When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin

PECOS COUNTY, Texas – Sharon Wilson trained her bulky, black camera on a thin, steel tower next to a natural gas compression station. The screen of her Optical Gas Imaging camera lit up with warm colors, indicating that methane was pouring out of the tower.  Wilson, of the non-profit Oilfield Witness, was recording the Oklahoma-based … Continue reading When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin