Only 0.06% of the earth's crust is sulphur.
Between now and this time next year, U.S. industry will need more than 8 million long tons of sulphur, an indispensable raw material for chemicals and fertilizers. Between now and 1975, U.S. industry will need 100 million tons of sulphur. Between now and the year 2000, U.S. industry will need 750 million tons of sulphur. Do we have enough sulphur on this continent, or in the rest of the world? The exploration work now under way by Texas Gulf Sulphur says yes. But finding and developing the reserves needed to keep sulphur low cost and plentiful is an expensive and time consuming job. TGS is hard at work solving the problem. A concern for tomorrow's sulphur needs first brought TGS to sources other than the Frasch mines of the Gulf Coast. In 1950, we opened our first gas processing and sulphur recovery plant
at Worland, Wyoming. For seven years, this plant was the largest operation of its kind in the world. At Worland, the process for recovering elemental sulphur from the hydrogen sulphide in sour natural gas was perfected. This knowledge was then put to work in Canada. TGS was among the first to recognize the sulphur potential in the sour gas reserves of western Canada. Our first plant was opened at Okotoks in 1959. Then, in 1962, we added a plant near Whitecourt, Alberta. The sour gas reserves of Canada have already increased world production of sulphur more than 1.5 million long tons a year. Today, we are one of Canada's largest sulphur producers, with an output of more than a third of a million tons a year. And ad-
ditional capacity is on the way. Our Whitecourt plant is being enlarged by about 70 per cent to process the increased gas flow. Our oil and gas exploration crews are at work in other areas of Alberta and British Columbia. The drilling program has aleady revealed substantial flows of sour gas, adding to our Canadian sulphur reserves. New reserves are just one key to sulphur supply. Each year wefindnew ways to streamline our Frasch operations. And research studies are under way to improve the efficiency of the process for converting the hydrogen sulphide in sour gas to sulphur. With TGS, the search for sulphur is never-ending. Our present underground reserves and aboveground stockpiles, plus reserves we're now exploring, will help us fill the widening gap between supply and demand. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, 200 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY
