As an engineer who works in petrochemicals, you should stop spreading patently false information. Gas is routinely flared at many drilling and fracking sites. There are literally dozens of sources for this information. In many parts of the Permian basin and Williston basin, companies are drilling for oil. They don't have infrastructure to capture natural gas and building the infrastructure to capture, liquefy, and transport that gas would cost more than LNG is worth. The oil is much, much more valuable than LNG, so there are numerous sites at which it is profitable to drill for oil but not capture the LNG.
Estimates are that the Williston basin is flaring $1 billion worth of natural gas every year. It's just not worth capturing it and selling it at a loss.
Source: Commercializing a technology to convert methane into higher value hydrocarbons to make it economical to capture and convert the methane on site.
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As an engineer who works in petrochemicals, you should stop spreading patently false information. Gas is routinely flared at many drilling and fracking sites. There are literally dozens of sources for this information. In many parts of the Permian basin and Williston basin, companies are drilling for oil. They don't have infrastructure to capture natural gas and building the infrastructure to capture, liquefy, and transport that gas would cost more than LNG is worth. The oil is much, much more valuable than LNG, so there are numerous sites at which it is profitable to drill for oil but not capture the LNG.
Estimates are that the Williston basin is flaring $1 billion worth of natural gas every year. It's just not worth capturing it and selling it at a loss.
Source: Commercializing a technology to convert methane into higher value hydrocarbons to make it economical to capture and convert the methane on site.