The venting looks like a dramatic waste of resources, but as usual, there is more to the story. It takes a lot of gas to pay for the pipelines and compressors to deliver it to market. Back in the old days, we vented a lot of gas simply because there was no economic market for it. Today, there is much less flaring, but it is still a matter of economics. When a well is first completed, there is a level of uncertainty as to just how much it will produce - both oil and gas. We often test wells for some extended period before we can make a decision on whether we can install facilities to capture all of the gas. The state regulators recognize this, and they have limits on how much we can test or flare. Here's an analogy for this group. Saying that any gas flaring is a waste and should be stopped is like saying that combines should be 100% efficient and that no kernels of corn should end up on the ground after harvest.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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