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Title: Odorization
Author: J. Ronald Pope
Source: 1978 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1978
Abstract: Natural gas, as it is obtained from gas wells, is both odorless and colorless. It is composed , primarily of methane, but it also contains small amounts of ethane, propane, and other heavier hydrocarbons. AI though these heavier hydrocarbons have a faint sweetish smell, natural gas as a whole has no odor due to its large content of methane, which is odorless. The process of adding an odor, or odorant, to natural gas was begun in the early 1900s and was done for purely economic reasons, as it made it eas ier to locate gas leaks for repai r. Now, federal and state regulations require that an odor be added to natural gas so that it is readily detectable by someone with a normal sense of smell.

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