Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield has called flaring a “black eye” on the Permian Basin. Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, wrote this week that flaring must end or US oil producers will lose their social license to operate. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Flaring, or burning off associated natural gas during oil production, has roughly tripled in two years in the Permian. And, as flaring has skyrocketed, so have the calls to curb it. But there is little agreement on how that should be done. “We want to reduce flaring … the question is how we do it,” Texas Railroad Commisioner Ryan Sitton recently told reporters. Sitton, a […]