Posted on 10/28/2019 12:20:54 PM PDT by luvie
Sad...prayers for their children,
I used to smell that rotten egg small passing an oil field south of Corsicans Texas...it was not near a town.
It is separated from sour Well gas by means of amine absorption. Once separated it is usually converted to elemental sulfur in liquid form, then cooled and solidified for further sale. The process of separating H2S from natural gas is referred to as gas sweetening. H2S is very lethal and has wiped out entire maintenance and operating crews in gas plants and refineries. Very serious stuff.
It’s just awful. I feel so badly for their little kids but thankful that they didn’t get out of that car!
Indeed!
Thank God they have grandparents to care for them!
May all who loved the parents be comforted.
Nope,if you own land in Ector County you do not own the mineral rights. They were retained by the original owners and over the years have been leased,sold or donated to the University school system.(out around Goldsmith)
If the oil companies want to drill a well in your backyard they have to pay you for access rights but you can't stop them and the royalties go to whoever owns the mineral rights.
You might want to check with an attorney but that's pretty close to right as I recall and I still have friends that dread the day an oil company shows up to drill a well on their land because there's not a thing they can legally do to stop it.
BTW,I was born and raised in and around Odessa and ended up back there from time to time my whole life. It's pure poison to me and since my mother passed the only way I'd go back is with a bullet between my eyes and they drag my rotting corpse back. Yeah,I hate it that bad.
Rotten egg odor is H2S. Effect depends on exposure concentration. If you suddenly smell strong rotten egg and it just as quickly vanishes, you really have a problem. It’s a neurotoxin and deadens your sense of smell first. Only option is to hustle yourself out of the area and yell for help.
I wasn’t referring to the mineral rights but the proximity to a neighborhood of homes to a facility that would produce, even by accident, HS2 inside it. I know about mineral rights, as I have some...some very useless ones in another Texas location.
Congrats on “escaping” Odessa. I would leave here in a heartbeat but my hubby likes it and he also hates moving. He did that too much growing up around here with a dad that was a tool pusher...and when in the AF. So here we sit. LOL!
I’m sure the whole family is in shock right now. Hard to answer the questions little kids have about where their parents are. So sad.
Odessa's always been boom or bust and from what I hear it's boom on a whole new level. Ya'll get after 'em and hubby won't mind moving with enough money to burn up a wet elephant. :)
I’ve seen those that are in the middle of the street. :)
It has gotten completely nuts here. This boom has brought more people than the roads or the house situation can handle. People are living in motor homes in “man camps”. There are not enough people for the jobs in other sectors than the oil business.
Our main problem is we’re retired, our house is paid for and our son lives in WY where housing is waaaaay more than we can handle. So we’re stuck. Oh, well. At least it’s not NY or CA. LOL!
Not true. H2S has a VERY strong odor and stinks really bad. I've got a deep water well on my place that emits it. The water is otherwise good if you can stand the smell of it. If you leave a container of it sitting out for several hours, the gas will leave it and it will smell and test just fine.
LurkingSince'98 wrote:"If you can smell it you are already dead."
"Same reason a local farmer and his son are dead - father slid into a manure pit - his son went in after him."
H2S concentrations below 8ppm are considered safe for limited exposure. At 12 ppm and above though, it knocks out your sense of smell and you never smell it again. You may think it's safe. The more you breath in the less O2 you get. Then the continued exposure has a cumulative effect until the passage of most all of the oxygen into the blood is prevented. At that point you black out and never wake up again (unless rescued by someone in SCBA gear).
Very sneaky stuff. A natural gas found in the earth and encountered when drilling and producing natural gas and not a byproduct of drilling and production. Even a manure pile can make it!
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