Burning thing on offshore oil rigs?

hey guys, have u noticed that the offshore oil rigs have this the where u can see a flame, somebody told me it was just excess oil that they got, so instead of transporting it, they just burn it. Is this true?





If this is the case, I am appalled, with the oil shortages and allBurning thing on offshore oil rigs?
NO !! When U produce oil very often there is a poisonous gas like H2S . It is so deadly that about the second breath of 300 ppm will kill.That is why a the gas plants all over the world just burn it. It produces SO2. Burning thing on offshore oil rigs?
I passed oil rigs for years in Indonesia. What you see are oil wells that are getting some natural gas mixed in with the oil. They don't get enough gas to make it economical to build a pipeline to shore and build a liquefaction plant to make LNG, so they burn it off so it won't make a hazardous, explosive atmosphere around the rig. Plus, NG gives horrible headaches if you (when I) breathe it.
There's a lot of hydrocarbon-based gas produced, which can't be transported in liquid form. They burn this off rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. (Remember, methane is 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2.)
Nope , not at all..


The flare is burning off natural gas which usually


occurs during testing %26amp; maintenance.


No significant amounts of gas are burned off...
It is indeed natural gas, aka methane to help prevent and explosion