On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:35:30 GMT, strabo wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:41:28 -0600, charles krin
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:53:43 -0600, Bob G wrote:


snipped

With hydrogen sulfide, at 800 ppm, you're going nowhere. Not
escaping. You hit the deck abruptly and promptly. Immediate
unconciousness.

yep...and within 4 minutes or less of becoming unconscious, you are
dead...

I recall that smell when driving around petroleum plants south
of Houston. Is there a connection with these plants?

It is associated with many types of oil...one clue there is that much
of the original Texas classifications was "Light, Sweet Crude"...where
there wasn't much of sulfur in the oil...

So, smelling Sulfides around a petroleum plant (or a paper mill for
that matter, where sulfites are used for bleaching), is not unusual.

And as far as the oil fields go, there is an old John Wayne movie,
"The Hellfighters"...a mildly fictionalized version of Red Adair's
life...where Red, Boots and Coots were actual consultants on the
set...they had one scene in Malaysia where the well out of control was
a H2S well...

ck
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