desmobob Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 I recently flew out to Iowa to pick up my new Ford Maverick and drive it back to the Northeast. I took the "scenic route" home. When I was driving across the southern parts of Illinois and Indiana, I saw walking beam ("horse head") pumps in some of the fields like I remember seeing when I was visiting Kansas. The different, and interesting thing I noticed was that many of them had a vertical pipe with an open flame burning. Is this to burn off coal gas or natural gas that gets into the water well? Quote
Super User Solution Tennessee Boy Posted December 14, 2022 Super User Solution Posted December 14, 2022 I believe those are oil wells and the flame is burning off methane / natural gas. 1 Quote
desmobob Posted December 14, 2022 Author Posted December 14, 2022 28 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said: I believe those are oil wells and the flame is burning off methane / natural gas. These pumps are small and were out in the middle of corn fields, so I didn't think they were oil wells. I just looked at a map of oil wells in the southern end of Indiana and the area I drove through is covered with them! They are indicated in green here: https://igws.indiana.edu/PDMS/Map/ Thanks, Bob 1 Quote
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