Re: 'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
- From: "Richard Gibson" <rigibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:49:21 GMT
"Jo Schaper" <nospam4jo5schaper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> But speaking of which-- have the oilcos ever decided that flaring off
> natural gas is like burning dollar bills? Just read a kids book
> copyright 2003 on the underground which had flares on all the oil/gas
> operations shown. Anybody know what's going on there these days?
"Jo Schaper" <nospam4jo5schaper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > But speaking of which-- have the oilcos ever decided that flaring off >
natural gas is like burning dollar bills? Just read a kids book > copyright
2003 on the underground which had flares on all the oil/gas > operations
shown. Anybody know what's going on there these days?
In the US very little gas is flared off compared to the olden days
(pre-1970). When you do see flares at refineries it is usually some unwanted
component, nothing useful - but I don't know what it is.... In Kansas in the
'50s and '60s every oil well had its standing derrick (not worth the effort
to remove and reuse the steel) and most had a gas flare on top, with the
pump-jack drawing up oil. Basically no gas was recovered .... today all the
derricks are gone as well as the flares.
In places like the Niger Delta and elsewhere where natural gas has no
market, it is indeed flared off - look at nighttime satellite imagery
(national geographic has some) and see all the red there. I don't know for
sure if Saudi Arabia is still flaring gas - probably - but there is a stack
there, 65 ft across, that used to be one gigantic flare, easily visible from
space.
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Richard I. Gibson, Gibson Consulting
Educational Tourism - Smithsonian Study Leader
Gravity-Magnetic-Geologic Interpretations
http://www.gravmag.com/oil.htm
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