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Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on August 18, 2012 at 1:04am

Depends upon the size of truck of course. In my area as a rule a tanker Class B truck with dual rears axles usually hauls off 100bbl tanks that usually ship 80 barrels of oil, Roughly crude weighs 308 pounds to the barrel thus = about 24,640 pounds  add the weight of the truck sat 12,000 that about limits the load that a class B can haul due to load limits by the bridge formula. Not this varies as axle spacing drop axles can change the figures. When it comes to the regular semi tanker max load is 80,000 lbs max , but you have to consider if the semi can negotiate in the area due to bridge , road weight limits, road design its self can limit a semi. 

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Permalink Reply by Brian Powers on August 18, 2012 at 2:01am

bo-

The transports that we used to haul crude and saltwater when I worked in the mid continent US decades ago carried 160 oilfield barrels (42 US gallons per bbl) per load. We typically had small  "heater treaters" on site to separate water and free gas from the crude before it went to the tank; the haulers sampled the tanks and ran the samples through a small hand cranked centrifuge to determine the BS&W (basic sediment and water) content and the API gravity (density) of the oil, both of which affected the price paid by the gatherer/reseller.

 

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on August 18, 2012 at 2:34am

Brian a good example of what size truck ya using?  So many questions in this area  but with so many ify's it really is hard to try and give a definitive answer.

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Permalink Reply by Dan on August 18, 2012 at 5:32am

Alot of the folks out there today would frown on just burning off the gas to get the oil.  More eyes are watching with a lot more scrutiny.

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Permalink Reply by 0i7okn54zwbdo on August 18, 2012 at 1:15pm

Bo,

The answer to your question is that it's too damn expensive to use a tanker truck to haul the liquids off every few days.  Liquids (non-oil) are already down in price so an operator doesn't want to further diminish their margin by adding an expense that isn't long term, i.e. using trucks (temporary) vs. pipeline (permanent).

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