Enough natural gas to heat every home in North Dakota through at least
two brutal winters was burned off as an unmarketable byproduct in the
state's oil patch in 2008. North Dakota produced a record 62.8 million barrels of oil last year,
up nearly 18 million barrels from 2007. Natural gas, a byproduct of oil
production, was pegged at 86 billion cubic feet — of which 26 billion
cubic feet was "flared" because of the lack of collecting systems and
pipelines needed to move it to market.
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