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    A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, flare boom, ground flare, or flare pit, is a gas combustion device used in places such as petroleum...
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  • 2019-12-29. "Flare gas - Oilfield Glossary". Schlumberger Limited. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011. "Gas flaring in Nigeria"...
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    Routine flaring, also known as production flaring, is a method and current practice of disposing of large unwanted amounts of associated petroleum gas (APG)...
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    burning in the plant gas flare system. For users that burn gas directly fuel gas is supplied at a pressure of about 15 psi (1 barg). Gas turbines need a supply...
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  • 37 mm flare or "1.5 inch" caliber is the specification for a common launching system for non-lethal and less-lethal ammunition. Such launchers are also...
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  • maintain power, keep the rig from falling over, and prevent a gas explosion when the gas flare tower fails, all while being hunted by Rennick, who has become...
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    Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane...
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    and to create landfill gas utilization strategies, which include gas flaring or capture for electricity generation. Landfill gases are the result of three...
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    70%, is wasted via flaring. Statistical data associated with gas flaring is notoriously unreliable, but AG wasted during flaring is estimated to cost...
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  • most common flare fitting standards in use today are the 45° SAE flare ,the 37° JIC flare, and the 37° AN flare. For high pressure, flare joints are made...
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    releases are usually abated with gas flares to produce relatively less-harmful carbon dioxide gas. Gas venting and flaring that are performed as routine...
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  • "flares" Flare (ship), a descriptive measure of hull shape Flare fitting, an expansion flare on the end of a pipe in plumbing Gas flare or "flare stack"...
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  • environmental degradation from gas flaring, dredging of larger rivers, oil spillage and reclamation of land due to oil and gas extraction across the Niger...
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    down the gas flaring facility. In July 2005, Jonah Gbemre, an Iwherekhan community member, filed a lawsuit against Shell to try to end gas flaring. Gbemre...
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    system known as a flare header or relief header to a central, elevated gas flare where it is burned, releasing naked combustion gases into the atmosphere...
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    A flare, also sometimes called a fusée, fusee, or bengala, bengalo in several European countries, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light...
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  • response centre. They employ the oil spill monitor and gas flare tracker in reporting oil and gas pollution related matters. The frequency of oil spill...
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  • Magica Flambeau, a flame fed by natural gas on early natural gas wells to show that the gas was flowing; see Gas flare Flambeau butterfly Dryas iulia Flambeau...
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    content in municipal waste, and to create landfill gas utilization strategies, which include gas flaring or capture for electricity generation. Food loss...
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    Anaerobic digestion (category Gas technologies)
    usually referred to as "anaerobic activity". This is the source of marsh gas methane as discovered by Alessandro Volta in 1776. The digestion process...
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  • Pioneer sword Flare guns Hebel M1894 Sidearms Browning FN M1900 Dreyse M1907 Frommer M1912 Stop Gasser M1870, M1870/84 and M1873 Gasser-Kropatschek M1876...
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    the engineers choosing to flare the crater to prevent the emission of poisonous gases but underestimating the volume of the gas. In April 2010, President...
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    concentrations, wind velocity profiles, fumigations, trapped plumes and gas flare stack plumes. The constraints and assumptions involved in the basic equations...
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    A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or...
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    flaring to the landfill gas utilization and generation of electricity. Landfill gas monitoring alerts workers to the presence of a build-up of gases to...
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    although this value has fallen to 11% in 2010. (See also gas flaring volumes). The biggest gas flaring company is the Shell Petroleum Development Company of...
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  • Izombe (section Gas flaring)
    in response to Federal Government directive to Oil and Gas companies to stop routine gas flaring by end of 2008. The plant, estimated to cost about $135...
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    the refinery in January 2021 after almost a decade offline. During a gas flare incident in May 2022, oil droplets emitted from a smokestack rained down...
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    was completely destroyed. The heat emitted by gas flaring destroys vegetation surrounding the flaring site, destroys mangrove swamps and salt marshes...
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  • interest to the oil sorbent boom, the local above gas flare device for use of associated petroleum gas; and the landfill mobile plant Dekontamobil. The...
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