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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nolan Workman, post: 2987177, member: 87452&quot;]The company I worked for was called Corrosion Controls and we were in Taft, California in the oil patch. I was 18 at the time; we were told the HF we got at Allied Chemical was 100% and was a liquid when we got it, if it was a less percentage, my ignorance, but the engineers calculated amount that went into tanker trucks and then mixed with water, it was pumped down hole in wells to &quot;stimulate&quot; them&nbsp; open the perforations in the casing as the crude in the local fields was heavy. We also used HC, which was less volatile; we only transported the HF at night, when the HF had been in the hole long enough, an arresting agent, looked like animal fat, was pumped into the hole to stop the reaction or it would consume the casing.The tanker truck always left before sun up and the mix down hole quickly. The only thing it wouldn&#039;t eat was plastic and wax. The fumes would blind you and scar your lungs, eat your boots, pants and if you got enough on your skin, you got to see bones.</p><p>One night leaving Allied Chemical, the discharge valve at the back of the truck sprang a leak and I burned up a bunch of the freeway. the Allied loading crew didn&#039;t secure it. I assumed it was 100% as it was always diluted before use.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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