More On That Newfield Well in Stark County -- Staggering Amount of Natural Gas Flared

As noted in my original posting regarding this Newfield Three Forks well, in 15 days it produced 26,777 barrels of oi and 40,137 thousand cubic feet of unprocessed NG.

Someone has done the calculations for me.

Based on past history of natural gas usage for a typical home in North Dakota (not the new McMansions going up in Williston), the amount of natural gas that was flared in those five days (40,000,000 cubic feet) would provide heat and hot water for a typical North Dakota home for 526.732 years. 

The home in question used 76.2 mcft of natural gas in the past 12 months.

This, of course, assumes the weather stays the same (in doubt, due to global warming); and, the furnace states at same of level of efficiency (also, in doubt, since, I assume that sometime in next 526.732 years the furnace will have to be replaced and the newer models will be more efficient).

I wonder how many wind turbines it would take to match this one well?

By the way, using the ratio of 6,000, the amount of natural gas (40,000 mcft) translates to 6,700 bbls of oil (and that's in fifteen days, that was all flared). That must have been some huge flare.

By the way, another way of looking at this, this one well in one month could have provided enough natural gas for 526.732 typical North Dakota for one year.