Background to the Study
This review aims to assess the current understanding on reducing emissions from flaring in the oil and gas industry and to review literature on both the quantification of emissions and current mitigation strategies. IEAGHG published a technical review 2017-TR7 (Oct 2017) which studied emissions along the natural gas supply chain but flaring emissions were not included. This review aims to follow on from 2017-TR7 as a supplementary review on flaring emissions.
The flaring mitigation strategies currently in place are reviewed in this report including those by individual countries, company strategies and global schemes such as ‘Zero Routine Flaring by 2030’. This review summarises the current standing of quantification methods and concludes further research is needed on direct measurement from flaring stacks to support global satellite estimates. Annual data is being collected by World Bank and the GGFR which is greatly improving the global database on flaring emissions. Current mitigation plans are ambitious and progress is being made with GGFR data showing flaring has been in moderate decline from 2015-2017. Approximately 54% of global gas flaring is represented within the 71 governments that have to date signed up to the “Zero Routine Flaring by 2030” initiative. |
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The report is free to download. |