> gas that's normally burned off at the well site

Funny thing about that. Civilized governments put a stop to that, by fining flare-offs to make it economical to not do that.

Did they require the methane be captured? I thought flare-offs were done because the methane gas is something like 1000x worse than the CO2.

I hadn't heard of this. Do they just allow the gas to go into the atmosphere instead? I've always heard that's worse than burning it

They still do it in North Dakota

flare-offs are much better than releasing raw methane into the atmosphere because methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2