I worked for a startup that tried to do this, compressing at the wellsite to capture the flared gas. It’s an extraordinary amount of gas just flared off in a year

There are other useful things to do with "stranded energy" though. In Northern Germany, they're now building hydrolysis plants to convert excess offshore wind energy into hydrogen. And if we're talking about natural gas wells, you already have a pipeline infrastructure in place, so it's not that far of a stretch to add a hydrogen pipeline to that.