In oil and gas production, corrosion caused by hydrogen sulfide can result in hydrogen induced cracking in susceptible steels. Hydrogen induced cracking is dependent upon the concentration of hydrogen in the steel matrix, and, therefore, the hydrogen flux through the steel. In a previous paper, Paper 471 published at Corrosion 2000, we reported the application of a novel, non-intrusive, rapidly portable, detector for this purpose, generically called "the hydrogen collection method." This paper
examines the performance of this method under various field and laboratory conditions to assure the validity of the data. Comparisons are made with five other field and laboratory tools.