Sentence examples for is being flared from inspiring English sources
In the Bakken field in North Dakota, producers are shipping much of their new oil production by train to Gulf Coast refineries, and excess gas production is being flared — that is, burned off — as waste.
More than two million tons of carbon pollution is being flared into the air each year in this state alone.
"It's outrageous that propane is being flared off as a waste product when Dakotans are shivering in the cold due to artificial propane shortages," he said.
The propane is being flared at the same time North and South Dakota face a propane crisis and accompanying price spike.
More than a third of the gas that comes out of the oil wells in the basin was being flared off, but that percentage is declining as pipelines and facilities to process it come online.
"It's been flaring up all throughout the season," Avery Johnson said before the game.
Soon purple flares were being fired all across their front.
This week Signal Flare is being added to the free Lookout app for Apple products.
One fire began a week ago at a gas drilling rig in an East Texas park; the wildfire is now out, although as of Thursday gas was still being flared.
A full 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is now being flared, compared with about 2 percent typically at other fields around the country.
About 20% of associated gas is now being flared.
