Texas Oil Fields on Fire With Polluting Flares From Fracking | NBC Left Field
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2019
- In West Texas, an oil boom is creating a major problem for producers and locals alike: wasting natural gas by burning or flaring it, which sends billions of cubic feet of CO2 into the atmosphere. Not only does the flaring cost the industry money, but the release of gases damages the climate and could be toxic to those living near the fracking rigs dotting Texas oil fields.
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“The tanks are leaking” 😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️ the tanks relief valve on top that relieves the pressure of the fumes from the tanks.
Literally. It's called venting not leaking😂
Shit fracking is paying my bills that’s all that matters
the pipelines need to be built, its messed up how much waste is there. think about the amount of money you'd get by being able to capture it
Excellent video / congratulations Ali & Ed
Flaring, as it is called, is a common practice to burn away toxins and impurities at the wellhead.
It is done all over the oil patch, not just in Texas.
FYI - many of the wells using is practice are owned by small business people. Not everyone in oil field production is a major oil company!
When I was working on an EA site they told me the tax credit for finishing a well or pad was worth more than the gas and that was why they did not preserve the gas.
This is quite interesting but sounds also a little too 'Politicized'. Much multilayered science needed here.
Science? Just watch the video. By the time you study the “ multilayered science” the wells will be empty the people who lent the money will be staving off bankruptcy by asking for government handouts and the environment from burning methane.
Beautiful
Used to be done because they get a tax credit for finishing wells in a certain time. They were getting more tax credit than value of the gas being wasted.
Why not bottle it, and donate it to homeless shelters, pet shelters, battered women's shelters, who could use it for heat and/or cooking?
tippidog2 cost money
Whos gonna pay for all that? How would companies make money by packaging and delivering free gas?
The costs of bottling and transporting it is less than the market value.
because it’s not methane your typical stove gas. it’s hydrogen sulfide. (H2S) if it was bottled and donated. you’d be dead in probably 10 seconds.
i think it looks cool, therefore it's good
Do your research you have to flare when there is still nitrogen down hole from the fraccing. Flares are closed off and the gas is put down the pipeline as soon as there is 30% or less nitrogen in the mix. Facilities cannot handle the gas when there is nitrogen in it and as of yet we have no way to separate the nitrogen from the gas. A flare is usually going for only 2-3 days until the well is cleaned up and it is safe to put the well inline. Again instead of spouting off fiction go out and interview the workers/companies who are flaring and ask them why they do it instead of making up lies.
Nitrogen's boiling point is −195.795 °C, where as methane is at −161.50 °C.
Its so fucking easy to separate the two. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Great reporting thank you
i guess trump recons windmills are far more dangerous. you guys are a lucky to have a flaring thingie in your back yard..... had that been a windmil instead you would have been dead allready
Zip it goofball
I feel bad for those people
Do you feel bad? a liberal feel bad do you think that's their goal is to make more of them feel bad? So this oil stops. So those in power can make America weaker that's why they want the oil to stop it has nothing to do with it product of the air liberal agenda is false and fake and I want to see them go to work and back without Texas gas/oil (they can't,) but they're going to try to make you feel bad for making it and buying it
1 gallon of Vanilla oil extract (a sustainable indefinately product for 1,000's of years) is worth $500 US lately, because of several industrial/agricultural problems. But a gallon of gas is only $3 (a finite product, 200 year shelf life). We have a fucking problem here folks.
Natural gas is lighter than air and settles in low areas. The flares burn that gas thus keeping down the chances of the gas going boom. This was in the EastTexas oilfields in the 60's
So if you have no where to put it then give it to the people during the winter
Also see Phil Merrall - UK Politica
My God
All we have to do is wait until it catches up with us! Then it won’t be an issue anymore.
I make control systems to run generator sets off wellhead gas. It's really quite simple. Just expensive. When the financial penalties for violating emissions regulations or for permitting flares outweighs the cost of investing in the power generation equipment, minus the value of the electric power generated, the scales will tip. Capitalism still works, it's just going to raise the end cost to the consumers.
the cost is offloaded to the consumers anyways, in form of devastated land and contamination. However, you can't opt out of it like how you would be able to by not buying that expensive gas.
Why can't an electric plant (even a small one) be built beside the flare and use the flare to produce electric? I've never understood wasting like this. In cold climates, why can't it be used to heat the facility?
We (human species) are the dumbest ... The prices on major nutritional gourmet foods are far more expensive than a gallon of gas ($3 avg.) but we're spend it so fast even if all of mankind knows that its a finite product (200 yrs.), unlike agriciltural foods will be here for thousands of years to come. Are we fucking idiots or what.
Money
because they do not have to and are allowed to save money by burning it. Imagine living a country where companies would be held accountable and properly billed for the damage they caused.
If y’all would let us build more pipelines you won’t have this problem
and how to recycle the fumes it produces
WHO makes $$$$ REGARDLESS ? ALL TAX WRITE OFF!
H2s gas is what they are smelling, in strong enough concentrations they are dead
the question is how to make oil industry a clean bio one .. it is possible .... with science
Decline rates in shale production is what no-one looks at. Shale is a bubble!
This article must have been when gas was 2.50 a gallon hit piece, I wonder what the comments are right now...ROTFLOL
The permian basin the powder river basin and the bakken formation
Hats off to Unregulated and Unfettered Capitalism
Unregulated? Jesus f-ing christ. Comment on something you have a sliver of knowledge about.
