Capterio flags Egypt for flare gas progress
Egypt continues to be a major source of flaring โ but has made progress in reducing this process and further gains should be relatively straightforward argues Capterio.
Egypt continues to be a major source of flaring โ but has made progress in reducing this process and further gains should be relatively straightforward argues Capterio.
Big companies have big plans to cut emissions and often find it easier to sell assets. Buyers may not be quite so concerned about tackling emissions, though, a report from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has found.
Capterio has launched an open-access online tool to explore flaring around the world, at a point when the problem has reached its worst point in a decade.
At COP21 in Paris in 2015, 11 countries made gas flaring a stated commitment to their Paris Nationally Determined Commitments (NDCs). Disappointingly, five years on, flaring has increased for these 11 countries, by 6% to 60 billion cubic metres per year.
The North Sea represents some of the best-in-class and most innovative work of the oil and gas industry. Here, significant progress in reducing gas flaring is already making a vital contribution towards delivering โnet zeroโ, and Norway stands out as genuinely world-class.