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Glossary:Greenhouse gasses
A gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. Those gases, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride, that are transparent to solar (short-wave) radiation but opaque to long-wave (infrared) radiation, thus preventing long-wave radiant energy from leaving Earth's atmosphere. The net effect is a trapping of absorbed radiation and a tendency to warm the planet's surface.[1][2]
In an oil field, oil is almost always associated with a certain quantity of natural gas: newer oil wells are equipped for the recovery of both natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil and hence the gas is an additional resource of the oilfield. In some basins, natural gas is the primary hydrocarbon resource. However, the recovery of natural gas presumes that there are the transportation infrastructures and markets available. When the quantity of gas recovered from the oilfield as a “secondary” product is limited, economic solutions maybe not exist. Hence the problem arises of what to do with the associated gas.