@@mvandeven regulated by a joke of an EPA which is run by a coal industry crony. lmao.
Recaps and decapitation of wellhead. CAPITAL of CAPS.
You should see what they're doing in New Mexico they can make electricity with that, why are they not doing it.
I work on everything daily in the oil and gas from the gulf to New Mexico the flaring u are talking about is a joke
smart move JIM!!!! lmao
Fracking will kill the gamers. Good, fewer gamers is better for the planet. The poisoned air will kill everything, even idiotic gamers. It's just a matter of time.
natural gas is a valuable commodity. The operators need to reinvest into pipe lines for natural gas. So spend some money U penny pinching Houston Denver billionaires. LNG is the future. Stop polluting.
Im 11 years old and I know a lot about oil feild my daddy’s a fraquer and he told me that all that unwanted gas flares the flame because all of that is really flammable and dangerous
Is THAT what natural gas looks like when I use it in my stove to cook In My Home???
No....come on now...
I actually like the smell gas flares like hydrogen sulfide
Too many powerful people are involved with insane profits from the shale gas so environment issue will be lower priority. US Shale boom is like having middle east gas production resources in US territory so I don't foresee US politics would give it up.
hey where is your tesla miss know it all what are you doing to help by driving a gas-powered car wow
I'm 60 fckn years old. Been in the oilfield all my life. MANY long hard days & nights of work. .. I dont have cancer. I'm not on meds.
Fossil fuels has not killed nor sickened me yet.
Wow that must mean it’s healthy!
This video is so misleading 😂
NBC jews news doesnt kn0w jack smack about fracking. 😂
She should take that fancy camera in peoples homes who use natural gas in cook stoves, hot water heaters, and fireplaces.
What dos natcher till YOU this 50 year's don't miss with nather she stick BACK hard r thin you thank would happen if a SIYCLOIN STORMS IN THE DEASTERED OUT now wear
Give meee a break
Texas bragging rights and Texas Prowd, huh!?
"Wah wah wah no pipelines!!" Couple months later, "why are they just burning all this natural gas???!!?"
Leave it in the ground.
US produced oil and natural gas via “fracking” is less harmful to the environment than Saudi or Russian oil/natural gas. In terms of limiting the amount damage done to the planet, it is better to produce oil/natural gas here where it can be more stringently regulated versus overseas where regulation is far more lax and profit driven.
Conventional oil and gas is better for the environment, regardless of regulation. That being said, no oil nor gas is the best.
nothing is a winner really
@@felixantoinetremblay oh really? so when will we shift away from oil ad gas forever ? NEVER
LNG fracking is the most harmful for the environment since it destroys nature in that area, water is getting polluted and it causes earthquakes.
Chances are oil is powering you watching this video. The poor will be the most hurt by a forced early switch to “green” energy.
Kaelob Stewart directly and indirectly, the trucks bringing food to you and the people that work for youtube.
Hell, the plastics in the displays used to view this video are made of petroleum derivatives.
Nope, hydro
Lol this video is a joke, lie, and scam 😂.
I need to set a few things straight.
1.When she says natural gas is "30 X..." That is very old science. The latest science says that natural gas--methane or CH4--is over 100 X more potent than CO2. Methane is a short-lived GHG and it only stays in our atmosphere for about 12 years before it turns into CO2. But while it's in our atmosphere, it really heats things up which is why climate change has accelerated so fast--thanks fracking. This is good news, though, and where our biggest hope lies. Because if we stop all this fracking there will be less methane and our planet will immediately stop this rapid warming acceleration.
2. Per NASA 2018, 68% of the global spike in methane comes from oil and gas. And NASA found the methane spike correlates with the fracking boom. So stop fracking. Methane is not a bridge fuel. That is a myth perpetuated on the American public by the oil and gas industry.
3. One more thing: Ryan Sitton is really full of it on so many fronts. But one thing he said: the oil and gas in the Permian is not keeping American gas prices low. Nearly every bit of it is slated for exports to other countries.
yup, pretty clear Ryan sitton is a complete, twat-nozzle TOOL extraordinaire ... & those socks
Stop fracking? Do you want OPEC to fuck us over like they did in the 1970s and 2005-2014? Your uptopian vision of a world with no oil is ridiculous, we will always need oil wether is burned in our cars, lubricating move components, or being made in to useful items like plastic and fertilizer.
The best way to solve this Permian pollution crisis is for Texas to go blue, as in getting rid of the Railroad commission and electing nothing but environmentalist democrats and Texans buying hybrids!!!!!!!
Ralph James and be at the behest of the Saudis for our energy needs? Sounds like a great plan.
@@nicholasbagnaschi615 amen
You're sniffing too much methane
@@nicholasbagnaschi615 you could look for cleaner energy somewhere else, or you can choose greedy companies to wreck your own country by these countless wells, water/air pollution and everything else what comes with it. The citizens pay the bill anyway.
quadpumped34 Lets be pragmatic here. It will take decades for the U.S. (and the rest of the industrialized world for that matter) to develop and employ renewables and alternative energy sources to meet energy demands for us and around the globe. Fact of the matter is that everyone in the developed world requires and demands cheap oil to maintain our standard of living. You and I included. So next time you literally do anything remember that you are in part responsible for the demand that makes this industry profitable. Plus, oil extraction in the U.S. is LESS environmentally damaging as compared to rival oil producers in OPEC. So in terms of net damage to the planet, it is better to produce domestically.