February 21: global gas flaring news

Some exciting developments in gas flaring in the last couple of weeks:

Capterio

• Capterio is chairing a session on flaring and methane on Tuesday 22 February at the UK’s prestigous “Energy Week” conference. The panelists include the World Bank, EDF, bp and MIQ. See image below
• Capterio’s research on “carbon neutral LNG” featured last week in Der Tagesspigel

Industry

• Excellent to see that Baker Hughes signed an MOU last week to work with EGPC in Egypt to reduce gas flaring
• ConocoPhilipps deploys flaring to cryptocurrency solutions in the US Bakken
• Columbia becomes a methane champion as the first LATAM country to regulate methane
• A new paper reveals the extent of flaring, venting and leaking in Turkmenistan
• TotalEnergies’ flaring deal in Iraq appears to have been troubled by arguments around terms
• ExxonMobil’s flaring in Guyuana is again in the spotlight as the FPSO Unity starts up activity