....the heat from this flame to you cold-weather guys. In fact, I wish there could be ANY beneficial use of all this wasted energy.
This is a 50-foot blowtorch, coming out of a vent stack on a natural gas well about 1,200 feet behind my house here in northwest Louisiana. The well was drilled last winter, but the word was they got a "bad drill", and the well sat idle until a few weeks ago. They fired off this flare two weeks ago, and it has been burning 24 hours a day since. I heard that it has something to do with too much water in the well, and they're having to flare to get the water out. It's all greek to me, but I'm sure there are guys on this forum who know what they're doing and why. In the meantime it kinda chaps me to sit here looking out my back door knowing that this wasted gas is coming from under my property.
This is a 50-foot blowtorch, coming out of a vent stack on a natural gas well about 1,200 feet behind my house here in northwest Louisiana. The well was drilled last winter, but the word was they got a "bad drill", and the well sat idle until a few weeks ago. They fired off this flare two weeks ago, and it has been burning 24 hours a day since. I heard that it has something to do with too much water in the well, and they're having to flare to get the water out. It's all greek to me, but I'm sure there are guys on this forum who know what they're doing and why. In the meantime it kinda chaps me to sit here looking out my back door knowing that this wasted gas is coming from under my property.
