A hydrogen sulfide leak at Utah's most historically productive oil and gas field has led residents of San Juan County to call for greater regulation of Elk Petroleum's operations on Navajo Nation ...

The smell of oil wells has long permeated Caldwell County, near Austin and San Antonio. Now researchers have documented wells releasing dangerous amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas.

The oil of these wells - rich in sulfur - contains very high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which can cause a contamination of 250,000ppm (ppm=parts per million) within the ambient air ...

Many oil field workers keep H2S monitors on them to alert them to high levels of the gas, which has a strong smell similar to rotten eggs. What does hydrogen sulfide do to your body?

Poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas is well-known in the oil field for its ability to kill quickly, but less understood are the effects on neighborhoods near oil production sites that are regularly ...

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL DENVER CITY — Thirty-five years ago on the morning of Feb. 2, a city of about 4,100 people awoke to the biggest oil field-related tragedy it had ever experienced. A very small l… ...

The first readings Abigail Edgar took of hydrogen sulfide and methane at oil fields in Caldwell County in 2021 were so high that she thought her equipment was malfunctioning. “It was off the scales.

B renham emergency officials briefly issued a shelter-in-place order for residents near Oil Field Road after workers drilling a water well struck pockets of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and oil ...

HOUSTON — Brenham emergency officials briefly issued a shelter-in-place order for residents near Oil Field Road after workers drilling a water well struck pockets of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ...

Because the oil field contains gas with high levels of hydrogen sulfide, the water circulating through the pumps does, too. Aghorn acquired the site in the mid-1990s, records show.

The Kashagan oil field ... The problem is the harsh and corrosive nature of hydrogen sulfide gas, or H2S. Two 55-mile pipelines have to be totally replaced because sulfide gas has corroded them.