Arabianbusiness.com

by Stuart Matthews on Monday, 07 May 2007

The continued worldwide development of sour oil and gas reserves is having an impact on the global sulphur market.

According to Peter Clark, technical manager for Alberta Sulphur Research (ASR), voluntary sulphur production has almost ceased in the last few years. Speaking on the sidelines of last week’s Sour Oil & Gas Advanced Technology (SOGAT) conference in Abu Dhabi, Clark explained that the amount of sulphur created by sour oil and gas treatment exceeds world demand.

“Future development of heavy oil and bitumen in Alberta, Canada, has the potential to completely overwhelm the world market. We need to look at adopting new strategies.” ….

(The article goes on to explain that sulphur could be used as a fuel for power plants, with the sulphur-dioxide that will then be produced to be injected into the ground. [1] Full Story — off-site)