Oil and Gas

We can end routine gas flaring by 2030. Here's how

Two gas flaring furnaces and a woman walking on sand barriers are reflected in a pool of oil-smeared water at a flow station in Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria September 17, 2020. Picture taken September 17, 2020.

Each year, 150 billion cubic metres of gas is burned off, generating 400 million tons of CO2 Image: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Zubin Bamji
Program Manager, Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, World Bank
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