interesting - they're flaring due to nitrogen content being too high for the pipeline specs.
a 1st for me, although that's not saying much - I've not paid a whole lot of attention to the gas's make-up. When I have it's mostly been too much h2s content. That's about being poisonous I think, wonder if nitrogen being out of spec is about explosiveness.
typically, high nitrogen content is a result of using nitrogen in the frac. During flowback ops, they will get the nitrogen back in too high of quantities to put it in the pipeline. After 2-4 weeks, the nitrogen is low enough to put gas in pipeline.
pretty routine if they used nitrogen in frac
Larry said:
interesting - they're flaring due to nitrogen content being too high for the pipeline specs.
a 1st for me, although that's not saying much - I've not paid a whole lot of attention to the gas's make-up. When I have it's mostly been too much h2s content. That's about being poisonous I think, wonder if nitrogen being out of spec is about explosiveness.