The bomb-gravimetric procedure for sulfur is too lengthy to be considered a rapid control method. A bomb-volumetric procedure has been developed for refined petroleum products which can be performed in 2 hours. The method involves the hydriodic acid reduction of sulfate and the iodometric titration of the resultant sulfide in an improved manner. Phosphorus presents no difficulty as it does in most other volumetric methods. The method is not applicable to oils containing barium, selenium, or nitrogen in significant amounts.Accuracy is ±2%, which is believed to be an advantage of the method. THE bomb-gravimetric method for sulfur in petroleum products (1) involves decomposition of the sample in an oxygen bomb, followed by gravimetric determination of the sulfate as barium sulfate. The primary disadvantage of the method is the gravimetric determination which makes the method longer than desirable for rapid control testing. Another disadvantage is the well-known contamination of the barium sulfate precipitate. Volumetric procedures for sulfur have been reported (5, 9, 10), but are subject to interference from phosphorus.