$40 QUESTION -- Category: Oil Knowing
If you are drilling for natural gas, what does it smell like?
- Nothing. It's usually odorless and colorless.
- It has a strong odor sort of like rotten eggs -- you smell it at your stove at home.
- It's mostly methane gas, so it smells like a cross between rotting garbage and your brothers unwashed sweat socks.
Sorry! The correct answer is 1. Nothing. It's usually odorless and colorless. In nature, natural gas, which IS mostly methane, IS odorless. Before it is piped to storage tanks, however, a chemical is added that gives off the strong odor, making it possible for you to smell a gas leak.