Global gas flaring declined in 2017 after years of growth, data show

Oil & Gas Journal: Flaring of gas at crude-oil production sites worldwide went down in 2017 despite a 0.5% increase in production, the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership reported. The nearly 5% year-to-year decline began to reverse years of increases that began in 2010, it said.

Satellite measurements by GGFR showed that flaring globally totaled a rounded 140.6 billion cu m (bcm) last year, 4.7% less than 2016’s 147.6 bcm. The 2017 amount was the lowest total since 2013’s 139.6 bcm.

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