[thackney]

But flared natural gas is not releasing methane, it is releasing H20 and C02, the combustion products of methane.

Granted, that raw well gas contains more than methane, but flared is not the same as vented. This is talking about the flares.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“This is talking about the flares.”

Understood. I would suspect that flaring is much less pollutive than just letting the gas go = venting.