What you see below are two (2) flares to burn off oil and gas. The pictures is taken about 4 to 5 miles away so the height of the flares must be huge? They have burned for several days like that. At $70 per barrel of oil, I would love to have the money they waste for just a week.
They burn everywhere in all directions like that – depending on the work
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I have posted pictures like that before – the sky here is always filled with black smoke from some flare. Some of the flares are huge and they do not burn off nearly all the hydrocarbon being fed to them so there is always huge polluted waste areas around every location. But heck we are in the middle of the desert – who cares?