Seems wasteful? But I know nothing about the process and am curious.
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Sometimes it’s flared off because there’s no local use for it, and natural gasses aren’t nearly as valuable as the oil. Sometimes it can be flared off because piping to move it someplace useful hasn’t been built yet. Is some applications, the gas is collected and pumped back down other wells to build pressure to push oil up other wells. There have been a few companies that have tried to build generators that will run off of the gas, hooked up to crypto mining rigs, but I don’t think it’s a widespread thing.
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