Editorial comment

A. Blume, Managing EditorAdrienne.Blume@GulfPub.com Small-scale gas processing projects are reaching a broader audience as companies seek niche solutions for monetizing stranded and associated gas reserves. In areas where infrastructure is inadequate to process associated gas and deliver it to market, such as newer and more remote shale oil and gas plays in the US, these gas reserves are often flared. Flaring restrictions require new solutions. Stricter regulations are discouraging gas flaring in many of these shale plays. For example, the North Dakota Industrial Commission approved, in July of last year, a policy to minimize the volume of gas flared from shale oil wells in the Bakken and