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That's an Oil or Gas Field

Numerous distributed well pads, infield piping, a small refinery and tankage, and a couple of flare pits, including the dark oval-ish or hewxagonal one. Zoom in, you'll see the flare burning orange. It's a dirty sooty flare, depositing that dark crud. There's another gas-rich flare (cleaner burning) in the similar white ovoid feature up and left of the refinery.

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