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Countries, Oil Companies Will Stop Routine Gas Flaring
2015-04-17 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: For the first time, chief executives of major oil companies joined today with senior government officials from oil-producing countries in an agreement to end the practice of routine gas flaring at oil production sites by 2030 at the latest. The Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 global initiative -- already endorsed by nine countries, 10 oil companies and six development institutions -- was launched today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. They...
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Can Biotech Save Natural Gas Producers Billions in Flaring Costs?
2014-11-29 23:42:28| Electronics - Topix.net
A lack of pipelines in McKenzie County, N.D., forced the Orvis State well on the Evanson family farm to flare gas in 2013. Image source: Tim Evanson/ Flickr .
Ghana to lose millions of dollars to gas flaring
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chronicle: Anti-gas flaring activists have warned that apart from the environmental and human health implications, Ghana would lose millions of dollars as a result of gas flaring. This follows the Ghanaian government's decision to allow Jubilee partners to flare gas from the Jubilee Field to save the oil wells from collapsing. The Jubilee partners - Tullow Plc, Kosmos, Anadarko, PetroSA and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) were given approval to flare gas in late May this year which is against...
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Valero Energy Corp.'s Meraux refinery has flaring event with residents reporting odors
2014-03-25 16:28:04| Waste Management - Topix.net
Valero Energy Corp.'s Meraux refinery had a flaring event on Saturday that concerned some area residents who complained of odors as the smoke drifted northeast.
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North Dakota gas flaring doubles, pumping CO2 into air
2014-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Fracking for crude oil is big business in North Dakota, but with that oil is coming a steadily increasing amount of wasted natural gas that is burned off, releasing large amounts of climate change-driving carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new U.S. Energy Information Administration data. The Bakken shale of North Dakota is one of America's largest sources of crude oil. It's produced by drilling and then hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shale formations deep underground. But the...
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