I shoot the 10 regularly at the range and will be back in AK (hopefully!) this summer for a few weeks where they will provide more bear defense firearms training like last year, lots of fun. My original niche was mineral sands which is just titanium-bearing minerals and the mineral zircon in large shallow sand bodies (old license plate when I was the geo for that company was "I FND TI") but I've branched out a bit and now do mainly rare earth element-hosting minerals ("critical minerals" is the buzz word now...gotta have those phones, HUD in the fighter jets, magents for the windmills, and of course materials for those EV batteries!). The AK project I support is actually primiarly a placer gold play but it all kinda works together with my background so I go with it.
Various Mobil 1 formulas tested in HPL’s lab! Motor Oil Geek LSJr video
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I worked for Key Energy Services and Kissack Water and Oil, in Wy for a bit over a year, during the resession in 2009 era. Mostly for Anadarko. Some i know a bit about the oil field and NG more specifically.....the "clean" side.Guns and plumbing....combine for something interesting! Fix a pipe, shoot some guns! I watch several gun YT channels, I like hickock45 but yes, saturated for sure. I will feel accomplished when I finally hit the magic watch hours number, should happen next year I anticipate...I can't wait to cash those $2.67/mos checks. I wish I could do more geology-related content...drilling, exploration, etc. but as an indy consultant, really can't/shouldn't post stuff publically without my client's consent and honestly, better to keep all of that private even though I really get to see/do some neat things in my line of work! An oil video is in the works...
I don't know a thing about oil/gas beyond the very basics, not in my specialty or educational area. Have some friends that do/did it...very volatile but of course b/c of that, pays the most!
Guns and plumbing....combine for something interesting! Fix a pipe, shoot some guns! I watch several gun YT channels, I like hickock45 but yes, saturated for sure. I will feel accomplished when I finally hit the magic watch hours number, should happen next year I anticipate...I can't wait to cash those $2.67/mos checks
Or... flex those skills and show off some impressive potato cannon designs.
Speaking of YT - my all time favs both involve gold!
https://www.youtube.com/@mbmmllc (super local guy!)
https://www.youtube.com/@sreetips
Oddly, plenty of repetition but never bored and voices don't bug me.
You brought up drilling, so I figured I would bring it up. We completed wells mostly, drilling out a plug, with a 100k drill bit. Broke several in the process.
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Such goes a sedimentary lifestyleGuns and plumbing....combine for something interesting! Fix a pipe, shoot some guns! I watch several gun YT channels, I like hickock45 but yes, saturated for sure. I will feel accomplished when I finally hit the magic watch hours number, should happen next year I anticipate...I can't wait to cash those $2.67/mos checks
Mobil 1’s website only shows x4 so I assume x3 is discontinued, but you still see it on the shelves. Mobil 1 is pretty stingy with specs but x4 has a slightly lower KV100 and a slightly lower pour point so the base oil blend is probably different.
If SDS are to be believed they show x4 possibly having more PAO, 10-25% vs 0-10%, and both having 25-50% GTL.
Maybe he’s saving that comparison for another video or that’s just what they had on the shelf near him.
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These pictures capture the key information.
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100% agree with that assessment. Things can very often get skewered when folks tend to assume.
I believe in one of his videos he did some testing to show how much oil degrades over time so likely was just leveraging those data here.
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Yeah, doesn’t hurt to consider what goes into all forms of mineral extraction and not just oil & gas …
I think awareness has increased in the last decade but was pretty lame for a long time … No free lunch having “nice” stuff …
On the flip side I don’t think he’s making an unreasonable assumption. If you know the old Mobil 1 blend was majority PAO with ester mixed in for additive solvency / seal swelling, you expect a lower oxidation value. Seeing values over 100 is either severe oxidation or something that’s got a lot of ester in it like HPL EC oil.
That assumption only breaks down if you’re completely off on how much ester the oil originally contained or if the esters used decades ago were molecularly different enough and happened to have a super high baseline oxidation value that you don’t see today.
It’s probably me but I find him hard to listen to after a few minutes. Maybe it’s the raspy voice or maybe it’s because I’m getting old and lack the focus I once had. It seems like he keeps branching off the main subject until I have no idea what he’s talking about. I’m sure it’s all related, but it’s hard to follow.