Both of those require what is still missing in much of the Bakken, natural gas gathering piping systems and processing plants. If those did exist, the flaring would not be an issue.
Both of those require what is still missing in much of the Bakken, natural gas gathering piping systems and processing plants. If those did exist, the flaring would not be an issue.
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True but in the next paragraph it says that GE has developed generators that can use natural gas directly from the wells. Granted, this won’t take a lot of the gas that’s currently being flared. But it is a way to use the gas coming up at the well head.
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One market that could quickly switch from diesel to natural gas is the natural gas and oil exploration industry. Currently, drillers use electricity from diesel generators. Last August, GE received so-called “mobile certification” from the U.S. EPA for its Waukesha line of natural gas burning generators. These generators can use natural gas directly from the well to produce on-site electricity — an attractive alternative to the practice of “flaring” or just burning off the gas. Devon Energy, for example, selected GE’s natural gas generators for its submersible pump operations