Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - The Calcasieu Parish Public Library will be hosting a special lecture by Thom Trahan about the Sulphur Mines on Monday, March 7, 2022. The special lecture will be held on ...

FRASCH, HERMAN (25 Dec. 1851-1 May 1914), chemical engineer and inventor whose work proved valuable to the STANDARD OIL CO., was born in Gaildorf, State of Wurttemberg, Germany and apprenticed to a ...

(WVUE) - Today, this Southwest Louisiana city is in the middle of a massive petrochemical complex. But a century ago, it was home to sulfur mining. You can safely assume that a town named Sulphur ...

Bright yellow though it be, sulphur is, from one point of view, a pretty green product as well. Its principal source, providing more than 80% of the total made, is compounds derived from refining oil ...