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Re:On The Plains, The Rush For Oil Has Changed Everything by 650REDHAIR on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:39PM (#7148935)
From my limited understanding it's not profitable enough to capture and transport the burn off.
Re:On The Plains, The Rush For Oil Has Changed Everything by fennecfoxen on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:46PM (#7148964)
Transport of the gas would itself require either some sort of pipelines, or gas liquefaction and transport via rail. Neither are particularly cheap, and natural gas prices are, for the moment, near all-time lows.

(Storage, of course, is wildly implausible. Leaving the gas for extraction later at more profitable prices probably wouldn't be worth the time-value-of-money adjusted profits you could make by immediate extraction.)