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In your estimation is the bulk of Bakken flare gas a result of the potential to never getting access to pipelines or more of not wanting to wait for connections to get within reach? I'm guess that much of the drilling has gotten ahead of gathering system development. A true shame if they're wasting NG that might otherwise be sold in a year or two.
Last year I watched 20+ million cf per day of NG flared from a platform of the coast of W Africa. The operator even offered to lay a line for free to the mainland and give it free to the gov't but was turned down: the gov't didn't want to bother with building a distribution system. Truly sickening to watch it day after day.
parshall was isolated when it was discovered in '06 there was no pipeline close. as of august, there were 68 wells producing in parshall and 29 rigs running in all of mountrail county. so developement may have been less than orderly, but the ndic apparently doesnt wants to discourage the drilling of additional wells so they let the operators flare on. and who is going to wait for a pipeline connection to start producing when the company formerly known as enron can and will drill baby drill(and flare baby flare) and drink your milkshake.
i dont know why the company formerly known as enron cant see the foolishness of wasting that much gas. or why the ndic, whose mission is to prevent waste and protect correlative rights continues to allow that much gas to be flared.
probably because the company formerly known as enron is mainly interested in the bottom line on their next quarterly report. north dakota is a red state.