[RichieRich]

Just to clarify this new allowance and that is that the AER directive regarding flare and vent volumes must still be adhered to. So what that means is that if your oil (of whatever weight) also produces an excess of solution gas, the producer is not allowed to vent to atmosphere more than 900 m3/d. The practicality of that is the well production is merely reduced so that gas volumes meet that number. The other component to this is that ideally the producer has access to a gas pipeline that will accept the gas, provided the pipeline has capacity and they can meet the pipeline specs (usually requiring a dehy and compressor). I worked for an organization a few years back that failed to check that their new glorified "boomer" oil well could actually deal with the gas. They couldn't. Talk about epic fail.