Flaring: Why It Won't "Stop" In the Bakken

Great, great article -- and validates what I've been posting for two years -- from RBN Energy.

Flaring is a red herring. As long as "they" continue to drill in the Bakken, there will be flaring.

An operator won't put in a natural gas pipeline to a given well until it is known whether the well will even produce any natural gas after the initial couple of months. And it is not known whether a given well will produce natural gas after the initial couple of months until the initial couple of months have been booked.