File:Bernice 1 and 2 wells with moisture flare - Arnegard North Dakota - 2013-07-04.jpg
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English: Moisture flare at the Obenour 1 and 2 well on the Evanson family farm in McKenzie County, North Dakota, east of Arnegard and west of Watford City.
Water is a natural byproduct of oil drilling, and is especially plentiful if fracking occurs. But this water cannot be mingled with the oil that is stored on-site. So a moisture separator allows the water to sink below the oil. Natural gas is sometimes soluble in the water, and so is separated out, too. This is such a minimal amount of gas that it is just burned off. The pipe here itself is about three feet high, and the flame shoots about another six feet into the air. There are few pipelines in McKenzie County, and almost none of the them oil pipelines. Nearly all oil is trucked out, and semi trucks clog the local highways. Oil generally is trucked out only in good weather (most roads are dirt), so rainy or winter months there is little oil moving. In good weather, trucks run about 20 hours a day, and drivers do nothing but take empty trucks out, collect oil, take full trucks to the local processing plant, unload, and repeat. Natural gas is plentiful, and there is no way to get it out. So most of it is flared (burned) off. |
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| Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/23165290@N00/9287130523/ |
| Author | Tim Evanson |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Tim Evanson at https://www.flickr.com/photos/23165290@N00/9287130523. It was reviewed on 7 August 2013 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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| current | 04:11, 7 August 2013 | 2,500 × 1,656 (2.58 MB) | Tim1965 | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Moisture flare at the Obenour 1 and 2 well on the Evanson family farm in McKenzie County, North Dakota, east of Arnegard and west of Watford City. Water is a natural byproduct of oil drilling, and is especially pl... |