Sour gas is bad ju ju.
I worked for the company that laid the pipelines from the first 7 wells to the plant in the sour gas field south of Jackson, Ms. Down at Piney Woods, Ms. That's the place where they found a whole crew dead one morning. They didn't know the sour gas was down there and drilled into it during the night. That hole is on a hill and the well bore is contained in a small cinder block building. You could walk out into the woods around the site and see small animal skeletons all over the place.
When we were doing tie-ins at the wells or plant, there was a man with a monitor on site. If he said to go, we had to go upwind at least 200 yds and wait until he said we could come back to work. Sometimes it was a few minutes and sometimes we'd set there all day.
Old man I had heard stories of H2S and dead crews, nothing really specific. Like to hear more. Get it sometimes now in the coal game but nothing like oilfield.
1984 on NW Shelf they evacuated Sedco 600 back to Karratha, supposed to come to us on the Energy Searcher but went to the mainland instead. Apparently lot of H2S on testing. We used to test for it, and I remember one driller asking if we had any when we had twist offs and some etched pipe, but nothing showed up.
