By 10â12 million years ago, the hyena family had split into two distinct groups; that of the dog-like hyenas and the bone-crushing hyenas. The arrival of the ancestral bone-crushing hyenas coincided with the decline of the similarly built but unrelated Percrocutidae family.
Whiting Petroleum Corporation is a Denver-based oil and gas exploration and production company. The company focuses on exploitation of lower risk properties, primarily on those located in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Michigan and Mid-Continent regions of the United States.
Flaring is the controlled burning of natural gas and a common practice in oil/gas exploration, production and processing. operations. A flare system consists of a flare stack and pipes that feed gas to the stack. Flare size and brightness are. related to the type and amount of gas or liquids in the flare stack. Flares generate heat and noise. Large flares can be quite. noisy because of the volume and velocity of the gas going through the flare stack. Because natural gas is valuable, companies would rather. capture than flare it.