"Using flared gas near to where it is produced requires less pipelines. A lot of saskatchewan's gas could replace coal.
The BC NDP and Federal Liberals approved a $40 billion LNG facility with a gas pipeline from Dawson Creek to Kitimat."
Correct me if I was wrong in calculating that the carbon tax cost alone will exceed the retail value of the gas alone (even within two years). How is this going to be a success or competitive on its own merits; and the constraints it faces..
It seems to me that suggesting that investment in natural gas generation is likely to produce high electrical costs; and then the same call to replace it with what is already widely touted as ridiculously cheap renewables.
Not to mention the effects of investers in natural gas generation who will have lost their shirts.
Additionally you don't build gas processing plants for less than tens of millions of dollars. They require pipelines for gathering gas from exponentially declining production from oil fields I am familiar with. It takes probably 30% of input energy to cook the H2S; run the compressors; the cooling fans and heat various processes. But the flare gas should certainly be put to productive uses...or left or returned to te reservoir from which it came.
The BC NDP and Federal Liberals approved a $40 billion LNG facility with a gas pipeline from Dawson Creek to Kitimat."
Correct me if I was wrong in calculating that the carbon tax cost alone will exceed the retail value of the gas alone (even within two years). How is this going to be a success or competitive on its own merits; and the constraints it faces..
It seems to me that suggesting that investment in natural gas generation is likely to produce high electrical costs; and then the same call to replace it with what is already widely touted as ridiculously cheap renewables.
Not to mention the effects of investers in natural gas generation who will have lost their shirts.
Additionally you don't build gas processing plants for less than tens of millions of dollars. They require pipelines for gathering gas from exponentially declining production from oil fields I am familiar with. It takes probably 30% of input energy to cook the H2S; run the compressors; the cooling fans and heat various processes. But the flare gas should certainly be put to productive uses...or left or returned to te reservoir from which it came.
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