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Stephen Newell

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I live a few miles from a natural gas well and two or three times a day it makes an awful noise that sounds like a lion roaring. Does anybody know why its does that? If it’s that loud I would hate to live across the road from it.
 
are they still working the well? noise youre hearing could be from gauging the well to see what it'll flow...there should be a flare burning and the flame should get bigger when you hear noise...i got wells and a couple pump stations near me...only time i hear anything is if they rework a well or if a pig is running thru the pipeline.
 
I believe it's a gas well. There is a pipe about 50' high with a flame. It's a old well and the couple of times I went down there to see what the noise was there was nobody there.
 
That pipe with the flame you saw is called a flare. If it's a oil well, they may be flaring the gas off ocassionally to relieve the pressure.
If it's a natural gas well, they flare the gas if there is a problem down the line, such as a pipeline leak, or some kind of compressor station breakdown.
Sometimes the well will "burp" and produce more gas than the pipeline system can handle safely, so the excess gets flared off. The roaring noise you hear is the gas blowing and burning under pressure, sounding like a jet engine.
 
The reason I believe it's a natural gas well is there is no oilwells in the area. I also was told a gas company attempted to drill a natural gas well in the acreage adjacent to mine once.
 
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