[sammyg2]

Natural gas is cheeep. Really cheeep, as in almost free.

Drilling rigs are looking for oil, but with the oil usually comes nat gas, hydrogen, propanes, H2S etc.
That stuff is expensive to pump to a processing plant, expensive to clean, it costs more to produce than it's worth. Some of it is captured and pumped back down the well but not all.
So it's scrubbed to a certain point on the rig and then the cleaner stuff is burned. It doesn't hurt anything.


Would you spend $100 million to recover $50 million? Neither would I.