? Do you work for a gas station, or an oil company? Maybe a pipeline company?
I work for a company that services modern pumps. I am a Calibrator. How about you?

I also work for a company that services pumps and tests tanks and secondary containment sumps, Monitor systems and all that has to do with fueling.

I am currently working for a pipeline construction company

I work as a welding/quality inspector inspecting everything from downhole tools to Large vessels.

Retired from Frontier refining in Cheyenne WY after 30yrs. service as a machinest. Lifetime member of the OCAW now USW union. Mitch

Going on 34 years in petroleum industry. The drilling and completion of oil/gas wells, roughneck to consultant.

It is 42 years for me this month, started in 1968 as driver pulling doubles, coming off the truck in 1989 to dispatch & later become the transportation manager for a multi branded jobber. I am now semi-retired working 2 days a week doing a little paper work & most anything else that needs to be done including shuttling equipment, small deliveries, etc.

Dave

In 1980 I started working on Texas Oil drilling rigs. In 1984 I switched to trucking. I've been driving for Marathon Oil for 26 years.
Chuck

Stated hauling fuel in i990, Been with the same small trucking co. now going on 21 years. We haul for Shell & Chevron jobber here in New Mexico. Nelson

Former service station dealer, currently work part time at the only full service station in the area.

This is interesting!!

I work as a lab technician at Valero Refining. It used to be the old Texas City Refinery and was one of the first refineries built on the gulf coast back in the early 1900's. I think at one time in the 70's they had a branded gas and stations called Rebel Gas.
I transferred from the Valero Houston Refinery which was originally commissioned by the government in the late 30's to produce fuel for the onset of war. It later became Signal Oil in the late 60's and in the Crude Unit that I was an operator in, the Signal logo was done in a mosaic on our control room floor. That facility then became Charter Oil which was also a branded gas and had a few stations in our area.
The only other thing to note is that the Refinery I work at in Texas City is down the road from where the Texas City disaster occured when a ship carrying fertilizer exploded in 1947(?)killing 600 people and basically leveling the town. The anchor from the disaster was blown over a mile away and at one time was located in the front of our refinery entrance.

Retired from Shell Oil Refinery in Deer Park, TX as a Pressure Equipment Inspector. Still do some part-time work in the industry. Met zooman while working across the street from Valero.

Hi
I'm working for a pump and tank co in Md.We do everything that has to do with the equip in a station.Been doing this for 20 yr,s.
Bill

Hey Zooman , some great history there !I used to live up in North Houston . I owned a Custom Van parts manufacturing company . I sold a lot of stuff that wiorked at you're place of employment too. Ed Shaver

My brother and I own a trucking company in North Dakota. We haul water and crude oil in the oil fields, started in 1980 with 3 trucks and are currently running over 200, we have one of the biggest booms in the nation right now with 140 drilling rigs in North Dakota! Anybody looking for a job. LOL.

avio;
I started trucking in West Texas hauling Crude and Salt Water after I quite working on the drilling rigs. I quit the rigs after the price fell on crude in '81, and they were stacking them out faster than you could find a job.
Then ran a "Kill" truck for a while, for the same outfit.
My truck had a "triplex" on it, most used "duplexes". I could take a lot of work away from the competion because of it.
Moved back to Indiana to haul "Light Products" in '84.
That Texas outfit had every kind of truck you could imagine, and the different transmissions to go with them. I learned a lot that first year.
Hardest one I had to learn had a 5 x 4 x 2. 40 gears in that thing..... Ought to be a law against that many gears....
Hope your drivers don't have the rattle snake problems we had.
They would be in the shade of the cool tanks during the summer.
We would pull up to a lease and there might be 2 or 3 under the loading valves, plus the vibration of the truck while loading would drawn them.
Then there were the times I would be 50 miles out in the desert in the middle of nowhere during the night, and all of a sudden see Red and Green lights behind me..... Border Patrol... that's a whole other story.
That job never got boring, always something new happening. It's probably the same for your drivers.
Chuck

My brother and I own/run a third generation tank manufacturer/fab shop/petroleum equipment distribution/service company.

Yes you can still buy cathodically protected steel tanks, it's not all fiberglass out there.

Chuck. Sounds like some things never change, we run about every truck manufacturer that you can imagine, that is if they are heavy duty to work in the hills and the crappy roads! When we first started out we flow tested wells and had to check well head pressures every hour, in the cool nites of the summer the rattle snakes loved to curl up with a warm well head. It was always very interesting walking up to one of those at 2 o'clock in the morning, in the dark, and be greeted by a rattle snake!! Of course in the winter when it is -30 below, with a wind chill of -50 below, don't see many snakes. LOL.

Tokeim.
Do you guys build frac tanks or up-rights? They are in hot demand up here right now! As are fabricators!

I've been with Holiday Stationstores for (18) years - another (22) and I can retire! Don't know if we can hold off the electric cars that long, LOL!

Started out an Assistant Manager & am now a Food Safety Technician (we're almost as much of a quick-service restaurant these days, as we are a gas station!)

Too old to hold a regular job, but back in the 1970s I owned two service stations (Shell & Phillips) and managed a third (Sunoco).

Jack Sim

My Father started a Sunoco station back in the 60"s in NY and I went on to take it over and opened two others until 2000 when I sold out to a large oil company in PA. Then worked for two other Oil Distributors for 6 yrs.

Jack;
Passing on your knowledge to us with your Books, is a deed that will live on forever. Long after our tasks are forgotten.
So in essence, you still play a vital roll in the Petroleum Industry, preserving a part of its history.
Chuck

I'm typing this while at work on Shell Ram/Powell Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico. I am a production operator and have been in the Gulf for thirteen years, but have been on Oldgas longer than that, with various names.