It is common to see natural gas being flared off, so common that its done in just about every major oilfield in the country. This is done for a few reasons. The first and most common of which is because the gas is just not worth enough to sell, and renting a flaring unit to burn off these energy rich carbons is less expensive than trying to sell it. Justifying this wasteful practice is tough, but without the pipelines and infrastructure to move the gas to market, drilling rigs haven’t had much choice.
Taking advantage of the normally ‘flared’ gas is catching on as diesel maintains record price levels. After a quick but costly conversion of your diesel engines, a rig can easily and affordably run on a mixture of diesel and natural gas.
“By running the bi-fuel system on the diesel engines and also converting their boiler to…
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
what if the platforms or onshore plants go green on their power consumption? not all just the auxiliary stuffs like lighting and fans etc
Johan: What green power sources were you thinking off?
do you realise all adverts of oil company concentrates on the flare. it is more spectacular than looking at a caisson.