Greetings from Turkmenistan!
lol wtf ?
Out here starting up a gas processing plant. Went out to one of their wellheads when they started flaring, so took some pics, some got silly. Its all in the positioning.
I hope those flares are intentional…
Most of the time, yes, but I have been around for a couple of unintentional ones…
I always love flares… I means they have money to burn or somethings broken.
Actualy, controlled flaring is a big part of the oil patch. There’s often times when you’re producing oil that you will produce a side amount of natural gas. If there’s no gas processing facility nearby, it’s usually more expensive to pipe the gas to the nearest facility than it is to flare some of it, and use the rest in your own process.
Hehehe … I’m a computer geek, but in Calgary, a large part of the software industry is based on the oil & gas industry. You can’t work in one without learning some of the other.
It’s a joke that my dad and I came up with (He works at the Imperial Oil here in Edmonton) and we always joked that if it flares then they either have money to burn or somethings busted.
Kinda a stupid joke but meh.
Well, if Colin’s doing work there, I’d say there’s probably at least a 50/50 chance something actually IS broken. 
PS - I have absolutely nothing to base that on, but it just felt like the right thing to say. :lol:
No worries, it is a bad joke…
Bit of both. We get them to blow down their wells to flare for 24 hrs before we bring them on-line to the plant, gets the crud out of the lines. We learned the hard way about that. When this one lit off, I can honestly say it is the first time EVER I have seen chunks flying out of a flare!
Just today we had an ESD at the plant, our flare stack is 175’ tall. The flame was taller than that. It was funny watching all the guards bolt.