Rules to prevent ‘enormous waste’ of fuel are seen as weak and poorly enforced, meaning firms have little incentive to stop.

The story was just the opposite in the Permian Basin, where a new pipeline added substantial takeaway capacity and limited ...

Global gas flaring rose to its highest level since 2007, wasting $63 billion in energy and emitting 389 million tonnes of ...

Nigeria recorded a 12 percent increase in gas flaring volume in 2024, marking the second-largest rise globally. This is according ...

The World Bank says Russia, Iraq, Iran, the United States, Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria remain the top seven gas flaring countries for nine years running.

But what exactly does the flare stack do, and what sort of impact does gas flaring have? To be clear, this flame is not a sign of something gone wrong — it's actually the opposite. It's a safety ...