Gas from the Terrebonne Gas Field, about twenty miles below Houma, La., is piped to the town for use as a fuel. The condensate which forms in the pipes is the subject of the investigation recorded in this paper. It differs from ordinary casinghead gasoline in boiling point and other properties. Fractional distillation gives products of fairly constant boiling points, the lowest fraction having the formula C~Z HZZ. The condensate contains no parafin hydrocarbons and is probably made up of

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... pentyl, CloH~s, and its homologs. H E gas wells of Louisiana, and for that matter, gas wells in general have, during the last few years,