the industry def has too much money if it can't work out a more efficient way of testing!
i would have agreed with you before i became a slave to the wages mr titbean.
however, when you put it into perspective, we flared off for just under the 24 hours, approx half a million dollars of oil (at current value) was burnt to prove the well was sustainable
the rig i am sitting on is going into what we call a "hot stack" soon, whereby it will sit in the firth outside the village of Invergorden, untill it is next hired again
and the approximate cost of that hire, including all staff, equipment (including the ROV system i operate, is a mere £500,000 a day, thats right, about half a milly a day, to rent the services of a single rig
this industry is an expensive industry, so burning off a bit of oil is literally a drop in the (oil) ocean
its cheaper to burn it off, than to rig up a system for storing that small amount of oil
Mick
Currently staring at fish arses!!! it's not all rock n roll and fireballs