Global gas flaring rises to highest level since 2019- World Bank
The amount of gas flared worldwide in 2023 rose by nine billion cubic meters (bcm) to 148 bcm, its highest level since 2019, a World Bank report has said. This is contained
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Stakeholders seek 10-year tax holiday for gas devt, zero flaring
The push by the Federal Government to industrialise with gas and achieve zero gas flaring for clean energy footprint and monetisation will require a 10-year tax holiday, according to stakeholders yesterday as
CSOs, activists warn against impact of lingering gas flaring in N’Delta
Concerned by the devastating effects of gas flaring, environmental degradation and other effects of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and environmental activists have demanded immediate action
Nigeria flares $3.9b gas in four years amid pollution, revenue leakage concerns
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total and other oil companies operating in the country flared about $3.9 billion (about N3 trillion) worth of gas in the last four
Gas flaring means cash burning
Most literate Nigerians have heard or read about gas flaring but it may not mean much to them. Some of them may know that gas flaring is done in the oil producing
Nigeria loses N150b to gas flaring in four months, says NOSDRA
Multinational oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria flared over 92 million standard cubic feet of gas, worth an estimated N150.8 billion, between January and April 2023.
Total, Shell to end gas flaring as stakeholders decry industry loopholes
Total Energies E&P Nigeria and Shell, yesterday, pledged to end routine gas flaring as industry operators insisted development of the gas sector in Nigeria might remain elusive if prevailing challenges are not
Of gas flaring, global reduction and monetisation
Pitted against current report in which Nigeria is expected to reap N22 billion from fines on oil companies that have failed to stop gas flaring, the news that the nation is instrumental
Gas flaring: Crafty operators, tax evasion endanger children, unborn babies
The quality of air that the people of the Niger Delta breathe is an issue of global concern. Every year, between 2018 and 2021, companies like the NNPC, Chevron, Total Energies, Shell
Gas flaring, PIA and gestation of acts
Many Nigerians with critical interest had hitherto believed that the advent of Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, which was signed into law in the aforementioned years, and arguably the most audacious