LOL....and a PATENT still hasn't been found. What you FOUND was a Patent application...an application that includes an international search report-which of course an applicant uses as a guideline regarding "patentability". And....WOW.....the International search report in this case could not have been any clearer:
Quotes regarding the search report conclusion:
"..MAKES NO CONTRIBUTION OVER THE PRIOR ART."
"...the CLAIMS do not satisfy the REQUIREMENT of UNITY of INVENTION a posteriori."
p.s.-- Malcolm described the flare gas technology as being PROPRIETARY........oops!
Thank goodness for International search reports(roughly 3-$4k in this case)...otherwise applicants would spend even BIGGER BUCKS by entering the application into the National phase(BIG,BIG BUCKS) only to find out the news contained in a search report....in this case ouch!
p.s.--- the application you FOUND has not been entered into the National Phase.....nope....IMO, after reading the International Search report the applicant made a well ADVISED decision to SAVE BIG BUCKS BY leaving well enough alone...