Tank blasting in the Oil City area
Tank batteries, water tanks, and working steel around Oil City, blasted to spec by a Shreveport based crew and priced from the published sheet. Call (318) 708-2091 or send the form below.
Oil City is named honestly. The Caddo-Pine Island field around it has produced since the nineteen-oughts, and the leases still pump today, which means tank batteries and lease steel that have been repainted, patched, and repainted again for generations. Stripper-well economics are tight, and the steel shows it: a lot of tanks up here are one coating cycle from steel repair territory.
Caddo Tank Blasting gives the old field honest treatment. Batteries get assessed before they get quoted, because a hundred-year-old lease deserves to know whether a tank is worth blasting or worth replacing, and we say which in writing. The ones worth saving, most of them, get blasted to sound steel, primed the same day, and coated with systems that respect a stripper operator’s budget without lying about lifespan.
Per-tank pricing off the published sheet keeps the math simple, and one mobilization covering several small batteries is how this field’s economics work best. Caddo Lake’s environmental sensitivity is part of the plan: containment and media recovery come standard near the water.
Blasting next to Caddo Lake
Near Caddo Lake, containment is not optional courtesy, it is the job. Spent abrasive and old coating chips have no business in a cypress lake, so shoreline-adjacent work runs full ground containment with media recovered, bagged, and hauled. It costs a little more and it is on the quote as its own line.
The old field, road by road
The work comes from the Caddo-Pine Island field roads, Highway 1 lease country, the Caddo Lake shoreline leases, stripper-well batteries north of town, covering ZIP 71061. If your tanks stand near those, the crew has probably already worked within sight of them.
Assess an Oil City battery
Describe the tanks, their condition, and the site; the quote comes off the published rate sheet.
Caddo-Pine Island questions
Is my old lease tank worth blasting or should it be replaced?
The honest answer comes from a hammer test and a look inside: sound steel with surface rust is worth blasting and coating for a fraction of replacement, while pitting past minimum wall thickness is not. We assess before quoting and put the verdict in writing, whichever way it goes.
Can you do small stripper-well batteries affordably?
Yes, by batching. Mobilization dominates small-job cost, so two or three neighboring batteries sharing one trip is how stripper economics pencil. The per-tank rates on the published sheet already assume batching for the small end.
What about environmental rules near the lake?
Shoreline-adjacent blasting runs full containment: ground protection, captured and recovered media, and disposal in a documented waste stream, in line with Louisiana DEQ expectations for coating debris. It is priced as a line item and planned before the compressor starts.
Do you also handle pump jacks and lease structures?
Yes, everything on the pad in steel: pump jack frames, separators, heater-treaters, catwalks, and containment walls. Lease steel prices per square foot off the sheet, and it batches with tank work on the same mobilization.
Caddo Tank Blasting covers the Ark-La-Tex from its Shreveport base. See the full service rundown, the rate sheet, or nearby areas: Bossier City, Haughton, Mansfield, Minden.