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Gas Flares at oil refineries waste an enormous amount of energy. Why can't this gas be used more productively?

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Gas Flares at oil refineries waste enormous energy

Gas flares are normally done after a successful oil well has been drilled. I doubt if they will make gas flares right at the refineries. Unless, they have drilled an oil well right in the area of a refinery.... keep reading →

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Gas Flares at oil refineries waste an enormous amount of energy. Why can't this gas be used more productively?

Gas flaring at an Oil Refinery is the process where gas produced during Oil refining is burnt off. In the Nigerian Delta alone in 2001 the amount burnt off was equal to 25% of the total UK natural gas usage. ... keep reading →

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