Global flaring emissions from upstream oil and gas production increased by 7% from 2022 to 2023, reversing a positive trend. The Middle East, Africa, and Russia accounted for 70% of total flaring ...

In 2024, flaring surged by 3 billion cubic meters (bcm) to 151bcm, the highest level since 2007. The top nine flaring countries continue to account for three-quarters of all flaring, but less than ...

Gas flaring released 389 million tonnes of CO? in 2024, with global flaring hitting its highest level since 2007. Weak regulations and limited enforcement continue to allow oil companies to waste gas ...

New report estimates wasted gas amounts to Africa’s annual gas consumption. WASHINGTON, July 18, 2025—Global gas flaring surged for a second year in a row, wasting about $63 billion in lost energy and ...

Eradicating gas flaring requires stricter enforcement of regulation and more infrastructure to monetise the resource A group comprising over 30 governments and 50 oil companies got together almost a ...

Alberta Energy Regulator did not enforce flaring limit exceedance Flaring limit removal highlights Canada's economic vs. environmental challenge Canada aims to end routine flaring by 2030, despite ...

Lagos — In 2024, Africa flared nearly 40 billion cubic metres (BCM) of gas, with Nigeria, Algeria and Libya as the largest contributors. This volume represents more than 25% of global flaring and is ...

Global gas flaring volumes continued to increase and reached a new high last year, pointing to insufficient efforts to curb the polluting practice that is turbo-charging global warming, according to a ...

For decades, the sight of roaring flames lighting up the night sky in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been both a symbol of oil wealth and a reminder of environmental neglect. Gas flaring, long treated as ...

ABUJA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Nigeria has issued permits to 28 companies under a programme that aims to end routine gas flaring to cut carbon emissions and use some of the gas to generate power. The ...

CALGARY, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a ...