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Title: Natural Gas Odorization Techniques
Author: George S. Leachman
Source: 1968 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1968
Abstract: In order to stay in keeping with the newspaper journalists of today, I am going to to you concerning an alarming subject. After all, there is but one purpose to gas odorization and that is to alarm persons in the vicinity of an accurauition of natural gas, what ever be the cause of such an accumulation, and give warning to its presence. We are all aware of the disasters that have occurred when gas accumulations have gone undetected, though the practice of odorization is so widespread today that most of these disasters are long past. Most of all you who have worked with sweet natural gas know that it has a distinctive pleasant odor and for this reason I have been asked nnany times why we use an objectionable smelling compound to impart a warning odor to natural gas. There is a very good reason for this, as it was found a number of years ago by research work done, that people were not alarmed by pleasant odors and that a particularly objectionable one was required to give proper warning of the presence of gas.

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