It takes a heck of a lot more than some mesh to bring raw gas to pipeline quality de-watering requirements.
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Seems to me I’ve seen a couple articles on an emergent technology of portable LNG plants that they can wheel up to a well head that’s flaring off gas—& liquify the gas instead.
but if they liquify it —seems to me they’d first have to dewater the natural gas & generally make it production grade.
hmm yeah. it looks like the EPA has taken things a bit further. they have mandated that the oil companies can’t flare off natural gas anymore after early 2015— so the companies are looking to capture the natural gas for their own operations.
http://eidmarcellus.org/marcellus-shale/natural-gas-and-green-completion-in-a-nut-shell/15507/
I think you combining two separate topics. LNG being used for some of the new drilling rigs is being trucked in from other locations.
Creating LNG is a massive operation producing methane of a far higher purity than what comes into our homes. It produces several other byproducts from a typical Natural Gas Pipeline and that is after cleaning up raw gas to pipeline quality.
The flaring at wellhead is a separate issue. At most locations, there are significant limits to how long you can flare. This has become a problem for places like the Bakken which have a low gas to oil ratio. It is not a technical problem but and economic one. Some of these fields produce so little gas that the cost of the infrastructure to put in the gas gathering lines and compression will exceed the value of the gas produced. And you cannot stop the gas flow without stopping the oil flow, where the dollars are made.
Some places like Alaska North Slope still allow the flaring, but charge the oil company royalties on any gas that is not re-injected. The state doesn't care if they flare it, burn it for power & heat or sell it. If the gas comes out of the reservoir and not re-injected to maintain pressure, then it needs to be paid for. I like that method best as it gives more flexibility to the production company while protecting the value of the mineral owner's assets.